Special Report: No! YOU’RE WRONG. (2025)

more details and where you can see the film. Hopefully it will play around you, as he does not release his movies on DVD, Blu ray vhs, So if you're still waiting for what is it? And everything is fine, keep waiting. It's not coming out anytime soon. So maybe one of these days for a Moodie May we'll talk about one of his two other directorial films. But in the meantime, hopefully you'll be able to catch no, You're

wrong or spooky action from a distance. Thank you so much for listening, and I hope you enjoyed the interview.

were coming in and doing things. And it was actually a very interesting screening. Was in high tech, but I liked that it was passionate about film. I think that was the only time I showed in Detroit, and it was a good show. I liked it.

that they could be re utilized for something. But I realized if I planned to continue shooting on sets because I paid for the sets, that really I needed to

own the property where the sets would be built. And so I started looking for something and sort of an involved story but it ended up being that the Czech Republic was good place to buy a large property that had structures that I actually bought it in a couple of different stages, but I knew that the structures could be attained, which were former corner stables slash farm buildings for a chateau that had built it's been reconstructed in the sixteen hundreds, and so when we shot it, we

shot the calfs and crew stayed in the chateau, which has multiple many bedrooms and bathrooms, and then we would walk next door and shoot in the sets that I had built in. It's about eighteen thousand square feet of what were these buildings not made for that purpose recently and now they are still filled with these various sets which I always knew I could reutilize later for subsequent productions,

which is what I'm planning to do. So there's been multiple stages as to what how things are constructed and for what purposes, and even while I was structuring the script as to what kind of sets or scenes would be set in what kind of sets. So it was mult construc diructed at the same time, and it was developed for myself for my father to act in together. He and I had never acted in the film together.

My father, Bruce Clover, who died earlier this year, was in films like China Town and Diamonds Are Forever and worked a lot, but we'd never acted together ever. So it was structured that way, or it was constructed that way, but then a lot of other things came into being. I changed things around this screenplay. The initial screenplay was shot over a period of three years. I believe in

different production segments. There's different time periods in the film eighteen sixty eight, eighteen eighty eight, nineteen eighteen, nineteen forty eight in contemporary, which also ended up being a very large post production element in terms of color correction, I spent two years on color correction. I don't know if you're able to see the trailer that was said, yeah, you might be able to detect that there's certain scenes that have certain kinds of looks to it which are

different from others. We spent literally two years or even more dealing with the film was shot on thirty five millimeter negatives, and then we did certain things with certain scenes with reshooting with a different film camera the original footage, but it was. There's a thirty five millimeter camera that was owned by one of the great Czech filmmakers named Carl Zemmon. Came from animation. If you've seen some of

his films, you know how amazing he is. There's a not for profit organization that I began with a number of check fellows that has to do with the thirty five millimeter film processing laboratory that we have the equipment at my property. Most of the equipment is just there, it hasn't actually become working, but the I had a thirty five millimeter four K digital scanner that I shipped over from my body in Los Angeles and had it shipped over to check where that was reconstructed and function.

We used that for scanning the film, but then we had.

the film. The film became a film within a film. I don't want to stay too much. I'm very curious to see how people interpret things. The way the film is constructed will ideally, I believe, let people have interpretations about things. It's very specific to me, but I don't I don't want to dictate too much as to what people may may hopefully be able to interpret on their own. I'll be very interested to hear because October second, just a few days from now, when you assume of modern art,

that's where the genuine premiere will be. This is the first time I'm sharing it to an audience. I've shown the to not too many people, some filmmaker types, and it is different when you show it to an audience than when you show it to individuals. So I've had positive reaction from filmmakers, but it's you know, filmmakers are looking at films differently than a general audience as well, So it will be a real premiere for me. I'm very interested to see what will happen.

It's it was actually an interesting concept. That concept, but I realized I wanted to I wanted to make a two person film that just because it would be a simpler production wise. So I started thinking, well, I can make I'll make a two person film with myself and my father. So the I had in the initial outline for the film, there were other characters that were written as shadow characters that that you would just see somebody in sililuette or on the telephone, and that would mainly

be myself. But then I started writing. I was interested in a certain kind of classical heroes journey story structure that had romantic interest characters. And as soon as I started writing the female romantic interest characters, I realized, these can't be shadow characters. Those have to be fleshed and blood cast fleshill with people. So that took some doing it. It basically was with people that I knew in one way or another, or people that I knew that knew

people that I knew. There's things on the IMDb right now that are incorrect. I hope you've got the because they even have incorrect casts. There's people that are listed on IMDb that aren't in the movie, and there's character names that are even the title they don't have correct on the IMDb. I didn't put input any of what's on the IMDb and the and there's other people that maybe worked on the crew cast that got bits and pieces of information and they type stuff in, but IMDb

will not let me fix it. It's really and and the part of the clues of what the film is about have to do with the titles which are in the film. It was very carefully structured and the IMDb will not let me. I don't understand why it's like that, but I hope. I'm trying to get a resolved, but there's no way to even contact the IMDb.

by the DP that that's distracting. And I can understand it doesn't come off the same way as it comes off in reality on camera, and of course in a

certain way. We're taught to function in the way we do in acting class on some level, but there really is something about looking in the person's eyes that is that you do that more or I do that more than I do in real life when I'm I'm working on camera, and so there's an energeetic element that transfers when you're acting with somebody, and you can feel certain

energetic qualities. So I probably did have more a certain kind of energetic connection with my father than I would have by not having acted with him, which was interesting because my father was an actor, you know, my whole life I grew up around, so I had certain thoughts or critiques that I wouldn't say out loud just to myself about my father, how his acting start, or what have you. My father also taught acting, but I never formally studied with my father. I studied at other places.

