Those are some huge.....tracks of land.

This stings.

NO NO NO!

No horse in this race as I didn’t make any decisions about choices here, but I will say, as someone who loves his work enough to feel very conflicted about his whole deal, Woody Allen isn’t a great candidate for this list. His really seminal work was done with studio money. In fact, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t until the…

Precisely.  He largely devised the indie work method out of necessity, and the techniques he employed have become staples for the form.  Creative use of locations and sets, filming piecemeal, employing friends to work behind and in front of the camera...all the elements are there.  Welles showed it was possible to…

“911 Is A Teachable Moment"

It’s a good thing that they didn’t cast Liz Phair because then they would have had to cast her son in the remake and I don’t even think he acts.

To be fair, he also said “Believe half of what you hear and NONE of what you see.”

“Social media-driven misinformation”

Bro, why would we not believe a thing about Public Enemy coming from Chuck D and Flava Flav, the primary sources?  This is some real dumb shit.

Yes, Welles! In some ways important for having the opposite trajectory as the artists on this list — run out of Hollywood, more or less, and forced to undertake indie filmmaking as a last resort rather than to make his “calling card” film.

Uh, okay. Does this also attempt to excuse the Instagram post he made a short while ago about how 5G wireless coverage spreads the coronavirus?

I can’t decide what’s stupider, if he’s telling the truth or if he just made this all up to cover for bringing Flavor back into the fold. And this is coming with someone who owns an autographed copy of Fear of a Black Planet.

I really think Welles belongs on this list somewhere, as so many of his efforts have the hallmarks of an independent, like Othello, the Trial, Chimes at Midnight, F For Fake. While true they may have foreign funding, or have been produced in foreign countries, their maker is a U.S. native, their language English and…

Yeah it’s some kind of stupid Cronenberg hybrid now.

It’s Dunning Kruger in all its glory.

It’s like an old school Gawker article but without any funny...

No, classic example of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Also twist:  “I’m brilliant in one field, therefore brilliant in another after a quick bit of browsing data”  

Classic example of “I’m rich because I’m smart, and I’m smart because I’m rich” phenomenon. 

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