{"id":59608,"date":"2025-10-07T19:42:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/59608\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T19:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:42:26","slug":"new-book-revisits-classic-horror-dont-look-now-with-unpublished-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/59608\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book Revisits Classic Horror Don’t Look Now with Unpublished Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Upon its release in 1973, Nicolas Roeg\u2019s Don\u2019t Look Now, starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, became a commercially successful and creatively significant film that profoundly impacted British cinema by challenging conventional narrative and visual styles. The film\u2019s psychological horror, masterful and fractured editing (dubbed \u201cRoegian\u201d), and innovative use of montage to intercut time and foreshadow events pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable and expected in a mainstream genre thriller.<\/p>\n

Though largely overlooked by the Academy Awards, Don\u2019t Look Now secured significant recognition in its home country, most notably at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs). The film was nominated for an impressive seven BAFTAs in 1974, including nominations in the top categories of Best Film, Best Direction for Roeg, Best Leading Actor for Sutherland, and Best Leading Actress for Christie. Its sole win was for Best Cinematography, which went to Anthony B. Richmond for his visual work.<\/p>\n

It stands as a high point of 1970s British filmmaking and remains an influential work in the horror and psychological thriller genres. Revisiting the classic, author Justin John Doherty releases Don\u2019t Look Now and Then, a comprehensive archive that unpacks the film\u2019s making. The book is filled with over 400 pages of rare behind-the-scenes photos, production documents, interviews, and memoirs.<\/p>\n

Doherty partnered with Studiocanal to release never-before-seen photos from the production and gathered fresh interviews from creatives involved in the making of the film, alongside historic interviews with\u00a0 Roeg, Sutherland, and Christie.<\/p>\n

Doherty revisited Venice to interview art director Giovanni Soccol, who granted access to his personal archive of drawings for the book, and Italian maestro Pino Donaggio, who offered insight into composing his first-ever film score for the movie.<\/p>\n

Another highlight is a signed letter from a delighted Daphne du Maurier, author of the original 1971 short story, to Roeg after she saw his film for the first time. \u201cIt is a strange feeling,\u201d she tells him, \u201cto sit and watch something one half-glimpsed some years ago\u2026 and then watch it transformed upon the screen.\u201d \u201cPlease, one of these days, find another of my short stories to screen!\u201d she concludes.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Look Now And Then is available directly from its publisher at DontLookNowBook.com<\/a>, as well as from the BFI shop (Southbank, London), IDEA books, and other independent retailers<\/p>\n

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P eviously unpublished images of Donald lifting \u2018Christine\u2019 out of the water. Two different girls featured here in this scene.<\/p>\n

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Donald Sutherland on set<\/p>\n

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Donald Sutherland during opening sequence of the film, in which John\u2019s young daughter, Christine (Sharon Williams), accidentally drowns in a pond on their English countryside property<\/p>\n

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Sharon Williams who played Christine Baxter, photographed by the pond at her family\u2019s home in the English countryside during the film\u2019s opening scene. This sequence ends tragically with Christine\u2019s accidental drowning.<\/p>\n

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Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland <\/p>\n

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Donald, Julie and Nic in the Royal Suite of the Bauer Hotel. Preparing for the scene in which they are awoken by the news of Johnny\u2019s accident back in England
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Julie Christie<\/p>\n

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Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland <\/p>\n

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Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland <\/p>\n

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Director Nicolas Roeg and Julie Christie on set<\/p>\n

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Julie Christie and David Tree in the scene that likely takes place when Laura is visiting their son, Johnny, at his boarding school in England <\/p>\n

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Julie Christie and Hilary Mason<\/p>\n

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Art director Giovanni Soccol\u2019s pre-visualisation of the restaurant scene<\/p>\n

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Donald Sutherland and Frederick Muller (far left photo). Tony Richmond (third photo) shakes hands with an unidentified crew member, suspected to be key grip Spartaco Pizzi<\/p>\n

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The only production photo showing the young Italian boy (uncredited) who doubled as the dwarf<\/p>\n

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On set photos by photographer David Steen<\/p>\n

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Donald Sutherland <\/p>\n

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A BTS photo from the final, gruesome scene that shows Donald Sutherland and director Nicolas Roeg waiting in the Palazzo Grimani, which is where Donald Sutherland\u2019s character, John Baxter, finally meets his fate.<\/p>\n

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On set photos by photographer David Steen<\/p>\n

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Nicolas Roeg (left), the film\u2019s director, and Julie Christie (center), who played the lead character, Laura Baxter<\/p>\n

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Director Nicolas Roeg on set in Venice<\/p>\n

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Behind-the-scenes with the crew Andrea Galer, Peter Katz, Nic Roeg, Barry Richardson and Julie Christie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Upon its release in 1973, Nicolas Roeg\u2019s Don\u2019t Look Now, starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, became a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[44292,44293,44294,146,85,46,44295,44296],"class_list":["post-59608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dont-look-now","tag-donald-sutherland","tag-donu2019t-look-now-and-then","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-julie-christie","tag-nicolas-roeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}