Jim McBride: US director in Cork to talk about Breathless, The Big Easy and working in Hollywood

In advance of his visit to Triskel, the celebrated filmmaker tells Esther McCarthy about working with Richard Gere

Jim McBride on the set of Breathless with Richard Gere.

When Jim McBride was emerging from film school in New York in the early 1960s, cinema was going through one of its most exciting periods. The filmmaker, who worked in independent cinema before turning his hand to big studios, recalls feeling a sense of optimism in the air.

“I went to film school with New York University, and at the time there were very exciting things going on in film, particularly in New York," says McBride, in advance of his visit to Cork to coincide with the screening of a season of his films.