Ep. 6: Albert Serra
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The Drunk Projectionist's Todd Melby interviews Albert Serra, the director of "The Death of Louis XIV." The opinionated and entertaining Serra discusses the film's origin as an art installation at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1:58), Louis XIV's agony (2:58), pre-filmmaking discussions with collaborators (4:00), how he gets five "magical" minutes every day when shooting (12:12), oworking with Jean-Pierre Leaud (13:10), the intelligence of actors (17:15), silent film star Harry Langdon (19:25), Andy Warhol's films (22:30), why he doesn't look at shots from inside the camera (26:00), the film's most important scene (33:33), the relationship between truth and beauty (42:50).
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