A better place to start might have been to ask if the BBC would have made this documentary if the book hadn't been a bestseller.
What happened was that I'd say a third of the movie or more has this embedded documentary style to it, and as a result we shot hours and hours and days and days of material.
Sheila Nevins, who heads HBO's documentary division, had this to say about making celebrity documentaries: "It's very difficult to make something that's honest and doesn't hurt someone".
It reveals, too, that there are stories we haven't heard, stories that would have made this documentary unique and, in turn, more moving – but its makers have not found them.
Thylacine: I had this idea two years ago and this documentary is the result of a lot time spent researching the best conditions for me to compose music in.
The craft of it [appealed to me:] to be able to make a documentary that was in part documentary but had this fiction feel to it, like this 70s thriller feel to it.
Shouldn't they have finished this documentary by now?
I do watch too much TV but I'm glad because if I didn't I wouldn't have seen this documentary about the lead singer, bassist and sole remaining original member of rock band Motörhead.
Having seen this documentary, I am still unable to describe the shape of Al Jazeera's schedules: does it deliver a twenty-four-hour news service, or are there other kinds of programs?
A film about a film that might have been, this documentary on hallucinatory maestro Alejandro Jodorowsky's abortive efforts to film Frank Herbert's science fiction story (later filmed by David Lynch at great personal cost) threatens to be the film about filmmaking must-see of the festival.
