Nicolas Roeg
1) Walkabout
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A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout,' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone. Special features included.
2) The witches
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Luke is a "nine-year-old who must foil the plans of a society of witches to turn the world's children into mice. It won't be easy: they've already transformed him into one! But some big bad witches may be no match for the resourcefulness of a single tiny rodents." --container
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Psychic terror in a Gothic setting in Venice provides the chilling backdrop in this tale of a couple's search for the ghost of their dead daughter.
"Working with elements of the traditional horror genre--second sight, ESP, warnings from the dead, a mad killer--and a cinematography of disquieting beauty and dreamlike sense of dislocation, director Roeg weaves a fabric of anxiety that questions all reality. The evocative use of the back streets of...
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Criterion collection volume 304
Description
An alien, on a mission to obtain water, becomes head of a large corporation. Ultimately, he is overwhelmed by American capitalism and a relationship with a women. Includes director Roeg's full uncut version.