I'm Sorry to Inform You That You Can Now Give Me Your Money
Rough Cuts is launching a paid tier. Here's your chance to get 20% off forever.
I CAN’T BE ARSED TO READ THIS. CAN YOU JUST GIVE ME A LINK FOR A PAID SUBSCRIPTION AND LET ME GO?
Sure thing. Upgrade your subscription here:
As a thank you to early supporters, I’m also offering 20% off FOREVER to the first 50 subscribers to the annual plan:
DOES THIS MEAN I WON’T GET YOUR ESSAYS?
No! All usual Rough Cuts programming - essays like Why Historians Will Study 2025 Cinema and How to Make an Original Movie - will remain FREE FOR EVERYONE. I’m not saying I’m a hero, but I’m not saying I’m not a hero…
SO WHY BOTHER SUBSCRIBING?
Extra goodies!
The Cinephile’s Bookshelf: In this shiny new series, I hunt down rare, out-of-print and obscure film books and excavate their most surprising findings. Tracking them down takes time and money, but in a few years, we’ll have covered hundreds of books that would otherwise be consigned to obscurity. Think how much we’ll know! Think how much lost knowledge we’ll have rescued! Paid subscribers get every future instalment, plus the right to request a book for me to hunt down and cover. We added our first book to the shelf last week. You can read it for free here.
Reading Lists: Like this one.
Access to the Archive: Posts older than four months will go behind the paywall. A paid subscription gets you everything.
Miscellaneous Other Stuff: I’ll do various subscriber shenanigans like AMAs, meet-ups, notebooks, film clubs, if enough of you want them. I HEREBY RESERVE THE RIGHT not to bother if my paid subscriber list ends up being just my wife and my Mum (I’m giving them a great discount).
More broadly, if you’ve enjoyed my writing in the past and want to support The Project, this is the best way to do it. The more paid subscribers I get, the more time, effort and money I can put into building this.
WHY HAVEN’T YOU DONE THIS ALREADY?
Underconfidence, laziness and funky tax stuff.
SO WHY ARE YOU DOING IT NOW?
More confidence, less laziness and mostly resolved funky tax stuff.
I’ve also got way more ambitious about where I can take Rough Cuts. I look at what Henry Oliver is doing for literature, or Animation Obsessive Staff for animation. Such knowledge! Such attention to craft! Such curiosity! I’m not as good as those guys, but I want to approach this project with the same level of obsession.
I DON’T KNOW HOW I GOT HERE. WHO OR WHAT IS ROUGH CUTS?
Rough Cuts is a home for the ambitious cinephile. If you feel a nagging sense of restlessness at how little you know about this great art, and suspect that just watching movies isn’t enough, then I’ve got you covered.
CAN I GIVE YOU MONEY WITHOUT SUBSCRIBING?
How kind of you to ask. Yes!
CAN I GET A SUBSCRIPTION WITHOUT PAYING?
If you want to access a paywalled article or a full paid subscription, just DM me, and I will probably give you one because I am a TOP BUSINESSMAN.
WHAT’S NEXT?
Some pieces I’m working on RIGHT NOW:
Another Filmstack reading list.
The secret history of the chamber movie.
10 weird ways that streaming may change movies (a sequel to my essay on television’s impact).
The next Cinephile’s Bookshelf, on Parker Tyler’s entertaining, insightful and eyebleedingly convoluted polemic on underground film and the avant-garde.
ARE YOU A GREEDY LITTLE CASHGRABBER?
Yes!