Press room.
It’s not everyday that the New York Times Magazine publishes an 11-page feature on a project.
But that’s the case with this piece on The Canyons, a Kickstarter-funded film from director Paul Schrader. Settle in for a long lunch — and maybe dessert, too.
Paul compared it to the beginnings of film 100 years ago, a time when no one knew where this new form of entertainment called cinema was headed or what it would yield. Like that time so long ago, this new world is being forged by artists who are willing to experiment with new tools and technologies, that are both wonderful and hard to understand. And in today’s new world, artists are connecting – with those people formerly called the audience.
