Walkabout

Roeg's second film has become something of a cult classic. The story centers on two British children stranded in the Australian desert who are led back to civilization by an Aboriginal male. The fascination of the movie comes from the cultural collision that also carries a sexually charged undercurrent.

"...Directed by: Nicolas Roeg. Starring: Jenny Agutter, Lucien John, David Gumpilil and..."

April 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cold Heaven

"...Directed by: Nicolas Roeg. Starring: Mark Harmon, Theresa Russell, Talia Shire and..."

July 31, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Powder

"...has echoes of everything from Brian DePalma's Carrie to Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth, and, at..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

FF2012: 'Wake in Fright'

Yabba-dabba-doom

"...Aussie nightday-mare dates back to 1971, the same year Nicolas Roeg's seminal Walkabout arrived in theaters. Director Ted Kotcheff's..."

Sept. 23, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Don't Look Now

"...Directed by: Nicolas Roeg. Starring: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland and Hilary Mason...."

July 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wake in Fright

Originally released in 1971, this Australian oddity has been recently restored to its waking-nightmare intensity.

"...daytime nightmare dates back to 1971, the same year Nicolas Roeg's seminal Walkabout arrived in theatres. Director Ted Kotcheff's..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

An American Haunting

A satanic-possession thriller set in 1817 stars Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek – to little avail.

"...several times, in American Haunting is straight out of Nicolas Roeg's Venetian double-take, Don't Look Now. American Haunting, helmed..."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Man Who Fell to Earth and Bad Timing

Musicians make uneasy actors. With his directorial debut, 1970's 'Performance,' Nicolas Roeg characteristically tossed convention out the hotel window by casting Mick Jagger as one of the leads. He would follow up with David Bowie and Art Garfunkel.

"...to the soul. With his directorial debut, 1970's Performance, Nicolas Roeg (b. 1928, London) characteristically tossed convention out the..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Instant Classic

Paramount Theatre's Summer 2000 Series

"...D: Nicolas Roeg; with Jenny Agutter, Lucien John, David Gulpilil, John..."

May 19, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Come to Daddy

Family freakout with Elijah Wood in this slick and twisted thriller

"...The Tenant-era Polanski to hallucinatory pandemonium worthy of early Nicolas Roeg, all the while steadfastly refusing to kowtow to..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fashionista

UK-to-ATX transplant Simon Rumley's thriftstore mystery

"...when you see the closing credit shout-out to director Nicolas Roeg, it all makes sense...."

Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Kyle Henry: Top Ten

Local filmmaker has a few films to put in your Netflix qeue

"...5) Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (Dir Nicolas Roeg) - A real mess of a film staring..."

Aug. 16, 2009 Screens Post by Andy Campbell

Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets

"...it has anything to do with being married to Nicolas Roeg is, again, anyone's guess, but I suspect Styler..."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

8:15am, the moment Hiroshima was bombed, comes around every morning: It is something we live with

"...In Nicolas Roeg's 1985 film, Insignificance, Einstein's watch stops at 8:15am,..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...has echoes of everything from Brian DePalma's Carrie to Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth, and, at..."

Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature

SXSW Episodic Review: The Man Who Fell To Earth

First look at the Showtime sequel to the Bowie space oddity

"...1963 Walter Tevis novel and the 1976 film from Nicolas Roeg (starring, of course, David Bowie), the first two..."

March 15, 2022 SXSW Post by Sarah Jane

The Babadook Director Sings a Song of History With The Nightingale

Jennifer Kent honors a commitment to the Aboriginal people of Australia

"...I don't think that's acceptable anymore." Case in point: Nicolas Roeg's seminal outback drama, 1971's Walkabout, which reduced its..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Chronicle Recommends: Short Story Films

Small stories find their Hollywood ending

"...on the short story by Daphne du Maurier, this Nicolas Roeg thriller about a grief-stricken couple (Donald Sutherland and..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Drafthouse Films Acquires Sweaty Donald Pleasance, Doomed 'Roos

Drafthouse Films acquires Ozploitation Classic 'Wake in Fright'

"...the films of Brian Trenchard-Smith and Jenny Agutter in Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout have kept us obsessively busy of the..."

July 19, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Station to Station

Fattening up the Thin White Duke

"...Thin White Duke, left over from his appearance in Nicolas Roeg's film The Man Who Fell to Earth. It..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Engaging 'Fourplay'

Before departing for Chicago, Kyle Henry makes a cross-platform debut

"...the work of the Seventies – by people like Nicolas Roeg and Ken Russell, where sex in the films..."

July 23, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Seven Sci-Fi Rock Flicks

Bowie, Kiss, Flaming Lips, Guitar Wolf, Frank N. Furter, and Marty McFly: celluloid rockers

"...androgynous alien persona, Ziggy Stardust, by the time director Nicolas Roeg asked him to star in this 1976 adaptation..."

July 25, 2008 Music Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

His Films, His Way

Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It

"...bunch of 10-minute films which are being made by Nicolas Roeg, David Lynch, Chris Marker, Aki Kaurismäki. I think..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

"...interview material with Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Kenneth Anger, Nicolas Roeg, Cathy Moriarty, and Barbara Steele. The network also..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

New World Pioneer

"...John Alonzo, directors Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola, and Nicolas Roeg. In 1970, he graduated from directing to running..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Richard Whittaker's Top 10 Films of 2021

The Chronicle's Culture desk editor makes his list

"...1) Pig Nicolas Cage as a man dealing with the last great..."

Dec. 20, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker