Written by Axiom Films  |  Monday, 18 February 2008

In February 2008 writer/director John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi were invited to attend Glasgow Film Festival, where their film HONEYDRIPPER was receiving its UK premiere. In an interview recorded during the festival John discusses the importance of film festivals and his experience of Glasgow.

Written by José Luis Guerín  |  Thursday, 06 December 2007

A young man
gazes at a young woman.

He tries to grasp
the mystery of a face,

of a gesture…

then he peeps at
another one

Written by L.M. Kit Carson  |  Tuesday, 01 May 1984

After Breathless opened, I was not hot; but I was Lunch. Fall of ’83 I went to L.A. for Lunch, Breakfast, Drinks, Dinner, Brunch (repeat) with studio execs–trying to bankroll a script (with no director or star attached, a stunt about as near as trying to jump over my own shadow). After several weeks of tequila and sushi in that anxious sunshine, I got the idea some people would rather eat than fuck, Okay, but I never cared that much about food.

So I had this problem, but kept chewing and talking “concept”.

Meantime, Wim (W pronounced V) Wenders had another problem. He was three weeks into a ten week shoot on Paris, Texas but with a script that had no end, the last third unwritten. Fine with Wim, this is his method: “It’s not fair to know the end of a movie when you start.” But it was not okay with the movie’s financiers. In mid-October they stopped the shooting until Wim had a completed script, at least in outline. Then his problem got further knotted up by Wim’s co-writer, Sam Shepard, going to Iowa to start starring in a Disney movie, Country.