Filmmaker Nicolas Roeg has died, as the BBC reports. He was 90 years old. The British-born director and cinematographer was responsible for helming films in the 1970s that would later prove to be influential on the scope of cinema, including the Mick Jagger-starring Performance (1970) and David Bowie’s first-ever lead feature film role, The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976). Other movies in his filmography include the survival film Walkabout and the controversial Bad Timing, starring Art Garfunkel.
Numerous acclaimed directors, including Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott, and Steven Soderbergh, have cited Roeg as a an important influence on their own work. The Man Who Fell to Earth would serve as the basis for Bowie’s theater production Lazarus. Jim O’Rourke named an entire trio of albums—Bad Timing, Eureka, and Insignificance—after Roeg’s films from the 1980s.
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