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WHERE IS ROWAN MORRISON ? Sommes Mis À Travailler Sur Ce Qui Allait Dans Le Seigneur Des Anneaux, En Pas- Devenir the Wicker Man SUMMERISLE DAILY ST TEXT S BY MARC OLRY - FREE - TUESDAY MAY 1 1973 DESIGN BY CLEMENT DENEUX IT’S TIME TO KEEP YOUR APPOINTMENT WITH THE WICKER MAN CAN BE USED TO START A FIRE Au bout d’un moment comme nous Souvent du côté obscur, il est LE mé- étions frustrés, lui comme écrivain chant du 7eArt : de Rochefort dans Les et moi comme réalisateur, nous nous Trois Mousquetaires jusqu’à Saroumane WHERE IS ROWAN MORRISON ? sommes mis à travailler sur ce qui allait dans Le Seigneur des anneaux, en pas- devenir The Wicker Man. sant par Scaramanga face à James Bond dans L’Homme au pistolet d’or. Comment est née cette histoire ? Fait Commandeur de l’Ordre de l’Empire Je possédais une île sur la Tamise, nous Britannique par la reine Elisabeth II en passions nos weeK-ends à en discuter et juin 2001, Christopher Lee a été anobli nous avons raconté une première fois la FOCUS en 2009. Il est mort en 2015, âgé de 93 trame à nos épouses. Anthony s’est basé SERGENT NEIL HOWIE ans, à Londres : là où il était né, après sur des recherches que j’avais faites sur EDWARD WOODWARD avoir tourné dans le monde entier. le paganisme après avoir lu Le Rameau d’or de Frazer. Un ouvrage en 12 vo- dward Woodward aurait souffl é lumes qui se dévore comme une histoire cette année ses 90 bougies. Après- de détective, dans lequel l’auteur traverse E guerre, il fait son apprentissage de les siècles, en remontant jusqu’aux toutes comédien au sein de la Royal Academy premières croyances du genre humain. of Dramatic Art. Il se produit d’abord C’est là qu’on remarque que des éléments dans les années 50, dans plusieurs de chaque religion, subsistent dans les pièces de Shakespeare dans des rôles suivantes. Même les noms des jours de la secondaires, puis ensuite à Londres semaine viennent de notre passé païen. comme à Broadway, dans les rôles de En anglais, dimanche se dit Sunday et Cyrano de Bergerac ou de Percy dans THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WICKER MAN cela fait référence au soleil et pas à un A Rattle of a simple man de Charles HORRORSCOPE vant de devenir un fi lm culte et d’être rebaptisé le «Citizen Kane du fi lm terme chrétien (rires). Dyer. Chanteur doué (il enregistrera ASCENDANT WICKER MAN d’horreur», The Wicker Man était un fi lm maudit. Jamais sorti dans le mon- une douzaine d’albums dans toute sa A tage de son réalisateur mais uniquement dans une version tronquée, proposée The Wicker Man regorge de ces choses carrière), il s’essaye au cinéma dès les 1990 en double programme avec Ne vous retournez pas de Nicolas Roeg. Le premier fi lm là. L’aspect religieux est un support dans années 50 et 60, mais il arpente princi- 1ER « BURNING MAN » FESTIVAL QUI RASSEMBLE CHAQUE ANNÉE de Robin Hardy retrouvera pour ses 40 ans une version quasi complète appelée «fi nal le script car le plus important c'est le jeu. palement les plateaux de télévision. Il cut» (certaines scènes défi nitivement perdues