For me that would have been too much, but I'm sure I picked things up along the way. But it definitely made me appreciate qualities he has or had as an actor. And of course I had to direct him. I directed him in my second film, so I directed him before, which was very easy to do. He was easy for me to direct. I mean, in certain days I was able to have more positive facts some things

which I ended up cutting out of the film. I didn't feel like I affected as positively, but I understood how to work and direct him, and he did respond to direction well. But he also was involved in the writing, which again IMDb doesn't have the correct writing credits on it either. But that was difficult. That was very very very very difficult. Had I had started working with a friend of mine who also has a writing credit on it,

in Mike Cologi, and I want. I knew my father was going to want to get involved in the writing, and I wanted somebody that I liked, that I could work with, that was a good writer, and because I knew my father would get involved, and I would want to have somebody that I could talk to and not have a kind of issues with or about about the writing.

And what I predicted was true that my father did yet envolved in the writing, and it was very very difficult, but he also did come up with things that are in the film that were different from what I initially had, that were good. So there was a and it affected the film changed in many different ways. There's two titles in the film. I don't want to say too much, but the second title came in later. The first title was there from early on and it's referenced within the film.

Both of the titles are referenced within the film. But at the same time, I don't like things to become dictatorial as to how an audience should feel about things, so hopefully there's enough room that people can interpret things on their own. Now.

at least once a year, all over the world. I traveled all over the United States, Canada, Japan, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, and not all over the world, but those places, and for fifteen years straight until twenty twenty when the pandemic happened and then I couldn't tour, and I decided all right, well this natural pause. I was already in post production at that point. Little did I know the post production was going to take five years. More than five years.

I'm still dealing with post production things right now, just days before of the actual premiere. So people when they sign up, I just sent out a big email of all the people that have signed up over the years, and it had a huge amount of engagement, which I'm happy of and happy for, and sold a huge amount of tickets for the premiere. And there are the other shows are listed at the the i f C. There's

also a movie that I acted in that's playing. I'm doing a Q and a I think on the eighth and the ninth of the i f C and n i C. The premiere is at the Museum of Modern Art, which I'm very happy to be premiering the film. That's such a great that's my favorite place to those they're programming. Their film programming is my favorite programming in the world.

I regularly go to see their program film programming. But that's where the location of the world premiere October second is than the i f C. There's a I think two as I think it's two nights eighth and ninth. There's where I'm doing a Q and A after the film i acted in called Mister K, which is in interesting movie that can have people could have multiple interpretations, and then my film. I'll be performing all of my shows, I perform what I call a slot. It's called Chrispin

Hilling Clover's Big Slide Show. But there's different variations of it for the different films. This one, this variation have to make a bit shorter because the new film is a bit longer than my other films. I just and I just cut it. It was ninety minutes and then I cut it about three months ago to eighty five minutes, which doesn't sound like a lot, but five minutes is a lot. And I changed things around and I'm happy with the the edit and the and I physically edited

the film. I edit my own films for the most but I've had people work on the second film, I had somebody that did a fair amount of the editing, but I was involved in the editing on that one. But this one, my first film, I physically added the

whole film. There were little things here, and there were people did some assistant editing work, but in a certain way, it's my favorite part of the filmmaking process, and so anyhow, so I'm at the IFC for week with my live slide show, which is from books that I made a long time ago. We took old books from the eighteen hundreds, reworked them, turned them into different books from what they originally were. They're profusely illustrated, and the images are projected

as I dramatically narrate these different books. Then I introduced the film, then the film plays. I come out as the credits are ending. I asked if anybody has any questions, conduct the Q and A. And then at the different different venues I have books signings. Sometimes I have to have the books signing at a different venue, but IFC

the that's what will happen for a solid week. Then I'll be in La I think it's the eighteenth and nineteenth at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, and then I can't remember the exact date, but a few days after that I'm they're also mister k is going to be at the Los Feelies three. Both of these theaters are programmed by the American Cinematech and that's who I've been with in Los Angeles since two thousand and five. I usually I had played at the Egyptian, but the

Egyptian was recently purchased by Netflix. Well, I may still have to show at the Egyptian later, but first my shows are at the Era, which is in Santa Monica. Also very an excellent screen and you're in a nice older I believe it was built in the forties and then the lows feelies three. It was also a nice deco theater. That's where there'll be a Mister K screening. I'm forgetting the exact date, but a few day days after the Aero shows, and then I'll be in Chicago,

and I'm forgetting the exact dates to that. But one night, the first night, I'm doing Q and A after Mister K. And then the next night I'm performing my show and showing no You're wrong or spooky action of distance, and then the Q and A and book signing and that The music boxes are great. That's a huge vent hered seven hundred seats. And I've been playing the Bear as well since two thousand and five, and the music box

is great. Bright andre Atti, who runs it, It's always been very helpful and I appreciate it, and yeah, so I'm looking forward to all of this.