OK — Film Club, August tenth — next Monday — just got A LOT more exciting.
As regular readers know, I interviewed Richard Lester at length for Criterion’s A HARD DAY’S NIGHT disc, so I have some unused quotes from The Great Man I can make use of as required.
I’ve tracked down a rare-ish interview with playwright Ann Jellicoe so we can get her thoughts too.
And now I have conducted an email interview with screenwriter Charles Wood, who was kind enough to share his memories of working on the film.
And today, at 3pm, I shall be talking on the phone to Rita Tushingham, one of the film’s stars. This is extremely cool to me. I met Rita when we recorded the VO for my Criterion extra. She’s still best of friends with Lester and I think she’s actually going to be round at his house when we speak.
All of this makes this the most thorough and in-depth Film Club I can imagine, which means that rather than relaunching the Film Club thing, I may have to retire it, on a high.
New Yorkers are urged to see the movie, in 35mm, at Lincoln Centre on Saturday night or Monday evening. Link.
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