This starts out slow, but damn what a shot. No pun intended.
My current favorite up & coming director to watch out for is Adam Bhala Lough. At just 30 years of age, he’s probably best known for the Lil’ Wayne doc The Carter, but he also directed the excellent and overlooked Weapons and Bomb The System. Weapons in particular has had a very troubled road from creation to distribution, as he discusses in this excellent (and for a filmmaker, totally gut-wrenching) interview. Here now, not seen since being cut after the film’s Sundance 2007 screening, is the original unedited opening shot from the film. Please watch it the whole way through, it’s a shocking and much more effective opening for what, despite heavy re-cutting on the part of the distributor, remains an excellent film. (thanks, Hunter)
