In Regards to Audience Perception and Directorial Intent

In entertaining and thought-provoking fashion, Luke Y. Thompson assays the tangled intersection of audience perception, directorial intent and cinematic truth, over at Geekweek; it’s an offshoot of an exchange we had that cropped up after I viewed the director’s cut of Rob Zombie’s Halloween II. Meanwhile, in an unrelated note, Roger Ebert posts some video excerpts from a Friday home visit by Up in the Air director Jason Reitman.