In this interview from 1985, director Joel Schumacher discusses his newest film, St. Elmo's Fire. He also talks about the 1981 film The Incredible Shrinking Woman, receiving directing advice from Hal Ashby, being a first time director and the 1975 film Sparkle.
Released in 1985, St. Elmo's Fire starred a group of actors who became known as the Brat Pack: Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy and Andrew McCarthy. Mare Winningham also starred in the film.
Co-written with Carl Kurlander, Schumacher included several of his own experiences as a young adult in the film. He talks about Rob Lowe's character Billy Hicks, comparisons between Emilio Estevez in this film and Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate, Mare Winningham's performance, John Cutler's performance and the audition process for the film.
From 1974 to 2000, Canada’s Brian Linehan conducted thousands of in-depth interviews with the greatest actors and directors from over 60 years of film history. His programs City Lights and Linehan have not been seen since they first aired and are now available for the first time for licensing. Linehan, a stylishly gifted broadcaster, meticulously did all his own research and that, coupled with his knowledge and passion about film and filmmaking, puts him in a class all by himself.
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Brian Linehan, who passed away in 2004, left his entire estate to The Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation to provide training, work opportunities and promotion for young actors of exceptional talent. All of the income of his Foundation is donated to not-for-profit institutions for that purpose. In the decade since his death, recipients of the Foundation’s support have included extraordinary young actors affiliated with the Canadian Film Centre, The National Screen Institute of Canada, the Stratford Shakespearean Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, which, since Brian's passing, has preserved and housed Brian's personal archive and tape library.