Movie City News Archive for December, 2012
Carr Reverse-Engineers A Year-End Column By Polling The Fortunes Of Mass Media Mavens From CNN To WB To NYT
Carr Reverse-Engineers A Year-End Column By Polling The Fortunes Of Mass Media Mavens From CNN To WB To NYT
Read the full article »Double Oscar-Winning Sound Editor Mike Hopkins, 53, In NZ Rafting Mishap
Double Oscar-Winning Sound Editor Mike Hopkins, 53, In NZ Rafting Mishap
Read the full article »TribCo To Emerge From Bankruptcy Monday; Focus On Broadcasting Expected
“Eventually, all the assets are expected to be sold, according to the new owners.” TribCo To Emerge From Bankruptcy Monday; Focus On Broadcasting Expected
Read the full article »Critics Top Tens Update
The first 100 lists and Zero Dark Thirty leads the Top Tens by a significant margin. Further down the list, The Dark Knight Rises and The Sessions move into the Top 20, and The Master makes a leap forward. Still lots more lists to come …
Read the full article »Thomson Sez Amour Is A Good Excuse For Him To Belittle Or Dismiss Every Other 2012 Film
Thomson Sez Amour Is A Good Excuse For Him To Belittle Or Dismiss Every Other 2012 Film
Read the full article »Ain’t It Cool News Changes Its Comment System But Still Brandishes 1996 Geocities Page Design
“We’ve taken care of the problems that have drug AICN down… I honestly miss the simplicity of the hard HTML pages I used to upload to an FTP.” Ain’t It Cool News Changes Its Comment System But Still Brandishes 1996 Geocities Page Design
Read the full article »The Salesman-Documentarian Who Postponed A Lexus Buy For A Variety FYC Oscar Ad
The Salesman-Documentarian Who Postponed A Lexus Buy For A Variety FYC Oscar Ad
Read the full article »Christian Slater-Starrer Grosses $264
Christian Slater-Starrer Grosses $264
Read the full article »O’Hehir On The Purists, Puritans And The Rending Of Hairshirts Over Zero Dark Thirty
“Reducing the debate to MSNBC vs. Fox News partisan politics, or discussions about what kind of intelligence gathering yielded which results, strikes me as reductive tribal thinking. The debate about Zero Dark Thirty opens up all kinds of other overlapping questions of fact and interpretation–and also about the uses and limitations of art, and the powerful…
Read the full article »Mike Kaplan On The Master And Kubrick
Mike Kaplan On The Master And Kubrick
Read the full article »Bush Admin CIA Director Hayden Offers Personal Intel And Disinfo On Zero Dark Thirty
Bush Admin CIA Director Hayden Offers Personal Intel And Disinfo On Zero Dark Thirty; Seems Skeptical Of Obama Admin CIA
Read the full article »Meghan Daum Has A Poop Over This Is 40
Meghan Daum Has A Poop Over This Is 40
Read the full article »25 Animated GIFs Of Jennifer Lawrence’s 2012 In Quotes
25 Animated GIFs Of Jennifer Lawrence’s 2012 In Quotes
Read the full article »Wilmington on Movies: Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained—his most entertaining movie since Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown and a movie of almost inspired tastelessness—pulls us into a movie land that movie buff Tarantino knows well: the world of mid-to-late ’60s-early ’70s Italian spaghetti Westerns—a roost ruled by director Sergio Leone and star Clint Eastwood with their “Man With No Name” Trilogy, but also home to a variety of trashy offshoots by men with lesser names.
Read the full article » 1 Comment »“Al’s a god. You’re lucky to be in a room with him for two hours. Give me a break. There are nights when I watch that guy from the side of the stage and I weep. He’s one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema and he’s astonishing on stage. I think they’re taking cheap shots. Al’s one of the great storytellers ever. You get to be in a room with him for two hours. Be quiet.”
“Al’s a god. You’re lucky to be in a room with him for two hours. Give me a break. There are nights when I watch that guy from the side of the stage and I weep. He’s one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema and he’s astonishing on stage. I think they’re…
Read the full article »Teri Shields & Brooke Shields Against The World
Teri Shields & Brooke Shields Against The World
Read the full article »John Lithgow On This Is 40, Lying About Your Age, And Attending Harvard With Tommy Lee Jones And Terrence Malick
John Lithgow On This Is 40, Lying About Your Age And Attending Harvard With Tommy Lee Jones And Terrence Malick
Read the full article »The Rediscovery Of Roger Christian’s George Lucas-Financed Short, Black Angel
The Rediscovery Of Roger Christian’s George Lucas-Financed Sword And Sorcery Short, Black Angel
Read the full article »Nicholas Jarecki On His Toughest Scene To Write In Arbitrage
Nicholas Jarecki On His Toughest Scene To Write In Arbitrage
Read the full article »Is The Intouchables’ Omar Sy France’s Most Popular Person?
Is The Intouchables‘ Omar Sy France’s Most Popular Person?
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