Editing Nicolas Roeg (section)

===Directing===
In the late 1960s, Roeg moved into directing with ''[[Performance (film)|Performance]]'', alongside [[Donald Cammell]]. The film centres on an aspiring London gangster ([[James Fox]]) who moves in with a reclusive rock star ([[Mick Jagger]]) to evade his bosses. The film featured cinematography by Roeg and a screenplay by Cammell, the latter of whom had favoured [[Marlon Brando]] for the James Fox role.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/21/james-fox-sandy-lieberson-how-we-made-performance|title=James Fox and Sandy Lieberson: how we made Performance|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=17 December 2017|date=21 July 2015|last=Watkins|first=Jack}}</ref> The film was completed in 1968 but withheld from release by its distributor [[Warner Bros.]] who, according to [[Sanford Lieberson]], "didn't think it was releasable."<ref name="auto"/> The film was eventually released with an [[X rating]] in 1970 and, despite its initial poor reception, has come to be held in high esteem by critics due to its cult following.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/performance/|title=Performance|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=25 November 2018}}</ref>

Roeg followed up with ''[[Walkabout (film)|Walkabout]]'', which tells the story of an English teenage girl and her younger brother who are abandoned in the Australian [[Outback]] by their father after his suicide and forced to fend for themselves, with the help of an [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal]] boy on his [[walkabout]]. Roeg cast [[Jenny Agutter]] in the role of the girl, his son [[Luc Roeg|Luc]] as the boy, and [[David Gulpilil]] as the Aboriginal boy.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/09/how-we-made-walkabout-jenny-agutter-nicolas-roeg-luc-roeg|title=How we made Walkabout|first=Alex|last=Godfrey|date=9 August 2016|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=24 November 2018}}</ref> It was widely praised by critics despite its lack of commercial success.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/article/2016/08/11/walkabout-cheat-sheet|title=Walkabout: Cheat Sheet|date=11 August 2016|access-date=24 November 2018}}</ref>

Roeg's next film, ''[[Don't Look Now]]'', is based on [[Daphne du Maurier]]'s [[Not After Midnight|short story of the same name]] and starred [[Julie Christie]] and [[Donald Sutherland]] as a married couple in [[Venice]] mourning the death of their daughter who had drowned. It attracted scrutiny early on due to a sex scene between Sutherland and Christie, which was unusually explicit for the time. Roeg's decision to inter-cut the sexual intercourse with shots of the couple dressing afterwards was reportedly due to the need to assuage the fears of the censors and there were rumours at the time of its release that the sex was unsimulated.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.film4.com/features/article/nicolas-roeg-on-dont-look-now|title=Nicolas Roeg on Don't Look Now|website=Film 4|access-date=17 December 2017 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810181107/http://www.film4.com/features/article/nicolas-roeg-on-dont-look-now|archive-date=10 August 2011}}</ref> The film was widely praised by critics and considered one of the most important and influential horror films ever made.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/nicolas-roeg-death-movie-director-dont-look-now-age-witches-david-bowie-a8650106.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220620/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/nicolas-roeg-death-movie-director-dont-look-now-age-witches-david-bowie-a8650106.html |archive-date=20 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=British film director Nicolas Roeg dies aged 90|website=[[Independent.co.uk]]|access-date=25 November 2018|date=2018-11-24}}</ref>

Similarly to ''Performance'', Roeg cast musicians in leading roles for his next two films, ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]'' and ''[[Bad Timing]]''. ''The Man Who Fell to Earth'' (1976) stars [[David Bowie]] as a humanoid alien who comes to [[Earth]] to collect water for his planet, which is suffering from a drought. The film divided critics and was truncated upon its U.S. release.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/films/755-the-man-who-fell-to-earth|title=The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)|website=The Criterion Collection|access-date=17 December 2017}}</ref> Despite this, it was entered into the [[Berlin International Film Festival]] where Roeg was nominated for the [[Golden Bear]]. It is today considered an important [[science fiction film]] and is one of Roeg's most celebrated films. ''Bad Timing'' was released in 1980 and stars [[Art Garfunkel]] as an American psychiatrist living in [[Vienna]] who develops a love affair with a fellow expatriate (played by [[Theresa Russell]], to whom Roeg was later married), which culminates in the latter being rushed to hospital due to an incident the nature of which is revealed over the course of the film. At first, it was disliked by critics, as well as by the [[Rank Organisation]], its distributor, who allegedly described it as "a sick film made by sick people for sick people."<ref>{{cite news |last=Hasted |first=Nick |date=15 August 2000 |title=Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/aug/15/artsfeatures.edinburghfilmfestival |access-date=2023-06-12}}</ref> Rank requested that their logo be taken off the finished film.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/pictures-from-roeg-s-gallery-1.946644|title=Pictures from Roeg's gallery|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |access-date=25 November 2018}}</ref>

