Movie City News Archive for August, 2017
Fox President Of Entertainment Leaving, Maybe To Head AMC
Fox President Of Entertainment Leaving, Maybe To Head AMC
Read the full article »“When Dougie’s boss asks Cooper, just as he’s exiting the hospital room, “what about the FBI?” MacLachlan turns and delivers a line that will forever live in the hearts of everyone who’ve cherished this gift Lynch and Frost have delivered: “I am the FBI.”
“When Dougie’s boss asks Cooper, just as he’s exiting the hospital room, “what about the FBI?” MacLachlan turns and delivers a line that will forever live in the hearts of everyone who’ve cherished this gift Lynch and Frost have delivered: “I am the FBI.”
Read the full article »Grauniad Headlines Downsizing As A “Masterpiece”
“Glass-domed Leisureland is merely America in microcosm, with all the same corruption and wealth-disparity, loneliness and strife. Neither does it exist in splendid isolation. If the outside world starts to burn, then Leisureland is all-but guaranteed to go down in flames too. What a spry, nuanced, winningly digressive movie this is.” Grauniad Headlines Downsizing As A…
Read the full article »“Bodies are compressed, transmitted through invisible channels. As if dispersed through the atmosphere, molecules of black fire, on the winds that ruffle Douglas firs. The show seems simultaneously suspect and in awe of the potential of electrified technological media, as if to assert that the task of cinematic art is to learn how to grapple with the power to visibilise the unconscious (one could go on about Lynch’s aesthetics, his love of LA and the Frankfurt School) at the same time it loosens the psychic boundaries imposed on our bodies.”
“Bodies are compressed, transmitted through invisible channels. As if dispersed through the atmosphere, molecules of black fire, on the winds that ruffle Douglas firs. The show seems simultaneously suspect and in awe of the potential of electrified technological media, as if to assert that the task of cinematic art is to learn how to grapple…
Read the full article »Why Netflix’s 20th Anniversary Doesn’t Matter, Per Wired
Why Netflix’s 20th Anniversary Doesn’t Matter, Per Wired
Read the full article »“Kehr brings a rigorous intellect to bear on all his subjects, Kehr is a prodigious critic and this collection is an excellent sampling of his voice.”
“Kehr brings a rigorous intellect to bear on all his subjects, Kehr is a prodigious critic and this collection is an excellent sampling of his voice.”
Read the full article »Jen Yamato Asks Adam Wingard Who “Death Note” Really Needs To Please
Jen Yamato Asks Adam Wingard Who “Death Note” Really Needs To Please
Read the full article »Brit Crit Mark Shenton Queries: “Are critics crucial to the creative process, or talking out their arses?”
Brit Crit Mark Shenton Queries: “Are critics crucial to the creative process, or talking out their arses?”
Read the full article »“God’s Own Country Director Francis Lee On Sex, Piglets And Fighting Off Hw’d From His Hilltop Hut”
“God’s Own Country Director Francis Lee On Sex, Piglets And Fighting Off Hw’d From His Hilltop Hut”
Read the full article »Playwright Bernard Pomerance, 76, Won Tony For “The Elephant Man”
“The final impression he gives is of a man of considerable intellectual integrity who is not prepared to compromise, in ill-considered conversation, the greater truths he seeks to express on stage.” Playwright Bernard Pomerance, 76, Won Tony For “The Elephant Man”
Read the full article »NYTimes Prevails Against Sarah Palin In Defamation Complaint
NYTimes Prevails Against Sarah Palin In Defamation Complaint
Read the full article »In Late August Doldrums, Owen Gleiberman Thrusts Poor, Poor Jon Hamm Toward An Indifferent Screen
“His look alone — the inky perfect hair, the thrusting chin and reluctant smile, the killer eyes that could melt or freeze you — was worthy of 007.” In Late August Doldrums, Owen Gleiberman Thrusts Poor, Poor Jon Hamm Toward An Indifferent Screen
Read the full article »Nolan To Intro Free Show Of Dunkirk At Toronto Int’l For IMAX Corp’s 50th
Nolan To Intro Free Show Of Dunkirk At Toronto Int’l For IMAX Corp’s 50th
Read the full article »“For secular or modern-minded viewers, the solution to Menashe’s problems is blindingly obvious: Leave Borough Park, take your son, and never look back.”
“For secular or modern-minded viewers, the solution to Menashe’s problems is blindingly obvious: Leave Borough Park, take your son, and never look back.”
Read the full article »Onion On Onion Action
“We work far too hard crafting our jokes for them to be taken as fact. If someone doesn’t recognize the joke we’re making, then that’s a whole lot of labor lost. We aim never to trick people but rather to train them to see the world as we see it. In a world infested by…
Read the full article »Cinematographer Tim Ives On Shooting “Stranger Things”
Cinematographer Tim Ives On Shooting “Stranger Things”
Read the full article »Pro Clowns Pissed By It
Pro Clowns Pissed By It
Read the full article »“The phrase ‘everyone’s a critic,’ once the complaining sigh of the creator, is today closer to literal truth. Criticism was always vulnerable to careerism and hackery, but amid the pinging of Twitter and along the web pages of Goodreads and Amazon, the fast one-star slash and the instant five-star burble are now given the same algorithmic weight as the lengthy and well-considered three- or four-star comment. There are, one should note, many of the latter, but they always seem about to drown in the shrill orthographical chaos surrounding them, complaints often written by those who look forward to the demise of critics — and editors — with a populist glee.”
“The phrase ‘everyone’s a critic,’ once the complaining sigh of the creator, is today closer to literal truth. Criticism was always vulnerable to careerism and hackery, but amid the pinging of Twitter and along the web pages of Goodreads and Amazon, the fast one-star slash and the instant five-star burble are now given the same…
Read the full article »President Of Financially Rocked D.C. Newseum Flees
President Of Financially-Rocked D.C. Newseum Flees
Read the full article »Murdochs Yank Fox News From Blighty As $15 Billion-Plus Sky Deal Remains Aloft
“Fox News is focused on the U.S. market and designed for a U.S. audience and, accordingly, it averages only a few thousand viewers across the day in the U.K.” Murdochs Yank Fox News From Blighty As $15 Billion-Plus Sky Deal Remains Aloft
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