This extraordinary, charismatic actor, who played in film lastly in 2010, but denies permanent retirement, simply doesn´t enjoy flying around the world and promoting his films, he rather enjoys his life after spending six decades on top of the film business. It does make one tired, especially if he lives and works in Hollywood. His life could be labelled as Sex, drugs and money, but despite that, unlike his friend Dennis Hopper, Jack was and is quality and popular actor, who was many times nominated for 37 different awards and only at Academy Award which he won 3 times, he was nominated 12 times in 33 years, which is remarkable score. Since making an interview with him is no go, we used his biography written by Marc Eliot, to make him a tribute article which he deserves.

I have seen a documentary film Punk in London in circa 1987 on pirate videotape during communism and it was a jaw dropping stuff for me (unbeknown to me, by that time most of the bands in the movie split up and punk waned). It was the first film about British punks I have ever seen and up until today remained as one of my favourite. For past 20 years I was toying with idea of making interview with director Wolfgang Büld who also directed further punk related movies. I could not find any contact for him and almost gave up but my girlfriend Eva helped me with FB connection and the reply from Mr. Büld came within next day and interview was matter of week. Wow, it was my dream come true.

When we watched the V series sometimes in 1986 on pirate videotapes with one voice-over, we were stunned how brilliantly it was made and how deep the idea was. It hasn´t dated during those 40 years and we still love it with same passion. We never ever dreamt about making interview with its´ director, but when he was so nice and helpful, it would have been a sin to miss the chance.

This was real chain reaction. Eva gave me a DVD of Punk in Africa, that I found interesting and thought it would be good to make interview with some people featuring in it. I googled and found David Chislett, film co-producer. He willingly replied within few hours and gave me some contacts. Among them was one for director of the film Keith Jones. I was shocked to learn he has been living in Prague for 30 years. He was super approachable and we liked his punk way of making films. We also liked his attitude towards Czech Republic, people around film and music, simply the ideal man for interview for Unitedfilm.

On Letní filmová škola we have met American publisher, writer, curator and admirer of David Lynch´s films David Bushman. He also introduced screening of Lynch movie Lost Highway (one of many) which we have watched and…… didn´t understand. There wasn´t time for talk so we agreed on making interview via email, which was done in few weeks.