The Constant Gardner

JAMES SCHAMUS ON FOCUS FEATURES AT 10

Focus Features is celebrating its tenth-year anniversary, and the distributor has just placed on its site a suite of videos in which Focus CEO James Schamus discusses the company’s history through its films. After an intro detailing the transition from Good Machine to Focus, Schamus gives us the back story on Focus titles like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Pianist and The Constant Gardner, among others. For the individual videos in the series, visit the 10-year anniversary page here and watch the overview video below.
by Scott Macaulay on May 15, 2012
PHILOSOPHIZING MEIRELLES

Focus Films co-president James Schamus began his remarks Monday night at the New York premiere of Fernando Meirelles’s fantastic new film, The Constant Gardener, by quoting that “great American philosopher and epistemologist Donald Rumsfeld,” who, in March, 2003, assessed the limits of our knowledge of the situation in Iraq. “There are known knowns,” Rumsfeld said back then. “These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.” Schamus then went […]
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 10, 2005

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