Pretty Cool People Interviews - Tommy Pallotta

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Director Tommy Pallotta made a compelling documentary about his friend Stephen Prince: a very engaging storyteller who worked extensively with film icon Martin Scorsese in the seventies, both as a producer and as an actor (Taxi Driver).

Prince was also the subject of Scorsese's lost film 'American Boy', in which the young Stephen tells fascinating, some time totally absurd anecdotes from his rock&roll life. For example: the most memorable scene from Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, in which Travolta injects adrenaline into the heart of Uma Thurman who overdosed, is based on a story that Stephen tells in this documentary.

Three decades after Scorsese's film was released, Tommy Pallotta brings us 'American Prince', where he draws out Steven Prince once more to recount his days since 'American Boy', share why he turned his back on the entertainment industry and to compose the next chapter of his story.

Since SubmarineChannel helped American Prince to come about and since we distribute the film, we had a nice talk with the Amsterdam-based director Tommy Pallota. We talked to him about how he met Stephen Prince (their first encounter wasn't particularly friendly) and how Pallotta started in the film industry himself, still being a philosophy student in Austin. Here in Austin he met Richard Linklater with whom he work on movies like Slacker, Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly.

Watch American Prince exclusively on http://www.submarinechannel.com/articles/item/319

Pretty Cool People Crew: Interview Remco Vlaanderen, Camera & Editing: Geert van de Wetering

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Tags:

• pretty
• cool
• people
• interview
• american prince
• tommy pallotta
• submarinechannel
• Stephen Prince
• Scorsese
• submarine
• Slacker
• Waking Life
• A Scanner Darkly

[flaviusoad]

@RighteousBrother tru

[RighteousBrother]

PCP wasn't a 60's drug.

LSD - now THAT was 60's drug.

[framespeaker]

man alive! t3h l0lswords!!!?!?

[budel007player]

yeah i'm looking for it to!

[adamsmit26]

Pretty Cool People ........... the abriviations are PCP which is the drug that people used in the 60's, one of the clips is of a group of people from the 60's. AND if you start the video off and listen to the music while reading this conspiracy bit im writing, its sounds really freaky!!!!!

[adamsmit26]

that was interesting... liked the cartoon effects is there anywhere on the internet where that effect can be applied to pictures?

[thecowandme1]

cool? I am ginger and fat and left handed, even im cooler than thislol...joke

[thekatiejames]

haha lol

[JohnFrederickMorton]

I found this very interesting. It is a shame however about the title, "Pretty Cool People Interviews" as it's prompting people to challenge whether these people are cool or not, which I don't really think is the point, no? It might explain some of the negative comments here, and the unusually low rating of this video which I think is unfair.

[pensoergosum]

not bad man, keep it up