Continuing our theme of tough-ass action/noir directors being interviewed by soft, Omelette-making, Napoleon-eating, red-wine guzzling French guys (see yesterday’s Don Siegel interview) here is Sam Fuller describing the making of one of the seminal scenes in his oeuvre–the pickpocketing on the subway moment from ‘Pickup On South Street’ (1953). It’s
The fine director Don Siegel (‘Invasion Of The Body Snatchers’, ‘Dirty Harry’, ‘Escape From Alcatraz’) was a dryly amusing, self-deprecating fellow who was interviewed on camera far less often than he should have been. Here’s a short interview with him from 1984 in which he says he has no style
Continuing this week’s Leopold and Loeb theme, here’s a clip of Alfred Hitchcock on The Dick Cavett Show’ discussing, among other things, the long-take method of the movie that I described in yesterday’s post. Far from the forbidding figure we sometimes think of him as, Hitch is amusing, droll and