On film: How a pinball wizard fought the law, and won
When Austin and Meredith Bragg co-directed their first movie, the brothers learned something that isn’t taught at film school.
“The old adage is, in film, don’t work with animals and children. You can add pinball machines to the list,” says Austin Bragg, shivering slightly while sitting next to his older brother at an outdoor cafe in New York on a chilly February afternoon. “They are notoriously difficult, especially those old electromechanical machines.”
The brothers’ debut feature film, “Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game,” is based on a true story about trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes with P and that stands for pinball. The game was once illegal in many cities – seen as a hotbed of immorality and
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