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James Cameron |
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Director / Screenwriter /
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| Born August 16, Kapuskasing,
Ontario, Canada |
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Key
Production Country: USA |
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Key Genres:
Sci-Fi Action, Science Fiction, Action |
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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) |
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Recommended: The
Terminator
(1984)*, Aliens (1986)*, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)* |
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Worth a Look: The
Abyss (1989) |
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Approach with Caution:
True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997), Avatar (2009) |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
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Links: [
Amazon
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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) ]
[
Flickering Myth Profile ] |
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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 ] |
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"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."
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Neil Jackson (Contemporary North American Film Directors, 2002) |
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"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) |
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"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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Please
note that the rating given for this director (see top-right) is based
only on the films we have seen (listed above). Films by this director that we
haven't seen include Piranha II: The Spawning (1981) and Ghosts
of the Abyss (2003). |
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"Because
of the enormous financial success of his films, Cameron is
one of the most influential figures in filmmaking, while his
production company, Lightstorm Entertainment, allows him
almost total autonomy in choosing film projects... Although
Titanic was successful at the box office and at the
awards, it has been criticized for the weakness of the
romantic plot at its center, and for its failures as a human
drama. In a Cameron film, however, none of this really
matters: the director’s real strengths lie in his technical
brilliance and his willingness to take risks." -
Chris Routledge, International
Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers |
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Top 250 Directors |
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501 Movie Directors: A
Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers |
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See Also |
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Kathryn Bigelow |
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John Carpenter |
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Cecil B. DeMille |
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Roland Emmerich |
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Renny Harlin |
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Peter Hyams |
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John McTiernan |
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Jonathan Mostow |
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Ridley Scott |
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Steven Spielberg |
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Richard Stanley (external link) |
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Paul Verhoeven |
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James Cameron's Favourites |
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Stanley Kubrick,
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb (1964)
Stanley Kubrick, The Godfather (1972)
Francis
Ford
Coppola, Taxi
Driver (1976)
Martin Scorsese,
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Victor Fleming.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes (2011) |
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