Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Who the Devil Made It?


This was a treat. For the Los Angeles Times, I wrote about a weird happening last weekend: Three major new movies came out, and none of them were the product of one solitary filmmaker. Bohemian Rhapsody, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms and The Other Side of the Wind each started off with one director ... and then others had to finish the film. The circumstances in each case were very different. And yet, they all provoke the same question: Whose vision is ultimately behind these movies? It's something we don't often think about. Maybe we should. My essay is here.