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This episode takes us behind the scenes of director Julian Schnaple's new biographical drama at Eternities Gate.

Set during the time Vincent Van Gogh lived in Aral and Overseau-S-Waz, France, the film is a journey inside the world and mind of the tortured artist, who despite skepticism, ridicule, and illness, created some of the world's most beloved and stunning works.

In addition to Add Eternity's Gate, Mr. Schnabel's credits include the feature films Mirol, Before Night

Falls, Basquiat, and the documentary feature Berlin. He was nominated for both the DGA Award

and the Academy Award for his 2008 feature, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Following a recent

screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Mr. Schnapple spoke with director Lee Daniels about filming at Eternity's Gate.

During their conversation, Mr. Schnabel discusses putting the audience in the perspective of Van Gogh,

working with an editor whose main background was an architecture, and why this may be his last film.

Hi, everybody.

We have matching patent-letter shoes.

Tell them why.

There was the gala over at the Lachma.

And he kept his, he took his tucks off in the car here.

So I look like the fool.

The last time we were here, in the car here. I look like the fool. I don't know. I thought I'm going to tell you that.

The last time we were here together, you interviewed

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