The Santa Barbara Holiday Inn wifi isn’t awful but it takes hours for video clips that are longer than a minute to upload to YouTube. Way too long. Here, finally, 40 hours later, is a good taste of David O. Russell‘s rambling speaking style (or what I described yesterday morning as “a vast lake of free-associating consciousness and tap-dancing, lightning-reflex improv”) during Friday night’s interview with Santa Barbara Film Festival director Roger Durling. Two clips, the second after the jump.
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