#Nic Roeg

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This expedition to see Céline was organized in 1958 by Allen Ginsberg | William S. Burroughs

This expedition to see Céline was organized in 1958 by Allen Ginsberg who had got his address from someone. It is in Meudon, across the river from Paris proper. We finally found a bus that let us off in a shower of French transit directions: “Tout droit, Messieurs …” Walked for half a mile in this rundown suburban neighborhood, shabby villas with flaking stucco—it looked sort of like the…

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ARROW In March Bows At The 'Altar Of Cult Heroes'

ARROW In March Bows At The 'Altar Of Cult Heroes' #TheArtOfCult @ArrowFilmsVideo March will have #DennisHopper #NicRoeg #JeffreyCoombs @fetchpublicity

We’re already half-way through February, March will be with us. Spring will be in the air, over at the essential, alternative streaming service ARROW it’s time to bow at The ‘Altar of Cult Heroes‘. The upcoming month will have  dizzying Japanese sci-fi comedy Summer Time Machine Blues; the debut of two outstanding Paul Joyce documentaries, Dennis Hopper: Some Kind of Genius and Nothing As It…

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On set with Zowie and Nic Roeg, 1976

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Performance, 1968 dir. Nic Roeg and Donald Cammell

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David Bowie & Dir. NIC Roeg on set, “TMWFTE, Circa 76 🚀

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Donald Sutherland’s book was set to be released today, but was quietly rescheduled to be released February 3rd, 2026.

Why?

Well, the article I just read suggests it’s because he got “too candid” about his sexual relationships.

I read an article from earlier this year that Kiefer and the family had not yet read the book because Donald was still editing it three days before his passing.

I’ve seen nothing thus far of the family commenting on this news.

Frankly, it should come as no surprise that he would be so open on the page.

He was a reasonably private man, but not terribly shy about his past. He also notoriously spoke “in paragraphs,” which was amplified in his letter writing.

If anything, this feels like an attempt to stifle some of his last words.

Something which I feel is INCREDIBLY DISRESPECTFUL to his memory.

Donald was larger than life and you can’t just water down his life because it MIGHT not be appropriate for all audiences.

Donald was someone who kept little to himself if he got comfortable around you. There’s a rather nice interview from Playboy that illustrates this perfectly. (It includes mentions of the first time he masturbated, the first time he kissed a girl, and the thing he regretted most about his life up until that point was that he hadn’t had more sex, just to give you a clue)

The man was open to notes, but I can guarantee they’ll be pulling far more information from it than he would approve.

And the article had the AUDACITY to suggest his openness in the book was due to his being ill (in whatever way he was ill).

There’s article upon article with snippets of stories about his sex life, and that’s just the ones approved for the general public who would be reading those magazines.

The man’s life, even when not behind closed doors, was hardly PG.

An interaction with one of the stars of “Die! Die! My Darling!” (Not while working on that particular project, if I recall correctly), working with Federico Fellini, a rather uncomfortably intimate, heavily choreographed “sex” scene expertly edited by Nic Roeg to trick the brain into seeing what isn’t actually there, Donald’s bare ass being shown as a joke for the rushes that ultimately made it to theatrical release of Animal House.

His wife is French Canadian. When they met, he didn’t speak French and she didn’t speak English. Naturally, their early on communication methods were largely physical.

(And based of what was allowed to print in magazines over the years, I can imagine just how much more “candid” this candidness may have gotten, so I am not saying any of this lightly or solely out of anger. I do have a working understanding of the kind of things they are alluding to him having written)

Listen…

I am ace spec.

I am not the most comfortable hearing or reading about other people (real or fictional) and the ways in which they choose to be intimate with each other.

So believe me when I say: I DO NOT CARE HOW “CANDID” HE GOT. LET US READ THE DAMN THING.

If censorship insists on continuing, those of us who preordered the book should at least be given the option of receiving the book with or without the censorship.

We should not all be required to wait another 15 months just because some editor got all hot and bothered with their panties in a twist.

These people do not know with whom they are fucking.

Donald Sutherland’s vengeful ghost is not something anyone would willingly sign up to deal with.

I guaran-fucking-tee the man has been hanging around this whole time.

Donald, by all accounts, was one of the sweetest people to ever live.

That said, an angry Donald Sutherland is one of the scariest things you will ever see.

