Episode 158 – Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now

Scott, Sean, and James discuss fluidity, sexuality, grief, and the occult in the 1973 horror film.

This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by Sean Hutchinson and James McCormick to discuss Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now.

About the film:

Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie mesmerize as a married couple on an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences. A masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now, adapted from a story by Daphne du Maurier, is a brilliantly disturbing tale of the supernatural, as renowned for its innovative editing and haunting cinematography as its naturalistic eroticism and unforgettable climax and denouement, one of the great endings in horror history.

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Episode Links:

Don’t Look Now (1973) – The Criterion Collection
Don’t Look Now: Seeing Red – The Criterion Collection
Don’t Look Now (1973) – IMDb
Don’t Look Now – Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Don’t Look Now | The Mookse and the Gripes
For Criterion Consideration: Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now
Don’t Look Now – Roger Ebert, 1973
Don’t Look Now – Roger Ebert, 2002
Labyrinths, by Pauline Kael
Don’t Look Now – The New York Times
Dissecting the Incredible Opening Scene of Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now

Episode Credits:

Scott Nye (Twitter / Battleship Pretension)
Sean Hutchinson (Twitter / Latino Review / Mental Floss)
James McCormick (Twitter)

Music from this episode is by Pino Donaggio – his score for Don’t Look Now and his hit single, “Io che non vivo.”