- This spring Linklater programmed a revival of Veronika Voss by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, one of his cinematic heroes.
Read part one of this interview.
So, that’s the industry. You can create your own world outside that too. That’s what I always wanted to do, just live in my own cinema universe and not think about shit like that. And to a large degree, that’s become true. I’m always kind of unnerved when my cinematic universe collides with the reality of the business side, but I just have to deal with it.
Linklater: Yeah, they’re not reverent enough. They’re “better” than older movies.
Linklater: Yeah, they really knew how to do racy then.
Linklater: You don’t want to kick out any audience. You just have to make a deal with whatever reason people are attracted to your show. So when you show a pre-Code movie, you play up the sexiness of it, right? It’s always a hustle, just making an event. I learned a lot from hustling up audiences. It helped me as a filmmaker, especially on the producing side. It also taught me about the [audience] mentality, what people respond to. It was time well spent, learning about audiences.
- Sullivan’s Travels
Hall: Do you have any personal control over who can show Boyhood on film? Do you get to have a print of it?
- A 24-year-old Fassbinder (right) as Baal
