"The rumors started seeping out of Ukraine about three years ago: A young Russian film director has holed up on the outskirts of Kharkov, a town of 1.4 million in the country's east, making...something. A movie, sure, but not just that. If the gossip was to be believed, this was the most expansive, complicated, all-consuming film project ever attempted."

"Anne Lukeman's "22 frames that always work" transmutes the Wally Wood comic classic, 22 panels that always work," into a film-making equivalent."

watch the "making of" part especially

"soulless evil in Heorot". [Funniest thing to me about all this is that I had tea with Cormac several times in Santa Fe, not knowing who he was. But also vice versa, I suppose....]

"Make it a double feature with The Road Warrior and you would pretty well cover the cinematic zeitgeist of my late adolescence."

via The Real Paul Jones