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1986

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DISCLAIMER:
NUNCA VER EL DIRECTOR'S CUT DE 3HRS.
ES HORRORÓSO.
VER CORTE DE 2HRS.
LA CALIFICACIÓN DEL CORTE DE TRES HORAS SERÍA UN 2.5.

On Valentine's Day: I Beineix Blue
By Marcia Pally
Film Comment
Jean-Jacques Beineix, director of Diva and this year's French entry to the Oscars, Betty Blue, is on the phone with a journalist who couldn't make it to interview him in person because he couldn't find a taxi. The subject of the talk is "Life in…

2022

★★★★½ Rewatched 17 Nov 2023

Interview
Brett Morgen on his David Bowie film: ‘Moonage Daydream is maximalist, it’s kaleidoscopic’
Tim Lewis for The Guardian

The documentary-maker on how Bowie’s view on life helped him through recovery from a heart attack – and his plans to move in with a famous actor
Tim Lewis

The American film-maker Brett Morgen, 53, has made documentaries on the musician Kurt Cobain, the naturalist Jane Goodall and the notorious Hollywood producer Robert Evans (2002’s The Kid Stays in the Picture).…

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1984

★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Nov 2023

Jonathan Demme: 'Stop Making Sense'
Interview and guest DJ set (1984)
Nov. 8, 1984

Talking Heads’ 1984 film, Stop Making Sense, has long been regarded by critics and fans alike as one of the greatest concert films ever made. A new A24 restoration of the film is out in theaters now.

Director Jonathan Demme dropped in on Deirdre for a guest DJ set while the film was still in theaters. Demme sat in for SNAP No. 172 on November 8,…

1976

★★★★½ Rewatched 17 Nov 2023

From “Interview with Paul Schrader,” in Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), April 1982.

Paul Schrader: If you had to choose between being ed or fulfilled, which would you choose?
Martin Scorcese: It would have to be fulfilled. You have to be content with yourself. Not necessarily happy, you could be miserable but fulfilled.

PS: So fuck history when it comes to personal fulfillment?
MS: It’s a hard thing to replace what you really believe in. The salvation of the soul, whether…

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