Movie City News Archive for December, 2014
Art Of The Title Illustrates 10 Best Credit Sequences Of 2014
Art Of The Title Illustrates 10 Best Credit Sequences Of 2014
Read the full article »London Kino Death Knell: Gov’t To Demolish Curzon Soho Arthouse For Railway Ticket Booth
London Kino Death Knell Gov’t To Demolish Flagship Curzon Soho Arthouse For Railway Ticket Booth But Will First Be A Construction Depot For A Decade
Read the full article »Why There’s No Familiar MLK Oratory Is In Selma: The Speeches Are Tightly Held Under Copyright And Licensed To DreamWorks
“We never even asked, because we knew those rights are already gone, they’re with Spielberg.” Why There’s No Familiar MLK Oratory Is In Selma: The Speeches Are Tightly Held Under Copyright And Licensed To DreamWorks
Read the full article »FBI Briefed On Alternative Analysis That Says A Fired Employee, Not North Korea, Fashioned Sony Hack
FBI Briefed On Alternative Analysis That Says A Fired Employee, Not North Korea, Fashioned Sony Hack
Read the full article »“Bottom line is folks should interrogate history. Don’t take my word for it or LBJ rep’s word for it. Let it come alive for yourself. #Selma.”
“Bottom line is folks should interrogate history. Don’t take my word for it or LBJ rep’s word for it. Let it come alive for yourself. #Selma.”
Read the full article »Oscar Double-Winner Luise Rainer Was 104
Oscar Double-Winner Luise Rainer Was 104 And – More From EW
Read the full article »“I love talking about The Imitation Game, and three-minute slots is a really ugly way to do it. I’m shit at that. I would never be good at Twitter. When there’s actually somebody going like [wrap-it-up gesture], I’m fearing that, so I just keep talking and keep talking, keep answering, to give the journalist as much as possible, even if only 20 seconds gets used. But it’s exhausting and frustrating. Why the fuck can’t we syndicate interviews? I don’t mind the slog. I want as many people to get it and hear about [the movie], and for me to promote it. I just wish there was a more inventive or unique way of doing it sometimes.”
“I love talking about The Imitation Game, and three-minute slots is a really ugly way to do it. I’m shit at that. I would never be good at Twitter. It’s exhausting and frustrating. I just wish there was a more inventive or unique way of doing it sometimes.”
Read the full article »A Peek At How Selma Portrays Lyndon Johnson
A Peek At How Selma Portrays Lyndon Johnson 1’00”
Read the full article »20 Weeks To Oscar: History Is Written By…
I don’t care whether Selma is a work of precise historical accuracy. I do care how it makes me and other audiences feel, how it makes us think, what it has to say. This is just as true of The Interview and American Sniper and Foxcatcher and The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything and Unbroken and Big Eyes and The Penguins of Madagascar.
Read the full article » 7 Comments »“o less than an inside-Hollywood drama or a backstage musical, “Selma” tears away the curtain on the making of images—indeed, some of the most important images in American history. The movie tells the story of how these images were made, and shows the colossal sacrifices endured in the effort to make them. It’s a movie about history and the creation of history—and, in the process, it takes its own place in history.”
“No less than an inside-Hollywood drama or a backstage musical, Selma tears away the curtain on the making of images—indeed, some of the most important images in American history. The movie tells the story of how these images were made, and shows the colossal sacrifices endured in the effort to make them. It’s a movie…
Read the full article »Elissa Bassist & Cheryl Strayed On “How to Write Like a Mother#^@%*&”
Elissa Bassist & Cheryl Strayed On “How to Write Like a Mother#^@%*&”
Read the full article »Mark Pellington Releases A Fine New Short, Honest
Mark Pellington Releases A Fine New Short, Honesty 8’59”
Read the full article »Adrian Curry On The 1970s And 1980s Movie Poster Designs Of Robert Tanenbaum, Including A Christmas Story, My Bodyguard, A Boy And His Dog
Adrian Curry On The 1970s And 1980s Movie Poster Designs Of Robert Tanenbaum, Including A Christmas Story, My Bodyguard, A Boy And His Dog
Read the full article »Director Rupert Wyatt On His Move From Apes To The Gambler To “Echo Chamber”
“A successful franchise gives you enormous value. But it gives you enormous value only to do the same thing.” Director Rupert Wyatt On His Move From Apes To The Gambler To “Echo Chamber”
Read the full article »Kermode On Anderson
“Somehow it ends up being so deep, meaningful and soulful. I don’t know how he does it. There’s not many people that can do that–have that many jokes and that much humanity. Usually one or the other wins out. But Pynchon’s got it all.” Kermode On Anderson
Read the full article »Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Revels In Rash Of 2014 Film Productions That Rolled In The ‘Burgh
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Revels In Rash Of 2014 Film Productions That Rolled In The ‘Burgh
Read the full article »Adrian Shaughnessy On The Art Of Print Posters For Movies
Adrian Shaughnessy On The Art Of Print Posters For Movies
Read the full article »Lee Daniels On How Working In TV Is Different From Film (Without Abandoning Film)
Lee Daniels On How Working In TV Is Different From Film (Without Abandoning Film)
Read the full article »Glenn Kenny Sez Cinema 2014, Despite A Spirited Attack, Failed To Strangle Daddy Patriarchy
Glenn Kenny Sez Cinema 2014, Despite A Spirited Attack, Failed To Strangle Daddy Patriarchy
Read the full article »David Carr Media-Equates 2015 Trouble For Movie Studios, Chains, Viacom CEO, Time Inc.,MSNBC, NBC News And The CEO Of The New York Times Co.
David Carr Media-Equates 2015 Trouble For Movie Studios, Chains, Viacom CEO, Time Inc., MSNBC, NBC News And The CEO Of The New York Times Co.
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