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What happened to Cameron Crowe? This is the guy that made two of the greatest movies of my lifetime — “Almost Famous” and “Say Anything…” — and wrote maybe the greatest high school movie of anyone’s lifetime, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” Now he returns to fiction filmmaking six years after the underwhelming “Elizabethtown” with…
As a former rock and roll writer for Rolling Stone and current director of music-centric movies like “Almost Famous” and “Singles,” Cameron Crowe is uniquely qualified to put together a list of the best uses in music in film history. When Empire asked him to do exactly that a few months ago, he didn’t disappoint.…
Here’s the first trailer for “We Bought a Zoo” from Cameron Crowe. We spoke to the writer and director of “Say Anything…” and “Almost Famous” at length about the film, his first fiction feature in six years, during our Fall Movie Preview; you can read those interviews here, here, and here. And here (as in…
You think of Cameron Crowe movies, you think of the music in Cameron Crowe movies. John Cusack and the boombox in “Say Anything…” Stillwater singing “Tiny Dancer” on the tour bus in “Almost Famous.” Orlando Bloom’s mixtape roadtrip at the end of “Elizabethtown.” Nobody does movie music quite like Crowe. That’s why we’re wrapping up…
Cameron Crowe went to the Television Critics Association press tour last month to talk about his upcoming documentary “Pearl Jam Twenty.” But one statement the director made about a twenty year old movie ended up garnering all the headlines. Asked by a reporter whether he’d ever consider a sequel to 1989′s teen rom-com classic “Say…
Cameron Crowe is an intimidating interview. After all, he’s the guy who was such a brilliant journalist as a kid that he was a Rolling Stone contributor before the age of 20. In other words: it’s never easy to speak to someone who’s better at your job than you are. Plus, there’s the whole part…
“In our wildest imagination, we never even thought we’d last this long,” Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament told Rolling Stone earlier this year while discussing the band’s 20 year long career. Band pal, director Cameron Crowe will be releasing a documentary to celebrate it that doesn’t spare the pain, or the terrible 90′s hair styles.…
Cameron Crowe has been out of the public eye for years now but the former Rolling Stone reporter has three films finished; a feature starring Matt Damon called “We Bought a Zoo” and two music documentaries. The director famously fictionalized his youth — spent following around legendary bands like The Who and The Allman Brothers…
My worry about “The Union,” Cameron Crowe’s documentary about the musical collaboration between Elton John and Leon Russell, was that it would be just another making-the-album documentary of the kind a lot of bands make these days to upsell Special Edition CDs and ward off piracy. And basically it is; it’s just the best possible…
These days, it’s nice to be Elton John. After his labor of love “Gnomeo and Juliet” surprised everyone at the box office after being nearly lost with the sale of Miramax, he will be feted at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival with the opening night premiere of Cameron Crowe’s “The Union,” a documentary about the…
While the public serenading of someone’s object of desire is not a gesture you tend to see all that often in the real world, at least outside of karaoke parlors, it is a reliable cinematic stand-by. This is probably because it’s a gesture so fraught with the potential for embarrassment and humiliation that it’s safer…
