{"id":10854,"date":"2011-02-15T12:49:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T12:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=10854"},"modified":"2012-08-28T00:42:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T23:42:46","slug":"interview-charles-ferguson-on-inside-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/02\/15\/interview-charles-ferguson-on-inside-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Charles Ferguson on Inside Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10855\" title=\"Charles Ferguson directing Inside Job \/ Photo by Mariusz Cichon \/ Representational Pictures, courtesy of Sony Pictures\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Charles-Ferguson-directing-Inside-Job.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week sees the UK release of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/10\/27\/lff-2010-inside-job\/\">Inside Job<\/a><\/strong>, a documentary which examines <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Financial_crisis_(2007%E2%80%93present)\">the global financial crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2480587\/\">Charles Ferguson<\/a> it explores the deeply troubling relationship between financial and political elites which triggered the current recession.<\/p>\n<p>Opening with a startling prologue about how <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2008%E2%80%932010_Icelandic_financial_crisis\">Iceland\u2019s economy was ruined<\/a>, it sets up in microcosm the wider story of how, over a period of 30 years, successive governments have allowed large financial institutions to inflate an economic system until it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2009\/sep\/04\/lehman-brothers-aftershocks-28-days\">eventually burst in the autumn of 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FwXpG6fjUdU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the most important documentaries in years, it was the <a href=\"http:\/\/mubi.com\/notebook\/posts\/1848\">most critically acclaimed film at the Cannes film festival<\/a> last May and has been nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke with director Charles Ferguson and producer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Audrey_Marrs\">Audrey Marrs<\/a> at the London Film Festvial last October and we discussed how they made the film and the issues it raises.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the interview by clicking here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F51451119&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_artwork=false&#038;color=ff7700&#038;callback=reqwest_0&#038;_=1346110873652\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Or here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Charles_Ferguson_on_Inside_Job.mp3]\n<p>You can also download our interview podcast via iTunes by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Inside Job<\/strong> opens in selected UK cinemas from Friday 18th February<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Charles_Ferguson_on_Inside_Job.mp3\">Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/10\/27\/lff-2010-inside-job\/\">Full Inside Job review from the LFF<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyclassics.com\/insidejob\/\">Official site<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyclassics.com\/insidejob\/\">Detailed press notes for the film<\/a> (essential reading)<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/mubi.com\/notebook\/posts\/1848\">Reviews of the film at Cannes from MUBi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/movie\/inside-job\">Metacritic<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; Get local cinema listings for the film via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/movies\">Google<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findanyfilm.com\/\">FindAnyFilm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with the director and producer of the acclaimed new documentary about the financial crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,19,15],"tags":[1849,1590,2539,1589],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}