Have you ever been seduced and abandoned? James Toback feels your pain. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Bugsy and director of Fingers, Harvard Man and Tyson is back with a new film that documents his travels to the Cannes Film Festival with Alec Baldwin to secure financing for a remake of Last Tango in Paris. Along the way they interview filmmakers Martin Scorsese, Bernardo Bertolucci and Francis Ford Coppola, and actors Ryan Gosling, Jessica Chastain and Berenice Bejo about their experiences at Cannes and ongoing struggles to produce films in an industry that sometimes doesn’t seem very interested. It’s an in-depth look at the contemporary entertainment industry… just don’t call it a documentary.
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Why? That’s one of the questions James Toback answers in this special bonus episode of The B-Movies Podcast, in which William “Bibbs” Bibbiani sits the writer/director down by the pool at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA to talk about the state of the filmmaking market, the revelations in Seduced and Abandoned and Toback’s many anecdotes about the early careers of superstars like Robert De Niro and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Seduced and Abanoned premieres on HBO on October 28, 2013, after which you can find it on HBO Go. Follow William Bibbiani on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani and don’t forget to subscribe to and review The B-Movies Podcast on iTunes. (That’s how we know you care.)
William Bibbiani is the editor of CraveOnline’s Film Channel and co-host of The B-Movies Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.
