Films You'll Never See Reckoning with the Cinema That Might Have Been

The basic math of Hollywood production - only those "properties" that promise the strongest returns on investment ever bathe in the proverbial green lights virtually guarantees that every "auteur" leaves behind a trail of aborted projects. In some cases, however, filmmakers seem to accrue a particularly important body of unrealized works - a shadow filmography that illuminates radically different versions of film history. Because filmmakers lack direct control over their own destiny, these artistic counterlives may provide a clearer sense of who these creators imagined themselves to be...