From the Sight and Sound archive
“You can have all the high-tech processes, but if you haven't a story going for you, it's nothing”: Douglas Trumbull on creating sci-fi classics
In our Spring 1985 issue, Douglas Trumbull – the legendary special effects supervisor who sadly died this week, aged 79 – recalled working with Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg, and directing Silent Running and Brainstorm
By Karen Jaehne
“You can have all the high-tech processes, but if you haven't a story going for you, it's nothing”: Douglas Trumbull on creating sci-fi classics