Sex, lies and obsession play out in the somber streets of a rainy Vienna in director Nicolas Roeg’s 1980 baroque masterpiece “Bad Timing.” From its opening scene, in which paintings by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt appear alongside the jazz-tinged music of singer Tom Waits, “Bad Timing” comes on like a fever dream of Freudian psychoanalysis and a popular detective novel. Read more...
Photo: Art Garfunkel of Simon and Garfunkel and Theresa Russell star in Nicolas Roeg’s “Bad Timing,” a thrilling love story between a young psychology professor and his pill-addicted love interest. The film will be screened at The Cinefamily on Friday night. (Courtesy of The Criterion Collection)