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UPMC and by the members of WQED. Thank you it's Friday night and that can only mean one thing. Well Friday versus a voice in his ear tonight our special guest is an internationally known film director Christoph Zanussi. Well Christoph is in town for a Polish film festival and he's been an award winning director since 1966. He'll join our ward winning for the regulars Alan Cox welcher for a look at the movies and more tonight. Anne Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater is to reopen to the public this spring. But what goes on in the room when this world famous home is glowing. Well on cue takes you there tonight for a special sneak peek behind falling waters closed door. That's all next so stay with us look at things differently on cue starts right now. To those close. I

go we are on television. Hello I'm Farrelly. I'm Chris Morris. Welcome to has been idle. Well tonight what goes on during the winter months of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. It's close to the public as they get ready to reopen in the spring. But on cue got a special pass to go inside and we'll take you there a little later. But first it's time for tonight's main event. That's right Chris let's get right to the intros for the Friday for some thoughts. We always start with a foursome guest chair and tonight we have an internationally known film director and he's been directing feature film since 1966 and he is in Pittsburgh as part of the through Polish guys a film festival going on at the Carnegie Museum of Art. And you're also the owner of the most wonderful voices way to hear him and he welcomes

Christophe's and to say I hope I didn't murder your nails. Now can you tell us your first impressions of Pittsburgh with the first person living for the first time in this city 30 years ago it was for the first time in America. And it was quite a different city this Reidy very changed but it was very exciting a state of this universe is part of the city which looks like Old Europe and a bit overdone because it was exhibited to be right it's a clear money runs out to be too isolated but otherwise this is very very good. There are programs hold up for us a little bit. I'm always wonderful really often according to the Polish population here to really describe you. All right we're moving down the line Post-Gazette calmness and for some regular Ruth and Baker then do you go to foreign films. Yes. In fact tonight my after the after the show choices

before night falls. Well it's not for no it's not a foreign sounding Cuban artist is it is that does that count. No help with directed by an American stars mostly Americans. It's got Johnny Depp in it for God's sake. Oh ok i take that back when it's her idea of a part of me and I don't want to have to read to watch that's a four ok why I said that Crouching Tiger Hidden reptiles right next to her hand is our film critic Alan Cox on the line of 9 5 The X1 0 5 tonight there are they are all looking at you. Our Mr corrections I don't have access to that would be alternative rock right. Yes. What was the last foreign film that you saw in the last four Elm I saw was called Nurse Nancy and I'm not at liberty hall it's on a major plot I will go on from there. Thank you very much Alan and finally sitting in for Fred Hans Berger Christmas your publisher and editor of Pittsburgh magazine.

Chris you look like a foreign film buff I have a 2 and a half year old so when you say film or movie that's that big group you know and so on and then the lights go down right you know I'm glad for I can tell you what I want to Toy Story 2 I know those that are glad about these children. I don't knock them I see them every day if you'd like for them to be for and I would I'm sure. Well Mr. Adam is the news what do you think of the state of film especially in the United States. I would imagine you have looked at it and could be critical if you want to do it. Well he didn't need to because you can feel it. All over the world with leading film industry it wasn't like that even 20 years ago. So it's quite a new phenomenon. You know 20 years ago who cared for Oscars all the Americans did we cared for Canfield Bestival we cared for families we cared for success in Europe because it was a very big market and there was marvelous and what what changed what changed. Something went wrong in Europe. We are more boring now and less attractive. America is still quite attractive in its

cinematic production. However this year Oscar just don't seem to be very exciting at the easier less exciting but there are a lot more violence an explosion and napalm going of an American film. And what does that have to do with plot and telling a good story anyway. Probably nothing nothing along I don't know why people are sitting all day long in front of the computer and then you must see some explosions and even to feel balanced. I don't know. Well then why would this when they feel the need to make the bombs themselves if not carious getting it out of their systems I understand that. We spend six hours a day typing and love you. You understand that bikers nature of I mean you know film is escapism I mean the problem is you know I'm an avid film goer I mean you know on a good week I'll see like you know at least two movies a week and the problem is I really like going to see movies but over the past year or so it's become an increasingly trying experience I mean even for me I've got a very Why birth of things I can you know kind of take in and say Well that was OK.

