Tag: Walkabout
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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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Criterion September Releases Include ‘Moonage Daydream,’ La Bamba’
Criterion has just announced its additions to its collection coming during September, and it includes an acclaimed documentary, international cinema and a timeless classic. Moonage Daydream, last year’s masterpiece about the life and art of David Bowie will be added to the collection, joined by Luis Valdez’s notorious biopic of a Mexican American musical trailblazer,…
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Full speed ahead: the enduring appeal of the road movie
From the Oscar-winning Drive My Car to festival favourite Hit the Road, audiences and critics are relishing the recent wave of road movies. Here, Geoff Dyer delves into the roots of the genreFour directors discuss breathing new life into the road movieWherever there is an actual physical journey there is inherent narrative interest. It doesn’t…
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Remembering David Dalaithngu: A look back at some of his most iconic performances – video
David Dalaithngu, actor, dancer and Australian cultural icon, is credited with helping reinvent Australian film. His role in Walkabout (1971) contributed to the end of blackface being used in Australian cinema. Dalaithngu had a string of successful roles in the 1970s and 80s including in Storm Boy (1976) and Crocodile Dundee (1986). His longest creative…
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Nicolas Roeg remembered by Donald Sutherland
15 August 1928 – 23 November 2018The actor who starred in Roeg’s 1973 masterpiece, Don’t Look Now, remembers a visionary director, and cinematographer, who changed his life for ever• Nicolas Roeg remembered by Donald Sutherland• Read the Observer’s obituaries of 2018 in full hereI was filming in Florida in the spring of 1972. My agent…