An Evening with Director Randal Kleiser (Ep. 139)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Director Randal Kleiser discusses his film Grease along with several others including The Blue Lagoon, White Fang, and Big Top Pee-Wee with moderator Jeremy Kagan. After a special 4k restoration screening of Grease at the DGA theater, Kleiser and speaks in-depth about the film and his career as a director.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Directors Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America,
0:06.7	where each episode we bring you a fresh and insightful interview featuring one of the film industry's top directors,
0:12.7	conducted by one of their peers.
0:15.0	Remember to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:28.0	Thank you. on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode features an exclusive conversation with director Randall Klyzer
0:32.3	at a DGA Special Projects Committee event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Greece.
0:38.4	One of the highest grossing and most acclaimed movie musicals of all time, the 1978 film brought together John
0:43.8	Troultta and Olivia Newton John as Danny and Sandy, star-cross lovers who fall for one another
0:49.4	during summer vacation, and unwittingly end up members of rival cliques at the same high school in the fall.
0:56.0	His other directing credits include the 70-millimeter 3-D film Honey I Shrunk the Audience,
1:01.2	and the feature films The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, the Blue Lagoon, Summer Lovers, Flight of the Navigator,
1:08.1	White Fang, Big Top Pewee, I Blew Up the Kid, North Shore,
1:13.9	and the 1996 AIDS drama, It's My Party.
1:17.9	Following a special 4K restoration screening of Greece at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles last month,
1:24.0	Mr. Kleiser sat down with director Jeremy Kagan to discuss the making of the film along with several others in his
1:29.3	filmography. During their conversation, Mr. Kleiser talks about how the ending to the drive-in scene featuring the song Sandy was a happy accident,
1:37.3	why he likes to play music on the set in order to maintain a calm atmosphere, and shares the first place he usually goes when he arrives on a set.
1:46.0	Wow, outstanding. Look at that. Well deserved.
2:01.3	Wow.
2:08.2	What more did you want, man?
2:12.8	All right.
2:14.7	Wow. A standing ovation.
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