Movie City News Archive for July, 2015
Awards Season-Favorite BevHills Aidikoff Screening Room To Close This Week
Awards Season-Favorite BevHills Aidikoff Screening Room To Close This Week
Read the full article »Ty Burr Zapruders The Sandra Bland Arrest Video
Ty Burr Zapruders Sandra Bland Arrest Video
Read the full article »Looking At The Latest Monopoly Accusations Against Amazon
Looking At The Latest Monopoly Accusations Against Amazon
Read the full article »True Crime Writer Ann Rule Was 83
True Crime Writer Ann Rule Was 83
Read the full article »William Hurt Looks Back 30 Years To The Kiss Of The Spider Woman
William Hurt Looks Back 30 Years To The Kiss Of The Spider Woman
Read the full article »NYFF Centerpieces Steve Jobs Biopic
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the selection of Steve Jobs, written by Academy Award® winner Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, Charlie Wilson’s War) and directed by Academy Award® winner Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours), as the Centerpiece of the upcoming 53rd New York Film Festival (September 25 – October 11), to…
Read the full article »Steve Dollar Measures The Merit Of The Look Of Silence
Steve Dollar Measures The Merit Of The Look Of Silence
Read the full article »Not Only Are Women Agh, Mad For Gad In Pixels, Most Have No Dialogue
“Who would have guessed a movie based on 80s throwback video games could wind up more sexist than 80s movies?” Not Only Are Women Agh, Mad For Gad In Pixels, Most Have No Dialogue
Read the full article »Jon Ronson On Muslim-American Typecasting In Hw’d
Jon Ronson On Muslim-American Typecasting In Hw’d
Read the full article »Novelist-Journalist Teju Cole Calls Out “Rape Culture”
Novelist-Journalist Teju Cole Calls Out “Rape Culture”
Read the full article »“What We Lose When Movie Theaters Aren’t Safe,” By Alyssa Rosenberg
“What We Lose When Movie Theaters Aren’t Safe,” By Alyssa Rosenberg “I believe that, with all my heart, that if you have the citizens who are well trained, and particularly in these places that are considered to be gun-free zones, that we can stop that type of activity, or stop it before there’s as many…
Read the full article »Peter Strickland On The Glory Days Of London’s Scala Cinema
“The Scala was voluptuously atmospheric as a cinema and the act of entering its dimension felt akin to an illicit, lowlife ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ as if written by William Burroughs. I loved the dusty squalor of the auditorium along with other pungent aromas. It was the closest my generation got to the U.S. grindhouse.” Filmmaker…
Read the full article »Tim Herlihy Has Made Adam Sandler Laugh For Twenty Years
Tim Herlihy Has Made Adam Sandler Laugh For Twenty Years
Read the full article »GQ Cherrypicks 5 David Foster Wallace Essays You Can Find Online To Prepare For The End Of The Tour
GQ Cherrypicks 5 David Foster Wallace Essays You Can Find Online To Prepare For The End Of The Tour
Read the full article »Ottawa’s Gladstone Theater Yours For A Mere $C995,000
Ottawa’s Gladstone Theater Yours For A Mere $C995,000
Read the full article »“An Open Letter To Mongrel Media” By A. A. Dowd
“No, I didn’t call your shitty movie a ‘comedic masterstroke.’” “An Open Letter To Mongrel Media” By A. A. Dowd
Read the full article »Car Crash On Way To The Starlite Drive-In Takes St. Louis Post-Dispatch Film Critic Joe Williams, 56
“He loved the movies, he loved the paper and he loved his friends.” Car Crash On Way To The Starlite Drive-In Takes St. Louis Post-Dispatch Film Critic Joe Williams, 56
Read the full article »Why Do Trailer-Makers Choose To Spoil Major Plot Points?
“If someone’s going to pay $20 to go on opening weekend to see this movie, they want to know that they are making a pretty good investment.” Why Do Trailer-Makers Choose To Spoil Major Plot Points?
Read the full article »Southpaw Leads Charge Of China-Financed American Pictures
“They were on the set and involved in production, postproduction, marketing, everything. They wanted to learn how we do what we do.” Southpaw Leads Charge Of China-Financed American Pictures, Many Under Supervision Of Former Studio Heads Like Robinov And Schamus
Read the full article »British Censors Bar Diary Of A Teenage Girl From Teenage Girls
British Censors Bar Diary Of A Teenage Girl From Teenage Girls
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