Director's Corner: Tony Scott

Director’s Corner: Tony Scott

Starting this month we will be highlighting one director a month. We will be looking at those filmmakers who have secured a legacy for themselves one way or the other. These won’t always be the directors you think of when someone asks, who are the best directors of all time? We are going beyond guys like Scorsese, Spielberg, Hitchcock, and Zemeckis. We’ll cover some women too. Props to Kathryn Bigelow.

But we begin with one of the coolest and slickest directors of all time, Tony Scott. He definitely had a style all his own and the editing in his action films clearly have an influence on modern action cinema. The world of film suffered a huge loss when on August 19, 2012 Tony Scott jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in LA. It is still unclear why he did this and it’s a tragedy on every level. But we don’t want this to be sad. We are here to honor one of the greatest directors of all time. Yeah, we here at Cinema Basement hold Tony Scott in the highest regard. So please enjoy this tribute to the work of Tony Scott all through the month of March. If you aren’t familiar with his work you are in for a treat. If you’re a film fan, you need Tony Scott in your life.

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