Ten Cases of Sacked Directors
With Paramount announcing Roberto Orci's replacement as director of the upcoming Star Trek 3, we look back at ten other times when studios and suits played musical chairs with their filmmakers.
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‘Room 237’ and The History of Cinematic Representations of Cinephilia
Room 237 is one of the only films that respects and even admires cinephilia and its various forms.
Blast Shadows
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima forever altered popular culture, and the earliest traces of that tectonic shift can be found in an obscure government report and newsreel about the event.
Freudian Trip: Why We Still Can’t Get ‘The Shining’ Out of Our Heads
Freud theorized that to experience the uncanny was to awaken intellectual uncertainty. Kubrick's The Shining understands this to a masterful degree.
