
Observations on culture, power, storytelling, merit, and - yes, inevitably, the beautiful game. Occasionally featuring The Undiscovered, a series of conversations with people I think are worth listening to about what remains undiscovered and why.
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I spent eight days at the end of March in Guadalajara covering the FIFA World Cup playoff on assignment for Vanity Fair.
That essay is here. It’s in the June print issue, on stands soon.
What follows are photographs I took along the way....
I hope you enjoy it.
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People ask me all the time if there’s any reason to be optimistic about the future of film. The answer is yes, there is. And this is the story I usually tell:
On August 16, 2019, I had dinner with my wife’s grandmother and then returned to...
Let me start with Thank You.
Sincerely.
For reading The Moral Case for “Selling Out”, for sharing it, and most of all for receiving it in the spirit in which I wrote it: as a love letter to movies and a plea that they survive this moment...
“A popular movie has to be full of true emotion, even if it's frivolous. The entrance should be low and wide so that anyone can be invited in, but the exit should be high and purified. It shouldn't be something that admits, emphasizes, or e...
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Founder & CEO, the Black List. Film & TV producer. Politics and football (soccer) person. Vanity Fair contributing editor. American Cinematheque and Gotham board member.
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