![]() ![]() The result might be the most famous book ever about film (and there’s a great HBO documentary about it too). Hitchcock was 63 years old and had made over 50 films. Truffaut was 30, a former film critic who had directed just three movies. In 1962, French director Francois Truffaut convinced Alfred Hitchcock, his filmmaking idol, to sit down for eight days and discuss Hitchcock’s directorial approach. If you haven’t heard these albums, get on it. So there was a steady decline in many ways, but there was a far greater rise in strength.” “He was having Parkinsons-like symptoms, reoccurring bouts with pneumonia, broken jaw, missing my mother after she passed he was blind, not many people know that. “Rick Rubin and my father had a great friendship and it’s because of it that the work my dad did at the end of his life was created - that he felt creativity and invigorated again, even though he was being consumed by frailty,” John Carter Cash tells EW in a recent interview. The albums were brutal, beautiful, and kickstarted a healing process for Cash on multiple levels. And Rubin brought him dozens of songs from younger artists, encouraging Cash to find ones that fit his man-in-black persona. (The dogs barking would sometimes ruin Cash’s takes.) “I’d love to hear some of your favorite songs,” Rubin said. Rubin sat barefoot with his dogs in his home and listened to Cash play. “Why don’t you give it a try?” Rubin asked. And he saw a conviction in Rubin’s eyes - a man of music who believed in what he was doing with probably more passion that Cash himself possessed at the time. It turns out he’d once thought of doing an album like that. “Just sing me everything you want to record.”Ĭash was intrigued. ![]() “You would take your guitar, sit down in front of a microphone and sing me the songs you love,” Rubin said. Rubin went on to pitch the idea of recording Cash alone and unplugged. “I think if you let me record you singing the songs that you love, that you want to sing, that we’re going to find some that the people are going to like and are going to buy,” Rubin replied. Rubin knew the key was to keep it simple : Rubin pitched him on a collaboration and promised him, “I would like you to do whatever feels right for you.” The resulting records are some of the best of Cash’s career. Rubin attended Bob Dylan’s 30th-anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden and saw Cash still had greatness in him even though Cash had been dropped by his label, was doing dinner theater shows, and considering retirement. And Rick Rubin, hip hop producer/guru, knew it. “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.” īelow are a few projects that originated from a place of genuine love and admiration that yielded magical results… This sort of thing typically isn’t what the industry, focus groups, or the algorithm wants, but people don't know what they want until you show it to them. These younger, “hotter” talents decided to take time to focus on someone they’d long respected and help elevate them in the public consciousness. Quentin Tarantino did it with John Travolta. We always talk about paying it forward, but it’s equally remarkable when people pay it backward by elevating fading heroes.įrançois Truffaut did it with Alfred Hitchcock.īill Simmons did it with Jackie MacMullan.īrandi Carlile did it with Joni Mitchell. ![]() And check out my other newsletter too: Funny How: Letters to a Young Comedian. This is the Rubesletter from Matt Ruby ( comedian, writer , and the creator of Vooza ).
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