by Eaton | Jul 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Director’s Notes, August 1988 It’s finally over. For the past four months, the epic that is ‘Timeline’ has been on the road, filming in the Isle of Man in Britain, at several locations throughout Spain and now Turkey. Logistically it’s been a nightmare; six half hour...
by Eaton | Jul 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Memories of a Third Assistant Director Soon after joining The Saint as a fresh-faced 19-year-old kid straight out of school, Pat Kelly, the tough old Irish First Assistant Director, took one look at me and told me something I’ve never forgotten. “I never want to...
by Eaton | Jul 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Siesta Hour in San Miguel (1969) The cobbled streets dream in the midday sun. It is siesta hour and the entire town is as lazy as the two Indians who are asleep under their sombreros outside a cantina. The sun-baked houses are drowsy, filled with the listless sounds...
by Eaton | Jul 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Wine Making, Village Style The day started early in our little village in northeastern Crete. From soon after 6.00AM, when an orange sun made its first rather timid appearance over the dusty mountains that ring Sitia Bay, the street had been full of activity,...
by Eaton | Jul 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
After Tim Burton’s movie ‘Ed Wood’ was released in 1994, people were suddenly talking about this cult director who had a fetish for angora, sometimes wore miniskirts in public and had been called the “worst director of all time” for such epics as ‘Glen and Glenda’,...
by Eaton | Jul 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
We called him a primitive. We likened him to Gauguin or Rousseau. In most ways we were proud to think he was our friend and yet, in a much deeper way, we thought him a figure of fun, someone to laugh at in a tolerant fashion for his idiosyncrasies. Dan was tall and...
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