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Lawrence of Arabia. 2:45, 8. Walkabout...
Roeg has made three previous movies, all praised and argued: Performance (1970), Walkabout (1971) and Don't Look Now (1973). Wide popular success continues to elude him, however, perhaps because he is a director who challenges an audience continually. Roeg means to change, or at least radically modify, the way we watch and respond to movies. He was formerly a brilliant cinematographer (Petulia, Far from the Madding Crowd), and images retain primacy in the movies he has directed. He uses little dialogue, intending the meaning of a movie to come clear through what is seen and intuited, not what...
...have the personal intensity of the earlier movie nor its daring. Sensing this, perhaps, Roeg and Screenwriter Paul Mayersberg have weighted the slender narrative down with more ideas than it can support: about family structures within different social frameworks and the destruction of innocence by civilization (both explored in Walkabout); about shifting identities and sexual roles (echoes from Performance...
Guys and Dolls, The Public Enemy, Walkabout, Performance, and I.F. Stone's Weekly. Call 868-3600 for showtimes...
Roeg. Nicholas Roeg's recent Don't Look Now was so stunning that his first two films, now showing at the Welles, deserve a second look. In Walkabout, a father sets his car and himself aflame in the Aussie outback as his terrified family looks on, among other things. Performance has Mick Jagger masquerading as a glittery rock star...