The_Film_That_Changed_My_Life

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To my mom, Tina, who weathered the storm of insomnia-driven movie marathons—and even sat down to watch a few films with me (though she never developed a taste for Monty Python). Thanks for the love and support.
Contents Introduction … vi 1 Edgar Wright An American Werewolf in London … 1 2 Rian Johnson Annie Hall … 13 3 Danny Boyle Apocalypse Now … 25 4 Bill Condon Bonnie and Clyde … 39 5 Richard Kelly Brazil … 47 6 Peter Bogdanovich Citizen Kane … 55 7 John Dahl A Clockwork Orange … 64 8 Henry Jaglom 8½ … 74 9 Brian Herzlinger E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial … 82 10 Alex Gibney The Exterminating Angel … 94 11 Kimberly Peirce The Godfather … 104 12 Steve James Harlan County U.S.A. … 110 13 Austin Chick Kings of the Road … 123 14 Guy Maddin L’âge d’or … 132
Page 1 and 2: Danny Boyle on Apocalypse Now Kevin
Page 3: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-P
Page 7 and 8: Introduction Movies are personal to
Page 9 and 10: viii Introduction For me, a sevente
Page 11 and 12: 2 Edgar Wright How would you descri
Page 13 and 14: 4 Edgar Wright an extremely gory Ri
Page 15 and 16: 6 Edgar Wright going on. People are
Page 17 and 18: 8 Edgar Wright Wright: The thing th
Page 19 and 20: 10 Edgar Wright And then the deadpa
Page 21 and 22: 12 Edgar Wright when a director has
Page 23 and 24: 14 Rian Johnson How would you descr
Page 25 and 26: 16 Rian Johnson [laughter] So there
Page 27 and 28: 18 Rian Johnson The Godfather, and
Page 29 and 30: 20 Rian Johnson creates the beauty
Page 31 and 32: 22 Rian Johnson Johnson: Oh God, ar
Page 33 and 34: 24 Rian Johnson As a filmmaker it
Page 35 and 36: 26 Danny Boyle Starring Martin Shee
Page 37 and 38: 28 Danny Boyle Boyle: [laughs] It h
Page 39 and 40: 30 Danny Boyle on the ground, they
Page 41 and 42: 32 Danny Boyle shooting schedule; h
Page 43 and 44: 34 Danny Boyle And, as a filmmaker,
Page 45 and 46: 36 Danny Boyle nonsense. But, it se
Page 47 and 48: 38 Danny Boyle Boyle: Oh yeah, it
Page 49 and 50: 40 Bill Condon How would you descri
Page 51 and 52: 42 Bill Condon Condon: Oh, I think
Page 53 and 54: 44 Bill Condon that great ending. I
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46 Bill Condon And then there’s a
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48 Richard Kelly Terry Gilliam call
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50 Richard Kelly access passes to t
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52 Richard Kelly Kelly: It makes it
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54 Richard Kelly they are not seen
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56 Peter Bogdanovich Texasville (19
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58 Peter Bogdanovich How did it cha
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60 Peter Bogdanovich everything the
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62 Peter Bogdanovich And you were p
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7 John Dahl A Clockwork Orange John
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66 John Dahl For example, I would s
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68 John Dahl way around. Art consis
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70 John Dahl Dahl: It’s interesti
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72 John Dahl My only other criticis
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8 Henry Jaglom 8½ Henry Jaglom cha
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76 Henry Jaglom was going through.
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78 Henry Jaglom out of control. A g
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80 Henry Jaglom Over the years, I
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9 Brian Herzlinger E.T.: The Extra-
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84 Brian Herzlinger during the scen
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86 Brian Herzlinger that world brou
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88 Brian Herzlinger You met Spielbe
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90 Brian Herzlinger And he says,
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92 Brian Herzlinger in theaters bec
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10 Alex Gibney The Exterminating An
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96 Alex Gibney one was political in
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98 Alex Gibney There’s one scene
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100 Alex Gibney you’ve had to do
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102 Alex Gibney I would say that th
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11 Kimberly Peirce The Godfather Pe
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106 Kimberly Peirce and he gets him
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108 Kimberly Peirce Have you ever r
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12 Steve James Harlan County U.S.A.
