Famous for his Freddie Kruger - Nightmare on Elm St. movie, Red Eye and a host of others, in the words of Robert Englund: Hollywood's lost a rare species in Wes Craven. The true Gentleman.
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Showing posts with label director. Show all posts
Showing posts with label director. Show all posts
Monday, August 31, 2015
Wes Craven Passes Due to Brain Cancer
Wes Craven, horror movie director par_excellence has died due to brain cancer, Sunday August 30 2015.
Famous for his Freddie Kruger - Nightmare on Elm St. movie, Red Eye and a host of others, in the words of Robert Englund: Hollywood's lost a rare species in Wes Craven. The true Gentleman.
Famous for his Freddie Kruger - Nightmare on Elm St. movie, Red Eye and a host of others, in the words of Robert Englund: Hollywood's lost a rare species in Wes Craven. The true Gentleman.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Sci-fi films are as dead as Westerns, says Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott was the director of two of the most critically acclaimed science fiction films, now he believes that the genre is so tired and unoriginal that it may be dead. At the Venice Film Festival for a special screening of his seminal noir thriller Blade Runner, Scott said that science fiction films were going the way the Western once had. “There’s nothing original. We’ve seen it all before. Been there. Done it,” he said. Asked to pick out examples, he said: “All of them. Yes, all of them.” The flashy effects of recent block-busters, such as The Matrix, Independence Day and The War of the Worlds, may sell tickets, but director Scott believes that none can beat Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Scott said “There is an over reliance on special effects as well as weak storylines,”
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