Empire’s April 2018 magazine is all about Steven Spielberg and full of tributes to the director from the likes of J.J. Abrams, Martin Scorsese, Rian Johnson, and more. But perhaps the coolest part is from Edgar Wright, who somehow managed to get Spielberg on the phone for a 45-minute conversation entirely devoted to his 1971 television movie “Duel.” Wright has long been an outspoken fan of the film, even crediting it as one of the biggest inspirations on “Baby Driver,” so getting to interview Spielberg about it was the definition of a dream come true.
“I saw ‘Duel’ on TV as a kid and marvelled, even then, at it,” Wright says in the introduction to the interview. “It is a pure engine for suspense, a brilliant exercise in near-silent cinema. I still think, even in the wake of his later classics, its still one of the greatest displays of Spielberg’s...
“I saw ‘Duel’ on TV as a kid and marvelled, even then, at it,” Wright says in the introduction to the interview. “It is a pure engine for suspense, a brilliant exercise in near-silent cinema. I still think, even in the wake of his later classics, its still one of the greatest displays of Spielberg’s...
- 3/29/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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