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#26 Post by **domino harvey** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:42 am

Hi transcendent1, I love your posts except...

GaryC · #27 Post by **GaryC** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:22 am

Along similar lines... Monte Hellman at the National Film Theatre (as was) in London in 1995, being interviewed during a retrospective of most of his films. But not all... The interviewer politely skipped over one of the titles in his filmography but I was less discreet and asked him how he came to direct Silent Night Deadly Night III...

To be fair, I didn't say the film sucked - I hadn't, and haven't, seen it. He said he'd made the film as a favour to a friend.

MichaelB · #28 Post by **MichaelB** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:35 am

transcendent1 wrote:Would you like it if someone said that about *your* films?

Come on.

Depends on whether you're talking to Aki KaurismÃ¤ki or not.

Talking of which, has any interviewer ever started an interview with KaurismÃ¤ki by slagging off one of his films? Given KaurismÃ¤ki's famously self-deprecating attitude towards his work, it would seem like an obvious strategy, but I can't honestly recall an example.

Cold Bishop · #29 Post by **Cold Bishop** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:31 am

GaryC wrote:Along similar lines... Monte Hellman at the National Film Theatre (as was) in London in 1995, being interviewed during a retrospective of most of his films. But not all... The interviewer politely skipped over one of the titles in his filmography but I was less discreet and asked him how he came to direct Silent Night Deadly Night III...

To be fair, I didn't say the film sucked - I hadn't, and haven't, seen it. He said he'd made the film as a favour to a friend.

He's fairly open and proud about the film (he still calls it his best work), so I don't think there was any need to skirt around questions about it.

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