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Length: 05:45
DENNIS HOPPER (1983)interviewed by John A. GallagherThe original indie maverick talks about working with screen legends James Dean, John Wayne, Nicholas Ray, George Stevens, Sam Peckinpah and Francis Coppola on such films as REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955), GIANT (1956), SONS OF KATIE ELDER (1965), TRUE GRIT (1969), and APOCALYPSE NOW (1977). He discusses directing and starring in his counter-culture classic EASY RIDER (1969) and gives a fascinating demonstration of Method Acting.From 1982 to 1992, John Gallagher and Ira Gallen collaborated on the cable TV show THE DIRECTORS SERIES, featuring John's incisive ... all » interviews with hundreds of cinema personalities past and present. Lee Marvin, Dennis Hopper, Sir Richard Attenborough, Sydney Pollack, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Anne Francis, James Toback, Robert Downey Sr., Wolfgang Petersen (in his first American interview upon the release of DAS BOOT), Sam Raimi (in his very first video interview, promoting THE EVIL DEAD) -- these are just a few of the many filmmakers represented in Gallagher's candid, in-depth filmmaker-on-filmmaker interviews. The shows were produced and edited by Gallen, photographed by Gallen and Billy Coleman (longtime SOPRANOS camera operator). The shows aired in New York on Manhattan Cable TV, and nationally through various film school outlets, and are now available for the first time on Google Video. For more information visit www.TVDays.com. More on John Gallagher at www.myspace.com/jgmovie « |
