Filming Don’t Look Now. Copyright: Peter Cassell.

Neil and Justin John Doherty have been friends since 1995. To mark thirty years of friendship, in the latest episode of the podcast they talk about Justin’s latest creative peak, an art-book with amazing, never seen before, behind the scenes photos and production artefacts, love letters and conversations, about his favourite film, the Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland starring, Don’t Look Now. The conversation starts with Neil’s reminisce of how the film has been Justin’s favourite as long as they have known each other, upon meeting at Luton Sixth Form College.

In a conversation recorded at Bristol’s Encounters Film Festival (Thank you to Maddy Probst at Watershed for providing us a space to talk) they discuss the film, the way the book came into being, and Justin’s approach to the form of the book, capturing as it does so beautifully in literary form, the cinematic wonder of Roeg’s Du Maurier adaptation. They also talk about the power of cinema, and art, at formative moments in life, and how the book embodies Justin’s overall creative philosophies regards space and place, proximity and welcoming people in.

Elsewhere, in their conversation recorded at the London Film Festival where they both spent time with Justin, Dario and Neil discuss the different modes of engaging with and experiencing beloved texts, having both seen Dario’s favourite (or one of) film, Godard’s Pierrot le Fou (1965) at the gorgeous Ciné Lumière on a break from LFF duty.

Justin is talking about the book, and film, with Jason Wood at the BFI Library on October 24th.

You can see a lovely piece about the book by the Guardian, here.

And you can buy the magnificent book, here. A must for anyone who loves Cinema, and beautiful, obsessional tributes to Cinema.

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‘Theme from The Cinematologists’

Written and produced by Gwenno Saunders. Mixed by Rhys Edwards. Drums, bass & guitar by Rhys Edwards. All synths by Gwenno Saunders. Published by Downtown Music Publishing.

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