Tracy Letts

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The Big Picture · The Best Movies About Filmmakers, and ‘Boorman and the Devil’ · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

This is a movie about...

the director Peter Medak, who directed after the huge success of The Ruling Class, which is an absolute great film starring Peter Sellers, starring Peter O'Toole.

He then got a chance to work with Peter Sellers on a pirate comedy.

And it was just a debacle.

And there's

Miedek himself has gone back to make a documentary about what that experience meant to him.

And I think one of the things that Miedek confronts in that documentary and one of the things that Borman is confronting just in this conversation is maybe they have more responsibility for the failure than they ever could.

maybe the initial impulse of an artist is to say, well, that went wrong and that went wrong and that person fucked that up and these are the things, as opposed to saying, maybe it was me.

Maybe I just fucked some things up.

Maybe it wasn't the fact that Peter Sellers was a goddamn madman or that Richard Burton

drunk.

Do you think that's where Medak gets to at the end of the movie?

He should.

I do think so.

he's owning some responsibility for it.

Yeah.

Well, let me say, first of all, if you want to be a director, you know that the buck stops with you, ultimately.

So...

For both Herzog and Coppola, and let me just be clear about what we're talking about.

So Francis Ford Coppola made Apocalypse Now, and there's a documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now that his wife Eleanor Coppola made called Hearts of Darkness.

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