Movie City News Archive for July, 2017
Pity Daniel Craig – playing James Bond really is the toughest job in the world
“Pity Daniel Craig – playing James Bond really is the toughest job in the world”
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: Ghost in the Shell, Final Master, Inseparables, Billy Jack, Stendhal Syndrome, Warlock and more
Revisiting the controversy surrounding the casting of Scarlett Johansson as Major Motoko Kusanagi in the 2017 remake of Mamoru Oshii’s 1995 anime, Ghost in the Shell, I wonder what would have happened if DreamWorks/Paramount executives had attended Comic-Con 2015 and put the question to a vote. Who would you like to see play Major in our $110-million adaptation of Shirow Masamune’s classic 1989 sci-fi manga: Lucy Liu, Maggie Q, Gong Li, Sandra Oh, Fan Bingbing or Scarlett Johansson? I suspect there would have been a runoff between Johansson and, just for the sake of argument, let’s say, Ms. Q (“Nikita”).
Read the full article »Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel Will Be Amazon Studios’ Debut Self-Distribution, Getting Bob Berney Into The Fray
Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel Will Be Amazon Studios’ Debut Self-Distribution, Getting Bob Berney Directly Into The Fray
Read the full article »Girls Trip’s Tiffany Haddish Pleased To Have Arrived
“She ready! She bad!” Girls Trip‘s Tiffany Haddish Pleased To Have Arrived
Read the full article »Jon Jost On The Release Of His Latest Work
“Coming to Terms has screened a few places, as usual, to almost no one. To my – and that of others’ – observation, this kind of cinema is more or less dead. People continue to make it, as I do, but the audience now is almost nothing, and along with it any sense of cultural meaning…
Read the full article »Disney Imagineer Marty Sklar Was 83
Disney Imagineer Marty Sklar Was 83
Read the full article »Gothams Will Be Awarded November 27
Gothams Will Be Awarded November 27
Read the full article »Zama Director Lucrecia Martel On Staying Productive
“New technologies are giving rise to a phenomenon of more varied access to public discourse. That something we have in a bag or a pocket can document images and sound allows us to imagine that more people will access the production of an audiovisual discourse. Sadly, history shows us having low-cost pens is not enough…
Read the full article »J. Hoberman On Le Gai Savoir And Godard’s Initial Retirement
J. Hoberman On Le Gai Savoir And Godard’s Initial Retirement
Read the full article »Barry Levinson On The Legacy Of Wag The Dog
Barry Levinson On The Legacy Of Wag The Dog
Read the full article »“H’wd is aggressively adapting material that doesn’t have a narrative or even any characters. But not all intellectual property is created equal.”
“H’wd is aggressively adapting material that doesn’t have a narrative or even any characters. But not all intellectual property is created equal.”
Read the full article »Venice Competition Has A Single Entry From A Female Director; But Is It A Reflection On Programmers Or Financiers?
Venice Competition Has A Single Entry From A Female Director; But Is It A Reflection On Programmers Or Financiers? And – Cinema Scope Magazine Tweets 21 Films It Considers Better Than Lucrecia Martel’s Latest, Which Was Not Selected
Read the full article »“Only one director among the 21 is a woman — China’s Vivian Qu, whose Angels Wear White centers on two girls assaulted by a man in a small seaside town.
“Only one director among the twenty-one is a woman — China’s Vivian Qu, whose Angels Wear White centers on two girls assaulted by a man in a seaside town.”
Read the full article »Eric Booth Sees “A Democratizing Moment, When The Hegemony Of The Established Industry Controllers Is Expanded To Provide Additional Valid Criteria To Judge Excellence”
“For a very long time, the criteria for excellence in the arts have been owned by a particular body of experts who generally have a condescending view of the quality of art developed in community-based and social change programs and projects. These credentialed ‘experts’ hold to a definition of quality largely based in an ‘art…
Read the full article »“Link Rot” And 2005’s “Million-Dollar Homepage”
“Link Rot” And 2005’s “Million-Dollar Homepage”
Read the full article »Apple Chucks iPod
Apple Chucks iPod
Read the full article »“Nigel Farage’s love for Dunkirk shows how Brexiteers learned the wrong lessons from WWII”
“Nigel Farage’s love for Dunkirk shows how Brexiteers learned the wrong lessons from WWII”
Read the full article »Soderbergh Screenwriter Reportedly Yet Another Pseudonym
Soderbergh Lucky Logan Screenwriter Reportedly Yet Another Pseudonym
Read the full article »Longtime Book Reviewer Michiko Kakutani Retiring From NYT
Kakutani Takes Buyout From NYT Book Reviewing Berth After Nearly 40 Years At Paper Plus – What Is Her Favorite Word? And – Parul Sehgal Of The Book Review Joins Roster
Read the full article »Voice Artist June Foray Was 99
Beloved Voice Artist June Foray, “Rocky,” “Natasha,” And Many More, Was 99
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