Movie City News Archive for June, 2014
Music Producer Rick Rubin Talks About The Advantage Of Big Companies
Music Producer Rick Rubin Talks About The Advantage Of Big Companies
Read the full article »Inside The Mind Of BBC Serial Pedophile Jimmy Saville
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Read the full article »Novelist Tim Kinsella On The Life Of Actress Laurie Bird
“I wanted to write like a Kurt Vonnegut or Richard Brautigan style novel, one in which the narrator is a funny mope.” Novelist Tim Kinsella On The Life Of Actress Laurie Bird
Read the full article »“Michael Bay has perfected a new kind of cinema. It’s hard to decide if it feels more like five movies randomly compressed into one or a 20-minute short bloated to eight times its original length. Scenes begin and end at random; days and nights pass without notice; characters jump around like board-game pieces shifted by an unruly child. It’s not incompetent so much as supercompetent, transcending mortal concerns like coherence and causation.”
“Michael Bay has perfected a new kind of cinema. It’s hard to decide if it feels more like five movies randomly compressed into one or a 20-minute short bloated to eight times its original length. Scenes begin and end at random; days and nights pass without notice; characters jump around like board-game pieces shifted by…
Read the full article »Joe Roth Offloads His Stock-Still Revolution Studios For A Cool Quarter-Billion
Joe Roth Offloads His Stock-Still Revolution Studios For A Cool Quarter-Billion
Read the full article »“Nostalgia for one’s youth forms much of the nostalgia for picture houses, which, in the movies is often elegiac.”
“Nostalgia for one’s youth forms much of the nostalgia for picture houses, which, in the movies is often elegiac.”
Read the full article »Huber On The Death Of Brilliant Documentarian Michael Glawogger
Huber On The Death Of Brilliant, Cosmopolitan Documentarian Michael Glawogger
Read the full article »“As we near Issue 60 (by which point maybe we’ll have attracted our 60th subscriber), the end is not in sight just yet. Nor are there any major new plans in the works, as I’m perfectly pleased to keep on doing what we’ve been doing, for as long as it makes sense financially and artistically. And that, as far as I’m concerned, is a gesture of independence that’s good enough. Don’t read this magazine with high expectations, though, because you’ll only get disappointed.”
“As we near Issue 60 (by which point maybe we’ll have attracted our 60th subscriber), the end is not in sight just yet. Nor are there any major new plans in the works, as I’m perfectly pleased to keep on doing what we’ve been doing, for as long as it makes sense financially and artistically….
Read the full article »Canadian Filmmaker John Greyson Calls On Prime Minister To Help Journos Out Of Egyptian Prison The Way He Helped Him
Canadian Filmmaker John Greyson Calls On Prime Minister To Help Journos Out Of Egyptian Prison The Way He Helped Him
Read the full article »Chicago Rahm Will Go To Court To Give Lakefront Property To George Lucas Imperial Museum; “Contaminated Soil” And “Permanent De-Watering” Among Issues
Chicago Rahm Will Go To Court To Give Lakefront Property To George Lucas Imperial Museum; “Contaminated Soil” And “Permanent De-Watering” Among Issues
Read the full article »The Chicago Int’l Film Festival Turns 50
Celebrating 50 years of making Chicago an international destination for acclaimed filmmakers, bold new directors and lovers of cinema, the Chicago International Film Festival returnsOctober 9 – 23, 2014. The anniversary celebration will kick off with an Opening Night Gala presentation at the Harris Theater (205 E. Randolph St.), followed by a Golden Anniversary celebration at the…
Read the full article »Shone Sez Brando “Broke The Movies”
Shone Sez Brando “Broke The Movies”
Read the full article »Labuza Pictures Louis CK, Hong Sang-Soo And “The End Of Men”
Labuza Pictures Louis CK, Hong Sang-Soo And “The End Of Men”
Read the full article »What’s The Best Chicago-Chicago Film Of 2014?
What’s The Best Chicago-Chicago Film Of 2014?
Read the full article »Academy Invites 271 To Membership
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 271 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2014. “This year’s class of invitees represents some of…
Read the full article »Kohn Has A Problem (Or Three) With The Transformers Franchise
Kohn Has A Problem (Or Three) With The Transformers Franchise
Read the full article »Nayman Essays Robert Greene And His Actress
Nayman Essays Robert Greene And His Actress
Read the full article »Google, The Populist?
Google, The Populist?
Read the full article »Tracklisting Boyhood, Which No Longer Has “Get Lucky” Or “Hey Ya” In Rotation
Tracklisting Boyhood, Which No Longer Has “Get Lucky” Or “Hey Ya” In Rotation
Read the full article »Anthropologist-Filmmaker Robert Gardner Was 88
Anthropologist-Filmmaker Robert Gardner Was 88
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