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[Iain D. Sinclair]

Here's the important stuff from the PG interview in UTS' VERTIGO (an
otherwise insignificant student rag). About 5% of the whole is reproduced
here.

- PB is currently second only to T2 at the UK box office.
- Lots of refs to previous films: pissing statues from DRAUGHTSMAN's,
music from Z00 [yeah!], skipping girl from DROWNING BY NUMBERS.
"I sometimes think that all the films are really all part of one
long film, each are chapters and I hope there are a lot more to come."
- Was happy to do an adaptation, instead of a complete original, primarily
for Gielgud. "I wanted to make a film where Prospero was Shakespeare,
was Gielgud - so that all three were muddled up deliberately..."
- "theatricality... artificiality is very important to me. I'm not that
sympathetic to what could be regarded as realism or naturalism as I
don't think you can get close to those things. So it's my preoccupation
to go to the other extreme -- make deliberately artificial cinema which
shows its bones and its structure."
- Q: How would you feel if someone came along and recut one of your films?
A: I think that would be lovely, fantastic; please, yes -- if you've
got any volunteers! Obviously, to a certain extent, when you write
a play, it is fair game.
- Reckons Shakespeare is the world's greatest English-language writer.
Notes that he was also a producer and director. [:-) delusions of
grandeur, PG?]
- Obsession with numerology because "anything that runs through time
is narrative".
- Q: Is there a Lynch reference in PB?
A: There's something in the atmosphere -- the claustrophobia -- which
relates BLUE VELVET back to me -- which I thought was a masterpiece.
[...] I think that films ought to be infinitely viewable. [...]
- His next film is called 55 MEN ON HORSEBACK. A 1750s courtship where
a man tries to woo a woman by sending her horse paintings. His
first film where nobody dies. (Script done, looking for locations in
Fr or Ie.) (Part-funded by the Japanese because PB's backers loved PB.)

I'll let other tidbits leak out when I see the film.

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[Boyd Roberts]

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[Michael Pilling (Dr Chocberry)]

In <axolotl.689833689@syzygy> axo...@socs.uts.edu.au (Iain D. Sinclair) writes:

> music from Z00 [yeah!], skipping girl from DROWNING BY NUMBERS.

I have fantasies about getting the sound track from The cook
the thief, his wife and her lover and playing it subliminaly
through a shopping centre, or replacing that piped music
they play on take off - you could even play the undulating
climax (when they bring out the body) whenever you hit
turbulence. An interesting pavlovian experiment.

Michael
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