So how does it hold up, the arch back-and-forth of these kids treading water in dead-end video-store gigs and oddly affecting affairs with underage girls?
‘That was me making the movie – being initiated into how you get a film made with someone else’s money at a studio level. I felt I was the one being paddled and running for my life.’
‘That film was taken away from me completely, and was totally destroyed in the cutting,’ Orson Welles lamented. ‘That was the real disaster of my life.’
Jean Renoir shot it in 1938, just as Hitler’s troops were occupying the Sudetenland and Neville Chamberlain and his band of appeasers were bending Europe’s back to the whims of the Third Reich. So, you’ll forgive him for making such a dark picture.
Sandwiched between career peaks, Kurosawaserves corporate sacrifice – suicide by seventh-story window, truck, and volcano – rather than feudal slicing and dicing
The films found in this box set are beautiful examples of a new direction in Japanese filmmaking, one that used the aesthetic and technical language of the swordplay films to expose and attack the culture that had lionized them
This most impolite of directors attacks the most polite of genres in a way that makes it feel like her own creation, and pays tribute to her source by bringing it so ferociously to life
Musicians make uneasy actors. With his directorial debut, 1970’s ‘Performance,’ Nicolas Roeg characteristically tossed convention out the hotel window by casting Mick Jagger as one of the leads. He would follow up with David Bowie and Art Garfunkel.
