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Paul Scheer is a famous actor and comic, and the writer of the new memoir “Joyful Recollections of Trauma.” Off the display screen, his true obsession is dangerous films—even horrible films. With his spouse, the actor and comic June Diane Raphael, and their good friend Jason Mantzoukas, he presents the podcast “How Did This Get Made?,” choosing aside all method of bombs. David Remnick met Scheer at the Brooklyn Brewery and requested him for his prime 5 of the very worst films, and why they deserve recognition. Scheer discusses “The Room,” “Miami Connection,” “Samurai Cop,” “Jonathan Livingston Seagull,” and “The Apple.” “When I hear a director go ‘passion project,’ I’m in,” he says.
Plus, Francis Ford Coppola invested a lot of his private fortune in a ardour undertaking, “Megalopolis.” It was mocked as a colossal failure earlier than it even premièred. But the New Yorker movie critic Justin Chang was at that première, and he thinks the chatter is wildly off base.
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