Writing an essay for Black Clock magazine. The theme of the issue is Lost Films of the Imagination. It’s all about movies that should have been made but weren’t, or should have been seen and celebrated but were buried and/or reviled by critics. Writing about Southland Tales. Although it was mostly treated as a joke or a failure, I swear by this movie. Or I swear on it the way you Swear on a Stack of Bibles when you are a kid. I showed the first few scenes to a longtime film critic and she said, “is this even a movie?”
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