hello, fellow EMPTY MAN fans... i spoke with director David Prior about his (excellent) movie's wild, tortured journey through the modern studio system, its bizarre release, and its second life as an object of online obsession. a fun conversation! https://t.co/B1Yp6sRtEI
The dream is to create a sitcom with a pun title very dependent on the pilot gimmick, only to abandon the gimmick & have it awkwardly hang around as the show evolves. Something like βQuacking Upβ & we write the pet duck out of the show after episode 4 because it canβt follow cues
The below clip actually comes from a very charming Q&A Zach Cregger gave to a class of high school students. Here is his great follow-up answer to what to do if Elfing isnβt working for you
Never in my life did I think Iβd have to insist that Sonic Youth is an all-timer group, but after seeing *way* too many people argue that theyβre a trust-fund kid, emperor-has-no-clothes βpsy-op,β I think many of you need to be hit in the head with a copy of DAYDREAM NATION.
From our Spring 2026 issue, K. Austin Collins remembers the legendary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, who he says "will go down in history as one of our great documenters of institutions as an idea..."
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