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Condolences extended towards the friends and family of one of the most artistically inclined cinematographers-turned-directors.
Was watching - only this morning - one of the 1961 Roeg-photographed segments of Ghost Squad entitled "Broken Doll".
Love many of the films Roeg worked on:
The Caretaker
Dr. Crippen
The Masque of the Red Death
The System
Walkabout
Don't Look Now
Castaway
Cold Heaven
Roeg was one of the few who continued to make 'art' films throughout the 1980s against the trends of special effects orientated material.
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Roeg also shot the most erotic, sensual and hot lesbian scene ever in THE WILD SIDE.
RIP NR
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Nov 29, 2018 - 4:32 PM
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Bob DiMucci
(Member)
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In 1959, captivated by the historical importance and a good script, England's Warwick Films undertook the risky project of producing, funding, and distributing the controversial film THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE, which was released in 1960. Ahead of the times in its frank unprejudiced depiction of homosexual issues, the film ran into a stone wall in the United States, all but preventing any sort of advertising, and the company lost its large investment. The partners of Warwick Films, Albert R. Broccoli and Irving Allen, fell out, and the partnership became moribund, being dissolved officially in a 1961 bankruptcy liquidation.
Nicolas Roeg was the camera operator on the film, which was directed by Ken Hughes. Ron Goodwin's score did not get a release.
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Roeg was a camera operator on the 1960 Robert Mitchum film THE SUNDOWNERS. Although studio head Jack L. Warner wanted to shoot the movie in Arizona, director Fred Zinnemann insisted on shooting the exteriors on location in Australia. The shoot did not go well. Zinnemann spent 12 weeks filming scenery and sheepherding scenes in the outback before the cast arrived. Once the cast got there, the weather began alternating daily between hot sun and cold rain, which resulted in several extra weeks of filming. Robert Mitchum was so harassed by fans that he had to move onto a boat to get away from them.
Ten minutes of Dimitri Tiomkin's score was recorded as an extra on the 2005 Tadlow recording of THE GUNS OF NAVARONE.
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His movies were boring. The only good thing he did was to get jenny agutter to show her pubic hair in walkabout
no great loss to the world of cinema if you ask me.
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Roeg was a camera operator on the 1961 horror film DOCTOR BLOOD'S COFFIN. Sidney J. Furie directed the film, which had an unreleased score by Buxton Orr.
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Nicolas Roeg graduated to the job of Director of Photography with 1961's INFORMATION RECEIVED, which did not get a U.S. release. One of his earliest films as DP to make an impression in America was the 1963 thriller DR. CRIPPEN. The film was based on the real-life story of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, who was hanged in London in 1910 for poisoning his wife so he could be with his young lover. But was he truly guilty of murder? The film was shot at the Elstree Studios of Associated British Picture Corporation.
Robert Lynn directed the film, which had an unreleased score by Ken V. Jones.
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Roeg was the cinematographer on 1964's THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, the first of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe series of films to be shot in England. Roger Corman and production designer Daniel Haller were able to make the film look more opulent than earlier productions by using the sets left from BECKET (1964).
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Nicolas Roeg photographed the spy thriller CODE 7...VICTIM 5 on location in Cape Town, South Africa. Robert Lynn (DR. CRIPPEN) directed the 1964 release. The score by Johnny Douglas has not had a release.
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Roeg was the cinematographer for Richard Lester’s film of A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. The film was shot on location in Spain and at Samuel Bronston Studios in Madrid. Ken Thorne’s score and the few Stephen Sondheim songs that remained from the original stage production were released on a United Artists LP. The LP was re-issued on CD by Rykodisc in 1997. Quartet released Thorne’s complete underscore in 2012.
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