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The Sunday Read: ‘How Noah Baumbach Made “White Noise” a Disaster Movie for Our Moment’

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Boundback's White Noise

Boundback is known for writing and directing deeply personal films in which the stories that characters depend on to understand their lives turn tenuous or unravel. A persistent note-taker, Boundback regularly lifts anecdotes or lines of dialogue straight from life and reworks everything else until it sounds like he might have done so. He couldn't stop fantasizing about how great it would be to one day make something like White Noise. But it wasn't until the following month, back home in Manhattan, that Boundback managed to finish the novel and take it all in.

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