Wall
Displaying all 20 wall posts
Kitty
3Mar12
More of the ineffable world of Nicolas Roeg. Perhaps one stumbled upon while moving through that other decadent space inhabited by Bowie's character in The Man who Fell to Earth. Remember those endless rooms, wall-papered, with a ping-pong table...an exquisitely decorated prison with an appeal that makes one shudder?
Matthew Martens
7Feb12
Resolved: all love is necrophilia. Also: identity is a can of snakes. Like most of Roeg's films from this period, Bad Timing never entirely shakes its own shakiness, tilting at times towards self-parody and piling on arguably facile allusions -- I'm thinking of the Bowles-ian interlude in particular -- but there's no denying the cumulative power with which it brings love's depredations to tortured, tangled life.
Hugo Resendiz Saldivar
27Dec11
Un muy punto de vista diferente sobre las relaciones co-dependientes, me gusto mucho como el que tiene el control se vuelve el que reacciona de manera mas animal, es la persona intachable la que puede llegar a actuar mas despiadadamente, creo que es un buen clímax en la historia. En general es una película algo lenta. No sabia que Art Garfunkel fuera actor, creo que fue debut y despedida.
trolley freak
27Dec11
In one of her earliest roles, Theresa Russell delivers a totally fearless and astonishing performance in one of the most acclaimed films directed by her husband-to-be Nicolas Roeg. They made six films together but I think this first one is the best of the lot. Appearing opposite her, Garfunkel is equally great as her psychoanalyst lover. The storyline is densely plotted but the raw emotion on show keeps you hooked...
Tom JF likes this
Natalie Guevara
1Mar11
Theresa Russell beats Nastassja Kinski for title of Natalie Guevara's favorite on-screen broad, ever: a 20-year-old just shouldn't move like that. This movie is so terrifying, I gave it to Rome as an Easter gift, paired with a chocolate bar.
sharunasbresson
11Jun10
how many nuances and meaning can a title get after a first viewing? Bad timing is my suggestion for the perfect title, intended as the best possible relationship between what it suggest at first and what it means while the film developes and how it resonates after the film end. I wasn't expecting to enjoy so much this film. Roeg won me over with some of the formal issues I usually hate like the fast and conceptual editing. I think it has to do with the way that conceptual editing perfectly mirror here the cold framed mind of doctor Linden. so it is intellectual but not formalist. it is a moving portrait of a prisoner of the mind. too bad for the ever present musical comment!
Andhika Eka Buana
20Apr10
Roeg put a twisty approach in the almost tiring erotic-drama-thriller. great !
Vincent Bergeron
23Dec09
A brilliant and always intriguing. never cute romantic love story told often the way Charlie Kaufman remade much later with a more comedy approach and a sense for popularity that was not into the marginal ways of Nicolas Roeg.
Christopher Smith
22Mar09
Fascinating and engrossing relationship drama from director Nicolas Roeg. The disjointed plot is sometimes murky, but the strong characters and elegant performances pull it through - and Roeg's florid camerawork and editing create an exhilarating energy. It can be melodramatic at times, and it does lose some steam in the second half, but this is a very interesting look at sexual psychology.
