Interviews

Robert Erskine:  partner in Vaughan Films with Jimmy Vaughan

Seeing the film again, it is amazing actually how involving it is.  One gets very interested in these people and how they manage to put themselves together and how they manage to do this …. It’s… I don’t know… Paradise; far away from many cars and bank managers and all the rest of it, and it becomes a sort of idiom which one thought was never possible in our days but then it turns on that actually they’re not getting on very well, but it seems to us that that was the structure of the film.  You have to find the structure in order to make a film that long. It’s over an hour’s length and most documentaries stop pretty short of that point but I don’t find The Moon and the Sledgehammer does.

It was really a matter of putting the whole thing into a context which meant the people were being honest with themselves and we were being honest with them.

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