Movie City News Archive for December, 2016
“Here’s the thing about Fences. It’s a relationship drama, because Denzel finally found someone who could play on his level, and Viola Davis doesn’t just hold her own, she Denzels all over the —-ing place. I’ve never seen anything like it. When she builds up a head of steam, she not only out-Denzels Denzel, she erases him, she buries him in a pile of spit, snot and tears. She’s towering. She’s like a grizzly bear in a cage match with a raccoon.”
“Here’s the thing about Fences. It’s a relationship drama, because Denzel finally found someone who could play on his level, and Viola Davis doesn’t just hold her own, she Denzels all over the —-ing place. I’ve never seen anything like it. When she builds up a head of steam, she not only out-Denzels Denzel, she erases…
Read the full article »Gurus o’ Gold: Doc & Foreign Faves
The Gurus are on vacation, but they left behind their thoughts about the short-list races of Feature Documentary and Foreign Language, offering up their personal preferences about both categories. And as always, Best Picture. Happy New Year to all. Oscar nomination voting starts in less than a week.
Read the full article » 2 Comments »Manohla Dargis Gets Jim Jarmusch Just Right
“A similar progression — from the basic to the rhapsodic, the material to the transcendent — happens in Paterson as days pass, details accumulate, and words turn into poetry, one line at a time.” Manohla Dargis Gets Jim Jarmusch Just Right
Read the full article »China Commentator Tell Online Critics To Go Easy On Local Cinema
China Commentator Tell Online Critics To Go Easy On Local Cinema
Read the full article »“I’m a part of the generation that would turn on MTV and see Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and T-Pain singing ‘I’m on a Boat.’ We pretended we didn’t think ‘Dick in a Box’ was hilarious, then kept up the act when ‘Motherlover’ debuted. So why didn’t we also want to support The Lonely Island’s newest opus? Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is no doubt the most stupidly brilliant comedy of 2016.”
“I’m a part of the generation that would turn on MTV and see Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and T-Pain singing ‘I’m on a Boat.’ We pretended we didn’t think ‘Dick in a Box’ was hilarious, then kept up the act when ‘Motherlover’ debuted. So why didn’t we also want to support The Lonely Island’s newest opus?…
Read the full article »The Carnegie Deli Was 79
The Carnegie Deli Was 79
Read the full article »Phyllis Nagy On Conversations With Patricia Highsmith
Phyllis Nagy On Conversations With Patricia Highsmith
Read the full article »Bilge Ebiri On Scorsese’s Holy Men
Bilge Ebiri On Scorsese’s Holy Men Reasons To See Silence
Read the full article »Annette Bening On Letting Go
Annette Bening On Letting Go
Read the full article »Woody Allen Reviews Edward Sorel’s “Mary Astor’s Purple Diary”
Woody Allen Reviews Edward Sorel’s “Mary Astor’s Purple Diary”
Read the full article »An Enthusiastic Korean Cinema Top 15 For 2016
An Enthusiastic Korean Cinema Top 15 For 2016
Read the full article »“How Debbie Reynolds And Singin’ in the Rain Have Brightened My Life,” By Catherine Rampell
“How Debbie Reynolds And Singin’ in the Rain Have Brightened My Life,” By Catherine Rampell
Read the full article »CBS’ Simon & Schuster Invests Quarter-Mil Advance Book Deal With White Nationalist Banned From Twitter
“Every line of attack the forces of political correctness try on me fails pathetically. I’m more powerful, more influential and more fabulous than ever before, and this book is the moment Milo goes mainstream. Social justice warriors should be scared — very scared.” CBS’ Simon & Schuster Invests Quarter-Mil Advance Book Deal With White Nationalist Banned…
Read the full article »Wesley Morris Checks In With Director Melina Matsoukas In A Year Of “Formation” And “Insecure”
“Ms. Reynolds was, as they say, a trouper. So she did what came naturally to her: She trouped.” Wesley Morris On “The Unsinkable Debbie Reynolds” And – “The reason I got into filmmaking was super naïve: to change the world, you know? To really make the voices that we don’t get to hear heard, and…
Read the full article »Justine Smith On Gérard Depardieu, Body Of Work, Work Of Body
Justine Smith On Gérard Depardieu, Body Of Work, Work Of Body
Read the full article »Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh On Draping Kate Beckinsale In Love & Friendship
Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh On Draping Kate Beckinsale In Love & Friendship
Read the full article »A Few Of Carrie Fisher’s Guilty-Pleasure Movies
A Few Of Carrie Fisher‘s Guilty-Pleasure Movies
Read the full article »“George Michael Was the Gay Icon We Didn’t Know We Needed”
“George Michael Was the Gay Icon We Didn’t Know We Needed”
Read the full article »20 Weeks To Oscar: The (Shock) Corridor
My problem with The Corridor is that the period has become desperate and grabby. The smartest and the most simplistic players are stuck playing the same game… using fake awards events (high and low) and all forms of screening/dining contraptions and terrible hackneyed advertorial that not even ad buyers expect to be read.
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Fifteen Nonfiction Films For 2016 (Plus 5 Blu-rays)
An alphabetical roster of fifteen fine nonfiction pictures.
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