Nicolas Roeg
#NicRoeg @DAVID_LYNCH Interview Twofer PLUS #RogerEbert #Eureka PLUS @worldfoodbooks Pictorial History of SF Films 1980, Japanese ('Before 'Twin Peaks' there was only #DoublemintGum and #DollyParton'--Doug Meet @mrjyn) @recordedpicture @TwinPeaksArchve
A Pictorial History of SF Films
1980, Japanese Hardcover (w. dust jacket in slipcase), 447 pages 1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good Published by Fantasia Co Ltd / Japan $160.00 - Out of stock
First deluxe edition of the illustrated Japanese encyclopedic tome that explores the history of Science Fiction film, from early silent film to the modern era. Published in 1980 by special effects expert and editor of SFX Cinematic Illusion Shinji Nakako, A Pictorial History of SF Films compiles an exhaustive directory of chronological film listings from all over the world (including many unreleased Japanese sci-fi films, fantasy, horror, thriller, animation, and much beyond the usual SF category) through the decades.
"Good night, sleep tight, don't let the #bedbug bite!" #ExtendedStayAmerica @ESA #infestation The common #bed #bug (Cimex lectularius) has been a persistent pest of humans for thousands of years, yet the genetic basis of the bed bug's basic biology https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016336 With comprehensive film details, credits and blurbs (in Japanese) for each film selection, illustrated with stills and each period including rich colour reproductions of the original film posters! Includes a neat, full index of the films included (in English and in Japanese), accompanied by thumbnails of Yoda, all housed in the original Hajime Sorayama illustrated dust jacket in original publishers heavy cardboard slipcase.
A treasure for the SF fan.
#TWINPEAKS @David Lynch & @MarkFrost interview April 1990 @BBC2
Before 'Twin Peaks' there was only #DoublemintGum
https://youtu.be/7sefHatyheE
and #DollyParton
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7zNaBHpNaN/
but the Brits got it -- Doug Meet @mrjyn
THE LATE SHOW previewing TWIN PEAKS,
https://youtu.be/4Y0C3Vy_Slg
introduced by Tracey MacLeod and featuring interviews with Lynch and Frost plus critic Howard Rodman
Hajime Sorayama Stanley Kubrick Jean-Luc Godard Roland Topor René Laloux George Lucas David Cronenberg François Truffaut Andrei Tarkovsky Alfred Hitchcock Fritz Lang Luis Buñuel Robert Wise Peter Weir John Boorman John Carpenter George A. Romero Ridley Scott Robert Altman Dario Argento Lindsay Anderson Steven Spielberg Saul Bass Louis Malle Bruno Bozzetto Nicolas Roeg Brian de Palma Richard Fleischer Mel Brooks Terry Gilliam Ralph Bakshi Charles Band Irwin Allen George Miller Jim Henson Fantasia Co Ltd / Japan Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Out-of-print / Rare
@recordedpicture #Eureka is my favorite flick
Directed by #NicolasRoeg Writer #PaulMayersberg #helenakallianiotes Produced by #JeremyThomashttps://youtu.be/uCVYcu4mt60Nicolas Roeg talks EUREKA (plus Writer and Producer interviews)
09/09/89 BBC 'Film Club' introduction to Roeg's 1983 film with Nigel Andrews giving the background to the film and its troubled release followed by interviews with Director Roeg, Writer Paul Mayersberg, and Producer Jeremy Thomas
https://youtu.be/2hHVFyVUbOcRoger Ebert : Jan 1 1981 - Eureka is a strange, perverse film about passion and greed, and it leads us through a labyrinthine story to a simple message: Money can't buy you love.
It stars Gene Hackman as an obsessed gold prospector in the Yukon, who screams into the wind that he will "never make a nickel off another man's sweat." He stalks out into a blizzard, almost freezes to death, and then is saved through the supernatural intervention of a fortune-teller (Helena Kalianiotes). She arranges for him to find the mother lode and become the richest man in the world.We then flash forward to the 1930s, when he lives on his own Caribbean island. He should be a man without worries, but he is desperately unhappy because his beloved daughter (Theresa Russell) has married a scheming playboy (Rutger Hauer). While monsoons blow and parrots squawk, he bans Hauer from his table and vows to see him dead. "At first I thought you wanted my daughter. Then I thought you wanted my gold," Hackman screams at him. "Now I think you want my soul." He is right, but there is a battle over that soul, and the other contestant is the daughter herself. The film's director, Nicolas Roeg, says he has friends who seem to be the soul-clones of their parents, and apparently the closing passages of “Eureka” are meant to be seen with that notion in mind. Meanwhile, there are so many other notions to keep in mind that the film all but sinks under the weight of its inspiration. Roeg is a fascinating director. Remember some of his films: “Walkabout,” “Don’t Look Now,” “Performance,” “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” “Bad Timing.” They almost all seem to deal with supernatural intervention in the affairs of man, and with the way those mysteries get tangled up with the bedsheets. His films are also a visual feast; Roeg, a former editor, loves to construct complicated fantasies out of images and memories, shocks and beautiful meditations, Straightforward storytelling is not his strong point. But so what? The basic facts of “Eureka” (man strikes gold, becomes rich, grows old and jealous, suffers for greed) are familiar from Jack London, Edgar Allan Poe, and von Stroheim's “Greed.” What Roeg brings to the party is a flair for the sensational, for characters who are larger than their weaknesses, who are connected to great archetypal forces. Hackman is wonderful here, with the intensity of his obsessions, and once again Russell (still only in her mid-twenties) is brilliant; in some ways this is her movie, and she steals scenes from everybody except, sometimes, Hackman. If “Eureka” is not completely successful if, indeed, it is sometimes merely silly and often confusing, maybe that's the price we pay for Roeg's intensity. At least it is never boring.Video ID / sCPN 2hHVFyVUbOc / DHA0 ENP0 W92S Viewport / Frames 1200x900*1.20 / 0 dropped of 9978 Current / Optimal Res 640x480@25 / 640x480@25 Volume / Normalized 50% / 50% (content loudness -12.1dB) Codecs vp09.00.51.08.01.01.01.01 (244) / opus (251) Connection Speed 9885 Kbps Network Activity 0 KB Buffer Health 120.23 s Mystery Text s:8 t:399.99 b:0.000-520.001
