Filiming The Unfilmable Two great film pieces i…
Filiming The Unfilmable
Two great film pieces in the Guardian recently - today’s edition carried news of Richard Attenborough helping bring about an adaptation of Spike Milligan’s Puckoon - if you’ve never read it go now and do so. Digging around on their site also brought up this 1995 interview with Spike which was republished at the time of his death in February.
Last Friday there was an excellent interview with Terry Gilliam about his failure to make what should be his magnum opus, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote - ever resilient, Gilliam wound up making a film about the film’s collapse - or rather, giving full co-operation to two documentary makers, Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, who were on hand to film his disaster in the making. Gilliam is one of the few directors whose every film is worth watching, because whether he’s been a hired hand or directing his own heartfelt projects, he’s always managed to stick to his own warped sense of integrity throughout and never produced anything less than illuminating. Here’s to failing and trying again when you’re sixty one.
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