The latest news and features on film director Nicolas Roeg
November 2023
The reader interview
Jane Horrocks: ‘I’d love to be a baddie in a Tarantino movie’
The actor answers your questions on working with Mike Leigh, starring in a New Order video and dressing as a giant Snoopy at Harrods
October 2023
Don’t Look Now at 50: Nicolas Roeg’s mesmeric horror of inescapable grief
The acclaimed adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s short story remains a visually immersive descent and a chilling portrayal of loss
September 2023
Mark Kermode on film
Kermode on… Nicolas Roeg: ‘Nothing is what it seems’
In the first of a new monthly Observer column on his favourite film-makers, Mark Kermode salutes the elliptical vision of the director of Don’t Look Now, Walkabout, Performance and so much more
December 2022
Down the rabbit hole
What links Lady Chatterley’s Lover to Walkabout and William Hurt?
The DH Lawrence classic inexorably leads to violent UK theatre, a stunning John Barry soundtrack and the erotic thriller Body Heat
November 2022
Down the rabbit hole
What links Lesley Manville to Nic Roeg and Vic Reeves?
Go down the rabbit hole to discover how acting royalty meets the real thing, by way of Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Verve
January 2021
The Masque of the Red Death review – horribly apt Poe adaptation
Roger Corman’s 1964 cult classic about a medieval pestilence closing in on a decadent count played by Vincent Price has uncomfortable resonance
October 2020
Flesh Gordon? Artwork reveals erotic version that was never made
Draft designs for a planned Nicolas Roeg sci-fi movie in 1979 finally see the light of day
August 2020
The Witches at 30: a horror film for children that continues to terrify
Nicolas Roeg’s cruel adaptation of Roald Dahl’s tale of bloodthirsty child-killers remains a remarkably sadistic studio film for kids
July 2019
Don't Look Now review – Roeg's scary movie can still make you jump
From its red stalker to its eerie strangers, this suspenseful classic set a template for horror – but its sexual intimacy adds a dramatic counterpoint few films can match
December 2018
The Observer's obituaries of 2018
Nicolas Roeg remembered by Donald Sutherland
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Streaming: the missing films of Roeg and Bertolucci
November 2018
Nicolas Roeg created a filmic world of sex and shock. He messed me up – and I loved him
Suzanne Moore
Sex factor: Nicolas Roeg and Bernardo Bertolucci's transgressive legacy
Nicolas Roeg obituary
Film blog
Nicolas Roeg: a daring film-maker of passionate and visceral brilliance
Nicolas Roeg: a life in pictures
Nicolas Roeg, director of Don't Look Now and Walkabout, dies aged 90
'Performance? I still don't fully understand it' – behind the scenes photos from the cult classic
July 2018
David Bowie on the set of The Man Who Fell to Earth – in pictures
It was Bowie’s most celebrated film – and photographer David James was on hand to capture the star at his intimate and engaging best
October 2016
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Notes on Blindness; Behemoth; The Boss; Gods of Egypt and more – review
Two documentaries play with form and evoke suffering on scales small and large, while Melissa McCarthy outshines her own film
