Early in the quarantine, when I was compiling a list of movies to watch, I remembered one about a porn star who attacked his co-workers with a samurai sword. The problem was, I couldn't recall the title. I put out a friendly call for help on Twitter, and within minutes was told that the movie I was searching for was called Mope, and it still hadn't been released yet despite a well-reviewed festival run. I looked up the film's director, Lucas Heyne, and realized that I knew his manager, Zach Cox at Circle of Confusion, …

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