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SFIFF: Robert Duvall Talks Career Highlights, The Difficulties Of Getting ‘Quixote’ Afloat & How The Weinsteins Botched ‘The Road’

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 03 May 2010 03:01:00 +0000

On Friday night at the 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival, Robert Duvall was presented the Pete J. Owens Award for acting, before the West Coast Premiere of Duvall’s most recent role in “Get Low.”

While much of the evening was spent on a retrospective of Duvall’s impressive career, he also took time to look ahead. Duvall reiterated his excitement about the crawling-towards-a-greenlight production of Terry Gilliam’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” yet at the same time, the actor sounded a mix of doubt and optimism.

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George Lucas Probably Not Making Those ‘Personal Films’ Anytime Soon, Throws Francis Ford Coppola Under The Bus While Saying So

Rodrigo Perez — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:41:00 +0000

Wasn’t it just three years ago around the end of “Revenge Of The Sith” promotion that George Lucas said he wanted to leave the world of big-budget space epic operas to concentrate on smaller, more personal films like 1971 dystopian film, “THX1138”?

In a New York Times article from Sunday, June 29, discussing the upcoming animated film and television project, “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” Lucas not only suggested these personal projects would probably never come to pass, he threw his longtime pal Francis Ford Coppola under the bus while saying so.

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