actor
Aired 2024
“Jim Jarmusch. I don’t have that. I don’t know it. It’s great. -I love his work. -Down by Law. I know of it. I’ve never seen it. Oh, this is great.”
“This I’ve never seen. I’ve seen Citizen Kane. I’ve never seen Magnificent Ambersons, to my shame. -It’s... -In the bag. In the bag, yeah.”
“Have you seen Amores perros? Can I put it in your bag? -Oh, yeah! With the dogs. -Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I’ve seen it, but I’m happy to have it. Yeah, DVDs are great because you can share them with your friends, your children, your parents.”
“Anthony Mann. I wanted to see some of his films because he inspired Wim Wenders’s films. Are you interested? The Furies. I want to see landscape, large... Spaces. Don’t you?”
“Michael Haneke’s... -Favorite film? -favorite film of his, named... Au Hasard Balthazar. -Do you want it? -Okay. Yeah.”
“I see I’ve got all the Tarkovskys. But I guess I can take them as a present for someone. Is that allowed? -Where are they? The Tarkovskys? -Well, I wanted to take... Mirror is somewhere here. Mirror. Oui. Well, actually, I know from... Andrei Konchalovsky who wrote... -Andrei Rublev. -Andrei Rublev with him. He said to me that Andrei spoke to him and said, “You know what? I found a new way to edit films and to put the end at the beginning. The beginning and... And that’s my new way of making films. What we call the beginning is often the end. It’s... With Mirror– The end is where we start from.”
“There’s some big box sets, Juliette, at the end. -Look, I’ve already earmarked... -Oh, yeah. -this. -Oh, wow. -That’s amazing. -There’s only one.”
“Pasolini, I would love to have it. Would you think it greedy of me if I took this? -No. Go ahead, go ahead, have it. -Thank you. -I’m now taking... -It’s your Christmas-birthday... Christmas present for myself.”
“Oh, wow. Oh, you have all the Akira Kurosawa films.”
“Late Ozu. Oh, Late Ozu. -Have you got that?”
“-And Fuller, Samuel Fuller.”
“I want to see The Documentaries of Louis Malle. I don’t know them. Are you interested? I’d rather choose... I mean, I’m interested, but I know Louis because I worked with him, so I want to go to places I’ve never been. Well, I haven’t worked with him.”
“Silent Naruse, I don’t know what it is. He is a Japanese director. Have you heard of him? No. Does that interest you? Is it good? Yeah, yeah.”
“-Is it good? -Yeah, yeah. You know– you haven’t seen some? I’ve seen Victim with Dirk Bogarde. It’s one of the early films dealing with homosexuality. Okay. It’s very strong– Basil Dearden’s a great British director, postwar.”
