‘Challengers’ Stars Put New Spins (and Slices and Volleys) on the Love Triangle

That's one of the marks of a great film artist, I think-the ability to compress, condense, to find resonance in the simplest of images, and to never waste an image, making it work on a number of levels.

(Curiously, one reason why Wilder was himself disappointed with the way this film turned out was that he originally wanted Armbruster Sr.'s longterm affair to have been with a male hotel bellhop, until studio executives dissuaded him.)

Gus Van Sant wanted to option Infinite Jest.

Cassavetes's commitment to his two principal characters is complete: his camera never once abandons them-never goes behind their backs to offer an editorial judgment-and we must experience the events of the film as they experience them, as integral blocks of time.