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Will Sloan

Toronto
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Modern-day folk hero. Once met Dolph Lundgren. World famous for @ImprtCinemaClub and @MichaelandUs. Buy my Ed Wood book? orbooks.com/catalog/ed-wood/
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Spider baby - Journal - Metrograph

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By Will Sloan
| Metrograph
Essay On Jack Hill’s classic horror-comedy, a film outside of time. Spider Baby (1967) opens at Metrograph on Saturday, August 22 as part of That Most Taboo of Red Meats. Share: IT’S A POPULAR CLICHÉ THAT the 1960s didn’t really begin until sometime in the middle of the decade—maybe when President Kennedy was shot, or when the Beatles landed in New York, or certainly by the time Bob Dylan “went electric” at Newport.
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Masked and Anonymous

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By Will Sloan
| Screen Slate Verified
In Martin Scorsese’s documentary No Direction Home (2005), Joan Baez says of her onetime paramour Bob Dylan, “Thirty some years, whenever I go to a march, sit-in, or lie-in, or jail-in, people always say ‘Is Bob coming?’ I say, ‘He never comes, you moron. When are you going to get it?’” She was right, of course, that the so-called “Voice of a Generation” rejected that label almost the second he was given it, and left the ‘60s protest movement without looking back.
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Will Sloan's Brilliant Thoughts

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By Will Sloan
| Substack
At the age of 37, I’ve lived long enough to see a lot of things dramatically change. For example, at some point in my lifetime, Steven Spielberg went from being the unquestioned centre of film culture and wizard of the zeitgeist to seeming slightly eccentric.
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