{"id":8041,"date":"2010-03-16T02:01:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T02:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=8041"},"modified":"2016-01-28T19:51:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T19:51:53","slug":"interview-jean-stephane-sauvaire-on-johnny-mad-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/03\/16\/interview-jean-stephane-sauvaire-on-johnny-mad-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Jean-St\u00e9phane Sauvaire on Johnny Mad Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B002SVP9JG?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B002SVP9JG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8042\" title=\"Jean-St\u00e9phane Sauvaire on Johnny Mad Dog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Jean-St\u00e9phane-Sauvaire-on-Johnny-Mad-Dog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1042424\/\">Johnny Mad Dog<\/a><\/strong> is a\u00a0riveting and brutal examination of child soldiers in Africa\u00a0which ranks amongst the best war films in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>Although nominally set in an unnamed African country, it was shot in Liberia &#8211; still recovering from a long civil war &#8211; and makes use of former child soldiers and documentary-style techniques to create a hellish recreation of a contemporary issue.<\/p>\n<p>Based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/reviews\/congo\/dongala2.htm\">the 2002 novel Johnny Chien M\u00e9chant<\/a> by the US-based Congolese author Emmanuel Dongala, it brings to life the reality of a difficult and disturbing subject.<\/p>\n<p>I recently spoke with director\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0767160\/\">Jean-St\u00e9phane Sauvaire<\/a> about the film and you can listen to the interview by clicking below:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Jean_Stephane_Sauvaire_on_Johnny_Mad_Dog.mp3]\n<p>You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\">clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k_NdeU0gjIo&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k_NdeU0gjIo&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Johnny Mad Dog<\/strong> is out now on DVD from Momentum<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Jean_Stephane_Sauvaire_on_Johnny_Mad_Dog.mp3\">Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1042424\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B002SVP9JG?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B002SVP9JG\">Buy Johnny Mad Dog on DVD from Amazon UK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with Jean-St\u00e9phane Sauvaire, the director of Johnny Mad Dog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19],"tags":[1348,1342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041"}],"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=8041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16354,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions\/16354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}