, a razzle-dazzling 1982 Australian musical that fully deserves a fervent cult of some kind.)
. And in this November '95 interview, I'm not at all ashamed to say as much to Harrison Ford, who gave one of his most affecting and under-rated performances as the movie's male lead. (A role originally played, in Billy Wilder's original version
, by Humphrey Bogart.) And before you ask: Yes, that really is Harrison Ford hiding behind that mustache. He grew it while preparing to play an Irish-American cop in The Devil's Own
-- but, obviously, shaved it off before actually filming that Alan J. Pakula thriller with Brad Pitt.
into the context of his entire career. But what I enjoy most about re-watching this archival interview: Eastwood's whole attitude. Like, yeah, he read the book, he liked it, he wanted to make a movie version of it, and that's that. And if anyone had a problem with his trying to film an unfilmable novel
... well, screw 'em, he was already at a point in his career where he could do any damn thing he wanted to.
in this 1998 interview. But what the hell: By that point, I'd seen him so many times in Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law
that I couldn't resist repeating his on-screen anecdotes about his character's "very strange" mother (and her relationship with rabbits). As usual, Robert Clark has done a throughly first-rate job of editing this archival tape.
was 28 years old. For someone who's a freshman now... E.T.
is 28 years old. And when I was a freshman, I thought Citizen Kane was this really great, really old movie.
to Get Low, and everyone from Horton Foote to Bill Murray, and I know I'm getting paid for this... I thank God that my father left Ireland and moved to the Land of Opportunity.
(with their Big Lebowksi
star Jeff Bridges) and their Oscar-nominated A Serious Man
(due on homevideo next week) in this compact Q&A I conducted for Cowboys & Indians Magazine.
The complete list of films set to unspool next month in Austin at SXSW can be viewed here. Of particular note are three noteworthy films -- Get Low, Harry Brown and How to Fold a Flag -- that I reviewed at the Toronto Film Festival last fall. And I am unashamedly geeked about the world premiere of Elektra Luxx, a sequel to that guiltiest of guilty pleasures from SXSW '09, the unfortunately little-seen Women in Trouble.
