Nicolas Roeg

Around Town: The Stooges ride back to town

2011-11-24 16:36:36

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'Antichrist': Grueling, even as Von Trier goes

2009-10-21 16:34:41

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50 Ways Marilyn Monroe Has Been Kept Alive For 50 Years

2012-08-03 12:14:00

Aug 03 (TheWrap.com) - There's a moment at the end of the promo reel for "Love, Marilyn," an upcoming Marilyn Monroe documentary that will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, when Uma Thurman, speaking in words that were written by Monroe, almost...

The Man Who Fell to Earth tonight at Cinestudio

2011-08-03 08:19:00

For those who can't wait until 7:30, when the uncut restoration of Nicolas Roeg's 1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth opens tonight at Cinestudio for a one-week run, a couple of semi-relevant David Bowie clips. From 1969, here's the original video for "Space...

A new, added, guide to gourmet movies

2011-07-14 12:22:00

One of the joys of the extra space afforded us in the Tribune’s recent redesign has been the addition of a full page of film recommendations, labeled ON SCREEN. On that page film critic Michael Phillips (with an occasional assist from other...

Elena Anaya será el rostro de "La piel que habito", nuevo filme de Almodóvar

2010-06-08 00:00:00

Those bitter arbiters of taste

2007-02-11 00:00:00

MADE nearly 30 years apart, the psychedelic London psychodrama "Performance" and the sugary Versailles romp "Marie Antoinette" — both out on DVD this week — have a surprising amount in common. Both concern role-playing games and identity...

Movie review: 'Glastonbury'

2007-03-08 00:00:00

3 stars (out of four) "Glastonbury" is a record of England's "green and pleasant land" in the rock era, a portrait of the world's longest-running music festival and a suggestion of what might have happened here, if Woodstock had kept on chugging along to...

'Glastonbury'

2007-02-23 00:00:00

This small town in Somerset is dominated by a mystical hill — Glastonbury Tor — rumored to possess the kind of paranormal qualities that produce legends and make you want to whistle the theme from "The X-Files." Infused with mythologies of...

Movie review: The Proposition'

2006-05-10 11:03:34

3� stars (out of four) In "The Proposition," the violent, elegiac traditions of the American movie Western are pushed to a fever pitch that irresistibly recalls the great Sam Peckinpah movies of the 1960s and '70s, even though this film is set half a...

Late-night cinematic adventures

1999-07-06 15:26:00

Hot town, summer in the city, and the back of your neck might get dirty and gritty. Sure, you can rinse it off with a cold one, but I have a couple of alternatives. If you're anywhere near Navy Pier around 10 at night (or 11:30 on Fridays and Saturdays)...

5 films that are golden oldies about rock stars

2001-04-19 00:00:00

1. THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT (Frank Tashlin; 1956) 3 1/2 stars Tashlin's rowdy comedy about a hapless press agent (Tom Ewell) hired by a hot-tempered gangster (Edmond O'Brien) to make a pop star of his talent-challenged girlfriend (Jayne Mansfield). Full of...

Christie and Donald Sutherland have one of the most evocative sex scenes put on celluloid in Nicolas Roeg s terrifying adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier s story of a couple living in Venice who are grieving the recent drowning death of their child.

2008-01-02 13:09:11

Mick Jagger went the X-rated route in Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg s cult classic. He plays a mysterious, androgynous rock star named Turner who operates a guest house where he lives surrounded by two concubines and lots of drugs.

2007-10-10 16:11:35