Hello, my name's Justin Clueh. I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're talking about Edmund Greville.

And you may be going, who? Well, I'm not going to pronounce his name as well as you did.

But yes, that was the first thing that I asked when you raised this filmmaker to me.

This is a filmmaker who has worked in a huge number of genres. He's worked in both France and

Britain. He also worked in the Netherlands and some other countries as well. And I think it's

saved to say that wherever he worked, he worked in the margins of those countries' film industries.

I know that a lot of his work is lost or inaccessible. And I know that... that wherever he worked, he worked in the margins of those countries' film industries.

I know that a lot of his work is lost or inaccessible, and I know that even his small number of fans consider him to be rather uneven.

So I'm curious, what was it about him that inspired your fanatical devotion?

Like a lot of the filmmakers that I kind of get obsessed with, usually the first step is, wait, I haven't heard of these people before. And I first heard about Edmund Greville, and this is the name we're probably going to say a bunch of times on his podcast through reading, I think Bertin Tavernier's journal. And he mentioned a film. And I'm one of those people's that if I read a film in something and I've never heard of it before, I go looking for it, especially if it's somebody whose opinion I trust and they say, oh, this is good.

Can I interrupt you for a second?

We will have listeners who do not know who Bertrand Tavernier is.

Can you explain that?

Bertin Tavernier is a director in France who hasn't really gotten any like big

American hits that people talk about. He sadly passed away only a few weeks ago. And he is like

France's like biggest cinephile ever. While at the same time making film after film after

film in France, probably his most famous American picture is probably

a Sunday in the country or around midnight from 1986, which was a film about jazz, uh, that

starred Dexter Gordon and Martin Scorsese. He's a filmmaker we don't really talk about that much,

but I've become obsessed with Bertin Tavernier and by consequence, Edmund Greville, because Tavernier seemingly was the only fan of the man.

Well, he wrote a long article about Greville that was translated in film comment a couple years ago.

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