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Writer/film critic at www.tyburrswatchlist.com. Ex-Boston Globe, EW. Pulitzer Finalist, 2017. @tyburr.bsky.social
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‘Reflections’ Review: Behind the Lens, a Light Touch

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By Ty Burr Verified
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
The cinematographer Roger Deakins aims for economy when shooting a film. Every image should be essential to the story. Roger Deakins on the set of “Fargo” (1996). Everett Collection Any movie lover with half a mind knows that the auteur theory is bunk. Standing alongside the director of any given film are dozens of handmaidens willing the work into being: production and costume designers, score composers, casting directors and so on down the list of credits.
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‘The Last Kings of Hollywood’ Review: The Unlikely Titans

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By Ty Burr Verified
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
The director Steven Spielberg during the making of "Jaws" (1975). The Legacy Collection/THA/Shutterstock It’s November 1977. Three men are flying in a private plane from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., for a gala event at Jimmy Carter’s White House. They are filmmakers, each of whom has directed, in succession, the biggest box-office moneymaker of all time. And, as Paul Fischer relates in “The Last Kings of Hollywood,” all of them are miserable.
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'No Other Choice': Four stars and a full body count

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By Ty Burr Verified
| Yahoo Entertainment Verified
“I’d kill for that job,” you say, but would you really? Maybe in this economy, and maybe if you lived in a society where what you did for a living defined everything about you: social status, wife and children, the respect of your peers, your existence as a man.
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