Mike Radford - Director

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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EPISODE 120 - MIKE RADFORD - Director

Team Deakins speaks with long-time friend, director Mike Radford (ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE, IL POSTINO, MERCHANT OF VENICE). He shares his film school experiences and how he came to direct his first film ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE, on which he worked with Roger. He and Roger share memories of that film as well as 1984, which was another film on which they worked together. Mike tells us about the huge controversy he started with what he said at the British Film awards show for 1984 and the experience of working with actors John Hurt and Richard Burton. We talk about his experiences with actors Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons on MERCHANT OF VENICE and we learn a lot about IL POSTINO and the challenges that entailed. A refreshing and very frank conversation with a talented director!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and
0:09.9	James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never
0:16.5	know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear
0:21.6	the audio. If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing podpod.cod
0:30.2	at RogerDeakin's.com. This episode is sponsored by AJA video systems. One of the industry's
0:39.4	most trusted and respected manufacturers of tools and solutions for production and post-professionals.
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0:54.6	shoots to anywhere in the world securely with Bridge Live, with 12G SDIIO to a range of
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1:10.1	you covered with workflow tools for 4K, 8K, HDR and beyond. Today we're joined by a director
1:21.6	with whom Roger has had the pleasure of working with many times. His credits include
1:26.9	another time, another place, 1984, White mischief, Il Postino and the merchant of Venice. We're
1:34.9	pleased to welcome Mike Radford with us today. Mike, thank you for doing this. It's a real
1:41.6	pleasure to see you. It's been a while, yeah. That's because I astute Hollywood for a long
1:52.2	time. I don't know why. I actually found a cutscene from the Hollywood reporter saying Michael
2:02.0	Radford has given up Hollywood completely and all the rest of it, and I was thinking,
2:06.4	what an idiot, what an absolute idiot. But I liked you. I always loved European films,
2:14.2	and I grew up on them in a way. I never really understood how good some of those Hollywood
2:25.1	movies were or are. Because the large mass of them are fairly rubbish. But that's true
2:37.5	in Europe. Actually, absolutely. I've made a lot of watch films in my time. So there we
2:42.6	go. Then I found myself just doing stuff which I kind of light mainly because of another
2:50.5	time and another place and the fact that I got involved in it, that film was huge in Italy
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