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50 AMERICAN HEAD TRIP Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer talks with Errol Morris about his epic journey into political conspiracy, Wormwood.
56 IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORY Cinematographer Rachel Morrison talks with David Leitner about her astonishing work on Dee Rees’s urgent historical drama, Mudbound.
60 CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN Farran Nehme Smith interviews costume designer Mark Bridges about Paul Thomas Anderson’s transfixing Phantom Thread.
64 OUTTA RESPECT Steve Macfarlane revisits the world of Martin Scorsese's modern-day classic by pulling up a seat at one of its most iconic locations, the Goodfellas Diner. Photographs by Chris Maggio.
70 WORKING THROUGH FEAR With films including this year's sensationally scary work of social commentayr, Get Out, producer Jason Blum has artfully reinvented the business of genre film production. By Scott Macaulay, photos by Matt Sundin.
74 ON THE CUT On a film screen, a single edit flies by in the blink of an eye — usually, in 1/24th of a second. In the edit room, though, a cut is teased, strategized, finessed and obsessed over. We asked six editors from six of the fall's best films to give us the frames on both sides of one particularly noteworthy cut — and to explain why these edits are so important.
78 DISQUIET Taylor Hess interviews men in the film business about the current wave of sexual harassment and assault charges.
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