Film geeks who haven't seen "Room 666" should definitely put it on their must-watch list. It's a documentary, shot at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982, wherein filmmaker Wim Wenders asks a laundry-list of prominent filmmakers in attendance (including Jean Luc Goddard, Steven Spielberg, Werner Herzog, Fassbinder, Antonioni, etc) to briefly opine of the future of movies. The responses range from hopeful to depressing to to strange (first thing out of Herzog's mouth: "I think I'll start by taking off my shoes. You can't answer a question like that with your shoes on.") but surprisingly the guy who really seems to "call it" is the (relative) youngster Spielberg.
For context, at the time of this interview "E.T." had been filmmed but not yet widely-released...
I can't decide if it's more spooky or LESS spooky that this prediction is coming to us courtesy the executive producer of "Transformers."
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