LECH MAJEWSKI ON THE MILL & THE CROSS

I've been recently fascinated with what would be considered "painterly" in cinema. It has, in fact, become one of my stock questions whenever I converse with a film historian or someone who has a deep embedded knowledge of film. Thomas Elsasesser distinguished between filmic projects where the director and art director collaborate to achieve either a historical drama (via the verisimilitude of historical paintings) and those films that express separate qualities about painting that are "more difficult to locate but [which] may actually have a deeper resonance.""If we're talking about 'paint

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Dennis Harvey, Graham Leggat, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Lech Majewski, Matt Sussman, Max Goldberg, Michael Francis Gibson, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rutger Hauer, SFIFF54, Thomas Elsaesser, Wojciech Has,

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LOVE (2011)—The Evening Class Interview With Gunner Wright

Another international premiere at the 15th edition of Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival currently on festival track is William Eubank's ambitious indie sci-fi drama Love (2011), produced by the alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves and poised to screen at Austin's Fantastic Fest. Slated as the opening night feature in Fantasia's Camera Lucida spotlight on "genre cinema in its utmost extreme, surprising and iconoclastic form"—Love is clearly a labor of.Graphing the gradual madness born from the loss of human contact and the necessity of love for the furtherance of the human spirit, if n

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Charles Carroll, David Barrett, Fantasia 2011, Garrett Warren, Gunner Wright, Paul Newman, Peter Flint, Stanley Kubrick, Steve McQueen, Tom DeLonge, William Eubank,

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URBAN EXPLORER (2011)—The Evening Class Interview With Director Andy Fetscher & Writer / Producer Oliver Thau

Andy Fetscher's German thriller Urban Explorer (2011) [official site] boasted its North American premiere at the 15th edition of Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival, where festival publicist Jean Grégoire arranged for me to meet with Fetscher and his writer-producer Oliver Thau at The Irish Embassy Pub. As Urban Explorer advances to its U.S. premiere at Austin's Fantastic Fest, now seemed a perfect opportunity to transcribe the Fantasia conversation.Eljan Tomek writes in his mini biography for IMDb: "Andy Fetscher is a German-Romanian director, writer and cinematographer. In his teenage years

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Andy Fetscher, Brenda Koo, Catherine de Léan, Fantasia 2011, Klaus Stiglmeier, Nathalie Kelley, Nick Eversman, Oliver Thau,

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