ne pouvant être intégrées). S’il a été sauvé UNE COMMUNAUTÉ ÉPHÉMÈRE DANS LE « The game » en anglais au sens de mise connaîtra d’abord le succès avec Cal- NEVADA. UNE SEMAINE DE CÉLÉBRATIONS de l’oubli par la Licorne d’or obtenue en 1974 au Festival du fi lm fantastique de Paris, HORS NORMES QUI SE FINIT PAR LA MISE À en scène, de machination mais aussi de lan une série anglaise de 67 à 72, dans le fi lm entretient depuis un réel malentendu sur son ADN «fantastique». Sans doute FEU DU MAN : UNE SCULPTURE GIGANTESQUE chasse. Anthony Shaffer était obnubi- DE BOIS QUI RAPPELLE L’HOMME D’OSIER. parce qu’il est indissociable de son comédien vedette, Christopher Lee (visage des laquelle il interprète un agent de «La lé par ça. Sa pièce, Sleuth (Le Limier) productions Hammer) qui a beaucoup milité pour la reconnaissance du fi lm, considé- Section» (une branche obscure des ser- 2000 contient même 2 « jeux » successifs. vices secrets britanniques). Puis avec The rant Lord Summerisle comme le personnage le plus intéressant de sa carrière. Le fait «THE WICKER MAN» est qu’il n’y a rien de fantastique dans The Wicker Man sinon un glissement vers une Equalizer, une série américaine produite CHANSON D’IRON MAIDEN QUI OUVRE horreur teintée d’humour noir qui puise sa source dans le quotidien, à l’instar de Parlez-nous du scénariste par CBS entre 85 et 89. Il sera récompensé LEUR 12E ALBUM «BRAVE NEW WORLD» Massacre à la tronçonneuse ou Les révoltés de l’an 2000. Anthony Shaffer ? d’un Golden Globe pour ce rôle d’agent à la 2002 Anthony était un auteur de théâtre, la retraite offrant ses services aux plus dému- «GOODBYE» même année, il a adapté sa pièce pour nis. Comme un dernier hommage à son CHANSON DU 1ER ALBUM DE THE CORAL personnage de The Wicker Man, Edgar (LE CLIP REPREND DES SCÈNES Mankiewicz, écrit The Wicker Man DE THE WICKER MAN) SYNOPSIS Wright lui offre une apparition dans Hot er et Frenzy pour Hitchcock. C’est une La veille du 1 Mai, un policier anglais Fuzz en 2007, peu avant sa disparition en enquête sur la disparition d’une jeune offre qu’il ne pouvait pas refuser et il 2006 novembre 2009. f lle au sein d’une communauté d’un îlot est parti pour New York quand notre «THE WICKER MAN » écossais. Il se heurte à l’hostilité et au tournage commençait. À sa place sur REMAKE «AMÉRICANISÉ» mutisme de ses habitants. ÉCRIT ET RÉALISÉ PAR NEIL LABUTE. le plateau, j’ai eu la chance d’avoir (NICOLAS CAGE MÈNE L’ENQUÊTE FACE À son frère jumeau, Peter Shaffer. Un ELLEN BURSTYN EN SISTER SUMMERISLE) autre merveilleux dramaturge, auteur 2011 THE WICKER MAN d’Equus et d’Amadeus, adaptés tous les «KILL LIST» UN FILM DE ROBIN HARDY 2E LONG MÉTRAGE DE BEN WHEATLEY VERSION RESTAURÉE FINAL CUT (DCP 2K - VOSTF) deux au cinéma. Pour revenir à Antho- VISA N° 116843 - 1973 - GRANDE BRETAGNE - 1H34 - COULEURS (UN DUO DE TUEURS À GAGES BASCULE DANS FORMAT 1,85:1 - SON MONO ny, je trouve que Le Limier fonctionne L’HORREUR D’UNE CÉRÉMONIE PAÏENNE) SORTIE EN SALLES : 4 NOVEMBRE 2020 DISTRIBUTION : LOST FILMS AVEC STUDIOCANAL mieux sur scène qu’au cinéma, mais DVD-BLURAY COLLECTION MAKE