Here’s more from James Cameron in Paris. This time, he’s praising Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ movies and goes on to call them “pure cinema” (via Le Figaro):

David Lynch’s adaptation was disappointing. It was missing the power of Herbert’s novel. Villeneuve’s films are much more convincing. The characters are sketched out, they are very identifiable. It’s pure cinema. I speak regularly to Denis, filmmaker to filmmaker. We record our conversations, like Trufaut and Hitchcock.

I’m not as interested by Cameron’s praise of ‘Dune’ as much as I am of him 1) shooting darts at David Lynch’s Dune and 2) recording all of his conversations with Villeneuve? Comparing these recordings to the famous Truffaut/Hitchcock interviews? Hilarious.