Movie City News Archive for May, 2015
Netflix Faces Obstacles In Entering China Market
Netflix Faces Obstacles In Entering China Market
Read the full article »Chinese Filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai Says It’s The Worst Of Times For Chinese Indies
Chinese Filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai Says It’s The Worst Of Times For Chinese Indies
Read the full article »Vanity Fair’s Forever-Editor Says The Mag Will “Think Like A Start-Up”
Vanity Fair’s Forever-Editor Says The Mag Will “Think Like A Start-Up”
Read the full article »“Part of the reason Aloha works is because Crowe never holds back: he is never less than 100% committed to really Going For It, which doesn’t necessarily mean an endless series of epiphanies, and it’s certainly not all about love. Whether you find this charming, cloying or both is a little irrelevant: rote connective tissue is systematically rejected for something more aggressive.”
“Part of the reason Aloha works is because Crowe never holds back: he is never less than 100% committed to really Going For It, which doesn’t necessarily mean an endless series of epiphanies, and it’s certainly not all about love. Whether you find this charming, cloying or both is a little irrelevant: rote connective tissue…
Read the full article »Review: Aloha (non-spoiler)
There should be no pleasure in tearing down the work of a mighty and sincere aesthetic warrior. Cameron Crowe is one such warrior. It would be easy, if lazy, to compare him to other greats who disintegrated before our eyes, their personal visions somehow muddled by too much success, too much money, too many years. But Aloha doesn’t feel like that to me. It feels like something that has ambition to spare, but an utter inability to tie all of its disparate strands together.
Read the full article » 26 Comments »SLAMDANCE LOOKS FORWARD, GROWING YEAR ROUND ENTERPRISES
Submissions open for the 2016 Film Festival, Slamdance Alumni returns for Manager Position, and programs expand through Slamdance Cinema Club, Slamdance Studios on HULU, and beyond (LOS ANGELES, CA—May 29, 2015) Following last year’s record breaking submission numbers, Slamdance Film Festival is now open for 2016 entries with a new program called DIG and the return of…
Read the full article »Kyle Buchanan Marks The 10th Anniversary Of Leonardo DiCaprio Going From “Twink” To “Twunk”
Kyle Buchanan Marks The 10th Anniversary Of Leonardo DiCaprio Going From “Twink” To “Twunk”
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: Magician: Orson Welles, The Confession and more
In the stage and cinema works of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, it wasn’t always easy for postwar German audiences to differentiate between social satire, parody and provocation. The same holds true for his legacy on film, outside Germany. In a career that lasted 16 years, he was responsible for writing, directing and acting in nearly 50 movies, shorts and TV mini-series, as well as continuing to create Brechtian theater pieces. After beginning his career in the late 1960s making films that ranged from experimental to difficult, Fassbinder would turn to the Hollywood melodramas of German émigré Douglas Sirk for creative inspiration.
Read the full article »Thelma Adams And John Waters Have A Small Sit-down
“I want to enter someone else’s life and learn something. A lot of gay men have boyfriends that look like them. Mine are never age-appropriate. Most of my men friends that are successful in the arts do not have age-appropriate boyfriends.When you’re 68, 40s are young. Things work or they don’t.” Thelma Adams And John…
Read the full article »Wally Cassell, 103, Bad Guy In White Heat, Never Had A Fight With His Wife
Wally Cassell, 103, Bad Guy In White Heat, Never Had A Fight With His Wife
Read the full article »Sony Puts First 8 Minutes Of Aloha Online
Sony Puts First 8 Minutes Of Aloha Online
Read the full article »Peak Netflix Consumes Up To 37% Of All Internet Bandwidth, More Than Amazon, Hulu And YouTube Combined
Peak Netflix Consumes Up To 37% Of All Internet Bandwidth, More Than Amazon, Hulu And YouTube Combined
Read the full article »A. O. Scott Misses Cameron Crowe, Still
“Everybody is too eager to forgive, forget and move on. I guess that goes for me too.” A. O. Scott Misses Cameron Crowe, Still
Read the full article »“His “love letter” to Hawaii feels about as authentic as a mainlander’s #TBT to that one exotic Oahu vacay years ago, sipping Mai Tais on the beach at sunset while watching the hula show.”
“His “love letter” to Hawaii feels about as authentic as a mainlander’s #TBT to that one exotic Oahu vacay years ago, sipping Mai Tais on the beach at sunset while watching the hula show.”
Read the full article »“Aloha is one of those films whose characters behave and speak so irrationally that they no longer make any human sense at all. Crowe may have had us at hello, but he’s losing us with Aloha.”
“Aloha is one of those films whose characters behave and speak so irrationally that they no longer make any human sense at all. Crowe may have had us at hello, but he’s losing us with Aloha.”
Read the full article »“Even with its off-balance, overstuffed storytelling, the film maintains a charm and energy that never flags, with brisk pacing and generally engaging performances from its deep-bench cast.”
“Even with its off-balance, overstuffed storytelling, the film maintains a charm and energy that never flags, with brisk pacing and generally engaging performances from its deep-bench cast.”
Read the full article »After Release Of Doc Critical Of Putin Friend, 33-Year-Old Russian Activist In Coma
“We are now in such a phase with Russia, you never know what really can happen.” After Release Of Doc Critical Of Putin Friend, 33-Year-Old Russian Activist In Coma
Read the full article »“The Cinema Isn’t A Place, It’s An Idea”: Richard Brody’s Thoughts After NYT’s New Review Policy
“The Cinema Isn’t A Place, It’s An Idea”: Richard Brody‘s Thoughts After NYT’s New Review Policy
Read the full article »“The Douchebag Factor: Why The Entourage Movie Is Bound To Fail”
“The Douchebag Factor: Why The Entourage Movie Is Bound To Fail”
Read the full article »Cameron Crowe Talks Movie Music
Cameron Crowe Talks Movie Music
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