{"id":16991,"date":"2015-07-07T01:17:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T00:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16991"},"modified":"2015-07-07T01:17:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T00:17:24","slug":"the-nicolas-roeg-guardian-lecture-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/07\/07\/the-nicolas-roeg-guardian-lecture-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nicolas Roeg Guardian Lecture, 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VTqXcHKRd9E\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"roeg.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/roeg.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More Roegery. The recent BBC documentary about Nicolas Roeg has yet to appear on YouTube but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VTqXcHKRd9E\" target=\"_blank\">this Guardian Lecture<\/a> appeared there a few days ago. Roeg was in the news in 1983 following the release of <em>Eureka<\/em>, a film with a solid reputation today but one which the distributors weren&#8217;t happy with at the time. There&#8217;s no mention of these problems in this 37-minute interview with the late Philip Strick which ranges throughout Roeg&#8217;s career, and even includes some mention of his ill-fated plan to direct <em>Flash Gordon<\/em> for Dino De Laurentiis. It&#8217;s too short, of course, as these things always are, and Roeg has always been a somewhat rambling interviewee, but for Roeg-philes it&#8217;s worth a watch. The documentary I&#8217;d really like to see again is <a href=\"http:\/\/explore.bfi.org.uk\/4ce2b69a155c2\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Nothing As It Seems: The Films of Nicolas Roeg<\/em><\/a>, made the year before by Paul Joyce, and featuring contributions from two key collaborators: Donald Cammell and Paul Mayersberg.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/07\/06\/beyond-the-fragile-geometry-of-space\/\">Beyond the Fragile Geometry of Space<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/11\/20\/canal-view\/\">Canal view<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Roegery. The recent BBC documentary about Nicolas Roeg has yet to appear on YouTube but this Guardian Lecture appeared there a few days ago. Roeg was in the news in 1983 following the release of Eureka, a film with a solid reputation today but one which the distributors weren&#8217;t happy with at the time. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/07\/07\/the-nicolas-roeg-guardian-lecture-1983\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Nicolas Roeg Guardian Lecture, 1983&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,20,19],"tags":[7459,371,7458,306,3518,3830,5845],"class_list":["post-16991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-science-fiction","category-television","tag-dino-de-laurentiis","tag-donald-cammell","tag-flash-gordon","tag-nicolas-roeg","tag-paul-joyce","tag-paul-mayersberg","tag-philip-strick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4q3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}