''Bad Timing'' marked the beginning of a three-film partnership with [[Jeremy Thomas]]. The second of these films ''[[Eureka (1983 film)|Eureka]]'' (1983) is loosely based on the true story of Sir [[Harry Oakes]]; it received a largely limited release both theatrically and on home video.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://americancinemapapers.homestead.com/files/EUREKA.htm|title=NICHOLAS ROEG – INTERVIEWED BY HARLAN KENNEDY|website=americancinemapapers.homestead.com|access-date=25 November 2018}}</ref> It was followed up with ''[[Insignificance (film)|Insignificance]]'', which imagines a meeting between [[Marilyn Monroe]], [[Albert Einstein]], Monroe's second husband [[Joe DiMaggio]] and Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]]. ''Insignificance'' was screened in competition at the [[1985 Cannes Film Festival]], with the film being selected to compete for the [[Palme d'Or]].<ref name="selection">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1985/allSelections.html |title=Official Selection 1985: All the Selection |work=festival-cannes.fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202221655/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1985/allSelections.html |archive-date=2 December 2013 |df=dmy}}</ref>

In 1986, Roeg was approached by then [[Secretary of State for Health and Social Services]] [[Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler|Norman Fowler]] and the advertising agency [[TBWA Worldwide|TBWA]] to direct the British government's [[public health]] campaign ''[[AIDS: Don't Die of Ignorance]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jonze|first=Tim|date=4 September 2017|title='It was a life-and-death situation. Wards were full of young men dying': How we made the Don't Die of Ignorance Aids campaign|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/sep/04/how-we-made-dont-die-of-ignorance-aids-campaign|access-date=21 November 2020|website=The Guardian}}</ref>

Roeg's next two films, ''[[Castaway (film)|Castaway]]'' and ''[[Track 29]]'', are considered minor entries in his oeuvre.{{by whom?|date=April 2023}}<ref name="Senses of Cinema">{{cite web|url=http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/roeg/|title=Nicolas Roeg – Great Director profile|website=Senses of Cinema|access-date=12 July 2014|date=21 May 2002}}</ref> Roeg was selected to direct an [[The Witches (1990 film)|adaptation]] of [[Roald Dahl]]'s children's novel ''[[The Witches (novel)|The Witches]]'' by [[Jim Henson]], who had procured the film rights to the book in 1983.<ref>{{cite web |last=Jordan |first=Louis |date=20 August 2015 |title=Summer of '90: The Witches – The House Next Door |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/summer-of-90-the-witches |access-date=17 December 2017 |website=Slant Magazine}}</ref> This would prove to be his last major studio film and proved a great success with critics, although it was a box-office failure. Roeg made only three theatrical films following ''The Witches'': ''[[Cold Heaven (film)|Cold Heaven]]'' (1992), ''[[Two Deaths]]'' (1995) and ''[[Puffball (film)|Puffball]]'' (2007).<ref name = ODNB>{{cite ODNB|title = Roeg, Nicolas Jack (1928–2018), film director and cinematographer|doi = 10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000380577|last = Sinyard|first = Neil|date = 2022}}</ref> Roeg also did a small amount of work for television, including ''[[Sweet Bird of Youth (1989 film)|Sweet Bird of Youth]]'', an adaptation of the [[Tennessee Williams]] play, and ''[[Heart of Darkness (1993 film)|Heart of Darkness]]'' and an episode of [[George Lucas|George Lucas's]] [[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles|''Young Indiana Jones'']].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/arts-the-horror-the-horror-nic-roeg-has-just-finished-filming-conrads-heart-of-darkness-in-belize-1482509.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220620/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/arts-the-horror-the-horror-nic-roeg-has-just-finished-filming-conrads-heart-of-darkness-in-belize-1482509.html |archive-date=20 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=ARTS / The horror, the horror]: Nic Roeg has just finished filming|website=[[Independent.co.uk]]|access-date=25 November 2018|date=1993-07-02}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception (1999) |url=https://letterboxd.com/film/the-adventures-of-young-indiana-jones-demons-of-deception/ |access-date=2023-05-27 |language=en}}</ref>

Roeg did not make any more films after 2007, but published a memoir, ''The World Is Ever Changing'', in 2013.<ref name = ODNB/>