The man who made time bend finally explains how he broke the clock.
The first major profile of the great British film director Nicolas Roeg, examining his very personal vision of cinema as in such films as Don't Look Now, Performance, Walkabout and The Man Who Fell to Earth. Roeg reflects on his career, which began as a leading cinematographer, and on the themes that have obsessed him, such as our perception of time and the difficulty of human relationships.
Direction
Thompson lets Roeg's own fractured editing style infect the documentary
Acting
Russell and Sutherland's raw, complicated affection for their collaborator
Editing
Roeg's commentary cut against his own disorienting imagery
Director
David M. Thompson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Roeg's background as a cinematographer on Lawrence of Arabia and Fahrenheit 451 meant he literally learned cinema from the giants, then spent his directing career trying to destroy their classical continuity.
Donald Sutherland's barely-contained emotion discussing Don't Look Now's famous sex scene — and Roeg's clinical, almost cruel detachment in describing how he shot it — creates the documentary's most electric tension.
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