It was more than 25 years ago when James Schamus called and asked me to be the coeditor of The Off-Hollywood Report, IFP’s magazine, which he’d just been hired to edit. The pay was $600 an issue, and I moonlighted from my full-time job curating performance art at New York’s The Kitchen, while James also produced movies. After a few issues, Good Machine, James’s company with Ted Hope, took off, and I became the editor. A couple of issues after that, the IFP and IFP West — now Film Independent, our former copublisher — met up at Sundance and decided […]