Cameron on Avatar

Downplaying the visual effects at a 70mm screening of Aliens and The Abyss in LA on the weekend. I’m still majorly pumped for this! We needs a trailer already though! Via Aintitcool.

Sunday, May 31 2009

Asides, Film General

Avatar James Cameron

The Tarantino Mixtape

It’s been out for a month but it’s oh so good. A good warm up for Inglorious Basterds coming out here in Australia on August 20th.

Saturday, May 30 2009

Film General, Film Review

Quentin Tarantino

Kevin Smith Interviews

A bunch of fantastic interviews (9 segments on total) with Kevin Smith including some very real discussions on being a filmmaker, the curse of Chasing Amy, the dark (and bright) side of the Internet. The man comes across as a humble filmmaker, a guy who knows he’s not a born filmmaker but loves movies and loves to express himself cinematically.

It’s clear we’re seeing a guy who has changed as a human too, with getting married and having kids and how his taste for cinema has changed along with that growth process. This is something that inevitably happens with us film lovers is we watch a movie when we’re in our teens, love it to pieces. Then we hit our mid to late twenties and when life starts to take over, sometimes our perspectives change and so does our taste. Sure that might sound like a generalisation and it won’t apply for everyone but it appears that way for Smith.

Personally, I’ve said on the site before that I’ve always admired Smith for making films the way he wants to and he’s gotten the chance to do that. Such a small percentage of film students go onto making any kind of feature length film the way THEY want to do it and he’s done eight so he’s certainly gained my respect. Oh and his favourite Hollywood movie is Jaws. A few more video’s below and more on YouTube in the right-side bar.