No but I mean you know increasingly I walk out of the theater and I'll be entirely indifferent about what I saw somebody whoever I'm with. When you think of the movie I'm like you know I have no idea what I thought of that movie I mean I don't even remember it well yet so I guess rumble you know getting it where it's you know he's going to do but you know I mean I love I love sitting down you know there's popcorn movies we can sit down and you hunker down with the depth charge size a coke and your popcorn or whatever you just watch your stuff blow up for 90 minutes and that's all right but you know even movies that are supposed to kind of reflect reality now are so because they go through focus groups and all kinds I mean these things from beginning to end might not even resemble each other and this is a newsy that you don't do that in Europe the end of the movie is determined by how many focus groups and how they react to do it. That's what do you do that. Well probably marketing people have talked this way they'd never find the real focus of the good and there's no way to stop the useless because people are told the. You can never say what you would like at the end. Chris you look on your focus you made because you were the age group you were you were going to go at any group at it and talk to

different people who watch the field. But that's again that's driven by money and Chris you do a lot of marketing in print. I wonder what you think of the way films are marketed now. Well I think that the thing that I like so much is how much the soundtracks are being marketed so yeah but you know if you watch the movie Billy Elliot what really made it for me was it was seeing a town called malice and the dance that he did that George said happens to be one of my full time favorite songs and I was part of it. But every one of them every time you see a trailer soundtrack featuring boom boom boom boom boom it's such it's such an industry that I like music from and inspired by. So therefore. Think songs on there that isn't even in the movie like that we've got exams that are in the movie and then some crap we threw into her trying to promote these bands do you remember. Did you see the apostle with Robert Duvall Farrow Yes it was an excellent film with excellent music but the soundtrack was it was mostly music inspired by and they did a couple different versions they did more of a country gospel they did one that was more blues I think and the music's fabulous even though even the pieces many of them that were in the

film also by the time so that's really what makes money. Sometimes the soundtrack makes more money than the film. So when they found out that worked that way they put money into that and I guess that's what actors are paid so little polish that I did that that same way is their whole conglomeration or you more storyteller in your form rather storytellers. When Sometimes we win sometimes we lose but we never know why. And all this marketing is not working or the market was only 40 medians people large it is not big enough maybe in America only up to hundred millions of people. You may read for see who will respond but in smaller country where it sounds like you're blessed in that you're not so market driven by how many people turn out and what the gross of the movie is and that's sort of what they very interesting about that but I'm far more interested in what kind of in impact my field has of what people remember in three years that I've seen it. OK this doesn't have any reflection in the box office but it has a tremendous perhaps a good

thing I would think any Polish film goers are probably much more rewarding than American film goers because of that now what film did you bring to this title which I always have to explain because it's a slightly extravagant Alan listen closely I'm aware of the title or yes I wholeheartedly approve. It is called this life as a fatal disease sexually transmitted. Maybe the order of the words may be changed but as a graffiti took it just as a graffiti from the wall and it is exactly the contents of a field isn't a title but it's probably a promise is something else I'm afraid because everybody smiles with a wooden stand. There's a question mark on my face. You don't understand really. Do you know about this. Would you tell us about the movie of course the log of the field not the rest of the film is contemporary but the prologue is 1000 years back in medieval

France where there was a thief who steals a horse you know horse was like you know like all property people had. So studio horse is a terrible crime. And he's doing good. And kids who are supposed to watch the horses. OK let's take a look right now. No not in Iraq but for yourself.

Oh no not at all. So he is called an under sentence of death and I know you don't want to tell the whole movie but it has to do with a conflict with someone who's trying to save him as a writer. Not really because this only salvation in this religious sense somebody is trying to save his eternal life but not his the rest to life you know we'll get executives. But if somebody wants to prefer to prepare for this sentence and he succeeds at the end this menace and peace accept the execution without protest finds it's completely

safe because he believes that there is something behind this. So I don't know if Americans would enjoy this because you'd actually have to think. Yeah. Let me go to this movie I think most American movies would be mindless but come on every vegetarian ever think about anything like that and that's when they started the focus group that put a happy ending on the enemy's going to watch that nobody wants to chop up all right. That is great as an election moment in this year's American movie so this was Tom Hanks talking to a volleyball you listen to. Oh I tell you stop by a peg like you know I mean oh you would have to pay if he was really something super really fascinating on it. I know a very offbeat notice hell at how resilient the hell am resourceful the children the children you imagine your kids to. He's got a knife. Be careful let's. Michael says Let us assume that middle aged children were far more serious and they were telling us they had a they didn't live as long and so you had to be pretty resourceful and gauge and especially if you were charged with the

