Movie City News Archive for August, 2017
Unicode Emoji Subcommittee Adds Additional Vice-Chairs To Work On “Digitally Disadvantaged Languages”
Unicode Emoji Subcommittee Adds Additional Vice-Chairs To Work On “Digitally Disadvantaged Languages”
Read the full article »“Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder could just flirtatiously read the phone book to each other and I would be satisfied. But they’ll be doing more than that.”
“Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder could just flirtatiously read the phone book to each other and I would be satisfied. But they’ll be doing more than that.”
Read the full article »Jezebel Joins The External Creative-Exec Game With “‘Lord Of The Flies,’ But With Women, Written By Men”
“I can say pretty confidently right now that we just do not need this.” Jezebel Culture Editor Joins The External Creative-Exec Game With “‘Lord Of The Flies,’ But With Women, Written By Men”
Read the full article »From Down Under: How Murdoch Moves Allowed CBS Into Australian Broadcast-VOD Market
From Down Under: How Murdoch Moves Allowed CBS Into Australian Broadcast-VOD Market
Read the full article »Brick, Mortar And The Recurring Cycle: Movie Theater Chain Stocks Pummeled
Brick, Mortar And The Recurring Cycle: Movie Theater Chain Stocks Pummeled
Read the full article »Louis Armand On “Reactionary Sentimentalism / Berlin” With Wim Wenders, Nick Cave, Brian Eno, David Bowie And Many More Across Several Decades Of Pop-Punk History
Louis Armand On “Reactionary Sentimentalism / Berlin” With Wim Wenders, Nick Cave, Brian Eno, David Bowie And Many More Across Several Decades Of Pop-Punk History
Read the full article »Telluride Sets The Big Show
44th TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2017 PROGRAM LINEUP Telluride, CO (August 31, 2017) – Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve, today announced its official program selections for the 44th edition of the Telluride Film Festival. TFF’s annual celebration of artistic excellence brings together cinema enthusiasts, filmmakers and artists to discover the best in…
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: Ronin, Wedding Banquet, The Stranger, Baywatch, Bring It On, Dean, Born in China and more
On a rain-swept night in Paris, an international crack team of professional thieves, weapons buffs and a computer geek assembles in an old-fashioned neighborhood bistro, summoned by a shady crime syndicate fronted by the enigmatic Deirdre. None of the crooks appear to know each other or the special skills they’re bringing to the table. They will be handsomely paid to steal an aluminum briefcase, handcuffed to the arm of their mark, who’s guarded by several armed men – presumably, ronin, themselves, — and safely make the transfer to Deirdre’s employers. It serves as Ronin’s McGuffin. No matter what the briefcase contains, its theft will inspire two unquestionably great car chases, one through the narrow streets of Nice, the other in Paris; a shootout in and around the centuries-old Arles Amphitheatre and Café Van Gogh; and a sniper attack inside a Paris skating rink. If it sounds confusing, it’s only because viewers aren’t supposed to be able to separate the white hats from the black hats until the final reel.
Read the full article »Xan Brooks: Zama Gaga
“Her left-field masterpiece; a picture that’s antic, sensual and strange, with a top-note of menace and a malarial air. The heat is intense; the settlers go berserk. Nobody here is quite stable; nothing can be trusted.” Xan Brooks: Zama Gaga!
Read the full article »Politico’s Jack Schafer Sez After A Half-Billion Dollars, The Newseum “Deserves To Die”
Politico’s Jack Schafer Sez After A Half-Billion Dollars, The Newseum “Deserves To Die”
Read the full article »“Simpsons” Fires Alf Clausen, Composer For 27 Years
“Simpsons” Fires Alf Clausen, Composer For All 27 Years
Read the full article »20 More Fired Under Al Jazeera Subsidiary Miramax’s CEO Bill Block
20 More Fired Under Al Jazeera Subsidiary BeIN’s Miramax CEO Bill Block
Read the full article »Chinese Media Investor Recon Drops $100 Million Bid For Control Of Avi Lerner’s Millennium Films
Chinese Media Investor Recon Drops $100 Million Bid For Control Of Avi Lerner’s Millennium Films
Read the full article »“Close Encounters of the Third Kind is reprehensible. It is, after all, the story of a daydreamer dad who leaves his family for worlds unknown as he continually trades in one slender, luminous life companion for another.”
“Close Encounters of the Third Kind is reprehensible. It is, after all, the story of a daydreamer dad who leaves his family for worlds unknown as he continually trades in one slender, luminous life companion for another.”
Read the full article »From March, Paul Schrader Revisits Transcendental Style And Side-Eyes Slow Cinema
“The concept of spirituality does involve a stepping away from the maelstrom of activity and the maelstrom of action and empathy. Action and empathy are the two primary tools of a filmmaker. That’s why they’re called moving pictures: picture have empathy and movement has movement. So what happens when you say, “I’m going to show…
Read the full article »Art Of The Title Credits Andrew Niccol’s Lord Of War
Art Of The Title Credits Andrew Niccol’s Lord Of War
Read the full article »Richard Brody On Paul Schrader’s First Reformed
“Schrader, one of the crucial creators of the modern cinema, seems to have made it in a state of anger, passion, pain, mourning, and desire, held together by the conflicted religious fury—blending exaltation and torment—that runs through all of his films. First Reformed has the feeling of a summation, of a teeming and roiling avowal…
Read the full article »Owen Gleiberman Seems To Say Schrader’s Film Is Good, But Bad, But Good, But Bad
“It’s a piece of 1970s grindhouse pseudo-psychology, applied to 21st-century violence. He’s like a graphic-novel version of Travis Bickle; he embraces ——— as a form of slumming. (And there’s a romance too!)” Owen Gleiberman‘s Spoiler-Doused Notice Says Schrader’s Film Is Good, But Bad, But Good, But Bad
Read the full article »Novelist Terry Pratchett’s Unfinished Work Destroyed By Steamroller Lord Jericho
Novelist Terry Pratchett’s Unfinished Work Destroyed By Steamroller Lord Jericho
Read the full article »Why Are John Denver Songs In Four Major Movies This Year (So Far)?
Why Are John Denver Songs In Four Major Movies This Year (So Far)?
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