Gideon Bachmann had been on the set almost the entire time during the shooting of Salò, and while there he kept notes in the form of a diary describing Pasolini’s activities and their conversations. What follows are random pages from that diary.
Meeting John Huston in Rome, where he was shooting The Bible, turned out to be easier than meeting any other director I had ever interviewed. On the set, among the giraffes and the peacocks, the lions and the Himalayan goats, I asked Huston how he made films.
Gideon Bachmann interview with Federico Fellini on the day ‘City of Women’ premiered in Rome in 1980
The interview is transcribed from taped material obtained during the shooting of Nostalghia. As well, there are excerpts from conversations that were never recorded, and a brief excerpt from their first 1962 conversation, along with a few other statements made by Tarkovsky
The conversation which follows did not take place all at once. Although I had known Federico Fellini since 1956, we had not actually sat down to discuss his filmmaking ideas and his life philosophy until a few years before his death.
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