'Wim Wenders, director of 'Paris, Texas', shares his thoughts on 'Avatar: The Way of Water'

German director Wim Wenders shared his thoughts on Avatar 2, on James Cameron and a few other directors such as Christopher Nolan, during an interview with French weekly Le Point, while promoting his new movie Perfect Days.

Interestingly enough, he just made a documentary called Anselm - about German artist Anselm Kiefer - which he shot using a 3D camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYb4wDJKpsQ

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Here's the excerpt (translated from French):

Do you keep an eye on what's going on in Hollywood?

In terms of new technology applied to cinema, I haven't seen much that's really struck me. Virtual reality and 360-degree immersion, for example, I think are great for documentaries, but absolutely useless for fiction. Offering the audience the option of choosing where to continue the story is the very opposite of what we call storytelling, and doesn't interest me. On a more classical level, there are directors who are reinventing cinema. I've seen all Christopher Nolan's films, and I think he's a great inventor of cinema. James Cameron too. The second Avatar is one of the most underrated movies in film history.

Being able, in a blockbuster costing several hundred million dollars, to tell a real story about education, transmission, what to do with my kids who are fifteen and don't seem to be interested in anything anymore... It's a question that every father around the world asks himself. A universal family film. Cameron still is an inventor who respects his medium - 3D - and is the only one to film it with two cameras, two eyes, just like we did when we made the documentary on Anselm Kiefer.

Submitted November 29, 2023 at 01:49AM by AluminiumMk1 https://ift.tt/dhYqrgQ