Through a bizarre anomaly in the space-time continuum, I received the following email in my in-box. It's dated March 30, 2010, so it's from the future. Since what's being discussed hasn't happened yet, I can't, of course, vouch for its authenticity, but the Internet routing and DNS server codes all seem accurate. I'm going ahead and posting it because this filmmaker's thinking is interesting, but I'm redacting his name and the name of his film so as to protect his privacy. -- S.M.

Dear Friend,

What a tumultuous but exciting two months since our film "(name redacted)" premiered at Sundance!

Thanks to all of you who have enjoyed our film in the past few weeks and for all of the great feedback you've sent to us. Thanks to all of you who provided hospitality to me and our actors when we've come to your town with our movie.

I especially want...