John Huston and the Dubliners (1988)

John Huston and the Dubliners is a valentine to the late director and a relatively standard production film about his making of The Dead Much time is devoted to the actors understandably admiring comments about Mr Huston and to the disposition of the prop departments fake snow The film has the potential to seem ordinary but it becomes touched with magic whenever the director makes his presence felt Mr Huston displays his characteristic gallantry and his keen attention to seemingly unimportant touches Dont worry about what you say just keep talking he tells one actor and gives precise instructions for reading the line Would you please pass the celery He describes The Dead as lacework and this film makes the aptness of that description very clear