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commercials. The process of bringing out a film infuriates him. ‘It is a world of ignorant. selfish idiots. who don‘t understand anything. then rob you. I hate the bureaucracy of the system. The heavy logic. I like people who invent
and create. These people only believe in the past - they only want to discover 5 what has been discovered before. and I to copy it endlessly to make money.‘ i ‘They‘ are the ‘investors‘. as Beincix ! brackets them. The struggle for cash was achieved relatively easily for Berry Blue. Remembering bad experiences with unimpressed producers on Diva and 77m Mmm. Beineix became his own producer. finding a collaborator. Claudie ()ssard. with the necessary 1 ‘fast reflexes of nowadays'. after her training as an advertising producer. The money was raised in three weeks. i and the film completed on time. i Beineix who believes if financiers ! ‘understand what you do. it‘s probably i had. feels the money came in because i of Diva and the possibilities for box— office success in foreign territories. l The artistic struggle goes on however. Beineix. with Gallic logic. is i ‘ready to do comedy. because I am so serious'. and presented a vampire script to Paramount in Hollywood. ‘1 was naive to think it possible and I am bringing back the project to English and European investors.‘ Paramount had simply decided that the film he had dedicated to Hollywood. was too expensive to make. ‘They were afraid the Frog would bankrupt Paramount.‘ Now the film will be made in Europe. Bats. based on a novel by English writer. Mark Behn. is about a } centuries old. rather ‘horny‘. vampire. living in the sewers ofManhattan. He { meets a nice.,incxperienced vampiress l
who needs help in stealing money to
buy a haunted castle. where she can put an end to her tax difficulties by lying in an eternal milk bath. When the vampire emerges to see contemporary New 2 York. he thinks a blood donation van is ' a bar. Bars. is likely to be Beineix‘s wittiest creation and one Europe can get its teeth into.
After that may come a movie about ‘an enquirer in research medicine confronted with the quest ofan artist. The satne moment you make a solution. you discover a black hole of knowledge.‘ The film will also be a thriller where ‘the enemy is time. and the danger is death and‘. he looks at me. ‘you can be the dead one.‘
What there won‘t be is another human-being-less image feast. ‘No. I think I am going to be more and more steady. quiet and simple and concentrate in the essence ofcharacter. or scene - simplicity. simplicity. but I may become very boring.‘ l ask if he might act. ‘1 am on the edge of making a picture as an actor with the leading role. and I am going to refuse it this week end. It is too serious. Only a part of the character is me.‘ Beineix has always considered he is too shy to act. but says now: ‘As I am not a professional actor. it would have to be something far from me. rather than close. I could do a caricature. 1 don‘t accept myself. so how do you want me
to be this guy in the picture‘?‘
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Storm clouds are gathering. ‘You don‘t accept yourself?‘. I ask the genius film-maker. ‘1 don't accept myself! I am a ruin. lam far from what I want. I would like to have a very quiet life. a family. a wife — and l have nothing of this. It is the great chase. he half- smiles: ‘Boring. exciting. boring...'. then rekindles. ‘But you escape by giving this for the pictures. because the pictures follow what you are. This is the great escape. the pictures. The only thing that is a shame is that you have to suffer so much to make them.‘ ‘But one always wants what one doesn't have... .' 'Of course. but it‘s funny and attractive when you are 30 or 20. but when you are 40 almost. it becomes a little bit - dark.‘ ‘Perhaps your movies are the greater for your not having these things‘." He pauses. ‘So‘?’
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! SATURDAY 9
e PLAYHOUSE Betty Blue 8.30pm.
SUNDAY 10
o FILMHOUSE1
Home from the Hill and The Work They Say is Mine 2.30pm.
Alter Hours 5.45pm.
Mona Lisa 8.30pm.
West Indies 1 1 . 15pm.
e FILMHOUSE 2
Philipines Cinema and Atrican Cinema 5.30pm.
Magic Hour and Year oi the Beaver 8pm.
Film Beiore Film 11pm.
MONDAY 11
e FILMHOUSE1
The Gourmet and Ping Pong 2.30pm. Deaths in Tokimeki 5.45pm.
New Shoes and Down By Law 8.30pm. Genghis Khan 11.15pm.
e FILMHOUSE 2
Jukti Takko Aur Gappo 5.30pm.
