Not exact matches
To hear these two talk so candidly and in
such detail about their craft is as big a thrill on - screen as it is on paper, and as a
cinematic extension of the book, Hitchcock / Truffaut lives up to its name.
The «Select Scenes Commentary with Sally Potter» is not an audio commentary track but a ten - minute featurette of Potter discussing a few elements of the film in
detail,
such as the scenes of Orlando's asides to the camera (her
cinematic version of the direct address sequences from the novel, but pared back through the shooting until there are only a few, very brief addresses, «a sort of complicity» she calls it) and the casting of Quentin Crisp («He is the true queen of England, he's my idea of royalty,» she confesses, as she describes his presence as way to turn the idea of sex and gender on its head right from the beginning).
That film was a marvel of
cinematic portraiture and historical journalism, giving us the incredible
details of the caper - like plotting that allowed Petit and his cohorts to pull off their coup, and allowing us great insight into the mind of the man who would risk his life for
such a stunt.