Roeg

/ ˈrəʊəɡ /

noun

1. Nic ( olas ). born 1928, British film director and cinematographer. Films include Walkabout (1970), Don't Look Now (1972), Insignificance (1984), and The Witches (1990)

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Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 film and du Maurier’s original text share a Venetian setting and a central couple called John and Laura, who have come to the Italian city to recover from the recent death of their young daughter.

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As for his key inspiration for the practical creature in “Ochi,” Saxon recalls being moved by the animatronic mouse in Nicolas Roeg’s gleefully macabre 1990 “The Witches,” which he watched as a kid and describes as a “correct adaptation of Roald Dahl.”

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He worked with auteurs including Nicolas Roeg in “Don’t Look Now” and Federico Fellini in “Fellini’s Casanova.”

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“Don’t Look Now” led Haigh to other Roeg landmarks, such as “Walkabout” and “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” and to an interest in classic and art-house cinema.

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Around the age of 15, Haigh, propelled by word of its notoriously lifelike sex scene between Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, rented Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 horror classic “Don’t Look Now” and began a fascination with onscreen intimacy that would come to define his work.

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