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Prequels, sequels, remakes and based on… Reboots, collections, spin-offs and inspired by… The mixtape. The anthology. The compilation. Film and television is often reviled for regenerating and recycling material for the screen.
This, of course, is nothing new. Television has long mined the inventive potential of that which we already know and have seen before. As for cinema, blonde-botherer Alfred Hitchcock remade his own THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH during the Classical Hollywood period and he is not the only director to do so. Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Michaels Mann and Haneke have seen fit to give us their work more than once. Commercial imperatives aside, the reason to do so surely rests with the creative possibilities of not just seeing but looking again.
Our CUT TO [compilation] is just that: a request to look and look again. Deciding to reproduce some of our finest film and television writing to mark our 10th issue was an easy decision to make. Selecting them was not. And so we present a range of writers, approaches and topics that have captured who we are and what we do. A moment to celebrate the past is also an apt time to reflect and re-think the future that has led to our modest redesign. The strikingly clean and minimal design is driven by simplicity and stylistic subtlety giving over the space to remember that it is always about the word and the image.
And the mustard. Did you notice the mustard?
If not, look again.
This, of course, is nothing new. Television has long mined the inventive potential of that which we already know and have seen before. As for cinema, blonde-botherer Alfred Hitchcock remade his own THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH during the Classical Hollywood period and he is not the only director to do so. Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Michaels Mann and Haneke have seen fit to give us their work more than once. Commercial imperatives aside, the reason to do so surely rests with the creative possibilities of not just seeing but looking again.
Our CUT TO [compilation] is just that: a request to look and look again. Deciding to reproduce some of our finest film and television writing to mark our 10th issue was an easy decision to make. Selecting them was not. And so we present a range of writers, approaches and topics that have captured who we are and what we do. A moment to celebrate the past is also an apt time to reflect and re-think the future that has led to our modest redesign. The strikingly clean and minimal design is driven by simplicity and stylistic subtlety giving over the space to remember that it is always about the word and the image.
And the mustard. Did you notice the mustard?
If not, look again.
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