Documentary maker, producer, writer and distinguished film critic for the Sunday Times and the BBC
There were few great movie stars of the late 20th century not filmed, interviewed or profiled by the television producer, film-maker and author Iain Johnstone, who has died aged 80. He was both a respected critic of the movie business and a participant, as screenwriter and maker of documentaries about the making of films.
He had a long professional relationship with Steven Spielberg, beginning in 1974, when Iain had just spent a year in the US as professor of broadcasting at Boston University. Having heard that the movie Jaws was being shot on Martha’s Vineyard, he made a short film, The Jaws Report, for the BBC. He went on to make seven more films about the director’s works, including Jurassic Park, Minority Report, the Indiana Jones sequence and War of the Worlds.
There were few great movie stars of the late 20th century not filmed, interviewed or profiled by the television producer, film-maker and author Iain Johnstone, who has died aged 80. He was both a respected critic of the movie business and a participant, as screenwriter and maker of documentaries about the making of films.
He had a long professional relationship with Steven Spielberg, beginning in 1974, when Iain had just spent a year in the US as professor of broadcasting at Boston University. Having heard that the movie Jaws was being shot on Martha’s Vineyard, he made a short film, The Jaws Report, for the BBC. He went on to make seven more films about the director’s works, including Jurassic Park, Minority Report, the Indiana Jones sequence and War of the Worlds.
- 5/18/2023
- by Will Wyatt
- The Guardian - Film News
“The Man with No Name” started as a studio invention to sell a trilogy — three spaghetti Westerns starring Clint Eastwood, directed by Sergio Leone — but the character became a legend. It was a role that brought Eastwood to fame, making him an icon of American masculinity. Eastwood’s portrayal brought a morally ambiguous hero to the big screen for the first time in the genre — a soft-spoken tough guy who was an outsider and loner, but thought nothing of shooting first and asking questions later. We learn more about the man behind the gun in this 1977 BBC documentary, presented by Iain Johnstone, which features interviews with Eastwood (in his backyard, petting a freaking deer). Director Leone also makes an appearance, discussing the...
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- 12/3/2013
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
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