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wahnfrieden a day ago

Not many directors able to produce fully avant-garde work with those budgets and that mainstream distribution. Closest I can think of is Harmony Korine around his commercial peak but that lasted a few years not decades.

tpm 17 hours ago | parent [-]

David Lynch perhaps.

wahnfrieden 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Korine and Lynch both had to retreat to independent distribution. It's amazing that Malick continues to have major studio support

jjulius 10 hours ago | parent [-]

To be fair, The Return, which is an entire 18 hours of avant-garde Lynch heroin, was distributed by Showtime.

stoneforger 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Dino de Laurentis wants his money back