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James Cameron on His Long-Lost Music Video and Falling in Love with Kathryn Bigelow

Last Thursday, I had a lengthy, terrific interview with James Cameron in advance of the special edition of Avatar (rereleased to theaters August 27), and all this week, Movieline will bring you pieces of that wide-ranging talk. At the end of my conversation with James Cameron, was there any way I could let him go without asking him about “Reach,” the only music video he ever directed? The deliciously surreal 1988 clip was made for Bill Paxton’s band Martini Ranch , and not only did it feature frequent Cameron collaborators like Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, and Lance Henriksen, but it starred filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow as a sexy cowboy one year before Cameron married her, three years before they divorced, and twenty-two years before Bigelow won the Best Director Oscar over Cameron for The Hurt Locker .

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James Cameron on His Long-Lost Music Video and Falling in Love with Kathryn Bigelow