Movie City News Archive for July, 2012
R. G. Armstrong, 95, Playwright, B’way Perf, TV Series Stalwart, Acted In Major Dundee, Ride The High Country, Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid, Heaven Can Wait, Dick Tracy, Predator, Reds
R. G. Armstrong, 95, Playwright, B’way Perf, TV Series Stalwart, Acted In Major Dundee, Ride The High Country, Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid, Hammett, Children Of The Corn, Heaven Can Wait, Dick Tracy, Predator, Reds
Read the full article »“Jane Campion called me. We had never met, so I asked, ‘Why me?’ She said she thought I was the one who could present a visual emotional world with the smallest number of notes in the shortest space. There was a slight pause. ‘I don’t want any of that Greenaway s—.'”
“Jane Campion called me. We had never met, so I asked, ‘Why me?’ She said she thought I was the one who could present a visual emotional world with the smallest number of notes in the shortest space. There was a slight pause. ‘I don’t want any of that Greenaway s—.’”
Read the full article »Animation Site Cartoon Brew On Why It Doesn’t Cover Crowdfunding Projects
Animation Site Cartoon Brew On Why It Doesn’t Cover Crowdfunding Projects
Read the full article »Bradshaw On Watching Films In The Digital Age
Bradshaw On Watching Films In The Digital Age
Read the full article »20W2O: 29 Weeks To Go
Did You Know?: Six of the last seven Best Picture winners had their North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival? And the one that didn’t had its US junket over the last weekend of TIFF that year?
And, of course, six of the seven BP winners before that had nothing to do with TIFF. Things change. So don’t get overly locked into one idea of how these seasons go.
Read the full article » 24 Comments »Chris Marker Was Supposed To Outlive Us All
“Marker’s restless Whitmanesque ability to witness-to observe and catalog people and events-adds an undeniable gravity to his reflections and pronouncements. What’s equally remarkable, however, is his buoyancy.” Chris Marker Was Supposed To Outlive Us All
Read the full article »How Documentary Pioneer Humphrey Jennings Influenced Olympic Ceremony’s “Pandaemonium” And “Isles of Wonder”
How Documentary Pioneer Humphrey Jennings Influenced Olympic Ceremony’s “Pandaemonium” And “Isles of Wonder”
Read the full article »“I vaguely remember in my childhood Gene Siskel talking about the occupational hazard of being a critic, which was that sometimes he had to watch three movies a day.”
“I vaguely remember in my childhood Gene Siskel talking about the occupational hazard of being a critic, which was that sometimes he had to watch three movies a day.”
Read the full article »So Paul Thomas Anderson Made The Master In 70mm. But What If There Are No Theaters, Or As In Chicago, The Only 70mm-Capable Theater Is Booked?
So Paul Thomas Anderson Made The Master In 70mm. But What If There Are No Theaters, Or As In Chicago, The Only 70mm-Capable Theater Is Booked?
Read the full article »“Marker did the one thing that he cultivated with an unyielding devotion. In so doing, he left on the history of cinema, and on history as such, a mark more enduring and decisive than that of mere personality. He made his own conscience, of the cinema as the living embodiment of history, into the conscience of his time—and, now that he’s not here, of future times already.”
“Marker did the one thing that he cultivated with an unyielding devotion. In so doing, he left on the history of cinema, and on history as such, a mark more enduring and decisive than that of mere personality. He made his own conscience, of the cinema as the living embodiment of history, into the conscience of…
Read the full article »Singer Actor Tony Martin, 98, One Of The Last Of The Golden Era Musical Stars
Singer Actor Tony Martin, 98, Widower Of Cyd Charisse And One Of The Last Of The Golden Era Musical Stars
Read the full article »“Mr. Martin represented an earlier fantasy, stemming from the 19th-century European operettas and musicals, that of the impossibly elegant troubadour warbling to equally elegant (and mythical) audiences at nightclubs and balls. In the 1940s Mr. Martin was to popular song what Fred Astaire was to dance.”
“Mr. Martin represented an earlier fantasy, stemming from the 19th-century European operettas and musicals, that of the impossibly elegant troubadour warbling to equally elegant (and mythical) audiences at nightclubs and balls. In the 1940s Mr. Martin was to popular song what Fred Astaire was to dance.”
Read the full article »Colorado Shooting Victims Wear Batman T-Shirts To Alleged Mass Murderer’s Hearing
Colorado Shooting Victims Wear Batman T-Shirts To Alleged Mass Murderer’s Hearing
Read the full article »Irish Writer Maeve Binchy Was 72; Sold 40 Million Books; Adaptations Include 1995 Circle Of Friends
Irish Writer Maeve Binchy Was 72; Sold 40 Million Books; Adaptations Include 1995 Circle Of Friends
Read the full article »Lido Preem For The Master
Lido Preem For The Master
Read the full article »Iran May Boycott Venice Over Euro Oil Sanctions
Iran May Boycott Venice Over Euro Oil Sanctions
Read the full article »Hobbit To Be Trilogy
Hobbit To Be Trilogy
Read the full article »A 2003 David Thomson Making-Of-Memory Of Chris Marker
A 2003 David Thomson Making-Of-Memory Of Chris Marker
Read the full article »CHRIS MARKER WAS 91
CHRIS MARKER, ON HIS 91ST BIRTHDAY A Markeredly Minimalist Music Video Marker Made In 2011
Read the full article »“I am writing to you from a far country…”
“I am writing to you from a far country…”
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