David Carradine during our talk with him in 2005. Photo by Jean Aretz.
Long talks with movie folks
This is a growing collection of long talks with interesting people from the movie business, about their careers, the films they’ve made, their choices, their ambitions.
The Flashback Files started when I realized that of all the interviews I and my fellow scribes at the Dutch fanzine Schokkend Nieuws had done over the years, not one of them was available online. I figured maybe the original transcriptions had some value for movie fans elsewhere on the planet, especially because the talks tended to be long and in a lot of cases quite comprehensive. They’re basically career interviews. So, I decided to publish them here, in English. The talks are only minimally edited for clarity.
Some of these talks are old. In fact, since we did them, a lot of people we interviewed have passed away. Among them David Carradine, Margot Kidder, Larry Cohen, Ingrid Pitt and John Saxon. Consequently, some of the things that are talked about in the interviews have not come to pass. I have decided not to edit these out.
I will keep adding new talks regularly. I will also do talks exclusively for this website. Please sign up for the newsletter (below), so you can get these interviews as soon as we put them up.
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Enjoy these talks!
Roel Haanen
Editor-in-chief:
Roel Haanen
Editor:
Phil van Tongeren
Contributors:
Jean, Aretz, Jan Doense, Mike Lebbing, Bart Oosterhoorn, Ronald Simons, Jan-Willem Steenmeijer, Barend de Voogd.
Special thanks:
Kim Gottlieb-Walker for letting us use two of her awesome set photos for the John Carpenter Interview
Marcus Brooks, the manager of the Peter Cushing Appreciation Society, for letting us use images of Ingrid Pitt and Caroline Munro from his website.
Patrick Vogt for helping me out with the design of the website.
Yorick Smeets for working on earlier version of this site that never made it.
Disclaimer copyright:
The content used on this website is intended for educational and informational purposes only. It is not-for-profit, not commercialized or monetized in any way. All rights to the images used belong to their respective owners. I do not claim ownership over any third-party content used.
The Flashback Files has sought to trace all holders of copyright on the photographs, stills and poster artwork used in the interview pages. This website may still contain copyrighted images, the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. I am making such material available in my efforts to advance understanding of the artists that are interviewed, as well as the social, political, environmental, economic and other issues that have informed their work. I believe this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. If you are the rightful owner of any material used on this website and have a concern about its use, please contact us via [email protected].