‘1917’ Was an Impossible Mission. Here’s How Sam Mendes Pulled It Off. (Published 2019)
The World War I drama, seemingly filmed in one bravura take, is a tribute to his grandfather that Mendes never thought he’d make. When the director Sam Mendes was a young boy, he and his father often traveled to the West Indies to visit his grandfather Alfred Mendes, a novelist. Sam, who had been …
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