Movie City News Archive for August, 2016
What’s Up With Tronc’s Battle Against Gannett Bid?
What’s Up With Tronc’s Battle Against Gannett Bid?
Read the full article »Wby Does Edinburgh Theatre Thrive?
Wby Does Edinburgh Theatre Thrive?
Read the full article »Gene Wilder’s 1991 Goodbye To His Wife Gilda Radner
Gene Wilder‘s 1991 Goodbye To His Wife Gilda Radner
Read the full article »Academy Announces 2016 Student Academy Award Winners
The Academy has voted 17 students as winners of the 43rd Student Academy Awardscompetition. The Academy received a record number of entries this year – 1,749 films from 286 domestic and 95 international colleges and universities – which were voted by a record number of Academy members. The 2016 winners join the ranks of such past…
Read the full article »“Gene Wilder’s characters were less loose cannons than untethered hosepipes, that could uncoil at any given moment.”
“Gene Wilder’s characters were less loose cannons than untethered hosepipes, that could uncoil at any given moment.”
Read the full article »In Anticipation Of His September 1 Radio City Music Hall Gig, Mel Brooks Talks Blazing Saddles
In Anticipation Of Radio City Music Hall Gig, Mel Brooks Talks Blazing Saddles
Read the full article »“Why Bad Moms Succeeded Where Ghostbusters Failed”
“Why Bad Moms Succeeded Where Ghostbusters Failed”
Read the full article »Sean Fennessey On Gene Wilder’s Choice To Walk Away From Acting 25 Years Ago
“I don’t like show business, I realized. I like show, but I don’t like the business.” Sean Fennessey On Gene Wilder’s Choice To Walk Away From Acting 25 Years Ago
Read the full article »NPR’s 2005 Interview With Gene Wilder About Life, Work And Gilda Radner
NPR’s 2005 Interview With Gene Wilder About Life, Work And Gilda Radner
Read the full article »Todd Phillips On War Dogs And What’s On His Mind
“I’ve been offered some pretty big movies, superheroes movies and other stuff of that ilk. Those aren’t the movies that I go see. I go with my taste above thinking of my career and what would be a smart movie for me to make. I had built up a lot of goodwill at Warner Bros; we…
Read the full article »The NYT On Gene Wilder
“Don’t try to make it funny, try to make it real.” The NYT On Gene Wilder
Read the full article »Pride, Unprejudiced: Sunset Song, Weiner, The Invitation
A high point among so many, flawed only by a small, smoothing cut, is in the Weiner-Abedin kitchen one morning, when Abedin is asked how she’s doing. She pauses, there’s a cut, she says flatly, “It’s like living in a nightmare.” She smiles, all poise and resolve and red lipstick and white teeth and hightails it out of the frame. Second only to that is Weiner turning to his interrogators in the back of his car, “Isn’t the fly on the wall technique, doesn’t that have a little to do with the notion of not being seen or heard, you just kind of pick up what goes on around you?”
Read the full article »GENE WILDER WAS 83
GENE WILDER WAS 83
Read the full article »90-Year-Old Jerry Lewis Gets Glum With USA TODAY
“You’re looking at the end of result of faking falls.” 90-Year-Old Jerry Lewis Gets Glum With USA TODAY
Read the full article »BuzzFeed Turns To Example Of “Snackable Food Video Content” For Its Viewer Experience
BuzzFeed Turns To Example Of “Snackable Food Video Content” For Its Viewer Experience
Read the full article »In Praise Of Older Women Director George Kaczender, 83
In Praise Of Older Women Director George Kaczender, 83
Read the full article »Tad Friend’s Afternoon With Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson
Tad Friend‘s Afternoon With Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson
Read the full article »Breaking Out of My Identity as an American Foreign-Language Filmmaker
Joshua Marston On “Breaking Out Of My Identity As An American Foreign-Language Filmmaker”
Read the full article »“There are two clear winners in digital media, Google and Facebook, and their imperial success has largely reduced everybody else to a vassal state, living off their patronage and goodwill.”
“There are two clear winners in digital media, Google and Facebook, and their imperial success has largely reduced everybody else to a vassal state, living off their patronage and goodwill.”
Read the full article »China Restrictions On Capital Outflow Extend To Film Industry
China Restrictions On Capital Outflow Extend To Film Industry
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