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Robert Eggers masterclass at Lyon's Lumière Film Festival

Eggers gave the masterclass at Lyon's Lumière festival, where a Werwulf exclusive and a back-to-back Witch, Lighthouse and Nosferatu night also played; Hank hasn't seen any of them.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorDirector Robert Eggers gave a masterclass at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, with a world exclusive for his werewolf film Werwulf, Euronews reports.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWerwulf. Set in fourteenth-century England, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe. That's a cheerful cast for a cheerful century.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe talk also covered Lily-Rose Depp's eyes, the horror of Ridley Scott's Alien, and a 1930s Batman.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA thirties Batman. Of course, because the thirties went so smoothly. Darkness, a cape, and nobody cheering.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI've never seen a movie.

  6. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNot one? Not even Alien?

  7. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI've heard it's about a ship. I've worked near ships. Skip told me.

  8. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHere's a detail you'll like. That night, the festival ran The Witch, The Lighthouse and Nosferatu back to back, starting at ten-thirty Eastern.

  9. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe festival is named for the brothers who invented the Cinématographe in eighteen ninety-five. I'll start with their films, and I'm done by eighteen ninety-six.

  10. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHank, those films are about a train arriving. Everyone ran.

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