With the chilling 1973 classic Don't Look Now out on DVD, we take a trip through the director's fascinating back catalogue.
With the chilling 1973 classic Don't Look Now out on DVD, we take a trip through the director's fascinating back catalogue.
Two Deaths
Michael Gambon stars as a hard-partying physician in Chile in this 1994 erotic psychological drama. Sonia Braga provides the sex appeal.
Cold Heaven
Roeg's real life partner Theresa Russell stars as an unfaithful wife convinced her husband has returned from the dead.
The Witches
Roeg lends his warped eye to the poisoned pen of Roald Dahl in this macabre fairytale from 1990, starring Anjelica Huston.
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Dennis Potter wrote this Oedipally-obsessed, open-ended and enigmatic melodrama. Roeg matches the verbal wit with his own seductive brand of surrealism.
Castaway
Amanda Donohoe is the bored Inland Revenue clerk who answers an ad to become 'wife' for a year to Oliver Reed's randy, island-dwelling old goat.
Insignificance
Marilyn Monroe describes the theory of relativity to Einstein. Einstein shows off his legs. Yup, it's Roeg fascinating 1985 curio in which nothing is what it seems.
Eureka
Prospector Gene Hackman is looking for gold in this disquieting film about the evils of avarice.
Bad Timing
Art Garfunkel is a chilly psychoanalyst and Theresa Russell is on his couch in this tense, Vienna-set sexual psychodrama.
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Starman David Bowie comes to Earth in search of water in this blinding psychedelic sci-fi with a bleak subtext about loneliness and consumption. Never was the Thin White Duke thinner.
Don't Look Now
Roeg's third masterpiece stars Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland as a couple in Venice after the death of their daughter, but there's something creepy about those dank, off-season canals. Red anoraks will never look the same again.
Walkabout
Roeg's first solo outing as a director, and the second masterpiece to bare his name. Prim schoolgirl Jenny Agutter is adrift in the Outback, where a misunderstanding causes the death of an aborigine. And what's that stuff with her father about?
Performance
"I like a bit of a cavort." Roeg's first masterpiece sees gangland enforcer James Fox seduced by fading rock star Mick Jagger. Donald Cammell co-directs the cultiest cult film ever.
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