family goods that was as you said a very precious possession of a horse. Absolutely in line with us at the core of the economy of course. Now what is the purpose of the Polish is my bank the obvious but what's the purpose of the of the film festival. Here I think I understand it correctly it was an idea to bring some new public fields to show to the Americans in Pittsburgh who probably very seldom see foreign fields and fields from our part of the world even less and there are quite a few quite interesting fields I believe and they're quite is quite quite full of energy. Group ethnic group that is producing quite many fields in the last few years we have only 40 millions and we are producing 25 feature films and some of them are very successful in our country and in other European countries so it was a good idea to bring them to people. I think Americans probably are too hardy about our own film industry also and don't necessarily recognise that other people are producing good work classes. Just looking at that it was beautiful it was lush.

It was years ago the music was all this about the musical composer with whom I work is somebody who is now used in America quite a lot and they do that a lot. He wrote the music to France for a couple of Dracula you know to music for the part of Lady of then Campion and he wrote music for the last two pictures of Roman Polanski. Maybe you'll get a record near me. Can you let me see his article on the contract already so he has his records are available it is do you ever hope for wider success or are you content in Poland and in Europe. You mentioned earlier that European feel markets are more interested in con then and the Oscars. Well it's history so what do you know any artist wants to be acclaimed and loved by anybody all over the planet. We never make a distinction. Everybody who wants to be applauded from all sides. So it would be I would be overwhelmed if they could win over American market a couple of my films at some discreet running America that's already a lot.

Even a good could have been more that would be better with which kinds of films you fancied here and America fine. Well usually when they have very emotional. They must not be too much. Relate to abstract thinking and to problems already. Not all Americans use film as an escape. You want to go and you just want to forget the problems of the week on Friday in the foreign films that do really well here I mean you look at Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon you look back I mean Dino was nominated for an Oscar a few years back and Like Water for Chocolate and cinema parodies on things like that. The last thing you want to do though as a foreign filmmaker I would imagine if you want to maintain any kernel of integrity is you don't want to let the American success of your film get in the hands of the American studio system because then what you end up with is they're going OK how are we going to make a sequel to this new life is a disease transmitted sexually too. Returning to life as a disease or so you know and then I don't forget the action figures that you don't have exact right I think you get so you got home actually feeling that you didn't let me have moment big to do it.

We give an Oscar to Bertolini for life is beautiful. Yeah I mean that was kind of a you know OK you know we can think you're better than any. Yeah. Yeah bro but he is very joyful field and thoughtful people but a concentration camp you know look at those. So it was a joyful side of it. But there was sort of like the see it Truman Show it was a fantastic field it was a very delectable field and there in the pit you can see someone show intellectual and you were nodding your heads Chris. That's why I didn't get much. That's why nobody really dug it over here. Yeah because I think it took too much thinking and too much kind of you know post really big questions about the relationship between man and God and man and reality what it was it was was really really rich I thought it was very theological in question died. Well it's a very uncomfortable subject to have to look at the I'm going to get it one hour and one has to send a check from it to be theological. It's fair to Americans

without really any mention the septics the theology of this line unless you have the right to find whatever we take to the movie so you have to make it an easier not to swallow by not and I'm like I don't like name a movie with Robert Schuller you know then I can have it. I'm freaking out over the desert that made you laugh. Well why can't people see the film. Well I think the evening sort of evening is the last chance here and that is going to motivate me. So you people want to come. Maybe it will be pretty because the first one was fooled and they afraid it was just Bill Jensen who's put this together or the Carnegie does him a no no no no no but the Carnegie does a lot of film festivals like yes they have. And there are some film houses in Pittsburgh but they do varying degrees of business you know I don't know how successful they are and I was lying before I'm going to go home and write scary movie on paper man. No no real intellectual Larry I've never seen one.

Yeah well those are the things I guess that we're all concerned about with some of the subjects about the United States economy the stock market credit cards and all that sort of stuff that we wanted to get into. You think you'll ever make a movie about the American Academy or anything like that. Well they want to revamp a set of you know whether or not I'm afraid you have enough about directors doing what I do. Something doesn't understand about you know I direct and so I think it would hurt it right behind drama you have a film of him sneezing and Wall Street collapsing. Very interesting to note is was that he had an archive of bring this portion of the show to a close but there are more to come don't go anywhere right we'd like to thank our special guest Christoph. Thank you for being here. And of course thank you to our faithful regulars as well and our semi regular benefactor So our regular My regular he has something to say. He is so faithful to his program. He has something to say tonight is like tomorrow is our 10 year anniversary of being together and I just wanted to

