Cult horror director John Carpenter was honoured for his contribution to cinema at the start of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday....Carpenter, known for classics including "The Thing", "Halloween" and "Escape from New York" -- was presented with the "Golden Coach" award by the French Directors' Guild at the opening ceremony of the Director's Fortnight....which runs in parallel to the main festival. Fittingly for a renowned pioneering composer who composed or co-composed the majority of his own film scores....the ceremony opened with some eerie electronic mood music. Accepting the award Carpenter said, he had been fascinated by the way characters emerge from rays of light in a movie projector, since his first trip to the cinema at the age of three, to see Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart star in "The African Queen".
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Cult horror director John Carpenter was honoured for his contribution to cinema at the start of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday....Carpenter, known for classics including "The Thing", "Halloween" and "Escape from New York" -- was presented with the "Golden Coach" award by the French Directors' Guild at the opening ceremony of the Director's Fortnight....which runs in parallel to the main festival. Fittingly for a renowned pioneering composer who composed or co-composed the majority of his own film scores....the ceremony opened with some eerie electronic mood music. Accepting the award Carpenter said, he had been fascinated by the way characters emerge from rays of light in a movie projector, since his first trip to the cinema at the age of three, to see Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart star in "The African Queen".
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