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A STUNNED DAVID CRONENBERG (You're kidding, ¿right?) Don't Look Now. Huh? Duh!

The movie David Cronenberg was “stunned” by (faroutmagazine.co.uk)

I take no credit for the article posted by Thomas Leatham 2023-08-03

The movie David Cronenberg was “stunned” by

The films of David Cronenberg remain some of the most viscerally terrifying moments of cinema ever recorded. Known for developing the body horror genre, Cronenberg has given the scarier side of film history a sense of dread occurring from within the human corpus from diseases and transformations.

TRAILER: SHIVERS (1975)

(Go to notes to see film) (687VID1) https://youtu.be/mQxcOJ0yEoY TRAILER: SHIVERS

He’s explored the human body in movies such as Shivers, Scanners, Videodrome and The Fly, ...

TRAILER: THE FLY (1986)

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but he also ensures that he looks at the psychological perspectives of the human experience too, particularly in his later work in the drama and thriller genres.

TRAILER: VIDEODRONE (1983)

(Go to notes to see film) (687VID3) https://youtu.be/wFRAwig4rU8 TRIALER VIDEODRONE

While David Cronenberg has thrilled and shocked and terrified over the years, he’s also had the same effects occur in him as per the works of his fellow filmmakers. He once drew attention to a 1973 thriller movie by Nicolas Roeg by the name of Don’t Look Now, an adaptation of a 1971 short story by Daphne du Maurier.

TRAILER: DON'T LOOK NOW

(687VID4) https://youtu.be/BI9bYR0SoMs TRAILER DON'T LOOK NOW

“This was a movie that really stunned me,” the director once said. “I was really very impressed by it. Just a very, very strong movie. Very strange. Very much about death, but at first, you’re not aware that that’s really the subject matter. It’s really a love story, but it’s really a love story about love and death.”

TRAILER: SCANNERS (1981)

(Go to notes to see film) (687vid ) https://youtu.be/UveLSA7Hoj8

Don’t Look Now stars Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as John and Laura Baxter, a married pair who depart for Venice after the accidental and untimely death of their daughter. John has been given a job to repair a church, where he meets a nun who tells him that his daughter is trying to contact him from the afterlife.

Cronenberg then explained that when asked what his favourite movie is, he finds it hard to pick out just one, given the fact there are so many, but he always thinks of Roeg’s film. “Just recently, someone said, ‘Tell me a movie that is one of your favourite movies,’ which is very hard to do because there are hundreds of movies that I love. But I did say, Don’t Look Now.”

The film icon actually went one further than his “stunned” claim, though and suggested that Roeg’s film is actually the most frightening that he’s ever seen. In an interview with The Guardian, the director admitted that what’s most frightening comes down to the individual person, particularly considering their age.

THE AUDIO BOOK: DON'T LOOK NOW

(687VID-VOZ1) https://youtu.be/LrNbUsq2Z-A (AudioBook)

But for an adult, Cronenberg said, “For me, Don’t Look Now, Nic Roeg’s film with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. That really got to me; that was very effective film-making. Its anticipation of death was so palpable. On the other hand, if the person who asked this question saw it, maybe it wouldn’t have any effect. There’s no absolute universal.”

Don’t Look Now is an acclaimed work of Roeg’s, and though it falls mostly into the thriller genre, it has been influential in the development of modern horror, with a unique editing style and the use of flashbacks and flash forwards. The perception of the viewer is put into doubt according to the narrative.

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Don't Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier

A collection of her short stories. She was a very subtle and clever writer, I think. The title story was adapted for cinema and became the famous film, directed by Nic Roeg and starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. I was slightly surprised to discover how faithful the film was to the story. Other stories are also unsettling and atmospheric. Very good.

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Performance, by William Hughes (Tandem, 1970).

From eBay.

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Don’t Look Now (1973)

by Nicolas Roeg

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James Fox in Performance (1970)

Via bfi.org

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David Bowie and Candy Clark on the set of The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976).

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The hilarious genius Buck Henry has died after a long and hopefully joyous adventure through life.

Henry’s light, nimble portrayal of Oliver Farnsworth was the perfect foil for the introverted Thomas Newton (David Bowie) and the sanguine Nathan Bryce (Rip Torn) in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976).

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Lord Lichfield (top) and Nicolas Roeg photographers.

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David Bowie & Director Nic Roeg

On set, “TMWFTE”, Circa 76 🚀