Movie City News Archive for June, 2015
Jason Bailey Offers “A Children’s Treasury Of Male Readers Telling Female Film Critics What They Can’t Review”
Jason Bailey Offers “A Children’s Treasury Of Male Readers Telling Female Film Critics What They Can’t Review”
Read the full article »Cosby Legals Say Unsealing Court Docs Would Be “Terribly Embarrassing”
Cosby Legals Say Unsealing Court Docs Would Be “Terribly Embarrassing”
Read the full article »Lou Lumenick On An Amazon Run On Gone With The Wind
Lou Lumenick On An Amazon Run On Gone With The Wind
Read the full article »Disney World Bans Selfie Sticks
Disney World Bans Selfie Sticks
Read the full article »Friday Box Office Estimates
Inside Out again leads Friday with Jurassic Park nipping at its heels. Jurassic Park has held like a family movie through its first two weekends, so expectations will be for more of the same this frame. Ted 2, which was projected at $50 million early in the week, then $40 million in the last couple of days, is looking like it will come up short on both of those marks. And WB’s fifth release in seven weekends, a family dog movie called Max, could end up being right in the middle of the WB summer pack in terms of openings with anywhere from $11m – $14m, depending on how strongly it plays today with families.
Read the full article »Thirty Minutes With Francis Coppola, Again, On “The Future Of Cinema”
Thirty Minutes With Francis Coppola, Again, On “The Future Of Cinema” vid And – Steven Soderbergh Doesn’t Understand Filmmakers Who Don’t Embrace Technological Change 1’51” vid
Read the full article »GOP FCC Member Says “Internet Access Is Not A Necessity Or Human Right”
GOP FCC Member Says “Internet Access Is Not A Necessity Or Human Right”
Read the full article »“After the film, Winehouse’s famously voluble father Mitch pointed at the director and told him he was ‘a —-ing disgrace.’ Eight months later in a Soho hotel room, Asif Kapadia sighs: ‘It went downhill from there.'”
“After the film, Winehouse’s famously voluble father Mitch pointed at the director and told him he was ‘a —-ing disgrace.’ Eight months later in a Soho hotel room, Asif Kapadia sighs: ‘It went downhill from there.’”
Read the full article »Tom Shone’s Take On The Evolution Of The Summer Blockbuster
Tom Shone‘s Take On The Evolution Of The Summer Blockbuster
Read the full article »Rock Critic Richard Goldstein Looks Back With “Love And Sorrow” On Writing About The 1960s
Rock Critic Richard Goldstein Looks Back With “Love And Sorrow” On Writing About The 1960s
Read the full article »Netflix Viewing May Surpass ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC In 2015, Study Asserts
Netflix Viewing May Surpass ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC In 2015, Study Asserts
Read the full article »Academy Invites 233 New Members, Including Elizabeth Banks, Cumberbatch, Redmayne, Radcliffe, Hardy, John Carroll Lynch, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Dev Patel, Rosamund Pike, Jason Segal,Ryszard Lenczewsk, Jody Lee Lipes, Hoyte van Hoytema,Łukasz Żal, Michael Bender, Bong Joon-ho, Damien Chazelle, Kelly Reichardt, Ira Sachs, François Ozon, Tydum,Sissako, Lynn Shelton, Wayne Wang, Justin Lin, Edgar Wright, Urushadze, Szifron, Zvyagintsev,Geralyn Dreyfous, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Ondi Timoner, Gordon Quinn, Pirjo Honkasalo, Jesse Moss,Rick Famuyiwa, Alex de la Iglesia, Malcolm D. Lee, Paweł Pawlikowski, Dan Gilroy, Jinx Godfrey, Peter Teschner, Johnny Greenwood, Sergio Mendes,Jóhann Jóhannsson, Trent Reznor, Attitcus Ross, Effie T. Brown, Gina Kwon, Gordon Pattison, Jeff Hill, Chris Libby, Lee Ginsberg, Weiman Said, Susan Norget, Kevin Brownlow and Ted Sarandos
Academy Invites 233 New Members, Including Elizabeth Banks, Cumberbatch, Redmayne, Radcliffe, Hardy, John Carroll Lynch, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Dev Patel, Rosamund Pike, Jason Segal, Ryszard Lenczewsk, Jody Lee Lipes, Hoyte van Hoytema, Lukasz Żal, Michael Bender, Bong Joon-ho, Damien Chazelle, Kelly Reichardt, Ira Sachs, François Ozon, Tydum,Sissako, Lynn Shelton, Wayne Wang, Justin Lin, Edgar Wright, Urushadze,…
Read the full article »Academy Invites 233 New Members
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 322 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 2015. “It’s gratifying to acknowledge the extraordinary range of…
Read the full article »FSLC Salutes “Richard Lester: The Running Jumping Pop Cinema Iconoclast”
THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES RICHARD LESTER: THE RUNNING JUMPING POP CINEMA ICONOCLAST (AUGUST 7-13) Lineup includes classics A Hard Day’s Night, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Petulia, Robin and Marian, the U.S. Premiere of The Return of the Musketeers, and many more on 35mm New York, NY…
Read the full article »Bilge Ebiri In Prolix, Passionate Praise Of Amy Poehler’s Shoulders In Inside Out
Bilge Ebiri In Prolix, Passionate Praise Of Amy Poehler’s Shoulders In Inside Out
Read the full article »Lou Lumenick On Francis Coppola’s 3D “Nudie Cutie” Debut
Lou Lumenick On Francis Coppola’s 3D “Nudie Cutie” Debut
Read the full article »Why The Academy Changed Its Musical Live Performance Rule
Why The Academy Changed Its Musical Live Performance Rule
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: Timbuktu, The Bridge, Pit Stop, Dog Soldiers and more
When Kidane confronts the belligerent fisherman, the pistol he’s carrying to intimidate the man accidentally discharges, killing him. This sets off a series of events that puts Kidane in direct contact with the jihadists and their alternately severe and absurd interpretations of Sharia law. It outlaws music, dance, laughter, cigarettes and, even, the bare hands of women selling messy products in the market, while authorizing stoning adulterers to death, lashing outlawed musicians and accepting bribes and granting favors. Kidane’s biggest problem is his inability to come up with the compensation – 40 cows – ordered by the court, which includes a man who’s itching to steal the herdsman’s wife. If this was all Sissako gave us to ponder in Timbuktu, it would be an unbearable experience. Instead, he lightens the overall tone by demonstrating the determination of residents to get around the rules, even under the watchful eyes of the fanatics.
Read the full article »Anthony Breznican Weighs Whether Ava DuVernay Should Make A Marvel Movie
Anthony Breznican Weighs Whether Ava DuVernay Should Make A Marvel Movie
Read the full article »Candidates For Academy Board Of Governors Include Many Women, Minorities, Including DuVernay, Cholodenko, Littleton
Candidates For Academy Board Of Governors Include Many Women, Minorities, Including DuVernay, Cholodenko, Littleton
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