MY DAY DÉCEMBRE 2020 je préfère le premier fi lm au remake [email protected] EXCLUSIVE 2016 PRESSE : [email protected] « BURN THE WITCH » LUMIÈRE 2020 - SECTION LUMIÈRE CLASSICS de Kenneth Branagh, avec Pinter au CHANSON DE RADIOHEAD QUI LANCE INTERVIEW scénario. Ce remaKe est épouvantable E LEUR 9 ALBUM « A MOON SHAPED POOL » CREW comme celui de The Wicker Man avec RÉALISATION : ROBIN HARDY WITH DIRECTOR (LE CLIP EN STOP-MOTION REPREND PRODUCTION : PETER SNELL FOCUS L’INTRIGUE DE THE WICKER MAN) SCÉNARIO : ANTHONY SHAFFER Nicolas Cage. C’est vraiment malheu- IMAGE : HARRY WAXMAN reux, ces gens talentueux qui livrent des LORD SUMMERISLE MUSIQUE : PAUL GIOVANNI ROBIN HARDY 2019 fi lms affreux. Enfi n c’est mon avis. 20 ans CHRISTOPHER LEE TOURNÉ EN ÉCOSSE PAR NOTRE ENVOYÉ SPÉCIAL AU FESTIVAL OFFSCREEN DE «MIDSOMMAR» EN OCTOBRE-NOVEMBRE AUTOUR plus tard, Anthony a écrit un autre très bon E 1972 BRUXELLES POUR LA PRÉSENTATION DE é en 1922, Christopher Frank LE 2 LONG MÉTRAGE D’ARI ASTER DE NEWTON STEWART THE WICKER MAN EN VERSION RESTAURÉE FINAL CUT script pour Jon Amiel : Sommersby (un REVENDIQUE OUVERTEMENT Carandini Lee est le descendant L’INFLUENCE DE THE WICKER MAN. remaKe du Retour de Martin Guerre trans- CASTING Pourquoi avez-vous réalisé N d’une famille italienne remontant à posé pendant la Guerre de Sécession). EDWARD WOODWARD : LE SERGENT HOWIE Charlemagne. Après avoir servi dans la 2020 CHRISTOPHER LEE : LORD SUMMERISLE votre premier film à 44 ans ? BRITT EKLAND : WILLOW MACGREGOR RAF pendant la guerre, il débute au ciné- « THE THIRD DAY» DIANE CILENTO : L’INSTITUTRICE Pourquoi avoir tranché radicalement INGRID PITT : LA BIBLIOTHÉCAIRE J’ai d’abord voulu être peintre, je suis ma en 1947 et devient une star mondiale dix MINI-SÉRIE DE DENNIS KELLY LINDSAY KEMP : LE PROPRIÉTAIRE DU PUB avec les productions Hammer ? PRODUITE PAR HBO allé aux Beaux-Arts et j’ai même ans plus tard, en incarnant les personnages (ÉGARÉ SUR UNE ÎLE, JUDE LAW DÉCOUVRE “ étudié à Paris sous la direction de Ces fi lms étaient adaptés d’une littéra- mythiques de la Hammer Films. D’abord la SA COMMUNAUTÉ INQUIÉTANTE) Fernand Léger et Matisse. À cette ture du XIXe siècle et basés sur la mytho- créature dans Frankenstein s’est échappé, , DISCOUNT COUPON ! époque, l’expressionnisme abstrait do- logie des satanistes qu’on repousse d’un puis Dracula dans Le cauchemar de Dra- THIS SUMMER AT THE minait et il fallait jeter la peinture sur sa crucifi x ou d’une gousse d’ail (rires). Cela cula (il incarnera 10 fois le vampire, mais SUMMERISLE THEATER toile. Par contre, si vous saviez dessiner, vient de la propagande chrétienne contre aussi La Momie, le Docteur Fu Manchu JULY 1973 AUGUST 1973 vous n’étiez pas un vrai artiste (rires). J’ai les religions précédentes, car comme je et Raspoutine). THE LA MONTANA décidé de gagner ma vie autrement et le le disais tout à l’heure, le christianisme a ABOMINABLE Christopher Lee est l’homme de tous les R SACRADA meilleur choix m’a semblé être le cinéma. intégré une partie des traditions que les D .
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