Scott Blake’s short anti-Western The Surveyor contains flashes of the formal precision of recent Paul Thomas Anderson, as well as the moody existentialism of The Shooting-era Monte Hellman. So why haven’t you heard of it? Blake, 26, a University of Washington English major with no film training, spent two years making the 25-minute short. When it was finished, he submitted it to Ridley Scott’s YouTube short film contest. It made the initial cut, but then, says Blake, got disqualified. “I included a quote in the beginning from Cormac McCarthy, and they wanted me to get permission from him to use … Continue reading Scott Blake