tell you that I love her very much and I'm so glad she spent 10 years for you and you take it to the movie right. Go to a movie that OK go to the Polish film it's a this St. Patrick's Day to you know the collecting experience for 10th anniversary next up Fallingwater is close to the public during the winter months. But on cue got a special pass to go inside and see what goes on as they get ready to reopen this spring. We'll take you there right after this look at what's happening Monday. They call him the father of the tissue engineering and biotechnology research explosion in Pittsburgh. Dr. Peter Johnson started it all. And he'll tell us about new breakthroughs in biotech research which could lead to medical cures and all around better treatment for sick people. We'll also discuss the major international tissue engineering conference coming to Pittsburgh at the end of the month. Dr. Peter Johnson Monday on cue. It's one of the prettiest places in western Pennsylvania that

you'll fly if you've never been to Fallingwater then you're missing out on a real treat. That's right falling water is about two hours south of Pittsburgh in Fayette County that was designed back in the 1000 30s by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright for department store owner Edgar J Kaufman and his family. Now Kaufman son Edgar Jr. later intrusted the House and the property to the western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Well over the years more than two million people have visited this spectacular home to view its rustic splendor rustic Splendor I like that. We took a tour of falling water as it prepares to open its doors once again to a brand new season of visitors. Workers are cleaning up fixing up and in preparation for the tourist season at Fallingwater. All of the visitors come to the site walk down a gravel road to the house. They're bringing dust in the house with gravel on their feet. Things like that.

That has its impact on the fabric of the building. It's a moment here. Veneer over it takes a lot of tender loving care to keep falling water in tip top shape. Linda Wagoner should know the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy constant maintenance. It's her in the winter the winter is kind of a rest period to get its projects accomplished and there are quite a few of them. Bricks and stones must be cleaned. We have no handrails going up the stairs and if you notice as you go up the stairs in the house with stones of the blackened people just grabbing onto a stone to help them up the stairs. Floors have to be stripped of its beautiful floors in a way to imitate the wet street. That's the way it's meant to look. But in the winter of the coming season.

And wood must be restored. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright used a lot of wood in this home and there's been some damage from water condensation and such like that has caused the veneers to crack a little and so I'm reinserting some adhesive and then I'll put these little clamp those were the sort of the wedging system we have here and then there are the leaks that need constant repairing one of the actual funny things about water is that is the lakes in the building because the leaks occur in really a bizarre fashion we have when it's raining of course one would expect those. Then we have different leaks that occur when the snow is melting and then another set of leaks that will occur after it has either rain or snow and the sun comes out. There's a lot to accomplish in the off season but pretty soon they'll be even larger projects to tackle major renovation of the building gets underway later this year.

It's not just the strengthening of a Cavalier's here in order to get rid of the shoring that's been in the House and the restoration of the terriers will also be doing a waterproofing of the terrace surfaces on the building a roof surfaces as well as a host of other other projects in the building. Some of that work has already begun. A new sewage treatment system is already in the works and new trails and entry ways will be added for cars and visitors. There's a lot happening at Fallingwater and Edgar Kaufman and his family would be happy to know that his dream of a serene haven in the Pennsylvania Woodlands is still being lovingly maintained so that the magic name has a wonderful spiritual quality about it the simplicity and elegance that is not found very often in architecture or in art for that matter. But it's there. It's a building that just connects us to something that's greater than we are and I think that's why people

whether they touch or not they respond to this because it is so beautiful. You should put that one to your movie. I don't want to hand out those major renovations are expected to take from three to four years and there's a good chance that you won't even know that they're taking place. The western Pennsylvania Conservancy tells us that projects of falling water addenda little areas at a time so as not to disrupt the visitors. If you'd like to visit Fallingwater Well it's open for the season and it'll remain open until late October. Well worth a visit I'd say. Now here's a quick look at tonight's community calendar. There is a huge debate going on you know going about a Blazing Saddles one of them. Oh

that's another story another topic for another night because that's all the time we have Mondo not happy in the Major. You can get a rebroadcast of on cue tonight at 11 50. That's a little later than our normal rebroadcast of 11:30 due to guess what pledge or you can tune in Monday afternoon at 12:30. Maybe send in your money faster will get on sooner. I will see you back here live Monday night. Have a great weekend and happy St. Patrick's Day. You really didn't hate them Sykora. Good night tonight. And her

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