Posts by Zach Baron

• April 2, 2013

  Shane Carruth Will Have Another

  Getting extremely drunk with indie film’s leading visionary-recluse-lunatic.

• March 8, 2013

  Career Arc: Sam Raimi

  COME GET SOME!

• January 23, 2013

  Sundance Diary, Part 3: Cactus Jack, Body Worms, and a Deep Sense of Despair

  Previously: Part 1 and Part 2. Back on Main Street. Park City during Sundance is a cheery mountain town gone savage, quaint stores turned into pop-up Acura dealerships and Segway depots. All the usual high Western kitsch is here — dealers of fine alpaca coats, “Artist-Driven” boutiques, jewelers, real estate agents and ski butlers and […]

• January 21, 2013

  Sundance Diary, Part 2: Adrian Grenier’s Hair, a Daring Brush With Death, and Crashing James Franco’s Mansion Party

  Adrian Grenier, golden god. It’s Friday night, and we’re in a mansion high atop a mountain somewhere in nearby Deer Valley, the kind of place that doesn’t have an address. A cab driver takes me over. He reminisces about the old days at Sundance. “I’ve had some crazy times, man.” I ask him what he […]

• January 18, 2013

  Sundance Diary, Part 1: A Humbling in Park City, a Taste of the Festival Life, and Some Mescaline With Michael Cera

  The first humbling is the airport. Salt Lake City International, around 11 a.m. Baggage claim has been repurposed into a holding pen — L.A. blondes in fur-cuffed ski jackets, men wearing big puffy coats with strange, sun-like logos on the sleeves. Cowboy hats, bright pink vests, Burberry bags. All the women’s boots are huge and […]

• December 21, 2012

  Cinemetrics: Quentin Tarantino’s History Lesson

  The hilarious but painfully dark truths of Django Unchained.

• December 20, 2012

  The Year in Movies

  How Hollywood bounced back from a miserable 2011. Plus: The top 10 of the year!

• December 13, 2012

  Cinemetrics: The Hobbit’s Interminable Journey

  Peter Jackson’s latest fantasy adventure goes on and on … and on.

• December 7, 2012

  The Grantland Oscar Roundtable

  It’s going to get ugly, folks — real ugly.

• November 29, 2012

  Cinemetrics: Ugly America

  Killing Them Softly and what happens when Hollywood catches up to bad times.

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