"Bad Timing"
1980
Directed by Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg's uncomfortable film was famously smothered by its own distributor, who proclaimed it "a sick film made by sick people for sick people". Not surprisingly, it has since come to achieve a kind of cult heroic status. Its hazy plot concerns a moody psychiatrist (Art Garfunkel) whose obsession with a fun-loving girl (Theresa Russell) leads to a dark encounter that a police investigator (Harvey Keitel) tries desperately to get an angle on. Set in Cold War Vienna, the film has a dark psychological tension that ripples through every scene. "One of Roeg's most complex and elusive movies... A labyrinthine inquiry on memory and guilt" (Time Out).  118 minutes.