The postman brought this one today. FULLER AT FOX, courtesy of Masters of Cinema, currently my #1 employer for video work.
It was a joy to collaborate, albeit long-distance, with Samantha Fuller, who kindly read her dad’s words in to my video essay, which adorns the HOUSE OF BAMBOO disc. Timo Langer cut it all together and this one seemed to go particularly well, with a terrific end credits sequence made memorable by the score from HELL AND HIGH WATER.
Samantha’s fantastic documentary, A FULLER LIFE, is also included, making this a really terrific set before you even get to the films, which include some of the best work Fuller ever did.
Rabbi Loewe is a collaborative medium, summoning the demon Astaroth in DER GOLEM.
Masters of Cinema is releasing Paul Wegener’s epic about a great man with feet of clay, and I’ve done a video essay with Fiona for it, our first real collaboration of this kind. She read the narration of my DIARY OF A LOST GIRL piece but this time she’s co-writer and we read the VO in turn. Her researches turned up a crucial, forgotten female collaborator on the film.
Incidentally, the film is restored from the long-lost negative, and looks much, MUCH better than the YouTubey frame-grabs I’ve been forced to use here.
The movie is also going to be playing UK cinemas around Halloween, so don’t be surprised if it gets another Sunday Intertitle during Project Fear, our Euro-horror blogathon. The Blu-ray streets on November 18.
This was actually my second collaboration of this kind: Masters of Cinema are also releasing King Hu’s taut and exciting THE FATE OF LEE KHAN, and I co-wrote a video essay with the sublime Anne Billson for that one. Released on October 21st and available for pre-order.
Just a week later, on October 28th, FOX AT FULLER hits the shops, again with a video essay by me. This time I got Samantha Fuller to read her father’s words, which she does magnificently, so I seem to be sharing VO duties a lot recently. I’m reminded of the late Leonard Cohen’s observation on the effect of a female backing singer accompanying his voice: “Some dismal quality is neutralised.”
Jon Robertson produced all three discs, Stephen Horne video edited the essays on THE GOLEM and THE FATE OF LEE KHAN, and Timo Langer edited FULLER AT FOX.
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