N.Y. Times reporter Sharon Waxman wonders why some of her favorite filmmakers (including some guys she wrote about a couple of years ago in her book “Rebels on the Backlot“) take so many years — five, six, seven — to make movies. David O. Russell, Kimberly Peirce, Darren Aronofsky, Cameron Crowe and Spike Jonze are the ones examined.
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