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112 Steve James later. It’s so tr
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114 Steve James an outsider. She ha
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116 Steve James out there, which wa
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118 Steve James James: Sure. It was
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120 Steve James give-and-take, then
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122 Steve James 28 Up and The Times
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124 Austin Chick Can you tell me ab
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126 Austin Chick Chick: Yeah, I mea
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128 Austin Chick Chick: The very fi
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130 Austin Chick But this does have
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14 Guy Maddin L’âge d’or Guy M
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134 Guy Maddin a movie myself. My m
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136 Guy Maddin It has a great shape
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138 Guy Maddin Maddin: Oh my God, i
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140 Guy Maddin shooting things, I l
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142 Guy Maddin to the way we love.
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144 Guy Maddin see that the spicy,
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146 Michel Gondry How you would des
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148 Michel Gondry You’re right. I
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150 Michel Gondry I think they have
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16 Michael Polish Once Upon a Time
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154 Michael Polish because he was u
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156 Michael Polish I’ve heard it
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158 Michael Polish aspects of filmm
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17 Arthur Hiller Open City Roberto
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162 Arthur Hiller movies like that,
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164 Arthur Hiller hope I put in thi
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166 Arthur Hiller Coburn character
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168 Pete Docter How would you descr
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170 Pete Docter Docter: Yeah, I had
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172 Pete Docter Tatum O’Neal was
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174 Pete Docter meaning of the scen
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176 Atom Egoyan How would you descr
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178 Atom Egoyan It’s been suggest
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180 Atom Egoyan old quote about sto
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182 Atom Egoyan That had a huge inf
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184 Atom Egoyan Bergman was working
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186 Atom Egoyan always find that im
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20 Gurinder Chadha Purab aur Pachhi
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190 Gurinder Chadha blond hair and
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192 Gurinder Chadha My films are fr
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194 Gurinder Chadha Even now, as I
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196 Richard Linklater Raging Bull 1
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198 Richard Linklater I’ve been i
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200 Richard Linklater To see someon
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22 Jay Duplass Raising Arizona Jay
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204 Jay Duplass superbly executed
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206 Jay Duplass camera, similar to
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208 Jay Duplass And Moonstruck is t
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23 John Woo Rebel Without a Cause a
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212 John Woo I was pretty strong—
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214 John Woo —but the role went t
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216 John Woo Mean Streets came out
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218 John Woo Scorsese’s violence
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220 John Woo That’s one of the pe
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24 John Landis The 7th Voyage of Si
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224 John Landis That’s funny, bec
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226 John Landis People have a misun
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228 John Landis completely dazzles
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230 John Landis Casablanca or Citiz
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25 Kevin Smith Slacker For director
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234 Kevin Smith very clever, very f
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236 Kevin Smith place I’d really
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238 Kevin Smith Smith: The benefit
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240 Kevin Smith What was your react
Page 251 and 252:
242 Chris Miller When did you first
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244 Chris Miller at the same time.
Page 255 and 256:
246 Neil LaBute The Soft Skin 1964
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248 Neil LaBute if anyone, is short
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250 Neil LaBute most passionate mom
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252 Neil LaBute LaBute: Yeah, well,
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254 Neil LaBute Such a small portio
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256 Neil LaBute If I remember right
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258 Neil LaBute Lachenay moves arou
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260 George A. Romero The Dark Half
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262 George A. Romero I’ve never h
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264 George A. Romero Pressburger an
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266 Frank Oz How would you describe
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268 Frank Oz Tell me about that dis
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270 Frank Oz There’s a story abou
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272 Frank Oz coffeehouse. That was
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274 Frank Oz know what I’m doing.
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276 Frank Oz It’s amazing how you
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30 John Waters The Wizard of Oz The
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280 John Waters And then, the seldo
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282 John Waters countries—maybe t
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Acknowledgments First, thanks to th
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Index A accidents, on-set, 148-149
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288 Index Coutard, Raoul, 257 Cowar
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290 Index Hoop Dreams, 117, 118, 12
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292 Index My Beautiful Laundrette,
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294 Index special effects, 223, 224
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