EPiSODE 72.

"There's always some sadness at the beginning of every shooting, when the screenplay, the final draft, is declared finished. At that moment, there's a lot of activity - the actors coming onto the set, the lights going on, the director taking over - but you have to go. That's when the writer feels his basic condition, which is loneliness."

Hosts John Cribbs & Christopher Funderburg sit down to pay tribute to one of the greatest screenwriters who ever lived, Jean-Claude Carrière. When Carrière recently passed away the hosts decided to pick a handful of the writer’s films to discuss as a way of exploring his long and incredibly varied career.

From Carrière’s career-defining work with Luis Buñuel to his long-running associations with filmmakers including Miloš Forman & Pierre Étaix to his more off-beat one-off projects. His career began in the early 60’s spanned decades and he kept working right up until the end, with screen credits as recent as 2019. This is our remembrance of a novelist, ghost-writer, conversationalist, adapter and screenwriter who collaborated with everyone from Umberto Eco to Nagisa Ōshima to the Dalai Lama. Rest in peace, Carrière.

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