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Walkabout is a 1971 adventure survival film directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, and David Gulpilil. Edward Bond wrote the screenplay, which is loosely based on the 1959 novel by James Vance Marshall .
Nicolas Jack Roeg CBE BSC (/ ˈ r oʊ ɡ / ROHG; 15 August 1928 – 23 November 2018) was an English film director and cinematographer, best known for directing Performance (1970), Walkabout (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Bad Timing (1980) and The Witches (1990).
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fantasy drama film [4] directed by Nicolas Roeg and adapted by Paul Mayersberg. [5] Based on Walter Tevis's 1963 novel of the same name, the film follows an extraterrestrial named Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) who crash-lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought, but finds himself ...
Director and noted cinematographer Nicolas Roeg, whose offbeat films included “Performance,” “Don’t Look Now,” “The Witches” and “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” has died. He was 90.
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At a 1989 arts festival in Bath, Somerset, Agutter met Johan Tham, a Swedish hotelier [20] who was a director of Cliveden Hotel in Buckinghamshire. [21] They married in August 1990, [ 22 ] and their son Jonathan [ 4 ] was born on 25 December 1990. [ 20 ]
Nicolas Roeg had employed the fractured editing style of Don't Look Now on his previous films, Performance and Walkabout, but it was originated by editor Antony Gibbs on Petulia. Roeg served as the cinematographer on Petulia, which incidentally also starred Julie Christie, and Gibbs went on to edit Performance and Walkabout for Roeg. [23]
The myth grew with his ascent as artistic director of women’s collections at Louis Vuitton, where his predecessor Marc Jacobs had paved the way for a leather goods colossus to become a $9.5 ...