Several cineastes report from the set of Scott of the Antarctic, where inebriated director James McRettin holds court over actors who can't remember their lines and who stand on flimsy boxes. After numerous setbacks, the film's title is changed to Scott of the Sahara. "Scott of the Antarctic" originally aired December 2, 1970.
Amblin' is the first completed film shot by Steven Spielberg on 35mm. The film is a short story set during the hippy era of the late '60s about a young couple who meet up in the desert, become friends, then lovers and make their way to a paradisiacal beach.
Antony Sher is the suburbanite self-confined to his own home in this new adaptation of Ballard's short story "The Enormous Space".
Home (2003)
Adapted and directed by Richard Curson Smith
Cast: Antony Sher, Matilda Ziegler, Deborah Findlay, Keith Allen.
http://www.bbc.co .uk/bbcfour/cinema/f eatures/home.shtml
"Thirteen to Centaurus" (1965) episode from BBC science fiction series _Out of the Unknown_. Adapted from a story by J.G. Ballard.
http://www.ballar dian.com/thirteen-to -centaurus
During the filming of Kagemusha, Akira Kurosawa directed a number of ads for Suntory. Francis Ford Coppola, executive producer of the film, appears in a couple of them. I guess George Lucas doesn't drink.