The Alan Smithee Double Feature

Ep. 38 - Fade In & Catchfire

This week, we're facing our past regrets and disowned creations with Jud Taylor’s Fade In (1973) and Dennis Hopper’s Catchfire (1990).

These films represent the absolute limit of corporate interference, operating as flawed, compromised monuments to the nightmare of the studio system. We look at how Jud Taylor's western romance gets completely lost in translation, and how Dennis Hopper legally scrubs his identity from a star-studded thriller.

It is a double feature about the high cost of creative compromise, the fragility of structural conventions, and the…