The screening is a joint presentation with Waveney & Blyth Arts and the Halesworth bookshop. ‘Disturbing, sometimes funny… an open-ended hallucination.’ A surreal shattering of the American dream, it had a mixed reception in 1968, now it has cult status: five-star ratings from critics. As he meets people from his past – friends and lovers – the adventure turns dark. This unsettling 1968 film has Burt Lancaster swimming home through his neighbours’ pools in Westport, Connecticut. Roger Deakin was partly inspired by the tale to write his first book, Waterlog – a huge success, and a spur for the wild swimming movement. Patrick Barkham’s new biography of wild swimmer, environmentalist and author Roger Deakin shares its title with the John Cheever short story and subsequent movie. The 1964 story, the 1968 movie, the 1999 book, the 2023 biography… Starring Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule, Kim Hunter and Joan Rivers Roger Alexander Deakins, CBE, ASC, BSC (born May 24, 1949) is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers.
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There will be a book signing at the end of the event.Ĭlick here to buy tickets ROGER DEAKIN’S TV DOCUMENTARIESĪ rare chance to see three of Roger Deakins’ delightful documentaries which he made for Anglia TV.
The Swimmer, Patrick’s eagerly anticipated biography of Roger Deakin will be published on May 25.Īpprox 1hr incl Q&A. He is President of Norfolk Wildlife Trust and lives in Norfolk with his family. Roger Alexander Deakins, CBE, ASC, BSC is a British cinematographer who is most known for his work on films such as ‘The Shawshank Redemption,’ ‘No Country for Old Men,’ ‘Skyfall,’ ‘Sicario,’ and, most recently, ‘Hail, Caesar’ He is the Coen Brothers’ and other famous directors’ chosen cinematographer. Deakins has been admitted to both the British Society of Cinematographers and to the American Society of Cinematographers. His books include The Butterfly Isles, Badgerlands, Islander and Wild Child. Sir Roger Alexander Deakins (born ) is an English cinematographer, best known for his collaborations with directors the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve. Roger Deakins and his wife, James Deakins, the Oscar-winning cinematography couple behind such acclaimed films as the gritty border war drama Sicario, the dream-like utopia Blade.
Patrick Barkham is an award-winning author and natural history writer for the Guardian. Patrick Barkham brings alive this great romantic in an illustrated talk and tells stories of Roger and his generation – arguably the most distinctive that ever lived. The film-maker’s eye that has earned Deakins 15 Oscar nominations (and two Oscars) in celebrated work with the Coen. Today, he lives on as the patron saint of wild swimming. L ong before he was a cinematographer, Roger Deakins was a photographer. Later he became an inspirational teacher, filmmaker, music promoter and eco-warrior. But before he painstakingly restored his ancient farmhouse on the edge of Mellis common in Suffolk, he was also a maverick ad-man and seller of stripped-pine furniture. Roger Deakin wrote the nature writing classics Waterlog and Wildwood.
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