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James Cameron  

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Director / Screenwriter / Producer / Editor
1954 - 
Born August 16, Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada
Key Production Country: USA 
Key Genres: Sci-Fi Action, Science Fiction, Action
Key Collaborators: Bill Paxton (Character Player), Arnold Schwarzenegger (Leading Player), Michael Biehn (Leading Player), Gale Ann Hurd (Producer/Screenwriter), Conrad Buff (Editor), Richard A. Harris (Editor), Mark Goldblatt (Editor), Brad Fiedel (Composer), Peter Lamont (Production Designer), Linda Hamilton (Leading Player)
Recommended: The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Links: [ IMDB ] [ TCMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ Film Reference ] [ The 'Amazing' James Cameron Page ] [ Academy of Achievement ] [ Optimus Films Profile ] [ James Cameron on Titanic ] [ Newsweek Interview (2007) ] [ Observer Article (2007) ]
Books: [ Dreaming Aloud: The Films of James Cameron ] [ James Cameron ] [ Titanic and the Making of James Cameron: The Inside Story of the Three-Year Adventure That Rewrote Motion Picture History ] [ Dreaming Aloud: The Films of James Cameron ]
DVD's: [ Amazon ]
1,000 Greatest Films: The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
 
The Terminator (1984) Aliens (1986)Terminator 2: Judgment DayTitanic (1997)
 
     
  "As a key figure in the contemporary cinema of spectacle, James Cameron has emerged as an important technical innovator with a shrewd sense of commercial judgment. Effectively fusing the science fiction and action genres, the bulk of his work displays an apparent mistrust of technological advancement which is curiously at odds with his extensive deployment of state-of-the-art cinematic technology." - Neil Jackson (Contemporary North American Film Directors, 2002)  
     
  "James Cameron makes big films. Skilful editing, pounding action and dazzling effects, often on huge budgets, are trademarks of his work, in which he seems determined to outdo himself with each succeeding film...Cameron has shown he has few peers in making exciting entertainments the public will flock to see." - David Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999)  
     
  "Sadly, as he aims, ambitiously but all-too-conspicuously, for the mythic, he equates more with better: good business sense in the era of the 'event movie', maybe, but grandiose, simplistic and artistically limiting." - Geoff Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999)  
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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