The family of Nicolas Roeg has confirmed that the legendary British filmmaker passed away on Friday, November 23. He was 90-years-old. As the\u2026<\/b>
\nThe family of Nicolas Roeg has confirmed that the legendary British filmmaker passed away on Friday, November 23. He was 90-years-old.
As the Hollywood Reporter reports in the posthumous profile that it published on his career, Roeg is remembered as a figure who was controversial to mainstream audiences but considered to be ahead of his time, particularly when it came to the visual aesthetics of his movies. Students of the craft note the influence he would have in Hollywood throughout the 1960\u2019s and 70\u2019s thanks to his manipulation of time, the unique composition of lighting, and his usage of color in the imagery that made his work stand out.
„The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don’t know them, then something is missing.“ #RIP Nicolas Roeg, a virtuosic director and fearless rule-breaker whose greatest films played with perception and expanded cinema’s storytelling possibilities. pic.twitter.com\/qGItaySwLt
\u2014 Tribeca (@Tribeca) November 24,2018
In his passing, Roeg leaves behind his wife of 13 years, Harriet Harper. According to Express, he is survived by four children that he had in his first marriage with actress Susan Stephen. They are Waldo, Nico, Sholto, and Luc Roeg. Roeg had also fathered two children by his second wife, actress Theresa Russell.
The official cause of Roeg\u2019s death has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n