The sharp and witty director of Gremlins, Innerspace and The Howling visited Edinburgh International Film Festival to provide an insightful overview of his rich career( Read more... )Dante’s taken some knocks, but there’s a sense that his reputation is ever-growing, despite the paucity of his output (he’s only made three features this century). There has been a highfalutin book written about his work (“Yeah, in Austria,” he scoffs), while at Paris’ great church of cinema, La Cinémathèque française, he received a loving retrospective of his work last year, showing everything from his 1968 movie mashup The Movie Orgy to his wonderful kids’ show Eerie, Indiana, which was clearly a huge influence on Stranger Things (“I’m sure my cheque is in the mail somewhere,” Dante says knowingly when Romney mentions the Duffer Brothers’ wildly popular Netflix show).
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