James Schamus
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Thursday, Jul. 21, 2016
F. Scott Fitzgerald estimated that less than six people had ever fully grasped "the whole equation" of the movie business. James Schamus would have made it half a dozen.
Schamus is, somehow, equal parts film executive (he ran Focus Features for 12 years), academic (he's taught film theory...