Movie City News Archive for August, 2012
“Phillipson suggested that women bring copies of the trilogy to burn alongside an effigy of Christian Grey. ‘People have said we are total lunatic fascists for wanting to burn a book. But is there something sacred about it, or is it just rubbish?'”
“Phillipson suggested that women bring copies of the trilogy to burn alongside an effigy of Christian Grey. ‘People have said we are total lunatic fascists for wanting to burn a book. But is there something sacred about it, or is it just rubbish?’”
Read the full article »“There’s an assumption that Nazis are the only people who burn books. What we are saying is: this book is rubbish and we would like to reduce it to ashes.”
“There’s an assumption that Nazis are the only people who burn books. What we are saying is: this book is rubbish and we would like to reduce it to ashes.”
Read the full article »Living Quadrophenia
Living Quadrophenia
Read the full article »The New Yorker On Neil Armstrong
The New Yorker On Neil Armstrong Anthony Lane, 2012 and E. B. White, 1969
Read the full article »Nick Cave On Making “True Myth” Like Lawless
Nick Cave On Making “True Myth” Like Lawless
Read the full article »Documenting Ann Richards’ Texas
Documenting Ann Richards’ Texas
Read the full article »Hari Kunzru On Werner Herzog, “The Present Director”
Hari Kunzru On Werner Herzog, “The Present Director”
Read the full article »Michael Apted On Yet Another Squashed Stones Doc
Michael Apted On Yet Another Squashed Stones Doc
Read the full article »In Rush To Bash Premium, La Finke Fails To Note Producer Polone’s Call For Her Banishment From Polite Discourse
“Guess it sucks to be Polone these days. Maybe he should make his day job writing that lame blog.” In Rush To Bash Premium, La Finke Fails To Note Producer Polone’s Call For Her Banishment From Polite Discourse
Read the full article »“I think Nikki Finke’s manner of writing nasty personal attacks, threatening people, and exhibiting general incivility is unacceptable, and I am asking those who read this to ‘unfavorite’ Deadline from their browser, read it less often, and stop tipping her when they have a story until such time as she has begun to adhere to a more professional practice of journalism.”
Earlier – “I think Nikki Finke’s manner of writing nasty personal attacks, threatening people, and exhibiting general incivility is unacceptable, and I am asking those who read this to ‘unfavorite’ Deadline from their browser, read it less often, and stop tipping her when they have a story until such time as she has begun to…
Read the full article »SLEEPWALK WITH ME Scores at IFC CENTER, Breaking an Overall First-time Filmmaker Screen Average Record and the House Record
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 26, 2012 – NY – Mike Birbiglia’s SLEEPWALK WITH ME scored a superb opening this weekend with $65,000 at NY’s IFC Center breaking the house record by a large margin and driving a stellar overall weekend for the theater – one of its biggest weekends ever. The SLEEPWALK WITH ME gross …
Read the full article »Bruni On Compliance, “An Essential Parable Of Human Gullibility”
“In order to have a pleasant life, you have to be able to trust that people are who they say they are. And if you questioned everything you heard, you’d never get anything done.” Bruni On Compliance, “An Essential Parable Of Human Gullibility”
Read the full article »And – Glenn Greenwald On “Authoritarian Desire”
And – Glenn Greenwald On “Authoritarian Desire”
Read the full article »Sony Goes B’wy Musical, Starting With Tootsie
Sony Goes B’wy Musical, Starting With Tootsie
Read the full article »India Starts Selective, Politically-Motivated Crackdown On Internet
India Starts Selective, Politically-Motivated Crackdown On Internet; Number Of Daily Text Messages Allowed Set At 20
Read the full article »The Weekend Report
The Expendables 2 coined an estimated $13.3 million to once again take top spot on the weekend movie going chart. The trio of new national releases didn’t get much more than a toe-hold on audience interest. Premium Rush carried on the tradition of 1986’s Quicksilver as it peddled into eighth with $6.3 million despite allegations of doping while Hit and Run skidded on the rail with $5.7 million. The horror entry The Apparition had a semblance of $2.9 million.
Read the full article »Wilmington on Movies: Samsara
One of the tasks of art is to create beauty. (I’ll call it a sacred task, since I lived most of my life with an artist and treasure her memory, and it‘s what she would have said.) Another is to reveal the truth, or to give us both, together. I wouldn’t be so pretentious as to say that Samsara achieves all or any of these. But it tries. Honor to it then, and praise to all cinema that reveals a world to us — worlds upon worlds, the wheels of death and the Wheel of Life as well.
Read the full article »Colin Farrell, No Longer The “Wild One”
Colin Farrell, No Longer The “Wild One”
Read the full article »Animator Ken Walker, 91, Worked At Disney, More
Animator Ken Walker, 91, Worked At Disney, More
Read the full article »James Fogle, 75, Incarcerated Career Criminal Who Wrote Drugstore Cowboy
“His characters were so perfectly real. He was a pretty good writer who could channel his own experiences.” James Fogle, 75, Incarcerated Career Criminal Who Wrote Drugstore Cowboy
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