Movies
June, 1999
Why are movies so damn long?Some directors tell me it's because studios impose unrealistic deadlines on their postproduction schedules. While rushing their films to completion, they don't have time to step back, take a deep breath and review their work with a fresh eye.In other cases, studios seem unwilling to get the filmmakers to compromise. If they've ceded final cut to the director—as Universal did with Martin Brest on Meet Joe Black—they're stuck. And so are we. Surely a filmmaker as savvy...
