Dispatches: Fast and furious

Prolific filmmakers like Tsui Hark, Scorsese and Fassbinder are driven by a creative urgency, part intoxication and part childlike joy, scrawls Mark Cousins.

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Dispatches: Fast and furious

from our August 2014 issue

[Editor’s note: this is the original draft of Mark Cousins’ Dispatches column for our August 2014 issue. He asked us to post the scans on our website; being these days a multimedia publication, we agreed. The final, typeset version of the piece can be found in our print and digital editions.]

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