Family Affair director Chico Colvard interviews the one and only Sam Pollard, who I had the pleasure of knowing first as a customer when I was a video store prole in Cambridge in the mid/late 90s. He's a delight, that one.
The Million Dollar Movie owned the library of RKO [Radio] Pictures. And what they would do was they would show a film every day, all day, seven days a week. Then they would show another film every day, all day, seven days a week. And the two films that stood out to me when I was a young man... was Merion Cooper's King Kong, cause it was an RKO Picture, and Orson Welles's Citizen Kane. When Welles's character, you know, Charles Foster Kane dies and the ball falls off the thing and crashes. And before he dies, his lips -- cuts to his lips: [whispers] "Roooosebud." [chuckles with delight]
Elsewhere, John Cameron Mitchell directs Sir Ian McKellen and Marion Cotillard in a short for Lady Dior. The shininess of the couture rivals any glittering thing Lacroix dreamed up for Visage. [via]
