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Here are a few things to check out in the Ringer universe before the end of the week.

We've got an oral history on the movie Rounder's 20 years later going up on Thursday, so

read that and then check out the rewatchables episode that Bill and Sean did on the movie

earlier this month.

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day of the week on the Ringer NFL show and more football content on the Bill Simmons

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I have directed well and badly already.

I have known I've been directed well and I've been directed badly.

I know that making a movie is sacred and beautiful opportunity and I also know that it's

just making a movie.

I'm Sean Phenathy, Editor-in-Chief of the Ringer and this is the big picture a conversation

show with some of the biggest filmmakers slash movie stars in the world.

Ethan Hawke is on the show today and the reason for that is because Ethan has directed

a terrific new film that's slowly opening across the country called Blaze.

It's about the short creative life and tragic death of the musician Blaze Foley.

But it isn't your typical Hollywood musician, Biopic.

Blaze has told in an impressionistic and non-linear style.

Their unreliable narrators, long musical performances, and swooning sequences of young lovers

discovering their bond.

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