Hope and Glory

Emerald Forest, one of my favorites.

Uh, Hope and Glory, and In- uh, The General, one of the greatest...

Zardoz I love.

One of the greatest directors.

Good movie.

Hope and Glory.

Eh.

Oh, what are you talking about?

It's a good movie.

It's a good movie.

Why do, why do you shrug your shoulders at Hope and Glory?

I, I don't feel about it as much as I feel about, like, Moonstruck.

Like-

[laughs] That's, that's, that's from, uh, Hope and Glory, that movie.

Yes, exactly.

All the pink bits.

I think there's a movie, there's a movie called The General with Brendan Gleeson, which, which very few people have seen, from 1998, which is absolutely superb.

Um, Hope and Glory [laughs] is great.

Um, but if it's not his best movie, then it's at least the most Boorman movie.

It-

He, he, he talks to a lot of people who worked on it.

Um, and also it's kind of a backdoor little documentary about Borman as well, who's a very interesting kind of idiosyncratic filmmaker who made Point Blank and Deliverance, um, and also Hope and Glory, which is, uh, really one of my favorite movies.

That's, that's a wonderful film.

Um, so it, I kind of-- It's like I'd recommend the two of them together in almost the way I'd recommend Breathless and Nouvelle Vague together, 'cause I think seeing one provides the context for the other, and the documentary provides, like, the context of, like, you see, oh, I see the aspiration.

Yeah.

And, and e- even his work in the '80s and '90s is quite fascinating when, um [tsks] speaking of Tarantino, when he and Roger Avery were on the show years ago now, we did a 1987 Draft, and Avery took Hope and Glory-

Mm

... his film, which is a very personal autobiographical film that Boorman made, um, about his youth growing up in England.

Um-

But it's a really terrific movie.

And Hope and Glory is a, is a, uh, is a great, uh, is a gr- uh, is kind of an essential part of his filmography, I think, in that he, he suddenly goes in a whole new direction-

Mm-hmm

Number three on the list is Sarah Miles.

She is known for her roles in films like Ryan's Daughter, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, White Mischief, Hope and Glory.

She acted opposite Laurence Olivier in Term of Trial, and she was in those magnificent men and their flying machines.

Her movie about maids and domestics, The Servant is what it's called, a drama exploring the psychological power shift between a wealthy, decadent young man and his increasingly manipulative manservant and housekeeper.

So these are some good films.

He made Hope and Glory.

Like he's been around, he's made a lot of movies.

Not all of them are good, but he's coming off Zardoz.