Noah Bambach + $100 Million Budget = Contradiction In Terms

In a perfect world, how much should it cost to make a film out of Don DeLillo's "White Noise", a nearly 40-year-old satire of academia (or, in the present context, deranged wokesters) and a general meditation about the inevitability of death?

June 4, 2022 by Jeffrey Wells No Comments

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