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66th Festival de Cannes
15 - 26 May 2013
Fat City (1972)
Director John Huston
“Lots of people have asked me about the title of my book… When you say you want to go to Fat City, it means you want the good life. I got the idea for the title after seeing a photograph of a tenement in an exhibit in San Francisco. ‘Fat City’ was scrawled in chalk on a wall. The title is ironic: Fat City is a crazy goal no one is ever going to reach.”
— Leonard Gardner explains the meaning of the title of his novel in an interview with LIFE MAGAZINE in 1969.
Poster art for The Deep (1977)
Peter Yates directs Steve McQueen in Bullitt (1968).
Raymond Chandler
July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959
“It was raining again the next morning, a slanting gray rain like a swung curtain of crystal beads. I got up feeling sluggish and tired and stood looking out of the windows with a dark harsh taste of Sternwoods still in my mouth. I was as empty of life as a scarecrow’s pockets. I went out to the kitchenette and drank two cups of black coffee. You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. Women made me sick.”
(Excerpt from Chandler’s The Big Sleep, 1939)
We meet, I write a script. He reads it, we meet again. I polish the script, I hand it in. I disappear. That’s what the working relationship is [with Martin Scorsese]. After I hand it in, I’m gone. I don’t call, I don’t ask; he makes the movie. I’ve done my job. If the script is really good, it will inspire him to be better, and that’s the best I can do.
I always feel that the presence of the writer on the set is one of the sheer indicators that something has gone awry, because by the time a movie begins shooting, the actor should understand the character as well as the writer, and the director should understand the structure and the style as well, or better, than the writer. And if they still need the writer at that point, then they probably started shooting too quickly.
Cliff Robertson in Obsession (1976)
Robert Mitchum in The Yakuza (1974)
The Old Dark House (1932)
Directed by James Whale
