Movie City News Archive for June, 2012
Wilmington on Movies: Ted
Listen, I’m like almost everybody else. If you make me laugh, I’ll forgive you. I’ll forgive almost anything. In fact, I feel here like the priest with the Mafia guy on the other side of the screen. There’s a lot to forgive and expiate: a lot of Hail Marys here. But what the hell. It made me laugh. I forgive it. Bring it in, yuh bastid. Where’s the brewskis?
Read the full article »The FT Lunches With Funnyman Armando Iannucci
The FT Lunches With Funnyman Armando Iannucci
Read the full article »Ebiri: “This Is Not A Prometheus Thinkpiece”
Ebiri: “This Is Not A Prometheus Thinkpiece”
Read the full article »Guy Maddin Among Three Manitobans Appointed To Order Of Canada
Guy Maddin Among Three Manitobans Appointed To Order Of Canada
Read the full article »Academy Invites 171 To Membership
Academy Invites 171 To Membership, Including Terrence Malick, Asghar Farhadi, Wong Kar Wai, The Dardennes, Amy Berg, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Stephen King, J. C. Chandor, Maria Djurkovic, Michel Hazanavicius, Lucy Walker, Matthew McConaughey, S. Epatha Merkerson, Alberto Iglesias, Sean Bean, Demián Bichir, Tom Berenger, Kyle Cooper, John Battsek, Nicholas Stoller, Richard E. Grant, Diego Luna, Oren Moverman, Marshall Curry, Michaël R. Roskam, Kristen Wiig, Toyomichi…
Read the full article »ACADEMY INVITES 176 TO MEMBERSHIP
June 29, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Beverly Hills, CA– The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 176 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Those who accept the invitation will be the only additions in 2012 to the Academy’s…
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: The 39 Steps
CO-PICK OF THE WEEK: CLASSIC THE 39 STEPS (Also Blu-ray) (Four Stars) U.K.: Alfred Hitchcock, 1935 (Criterion Collection) Back in 1985, I wrote these liner notes for one of the earliest Criterion Collection releases: a videotape, in a silver-colored box, of Alfred Hitchcock’s love-on-the-run spy-story masterpiece, The 39 Steps. (The original is still on their website.)…
Read the full article »“I disliked Prometheus intensely. I do think that having acrimonious feelings towards the film is the actual point…”
“I disliked Prometheus intensely. I do think that having acrimonious feelings towards the film is the actual point…”
Read the full article »Curry Surveys The Remarkable Early Film Posters Of Polish Designer Waldemar Swierzy
Curry Surveys The Remarkable Early Film Posters Of Polish Designer Waldemar Swierzy
Read the full article »Larry King To Interview Optimus Prime At ComicCon Because James Lipton’s Fee Is Too Damn High
Larry King To Interview Optimus Prime At ComicCon Because James Lipton’s Fee Is Too Damn High
Read the full article »Pride’s Friday 5 (June 29, 2012)
Sarah Polley’s “lucid and lucent” “Take This Waltz”; “Magic Mike” and the love of “Saturday Night Fever”; the modern dance between Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone in “The Amazing Spider-Man”; Mila Kunis, in a towel, in “Ted,” and the grave beauty of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Once Upon A Time In Anatolia.”
Read the full article »Swansburg Sez: “Straight Dudes of America! Go See Magic Mike!”
Swansburg Sez: “Straight Dudes of America! Go See Magic Mike!”
Read the full article »Hoberman On Fassbinder In America: “The Single Antidote To Thoughts of Suicide”
Hoberman On Fassbinder In America: “The Single Antidote To Thoughts of Suicide”
Read the full article »Esquire Goes Ephron
Esquire Goes Ephron Junod: “If you are a magazine writer, you are always worried about the afterlife.” And – Chiarella: “I never wanted to be a journalist. What I wanted, and I knew this by the time I was 30, was to be Nora Ephron.” With – Taddeo: “I met Nora Ephron at one of those parties…
Read the full article »Lena Dunham Remembers Nora Ephron
“I loved whoever was making these actresses comfortable enough to express the minutiae of being a human woman onscreen.” Lena Dunham Remembers Nora Ephron
Read the full article »How Male Strippers Really Dress For Work
How Male Strippers Really Dress For Work
Read the full article »Alex Pettyfer: “How Is It That I Am In A Steven Soderbergh Movie Being Grinded By Matthew McConaughey?”
Alex Pettyfer: “How Is It That I Am In A Steven Soderbergh Movie Being Grinded By Matthew McConaughey?”
Read the full article »Packaging Magic Mike, The Musical
Packaging Magic Mike, The Musical
Read the full article »NewsCorp’s WSJ Gets Behind-The-Scenes At Murdoch Choice To Spin Off NewsCorp Newspapers
“I don’t give a —- about that,” he said.” NewsCorp’s WSJ Gets Behind-The-Scenes At Murdoch Choice To Spin Off NewsCorp Newspapers
Read the full article »RULES APPROVED FOR 85TH ACADEMY AWARDS®
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Beverly Hills, CA – June 28, 2012- The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences approved rules for the 85th Academy Awards. The most significant changes affect the Music, Foreign Language Film, Makeup and Visual Effects categories. In the Music (Original Song) category, the Executive Committee may…
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