December - 2017

Sights, Sounds & Insights

LYNN-HOLLY JOHNSON

LYNN-HOLLY JOHNSON

NOTE: SPOILERS - Read only after watching the film. SB - Your first feature film was ICE CASTLES. WATCHER was your second film. Then you went on to do the 007 film, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. LH - Right. SB - So what was it Iike working with Bette Davis in your second film? LH - It's become more exciting as time has gone by. At the time I was so wrapped up in the work itself, and as a kid you don't think, “Oh wow, what I'm doing, and who I'm working with" Having grown up as a skate

Sam Nicholson - Interview - The Watcher In The Woods

Sam Nicholson - Interview - The Watcher In The Woods

NOTE: SPOILERS - Do not read until you see the film... SMB - Lets start with Kinetic Light. You first developed it and used it in STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE? SN - That's right. It was used in the engine room, and the Veger sequence when Decker and Ilia turn into light and then disappear. If you look at that set it has massive amounts of Kinetic Lighting. They were used under the Veger set itself. That was over 100 kinetic projectors back lighting, or really under lighting,

Carol Baker - Interview - The Watcher In The Woods

Carol Baker - Interview - The Watcher In The Woods

Conducted on 4/28/99 SMB - What are your thoughts when someone brings up, WATCHER IN TI{E WOODS? CB - I loved making the film. I thought Lynn-Holly was absolutely lovely. But of course it was the older people I identified with. I became very good friends with David McCallum - who is just so terrific? We had a lot of scenes driving through the woods and those car shots take forever to do, and you're just stuck in the car. He was just so amusing. He would play chess moves in hi