I feel like I shot myself in the foot with my last review.
The one time I make it a point to
highlight the necessity for context and putting a film into a larger
perspective, to the point where I wind up writing about it than the film
itself, and it turns out that someone else managed to do a far better job at
that than I could ever have managed. I watched this film right after watching
The Other Side Of The Wind, the result of which was a personally surreal
experience where I felt like I was being schooled in how to talk about film. A
lesser man would abandon this review entirely, go back to the other one and do
some sneaky reworking to ease that inadequacy. It’s all in the editing, after
all. But no, instead of making this entirely about me, I’ll just make it
partially about myself as we take a look at this phenomenal making-of
documentary.