Ben Croll Director of “Die Hard,” “Predator” and “The Hunt for Red October,” John McTiernan will step into the limelight at this year’s Neuchatel Intl.
Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF), presenting three of his films as guest of honor while serving on the festival jury. If anything, the choice of honoree was obvious for NIFFF artistic director Pierre-Yves Walder, who calls McTiernan “the Pope of action cinema.” “The very idea of John McTiernan meeting our public will shape the history of our festival,” Walder says. “Because his films fed a shared love of movies, for us in Neuchatel and around the world.” “McTiernan’s films are like luxury prototypes,” says Walder. “He helped invent this extremely muscular action cinema with a rough edge, turning Bruce Willis into an icon and creating the mold for modern sci-fi action.” And if Walder was thrilled when McTiernan offered to present “Die Hard” and “Predator” at the lakeside Swiss festival, the Neuchatel director nevertheless made one strong request. “I asked him to screen ‘Last Action Hero’ as well, “ Walder explains. “Because it’s a film I’ve always loved, though I’d read that he didn’t feel the same way.
It’s kind of a cursed film, that got steamrolled by ‘Jurassic Park’ in the summer of 1993, but is every bit as imaginative.” “McTiernan deconstructed the codes he helped create, making something very meta at a time when that wasn’t so common.
Of course, the meta change soon followed, but McTiernan was ahead of the curve. He had the intelligence and foresight to make something truly wild.” Though NIFFF will only program three McTiernan masterworks in free-of-charge, open-air screenings, the festival director could happily go on at length about the American filmmaker’s
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