Why has the film never been released?
It’s bad. [laughs] No, I’m kidding. I think they think it is. I don’t know…I could guess for a million years. You know sometimes they say they can’t get the rights to clear the songs; sometimes they can’t get the rights to clear the stock footage…I think they just thought it was uncommercial – it would cost too much to advertise and bring it out. In a way, it turned out to be for the good, because even though it was accepted to the Cannes Film Festival twice, they wouldn’t let it go, but it went to late-night European television all over the world and it got it’s European audience, which I loved, because I wanted to be a foreign film director. So, the sensibility that was supposed to see it saw it at first. And also, it’s played around a lot of film festivals and neat showings and stuff, like Lincoln Center and BAM [Cinematek] and now Cinefamily — I like that. Cinefamily is also exciting, because I used to go there as a kid and watch Buster Keaton and stuff. I haven’t been there since they changed it to Cinefamily, but I’m excited to see it.

Nothing Lasts Forever will be screening at The Cinefamily in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 21st. The film will be preceded by “Schiller’s Reel” and followed by a Q&A with Schiller.