‘Jurassic Park’ VFX Artist Phil Tippett Wins Locarno Fest’s Vision Award Scott Roxborough
Visual effect master Phil Tippett (
Jurassic Park) will be honored at this year’s Locarno Film Festival with the Vision Award Ticinomoda 2021, a prize that recognizes the achievements of creative artists working behind the scenes to “extend the horizons of cinematic iconography.”
Tippett will receive the prize at a ceremony at the Piazza Grande in Locarno on Aug. 5 and will take part in a panel discussion in front of a festival audience on August 6.
Locarno will screen
RoboCop (1987) and
Starship Troopers (1997) two of Tippett’s stand-out collaborations with director Paul Verhoeven as well as the world premiere of
Avatar doesn’t dethrone
Endgame in this release, it seems likely that it will during next year’s inevitable global re-release building to the sequel. Fans can look forward to a year of conversations about how
nobody talks about
Avatar.
Still, more than a decade after its original release,
Avatar remains a fascinating cultural marker. The movie’s minimal cultural footprint is compelling in itself, a reminder of a time when a movie didn’t need a shared universe to break box office records and the highest-grossing movie of all time didn’t arrive with an overzealous fan base fixated on what Martin Scorsese thinks about them. By all accounts, a lot of people saw
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