Nic Roeg

[Robin Davies]

It's interesting, and gratifying, that Roeg is getting awards and praise these days. I suppose it's because his fans are now part of the movie establishment and want to make up for the years when he was dismissed as "pretentious" or "self-indulgent" and his films were censored, shelved or given pitifully small releases.
It'd be nice if they could spell his name consistently though.
Here's a nice 2009 tribute to the maestro:
https://www.bafta.org/access-all-are...te,754,ba.html

[GRAEME]

It's interesting, and gratifying, that Roeg is getting awards and praise these days. I suppose it's because his fans are now part of the movie establishment and want to make up for the years when he was dismissed as "pretentious" or "self-indulgent" and his films were censored, shelved or given pitifully small releases.
It'd be nice if they could spell his name consistently though.
Here's a nice 2009 tribute to the maestro:
https://www.bafta.org/access-all-are...te,754,ba.html

Some of his work is definitely both "pretentious" and "self-indulgent". Walkabout is a fine film though.