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Sachs and the Cinema
by Lloyd Sachs
Rare, never before heard interviews from the 1980s with great film directors including John Carpenter, Bernardo Bertolucci and British visionary Michael Powell. A reboot of critic Lloyd Sachs' long-running feature on Chicago radio.
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Bill Forsyth: "I think it's quite helpful being illiterate as a filmmaker."
When Bill Forsyth was turning out gems in the 1980's, first quirky Scottish films like "Local Hero" and then offbeat Hollywood productions like the Burt Reynolds vehicle "Breaking In," we had reason to look forward to him enjoying a long and successful career. Things didn't work out that way…
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Arthur Penn: "It was a film that was not going to be quieted."
"There's nothing more pathetic than the level of emotion in films like Star Wars." When Arthur Penn said that during our 1985 interview, which you can hear on the latest episode of Sachs and the Cinema, he did so as a director who got carved up critically himself – for Bonnie and Clyde, now...
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Michael Powell: "Art is all that matters"
No one, but no one, made movies like Michael Powell, the visionary British director known for such classics as The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, and, most infamously, Peeping Tom. With his Hungarian screenwriting partner Emeric Pressburger, he took you places only he could imagine, whether turning…
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Bertrand Tavernier: "Homage and remakes are the two plagues of the modern cinema"
Bertrand Tavernier was such a prolific, stylistically wide-ranging, consistently inspired artist, when he died in 2021, it seemed like the world of cinema had lost four or five great directors. No one had his stylistic reach, which extended to war dramas, policiers, period pieces, sci-fi and the...
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Bernardo Bertolucci: "I'm not ashamed of emotions anymore"
With great films such as "The Conformist" and "Last Tango in Paris," Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci drew rave reviews in the face of controversy. But with his 1979 melodrama, "Luna," in which an American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her drug-addicted son, Bertolucci took…
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Terry Gilliam: "I'm always convinced each film is my last film"
Few directors have dined out on conflict the way Terry Gilliam has. Just about every film by the American-born Monty Python animator, from his masterpiece "Brazil" to his forever-in -the-making "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote," has run into trouble: money trouble, studio heads insisting he make…
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William Friedkin: "Critics savaged 'Sorcerer' but I love it a lot."
I talked to William Friedkin in 1985, when he returned to his hometown of Chicago in the hopes of getting get back on the winning commercial track with his new thriller, "To Live and Die in L.A." Starring Windy City actor William Petersen as Secret Service Agent Richard Chance, the film was...
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John Carpenter: "I was called a 'pornographer of violence!'"
More than 40 years after the making of "Halloween," John Carpenter is still best known for that game-changing film, and the franchise that keeps going and going. But with films like "They Live," "The Thing" and "Christine," he compiled an original body of work in and out of the Hollywood system.…
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Introducing Season 1 of Sachs and the Cinema: Rare Interviews with Great Directors
During the late '70s and early '80s, critic Lloyd Sachs hosted the popular weekly film segment, Sachs on the Cinema, on Chicago radio. Under that banner (a wry take on the old Playboy magazine feature, "Sex and the Cinema"), he presents an eight-part series of relaxed, unscripted, never before...
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Rare, never before heard interviews from the 1980s with great film directors including John Carpenter, Bernardo Bertolucci and British visionary Michael Powell. A reboot of critic Lloyd Sachs' long-running feature on Chicago radio.
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