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Bad Timing

Bad Timing

Nicolas Roeg, 1980

Spine #303

Picked by 2 guests

Mystery / Drama / Thriller

Part of 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg

Criterion TMDB

Directed by Nicolas Roeg

Written by Yale Udoff

Cinematography Anthony B. Richmond

Edited by Tony Lawson

Cast Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey, Dana Gillespie, William Hootkins, Eugene Lipinski

Picked by

Joanna Hogg
Joanna Hogg director

“Bad Timing I had a look at maybe about a year ago. It's an incredible film talking about editing and rhythm. I think it's for me maybe his best film, if there's such a thing as a best film. I think it's one of his strongest films, more so for me than even Don't Look Now.”

Joanna Hogg
B

“Have you guys seen Bad Timing? Whoa. So here's the story, I moved into this apartment... One of the only friends I made there was this guy, he was a total cinephile who made me watch Bad Timing with him alone in his House and then when Art Garfunkel [ __ ] the corpse I'm like oh my god this is a lot. And then it turned out that we all moved out but it was because one of the roommates pretended to be the landlord. That was great timing on her part.”

Ben Sinclair

Also mentioned as part of 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg

ANOHNI
ANOHNI actor

“These are a group of films I’ve not seen, Josef von Sternberg: Underworld, The Last Command, and The Docks of New York. I love Josef von Sternberg, and I love Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel. I don’t think she’s in any of these, but that German expressionist aesthetic, the way of the shadow, the early photography, it was just such an important benchmark in underground dreaming.”

ANOHNI