I spoke to @billboard about my spatial directing work with @AmazeVR, our day 1 launch on the Vision Pro, our upcoming insane VR concert with @avengedsevenfold, and the future of music in this next dimension of creativity.
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David Fincher and Kent Jones are considering a documentary about John Carpenter: "[It] would be—this is his words—sort of like 'Hitchcock/Truffaut' for the 21st century, right? Meaning that it addresses the technological stuff that’s happened since Hitchcock and Truffaut passed away, and the circumstances that have changed, etc., and talking about different… this is just us talking. We’ll see, you know. But we’re talking about different filmmakers, and David was the one who said, 'Actually, what about John Carpenter? He’s a really interesting guy who’s really stuck to his guns and also is a really, really formidable filmmaker.'"
Read our interview with the 'Late Fame' director: https://t.co/mMTFikl8Sw
We have literally never been more back!
Last night, we lit up the beloved Hollywood landmark, The Cinerama Dome, with a nod to Columbia Pictures first-ever premiere there: Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Today we welcome a new era for a cathedral of cinema unlike any other.
Abel Ferrara's “King of New York” (1990) was made for $5.3 million, but still he needed all his low-budget wiles to secure certain key locations, most notably the Plaza Hotel, which was owned by Donald Trump at that time. According to Ferrara, Donald Trump, charged Francis Ford Coppola “$5,000 an hour” to film at the hotel.
Donald Trump's wife at that time, Ivana was a huge fan of Christopher Walken. So, they said if Walken could pose for some pictures with her, Ferrara could film the scenes for free. Ferrara later said, "She got some great pictures, and we got the Plaza".
("MOVIES : The Prince of Darkness : Director Abel Ferrara practices a kind of gonzo filmmaking, and his violent vision isn’t a particularly popular one in Hollywood", Patrick Goldstein, LA Times, 1990)
P.S: Happy 75th birthday, Abel Ferrara!
Martin Scorsese on John Carpenter:
"John Carpenter is a filmmaker who is unashamed to stay within the genres he loves (horror and science fiction) and who practices his trade like a master craftsman. His pictures always have a handmade quality-every cut, every move, every choice of framing and camera movement, not to mention every note of music (he composes his own scores) feels like it has been composed or placed by the filmmaker himself. His sense of composition (nearly all of his pictures are shot in Scope) is quite exacting and precise, and his control of movement inside and outside the frame can be hair-raising. There are so many moments in his films that are absolutely startling-the murder of the little girl with the ice-cream cone in Assault on Precinct 13; the appearances of Michael Myers on the very edge of the frame in Halloween; the appearances of the creature in his truly terrifying remake of The Thing. And the mood of his pictures is so carefully crafted and sustained. I'm a great admirer of The Fog, the mood of it, the sense of mystery. But I also love They Live, in which an alien invasion of America is uncovered by people living on the ragged edge of society in Los Angeles.
This movie was Carpenter's commentary on what he saw as the excesses of the Reagan era, and the movie shares many qualities with pictures made during the Depression, such as Heroes for Sale and Wild Boys of the Road. It's lyrical and tough at the same time, with a strong sense of community among the displaced people living in makeshift homes on the outskirts of L.A. (interestingly, the picture dovetails with Mel Brooks' comedy Life Stinks, made a couple of years later), and the mood is unusually sad and bitter. The science-fiction element reveals itself as the story goes on: The "beautiful people" on TV and walking down Rodeo Drive are actually aliens, transmitting subliminal messages to the hypnotized masses, their true images visible through special glasses that are being handed out at a mission for the poor. I like the humor of the picture, the hilariously long fight scene between "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Keith David, and the sense of outrage. They Live is one of the best films of a fine American director."
Director Christopher Nolan brought 60 Minutes to Fotokem in Burbank, California, to watch their artists assemble and color correct final release prints of “The Odyssey.” It's the only motion picture film lab in the world that still produces 70 millimeter prints. https://t.co/ohFEeNvO9N