Nicolas Roeg @ 80.

His most recent film, Puffball, didn't exactly win over the critics, but one sentence in the entry for cinematographer and director Nicolas Roeg in Wikipedia, at least as it stands now, does rather neatly sum up his... significance: "Contributing to the visual look of Lawrence of Arabia [second unit] and Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death, and co-directing Performance, he would later become the guiding force behind such landmark films as Don't Look Now, Walkabout and The Man Who Fell to Earth."

On his 80th, Rüdiger Suchsland talks with "one of the great under-rateds of world cinema" for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (and in German).

See also: Lee Hill (Senses of Cinema) and Screen Online.

Update, 8/16: "The Man Who Fell to Earth is the rare example of a perfect marriage of director, star and source material," argues Andrew Bemis.

Posted by dwhudson at August 15, 2008 12:52 PM