Nicolas Roeg

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Nicolas Jack Roeg (born August 15, 1928 in London , England ; † November 23, 2018 there ) was a British film director and cameraman .

life and work

Nicolas Roeg initially acquired a reputation as a cameraman and had been in the film business for 23 years when he made his directorial debut in 1970. His work has been acclaimed by film critics, including his use of the cut-up technique.

As a cameraman, Roeg worked for some of the most important directors of their time, such as Robert Rossen , Fred Zinnemann , Roger Corman , Richard Lester and John Schlesinger . As a lighting cameraman he was involved in Lawrence of Arabia .

Often Roeg depicted his stories in an unconnected, semi- coherent and non-chronological way that can only be understood with the finale, when a central piece of information comes to light or the artistic intention becomes apparent. These techniques and Roeg's unique foreboding atmosphere build-up influenced later filmmakers like Ridley Scott and François Ozon . The later films of the varied oeuvre were received cautiously by the general public. With the best of his fresh, intellectual and thoroughly eccentric works, he moves in the field of analytics , perception , cognition and hallucination , symbolism , mysticism and myth, and not least sensuality and eroticism . Next he often speaks of communication-related inability to love or Joseph Lanza, according to the alienation (alienation) . The importance of the ( authorial ) cut must be particularly emphasized. In Jump Cut 1974, Kleinhans saw him more as a photographer . Stylistically, he is closer to Ken Russell than to Peter Greenaway and, with them, far removed from the mainstream. "His quasi-outsider status is sometimes reminiscent of the early John Boorman, " as film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum noted in 1988.

Performance was a product of the London Swinging Sixties . At that time, a German television magazine seriously warned about psychological damage before thefilm When the Gondolas Bear Mourning in Venice , which is considered a classic. The humorous Insignificance remains the most successful dramatic use of the theory of relativity in a feature filmto date(with Theresa Russell as Marilyn Monroe , Michael Emil as Albert Einstein and Tony Curtis as Senator McCarthy ). Dietrich Kuhlbrodt speaks of the hyperactive Track 29 (subject: model railroad ) as a " media art work without equal" . The niche thriller Puffball (i.e. Bovist or Bauchpilz ) from 2007, which was Roeg's last film, is a true-to-original literary adaptation, once again touching a dark surrealism with a sexual-feminist theme.

In 1999, he accepted the British Independent Film Awards for Lifetime Achievement , and both Insignificance and Walkabout were nominated for a Palme d'Or and The Man Who Fell From Heaven (with David Bowie ) was nominated for a Golden Bears . In 1981 he received the ALFS Award from the London Critics Circle Film Awards as Director of the Year for Black Out - Anatomy of a Passion .

From 1957 to 1977 he was married to actress Susan Stephen, with whom he had four children. After the divorce, he married the actress Theresa Russell in 1982 . Maximillian Roeg is also an actor of her two children . After another divorce, Nicolas Roeg remarried in 2004. Nicholas Roeg died of natural causes in November 2018 at the age of 90.

Filmography

Director

camera

script

  • 1963: Sanders of the River - directed by Lawrence Huntington - based on a novel by Edgar Wallace

literature

  • Neil Feineman: Nicolas Roeg . Twayne, Boston 1978.
  • John Izod: The Films of Nicolas Roeg: Myth and Mind . Macmillan, Basingstoke 1992.
  • Marcus Stiglegger, Carsten Bergemann (ed.): Nicolas Roeg (=  Thomas Koebner , Fabienne Liptay [ed.]: Film Concepts . No. 3 ). edition text + kritik, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-88377-836-2 .
  • Joseph Lanza: Fragile Geometry: The Films, Philosophy and Misadventures of Nicolas Roeg . Paj Publications, New York 1989.
  • Keyvan Sarkhosh: Cinema of Disorder: Cinematic Narration and World Constitution with Nicolas Roeg . transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2667-4 .
  • Neil Sinyard: The Films of Nicolas Roeg . Letts, London 1991.

Web links

Commons : Nicolas Roeg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nicolas Roeg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d Stiglegger.
  3. ↑ a b Compare Mike Sutton: Don't Look Now (1973). In: Screenonline. Retrieved on July 23, 2008 (English): "constant sense of foreboding [...] the dread of what will happen next [/] suddenly meaningful fashion"
  4. ↑ Different of course Don't Look Now .
  5. ↑ Stiglegger on Insignificance , different on Eureka .
  6. ↑ a b Dirk Manthey, Jörg Altendorf, Willy Loderhose (eds.): The large film lexicon. All top films from A-Z . Second edition, revised and expanded new edition. Verlagsgruppe Milchstraße, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-89324-126-4 , p. 2804 (on track 29 , quoted from The Guardian ). : "[...] energy and driving force [...] funny and ironic [...] under the surface but with merciless harshness to analyze the human living conditions."
  7. ↑ Sinyard to track 29 .
  8. ↑ See Lexicon of International Films on Eureka and The Man Who Fell To Earth .
  9. ↑ Stiglegger: "powerful symbolic [..] imagery" on Eureka .
  10. ↑ See Lexicon of International Films on Walkabout .
  11. ↑ Sinyard: "raw emotion", Hill: "obsessive characters".
  12. ↑ See Lexicon of the International Film on Bad Timing .
  13. ↑ cf. Ekkehard Knörer: Walkabout. In: Filmzentrale. Retrieved April 28, 2008 .
  14. ↑ Hill relates these.
  15. ↑ Jonathan Rosenbaum: Not Coming Soon to a Theater Near You. (No longer available online.) In: JonathanRosenbaum.com. September 16, 1988, archived from the original on October 4, 2009 ; accessed on November 24, 2008 (English): "In some respects, his quasi-maverick status recalls that of John Boorman, at least before Boorman became respectable with Hope and Glory" Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jonathanrosenbaum.com
  16. ↑ Tripticon: Performance from November 24, 2018.
  17. ↑ Dietrich Kuhlbrodt : Track 29. In: Konkret 01/1989. 1989, accessed on January 15, 2009 (from Filmzentrale).
  18. ↑ Nicolas Roeg Dead
  19. ↑ Director Nicolas Roeg dies aged 90 BBC, accessed November 24, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Roeg, Nicolas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roeg, Nicolas Jack (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film director and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England
DATE OF DEATH 23rd November 2018
Place of death London , England