The third of our exclusive interviews ahead of the release of Spirits In The Forest is with Liz Dwyer who lives in Los Angeles. She spoke to Sean Salo in New York at a press screening of the film on 7th November.
How did you find out about the film? What did you think it would be? And did it match your expectations?
It was early April 2018, and I received an email with “Depeche Mode film opportunity” in the subject line. That's one of those things that you immediately click on it. You see all the newsletters and everything in your inbox, and you’re like “not opening that...not...
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The second of our exclusive interviews ahead of the release of Spirits In The Forest is with Cristian Flueraru who is from Bucharest. He spoke to David McElroy at the London preview of the film on 30th October.
When did you first find out you were going to be involved in the film?
I think it was early spring 2018. I received an email and, from that, I thought that it was only going to be a two minute thing so I replied saying that I would be happy to be involved. There was then silence for a couple of months and I started to worry that nothing would happen. I then heard from them again,...
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Ahead of the release of Spirits In The Forest, we have been interviewing a number of the fans who take part in the film. The first interview is with Daniel Cassus from Berlin. David McElroy caught up with Daniel in London on 30th October at the preview screening of the film.
When did you 1st find out your were going to be involved in the making of the film?
I think it was some time in early 2018. The takeover had just finished, so it was around April. The people who ran the takeover kept teasing us with emails saying "it's not over yet, we’ve still got some surprises left for you"...
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Earlier this week, and ahead of its release on 21 November, the Curzon Mayfair in London hosted a preview of the film followed by a Q&A with its director Anton Corbijn. Thanks to my Halo co-author Kevin May I was able to attend and I have to say that I really enjoyed the film. It's not a Depeche Mode concert film by any stretch of the imagination, in fact it's barely a Depeche Mode film at all. This is something very different for Depeche Mode.
As well as being there with the ultimate aim of writing this review, I was also there on duty for HOME because I was interviewing two of the fans...
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