Keswick Film Festival

Nicolas Roeg Retrospective

Nicolas Roeg began his film career in the late 1940s, working his way up from tea-maker and clapper-boy to camera operator and then outstanding cinematographer for directors such as Roger Corman, François Truffaut and Richard Lester. His first films as director - Performance (1970 co-directed with Donald Cammell), Walkabout (1971) and Don't Look Now (1973) - immediately established him as one of the most exciting and imaginative film-makers of post-war British cinema.

Since then, he has made such offbeat and challenging movies as The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976), Bad Timing (1980), Eureka (1982), Insignificance (1985), Cold Heaven (1991) and Two Deaths (1996).

The material of his films ranges from Conrad to Castaway , from Daphne du Maurier to Roald Dahl; and he has directed an amazing diversity of performing talent, that includes Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Theresa Russell, Art Garfunkel, Gene Hackman, Tony Curtis and Elizabeth Taylor.

Nic Roeg will introduce all of his films (subject to last minute changes in his work schedule.)

Featuring:

Performance	Insignificance	Eureka
Walkabout	The Man Who Fell to Earth	Don't Look Now

GRAND ILLUSIONS: The Cinema of Nicolas Roeg
Free Talk by Neil Sinyard, Reader in Film Studies, University of Hull
15th February at 9.30 am (Theatre By The Lake)

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Raw emotion, graphic sexuality and violence, scintillating cinematics: these are the hallmarks of one of Britain's finest film stylists, Nicolas Roeg. This talk will consider why his films have excited such extreme reactions, his importance to British film, and his inspiration to those for whom cinema is not palliative but provocation. The talk will be illustrated with film extracts.

Neil Sinyard is Reader in Film Studies at Hull University. He has published over twenty books on film, including The Films of Nicolas Roeg (1991). He is currently co-editor of a series of monographs on British Film-Makers for Manchester University Press.

The Nic Roeg Interview
16th February at 7.00 pm (Theatre by the Lake)

In conversation with Neil Sinyard, Roeg will talk about his remarkable career. The interview will be illustrated with extracts and questions invited from the audience.

Tickets: Non-members £3.00, Keswick Film Club Members £2.00

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