Ryan Gilbey is a freelance film journalist and writes for a variety of publications, including Sight & Sound, the Guardian, Observer and the Sunday Times. He is the former film critic for the Independent. It Don’t Worry Me is his first book. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
It Don’t Worry Me: Nashville, Jaws, Star Wars and beyond
Faber and Faber, 2003
Book
...Sleeper (1973):
Woody Allen as Miles Monroe.
In 1977, with the help of his co-writer Marshall Brickman and his editor Ralph Rosenblum, Woody Allen invented Woody Allen. The character proved so...
Stig Björkman is the editor of Bergman on Bergman and Woody Allen on Woody Allen, and has directed the documentaries Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier and I Am Curious, Film. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...I made two pictures at once then, Zelig and A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy. I shot them both at the same time.Because Zelig took so much more time to complete?No, I finished the script of Zelig, and while they were budgeting it and doing...
Stig Björkman is the editor of Bergman on Bergman and Woody Allen on Woody Allen, and has directed the documentaries Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier and I Am Curious, Film. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Love and Death was shot by Ghislain Cloquet. Was the film made in France?It was shot in France and Hungary, in Budapest and Paris. I had to make the film abroad for obvious reasons, because it was a European story. And the producers wanted...
Stig Björkman is the editor of Bergman on Bergman and Woody Allen on Woody Allen, and has directed the documentaries Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier and I Am Curious, Film. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...AS usual with a new film of yours, Shadows and Fog offers quite an unexpected experience.It is unexpected, yes. But the film was fun to do. I enjoyed working on it very much.When and how did you get the idea for the film?Years ago I had...
Stig Björkman is the editor of Bergman on Bergman and Woody Allen on Woody Allen, and has directed the documentaries Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier and I Am Curious, Film. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...‘We all had a terrific time.’‘The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.’ Tolstoy.Hannah and Her Sisters was photographed by Carlo Di Palma, and this was your first film together. Was your collaboration very...
Stig Björkman is the editor of Bergman on Bergman and Woody Allen on Woody Allen, and has directed the documentaries Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier and I Am Curious, Film. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...September can be characterized as a ‘Kammerspiel’, a chamber play. What initially caught your interest in giving the film this form? Was it the story itself that caused it to become this tight and consistent chamber play or was it that you...
Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Film Studies and Popular Culture at Brock University, Canada. He is author of Film Genre (2007) and Voyages of Discovery (1992) and co-author of The Film Studies Dictionary (2001) and 100 Documentary Films (2009). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...DIRECTOR Woody AllenPRODUCER Jack GrossbergSCREENPLAY Woody Allen, Marshall BrickmanDIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY David M. Walsh EDITOR O. Nicholas Brown, Ron Kalish, Ralph RosenblumMUSIC Woody AllenPRODUCTION DESIGN Dale HennesyMAIN CAST Woody...
Stig Björkman is the editor of Bergman on Bergman and Woody Allen on Woody Allen, and has directed the documentaries Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier and I Am Curious, Film. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Celebrity
(From Celebrity)
Lee:
I just hit forty. I don’t want to look up at fifty and realize I measured out my fucking life with a coffee spoon.
Stig Björkman:
Celebrity is the only film of yours where I have read the script...
Stig Björkman is the editor of Bergman on Bergman and Woody Allen on Woody Allen, and has directed the documentaries Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier and I Am Curious, Film. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...How close is the story in Radio Days to your own childhood?Some things are very close and some things are not. But a lot of it is based on an exaggerated view of my childhood. I mean, I did live in a family with many people present...
Stig Björkman is the editor of Bergman on Bergman and Woody Allen on Woody Allen, and has directed the documentaries Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier and I Am Curious, Film. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...This, I believe, was a film that you had planned for a long time. Did it meet with resistance or difficulties, because it was a serious story, a drama?From the studio? No. I was working for very enlightened and very liberal people. Arthur...
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