Rough Cuts
Ed WilliamFor the ambitious cinephile
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Nolan’s Dionysus
Every Saturday I publish a column on everything I’ve watched or rewatched that week, plus whatever other ephemera drifts through my skull. Last week: The Sacrifice, Spider-Man, Splitsville and Dead Calm.
Appropriately for the big...
Like spending a night in a hospital waiting room
The week began with a decision: a restoration of Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice or a packed screening of Destin Daniel Cretton’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day. I dragged myself to the former. Somewhat unwillingly, it has to be said. It was a...
Things Are About to Get Weird
Backrooms was just the beginning
Back in business. Thank you to the paid subscribers who joined during my break.
It's Time to Change How We Talk About Directors
There are two kinds of friction in filmmaking: (1) the good kind; and (2) the bad kind.
Like steel on flint, good friction is creatively generative. It can come from a clash of collaborators: Scorsese and De Niro debating a character choic...
The Ten Commandments of Ambitious Film-Watching
Advice from the grave of a genius
Irving Thalberg is the patron saint of middle managers. Sandwiched between studio chief Louis B. Mayer and the legions of writers, directors, actors and artisans in MGM’s employ, he spent much of the late...
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