Tag: Tarsem Singh

“Immortals,” the new 3-D Greek mythology action movie opening Friday, bears the unmistakable visual stamp of its director, Tarsem Singh. The filmmaker made a name for himself with his preceding two features “The Cell” and “The Fall” (not to mention directing other projects like the music video for R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion”), which teemed with surreal, intoxicating imagery. His latest, a CGI-heavy movie about a young man with the gods on his side who must stand up to a marauding king does differ from his previous film, “The Fall,” in one key way. For that project, he traveled to exotic locations including India, South Africa and Argentina. For “Immortals,” he primarily filmed inside the confines of a Canadian studio. “[Francis Ford] Coppola – when he did ‘Apocalypse Now’ – after he came back what he wanted to do was nothing ...