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  • THROWBACK THURSDAY: On Movies and Imagination

    Throwback Thursdays at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on March 25th, 2010 (so more than 16 years ago). I have always thought of movies as the laziest of arts. I do not mean their creation. I have seen movie sets. I know how many people it… Read more

  • FRIDAY FOOD FOR THOUGHT: John Carpenter on Westerns

    I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn’t work out. John Carpenter Read more