When you're re-creating a period in history for a film, in a sense, you're playing God," says filmmaker and historian Kevin Brownlow. "So you'd best get the details right. In the pictures we made together, Andrew Mollo and I tried to follow in the same path as Erich von Stroheim, with his fanatical devotion to authentic detail. I've always had a tremendous admiration for Stroheim— his passion for getting feeling over, but my greatest fascination has been for directors who used the medium to the fullest, like Eisenstein,... More >>>