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Jim Jarmusch

January 2022

After the runaway success of Independence Day, director Roland Emmerich was urged to produce another such hit. Instead, he turned his hand to another disaster: the coming climate emergency.

The filmmakers grappling with humanity’s greatest threat

Once considered a fringe subject, climate change has proved a rich seam for filmmakers to mine as they wrestle with how, exactly, to depict looming disaster.

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