When Lars von Trier threatened to remake ‘Taxi Driver’: “It was a terrible idea”
A bad idea?
Cutting Room Floor Archives: 08/2025
The movies Bryce Dallas Howard knew were doomed from the start: “You can see it coming”
She won’t want to be reminded of these.
The one movie that changed Tom Hanks’ “entire consciousness” but flopped at the box office
“The only movie I’ve been in that I’ve seen more than twice.”
The “unpleasant, unendurable, despairing, and sickening” movie Roger Ebert couldn’t stand
It was a polarising film.
When Denzel Washington insisted on a “violent, awful” movie death to avoid making a sequel
He wanted this guy dead; audiences, not so much.
The only actor who made Robin Williams “freak out” with jealousy: “It was total consumption”
He needn’t have worried.
The “endlessly painful film” that shocked Ari Aster: “The ending has been haunting me”
A truly daring auteur.
The movie Ron Howard started planning as a child: “I was six, maybe seven, years old”
Talk about a long-gestating passion project.