Tag: Nicolas Roeg
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Kermode on… Nicolas Roeg: ‘Nothing is what it seems’
In the first of a new monthly Observer column on his favourite film-makers, Mark Kermode salutes the elliptical vision of the director of Don’t Look Now, Walkabout, Performance and so much moreThis month marks 50 years since the release of Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, a personal touchstone movie (adapted from a story by Daphne…
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This Legendary Horror Whodunnit Didn’t Get Enough Respect When It Came Out
The whodunnit subgenre is one of the most well-covered grounds in all of horror and has left us with numerous classics, but you won’t be able to find a movie more devastating in it than Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now. This movie is a mystery in just about every way, with a fascinating paranormal core.…
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Streaming: Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical and the best adaptations of classic children’s books
The latest all-singing version of Matilda, now on Netflix, joins an impressive library of thoughtful film versions of seminal kids’ books, from Paddington to KesThe common wisdom that “the book is usually better than the film” is as true of children’s literature as of its adult counterpart: cinema is stacked with adaptations of children’s classics…
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Alfred Hitchcock Owes Two of His Best Films to This Female Novelist
Some portions of the internet might take umbrage with the following statement, but the fact remains: Alfred Hitchcock owes two of his best works to a woman’s mind. What’s more, so does thriller cinema as a whole. Rebecca, Hitchcock’s first American film, is based on author Daphne du Maurier’s bestselling novel of the same name,…