Leigh Sales

Anyway.

Yeah, right.

So it was just an interesting conversation and it's interesting the anniversary of that film, which was so successful, but also that point in the 70s was also –

a really hectic one for filmmaking and it was the point at which these sort of big blockbuster things started to happen, probably the first huge one of which was Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back.

And it reminded me of a documentary that I watched a couple of, I don't know, I haven't had a chance to talk about it yet.

I watched it one night like a month or two ago called Breakdown 1975, which is an account of...

all of the movies being made at that exact time in the mid-70s.

Taxi Driver is one of the first films to kind of

tackle returnees from Vietnam in a kind of nuanced way.

And this documentary, which is on Netflix, is actually narrated by Jodie Foster, which is interesting.

It's kind of a scrappy doco.

It's not perfect, but it's good for giving you a bit of a flash of all of the films that were being made at that time.

And also it's made by Morgan Neville and Scorsese and a bunch of other people.

Yeah, it's phenomenal.

Jeremy had obviously sort of seen it somewhere or other and was just like, oh, he hasn't seen this, right?

I'm like, no.

And then we both

Okay, no, I've heard other like hysterically positive reviews of this book and like any Patchett is good Patchett, but this sounds like it's primo Patchett.

I'm not like a regular hysterical pre-ordering of things person, but I have pre-ordered on the strength of the article that appeared, that was an extract of it in the New York Times a couple of weeks back, the new book by Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman, who are, of course, New York Times reporters, sort of on the Trump beat.

Jonathan Swan, of course, very well known to Australian audiences as a