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On Eisenstein, Godard and Welles: Michael Almereyda & Radu Jude in Conversation
Jean Luc-Godard on the set of Film Socialisme as seen in Film Catastrophe This past summer I was privileged to attend the Oxbelly Retreat in Costa Navarino, Greece, and to sit in on an intimate discussion between directors Michael Almereyda (Hamlet, Experimenter, Tesla), and Radu Jude (Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Kontinental ’25, Dracula). While heading Oxbelly’s screenwriting labs this year, Jude interviewed Almereyda about his influences, which Almereyda distilled to a set of paintings and photographs. In their conversation, a mutual love of the work of Sergei Eisenstein, Orson Welles and Jean-Luc Godard was expressed, and I was eager to read them expand on these passions […]
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