Movie City News Archive for October, 2014
On The High-Low Personal Style Of Spike JOnze
On The High-Low Personal Style Of The 44-Year-Old Spike Jonze
Read the full article »Regal Entertainment Theater Circuit Exploring Sale
Regal Entertainment Theater Circuit Exploring Sale
Read the full article »Anne Thompson Offers Her 6 Reasons Interstellar Might Not Be An Oscar Slam-Dunk
Anne Thompson Offers Her 6 Reasons Interstellar Might Not Be An Oscar “Slam-Dunk”
Read the full article »Mike Leigh Regards Mike Leigh
“On the whole I kind of quite like my films without watching them every night like Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. But I do actually think they are alright. A lot of filmmakers say ‘I can’t watch myself’ and, very often it is because the film that got made isn’t the film they wanted to…
Read the full article »James Schamus Holds Court And Challenges Bits ‘O Conventional Wisdom About Making Movies
James Schamus Holds Court And Challenges Bits ‘O Conventional Wisdom About Making Movies
Read the full article »Michael Sragow On His Life As A Film Cricket
Michael Sragow On His Life As A Film Cricket
Read the full article »“There Are Things You Don’t Know About” John Lurie Painting
“There Are Things You Don’t Know About” John Lurie Painting
Read the full article »Ed Norton On Why $40 Makes Him Proud
Ed Norton On Why $40 Makes Him Proud
Read the full article »Julianne Moore Sez She Did Hunger Games For Her Kids
Julianne Moore Sez She Did Hunger Games For Her Kids
Read the full article »Cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth Talks Shooting Digital And Working With David Fincher
Cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth Talks Shooting Digital And Working With David Fincher
Read the full article »James Quandt On Jacques Tati As “Scatterbrained Angel”
James Quandt On Jacques Tati As “Scatterbrained Angel”
Read the full article »Martinis, Sushi And A Movie In SoCal
Martinis, Sushi And A Movie In SoCal
Read the full article »CBC Fires Leading Talk Host Jian Ghomeshi Over Sex Allegations: Star Explicit On Content
CBC Fires Leading Talk Host Jian Ghomeshi Over Sex Allegations: Star Explicit On Content “We talked about using safe words and regularly checked in with each other about our comfort levels. “ And – Ghomeshi Seemingly Pulls Few Punches In 1,600 Words On The Content Of The Allegations
Read the full article »Review: Interstellar (non-spoiler)
I don’t really want to write this review.
Read the full article » 76 Comments »The Weekend Report
Audiences proved game for Ouija and placed it at the top of the charts with an estimated $20.1 million. That left the session’s other incoming wide release, actioner John Wick, with the consolation prize of $14.2 million. In regional release, inspirational high school football yarn 23 Blast failed to score with a $347,000 tally from 617 scrimmages. Another flood of incoming exclusives provided a few encouraging (and better) results including Swedish Oscar submission Force Majeure that entered with $23,400 from two screens. The American indie comedy Laggies also opened well with $81,700 at six sites and the Edward Snowden affair provided Citizenfour with an excellent $117,000 box office from five engagements.
Read the full article »Citizenfour’s Laura Poitras Sez “Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies”
Citizenfour‘s Laura Poitras Sez “Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies”
Read the full article »The Great Wild World Over There: What’s The Fate Of Ray Bradbury’s Los Angeles Home?
The Great Wild World Over There: What’s The Fate Of Ray Bradbury’s Los Angeles Home?
Read the full article »Emanuel Lubezki Goes Behind The Birdman Scenes With Prize Pics
Emanuel Lubezki Goes Behind The Birdman Scenes With Prize Pics
Read the full article »Larry Rohter On The Glen Campbell-Alzheimer’s Doc, I’ll Be Me
Larry Rohter On The Glen Campbell-Alzheimer’s Doc, I’ll Be Me
Read the full article »David Cronenberg On What Makes A Good Screenwriter
“The only thing that goes directly on the screen is the dialogue and the narrative structure. You can be a terrible writer, but if you write good dialogue and have a good sense of narrative structure, you can be a good screenwriter and still be functionally illiterate, which a lot of good screenwriters in my…
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