After Winter and Cinema de Carthage 8pm.
Tupac Amaru 11pm.
TUESDAY 12
o FILMHOUSE1
The Fanny and Alexander Document 2.30pm
Genesis 5.45pm.
Street of Crocodiles and Parting Glances 8.30pm.
Tangos, Exile ot Gardel 11.15pm.
o FILMHOUSE 2
Hansworth Songs 5.30pm.
The Passion oi Remembrance 8pm.
Sunayama Street and REM 11pm.
WEDNESDAY 13
o FILMHOUSEt Blood Red Roses 2.30pm. Sacrificed Youth 5 .45pm. No End 8.30pm. She’s Gotta Have It 1 1.15pm. 0 FILMHOUSE 2 Made in China and In the Opium Mountains 5.30pm. Naked Spaces 8pm. 48 Hours 11pm.
The Sphinx and Wurlitzer 8pm.
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Dignity andA Looming Shadow 2.30pm.
Mohammed's Daughter and The Passion oi Remembrance 5.45pm. Flight North 8.30pm.
Chain Letters 11.15pm.
e FILMHOUSE 2
Workshop Screenings (Admission Free) 5.45pm.
Clyde Film and Bhopal, Beyond Genocide 8pm.
Reichsautobahn 11pm.
FRIDAY 15
e FILMHOUSE1
A Girl at Good Family 2.30pm. Trevor-A Cat Eat the Peach 5.45pm. The Good Father 8.30pm. Passionless Moments and Working Girls 11.15pm.
e FILMHOUSE 2
Camera Nature and A Song 01 Ceylon 5.30pm.
My Socks and Betrayed 8pm.
Pont Heat and Memoirs at a Tropical Jew 1 1pm.
SATURDAY 16
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A Turnip Head’s Guide to Alan Parker and Heavenly Pursuits 8pm.
0 FILMHOUSE1
Short Story and Eh, Joe 2.30pm. Crime on the Hill and The Last Journey 5.45pm.
Riveter and Alpine ilre 8.30pm. ProjectA11.15pm.
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Portraits and Proliles and 64 Day Hero 5.30pm.
The Man Who Envied Women 8pm. The Fall oi Billie Korty and Donna Rosebud 11pm.
SUNDAY 17 a o CAMEO Trouble in Mind 3pm. Ginger and Fred 8pm. 0 FILMHOUSE1 Bee Movie and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 2.30pm. The Ghost Camera and So Young, 80 Bad 5.45pm. The End and Rocinante 8.30pm. The Dead and the Deadly 11.15pm. o FILMHOUSE 2 My Lite Without Steve and Democracy 5.30pm.
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Happy the Man and Desert Bloom 8.30pm.
Backlash 11.15pm.
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Dyesebel 5.30pm. 1 Muybrldge Revisited and Cold in 1 Columbia 8pm. Dusty Ermine 11pm.
TUESDAY 19 :
e FILMHOUSE1 f And Then 2.30pm. ' Peel and Two Friends 5 .45pm.
Tom Goes to the Bar and Gung Ho 8.30pm.
Heart oi the Dragon and Police Story 1 1. 15pm.
o FILMHOUSE 2
Henry Ford’s America and shorts 5.30pm.
Reieanne Padovani 8pm.
; The Queen is Dead and Mala Noche
11pm.
; WEDNESDAY 20
O FILMHOUSE1
Departure and Boy Soldier 2.30pm. 3 AGirl’s Own Story and Men 5.45pm. The New Morning of Billy the Kid ? ' 8.30pm.
' Encounter ol the Spooky Kind
1 1.15pm.
0 FILMHOUSE 2
Amir and Researching the Forest 3.30pm. 3 Serpent in the Bellry 5.30pm. ‘ Any Nests for Rent? and Rocking the I Foundations 8pm.
Lutherna Magica and Reckless! 11pm
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- Just Like Weather 2.30pm.
Hooray for Holyrood 4.30pm.
E Smart Money 5.45pm.
I The Consultation and The Decline ol ‘ the American Empire 8.30pm.
.‘ Shuttle and 1/2 Mensch 11.15pm.
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' Raymond Red Films 5.30pm.
2 Negative Man and Esther 8pm.
' The Young Master 11pm.
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