I feel like an apologist for complex filmmaking when I ask you to give Scott Pilgrim vs. the World a second watch, but perhaps I shouldn’t. This is a film that was made for people like me.
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Andrew Root is a former Senior Editor at Bright Wall/Dark Room. He lives in Peterborough, Ontario and on the internet at @AndrewJRoot.
Crimson Peak: The Art of Darkness offers delicious insights into the making of the film, and more than a few glimpses of how director Guillermo del Toro invests himself in every note of it.
In 2017, an attempt to write exhaustively on Citizen Kane is a futile affair.
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We’ve got a wonderful grab bag of cinematic ephemera for you this month.
In this month's issue, we are thrilled to bring together essays that touch on themes of love, loss, self-discovery, intrigue, films, food and finding where you're supposed to be.
Loyalty to the source material is a curious thing. In modern terms, although it’s clambered for and scrutinized mercilessly by...