Oh, boy. Where to begin? The Mill and the Cross is not for everyone. Actually, it’s not for most people. So the question becomes: Who is it for? If you’re a fan of Peter Greenaway, and I don’t mean ...

An extraordinary achievement born of an extraordinary idea, "The Mill and the Cross" is certainly the answer to anyone who says there's nothing new at the movies-- a trip inside a painting that comes ...

Director Lech Majewski deconstructs and reconstructs Peter Bruegel's 1564 painting "The Way to Calvary," created during a turbulent time of Dutch history. Beautiful scenes depict a deceptively ...

An extraordinary example of both art-historical interpretation and CGI as passport to unknown lands, The Mill and the Cross, based on a book by Michael Francis Gibson, is a moving-image tribute to the ...

Paris– Rolling off the European Film Market, Paris-based Wide Management has closed a string of new deals on Lech Majewski’s “The Mill and the Cross.” An adaptation of Pieter Bruegel’s epic ...

(Mlyn i krzyz). In his wonderfully creative cinematic interpretation of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s masterpiece The Way to Calvary, director Lech Majewski (PFA filmmaker in residence in 2007) utilizes ...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Way to Calvary hangs proudly at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Though the incredibly detailed 1564 oil painting is breathtaking in person, the Flemish ...

Bruegel capturing shards of their desperate stories on his canvas-in-the-making. Confronting the Spanish inquisition bloodily repressing the rise of Protestant reform in the Low Countries, the film ...

Pieter Bruegel’s 1564 epic masterpiece, The Procession to Calvary, portrays Jesus staggering to his crucifixion, lost in a panoramic landscape crowded with hundreds of villagers and red-caped horsemen ...

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