Perhaps director Nicholas Roeg's most controversial film (quite a feat considering Roeg's other works), BAD TIMING is a tale of drugs, sex, and violence set amongst the beautiful old-world architecture of Vienna. The producers at the Rank Studio called the film "sick" and for many years it was made unavailable in any form at all. Utilizing the jumbled chronology he had experimented with in other films, Roeg introduces the viewer to Milena (Theresa Russell), who has tried to kill herself with an overdose of medication. She is accompanied to the hospital by psychologist Alex Lindon (Art Garfunkel), who admits to having a passionate and somewhat sordid love affair with her. Puritanical inspector Netusil (Harvey Keitel) suspects, however, that Lindon is less than forthcoming concerning his relationship with Milena. Roeg draws disturbing parallels between sex, obsession, and violence, all scored to a soundtrack featuring luminaries like Tom Waits, The Who, and Billie Holiday.

DVD Features:
Notes: New, restored High-Definition digital transfer supervised and approved by director Nicolas Roeg.

Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Monoaural - English
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes
Production Interview - 1. Nicolas Roeg - Director/Jeremy Thomas - Producer
2. Theresa Russell
Trailer - Theatrical Trailer
Text/Photo Galleries:
Interview - Reprinted Interview With Art Garfunkel From 1980
Behind The Scenes Photos
Additional Products:
Essay By Film Historian Richard Combs

Art Garfunkel: Half of "Simon & Garfunkel"
Theresa Russell: American Actress
Harvey Keitel: American Actor/Producer

Nicolas Roeg: Director, PERFORMANCE (1970), DON'T LOOK NOW (1974)

"Roeg continued his obsession with gangly musicians by casting Art Garfunkel as an erotically tormented psychoanalyst in the multilayered and masochistic BAD TIMING." -- Grade: B+
"[The film] holds up as one of director Nicolas Roeg's best....Russell is a powerhouse. This director-approved Panavision transfer is smashing, and the backdrop music is still tops."
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[C]lassically tragic. Rich stuff, delivered with care..."
3 stars out of 5 -- "Helmer Nic Roeg brings his fractured editing style and habitual intelligence to bear on this psycho-erotic thriller."
"Three decades on, BAD TIMING...looks even more like a masterpiece....The whole film is a masterclass in associative editing."