Looking at Yourself in the Mirror: An Interview with Trương Minh Quý

Looking at Yourself in the Mirror: An Interview with Trương Minh Quý

Film has always stood in tense relation to history: it both creates and consumes it. Often, it does both simultaneously. Steve Erickson’s book Days Between Stations features a lost epic of early cinema about the French Revolution, whose uncompromising production, and a murder before its premiere, cast it to the apocryphal corners of history itself. Famously, Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam war epic, Apocalypse Now, suffered from a chaotic product…