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Robinson and Dunne on After Hours (2023)

The producers of After Hours on the director they had before Scorsese: a Disney animator called Tim Burton.

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Web source RogerEbert.com ↗ 17 July 2023

Amy Robinson and Griffin Dunne interviewed by Collin Souter for RogerEbert.com, 17 July 2023, around the Criterion release of After Hours (1985). Robinson played Teresa in Mean Streets and co-produced After Hours.

Good for

The Tim Burton story, which is not in any book in the library (Tim Burton stepped aside), and the casting of John Heard.

What they say

Robinson on Burton: "we felt that he would create a world, but we never got far enough. Partially because we couldn't raise the money with him. Secondly, because Marty had been sent the script first, it turned out that 'Last Temptation' had fallen apart, so he was interested."

Dunne on John Heard, who plays Tom the bartender: "We suggested him to Marty for this role. And John had kind of a wild reputation. (Marty) expressed his concern, and John said, 'I'm going to be on my best, best behavior,' and he was."

Go on, then

source Dunne on After Hours (2024) Griffin Dunne, star and co-producer, on the ending they nearly shot, Geffen's reaction, Michael Powell's fix, and SoHo as 'uncharted territory'.
source Rachel True on playing Rochelle (2021) The A.V. Club interview in which True describes the character being rewritten around race, and why she played the hair spell differently from everyone else.
source After Hours oral history outtakes (2023) Outtakes from Jake Malooley's Air Mail oral history, including the screenwriter admitting he borrowed from Joe Frank's radio piece Lies, and the settlement figure.
source Kael — Mean Streets review (1973) Pauline Kael's New Yorker review, the one that made the film: 'a true original of our period, a triumph of personal filmmaking.'
source Ebert — The Craft review (1996) Two stars. Ebert liked the four actresses and thought the film wasted them on special effects and revenge.
source Pat Devin, witchcraft consultant on The Craft The Dianic priestess hired to make the rituals plausible — who invented a fake goddess so that teenagers could not invoke a real one.