I was reading a Blu-ray review of Blue Velvet and it mentioned that the director David Lynch did not participate in the 75-minute documentary in 2002 and the producers used archival interviews with Lynch from around 1986.
What do you guys think about seeing archival interviews for a film say over 10 or 15 years old rather than recently done interviews with a director or other above the line person reflecting on a film 15 or 20 years later?
For this thread -not really because the ego of the director that they didn't want to participate or they weren't being paid (enough) to participate but the actual use of the archival interviews?
Personally I really like the use of archival interviews not just the on the set behind-the-scenes footage of the director and people working obviously shot at the time of production but the interviews done at the time as well. Since they do so much press when a film is being made and at the end of post production for promotional and marketing needs they are breathing it and living the project. Sometimes a major player has died and we 16mm film interview footage. For example on STII:TWOK the special features on the SCE DVD had Ricardo Montelbahn interviewed on 16mm film (with visible film grain). It was done sometime in the 1980s but who knows when? These days 16mm is rarely used at all and everything is shot on high definition video.
Disney goes a step further for their audio commentaries and use various audio recordings spanning 30 years ["snippets of different interviews he did over a 30-year period about this film"] with Walt Disney and edit his and other key personnel's comments for an audio soundtrack for say Fantasia which was made in 1940.
I'd love to hear Gene Roddenberry audio interviews edited together speaking about specific TOS episodes as an audio commentary track.
Maybe we'll get something like that with Roddenberry on the next Blu-ray release [around 2015] of the original Trek feature films I-VI as a special feature especially for ST:TMP.
I really like on the special features of the SCE DVD Trek movies that they also use Viacom-owned sister TV show Entertainment Tonight's archival interviews and some behind the scenes footage for First Contact SCE DVD.
here's a good thread I started a while ago naming some very well done documentaries about films:
movie behind the scenes - best feature-length documentaries on DVDs
What do you guys think about seeing archival interviews for a film say over 10 or 15 years old rather than recently done interviews with a director or other above the line person reflecting on a film 15 or 20 years later?
For this thread -not really because the ego of the director that they didn't want to participate or they weren't being paid (enough) to participate but the actual use of the archival interviews?
Personally I really like the use of archival interviews not just the on the set behind-the-scenes footage of the director and people working obviously shot at the time of production but the interviews done at the time as well. Since they do so much press when a film is being made and at the end of post production for promotional and marketing needs they are breathing it and living the project. Sometimes a major player has died and we 16mm film interview footage. For example on STII:TWOK the special features on the SCE DVD had Ricardo Montelbahn interviewed on 16mm film (with visible film grain). It was done sometime in the 1980s but who knows when? These days 16mm is rarely used at all and everything is shot on high definition video.
Disney goes a step further for their audio commentaries and use various audio recordings spanning 30 years ["snippets of different interviews he did over a 30-year period about this film"] with Walt Disney and edit his and other key personnel's comments for an audio soundtrack for say Fantasia which was made in 1940.
I'd love to hear Gene Roddenberry audio interviews edited together speaking about specific TOS episodes as an audio commentary track.
Maybe we'll get something like that with Roddenberry on the next Blu-ray release [around 2015] of the original Trek feature films I-VI as a special feature especially for ST:TMP.
I really like on the special features of the SCE DVD Trek movies that they also use Viacom-owned sister TV show Entertainment Tonight's archival interviews and some behind the scenes footage for First Contact SCE DVD.
here's a good thread I started a while ago naming some very well done documentaries about films:
movie behind the scenes - best feature-length documentaries on DVDs
