Interview: Producer Clive Frayne on “3 Films That Have Impacted Your Adult Life”
Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with independent development producer, Clive Frayne, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Everything Is Illuminated impact, Leap Of Faith analysis, and The Tango Lesson influence on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Clive Frayne also discusses 12 months of Filmutopia and the evolution of his innovative approach to screenplay development that he describes in his book THE PROCESS OF SCREENWRITING.
- Everything Is Illuminated – Clive Frayne says Everything Is Illuminated is probably one of the best films ever made but too few people have heard of it. It manages to be incredibly funny, genuinely odd and well written, but as the story progresses what you realise it’s a story about the killing of an entire Jewish population in Ukraine by the Nazis towards the end of the second world war.
- Leap Of Faith – Clive Frayne shares how Leap Of Faith, again, is a film hardly anyone seems to know about. It includes the most polished, mature performance Steve Martin has ever given in a movie. Drawing parallels with Jim Carrey elevation as an actor following THE TRUMAN SHOW, Leap Of Faith is Steve Martin’s Truman Show.
- The Tango Lesson – Clive Frayne talks about Sally Potter’s The Tango Lesson. It’s a very meta film because learning to tango is the side project of Sally Potter uses to distract herself from the writer’s block that is stopping her getting her film project away. Despite looking, at times, almost like student film levels of production, when she gets the dance sequences right, she has these moments of brilliance.
