Movie City News Archive for August, 2017
From 2010, Katrina Longworth On Cinefamily’s “Hadrian Belove: Pathologically Idiosyncratic Programming”
“Belove doesn’t drop the H-word pejoratively — in fact, breaking through the cycle of “hipster self-loathing” is key to the “family” part of Cinefamily’s mission. “ ’Hipster’ just means anyone who’s interested, who is hip to culture. It should be something of a badge. We want to be welcoming. We want to be a theater that…
Read the full article »From 1998, Philip Brophy Goes Wild On Sound Design of Texas Chain Saw, Among Many Other Transgressive Pics
From 1998, Philip Brophy Goes Wild On Sound Design of Texas Chain Saw, Among Many Other Transgressive Pics
Read the full article »Anne Thompson Looks Under The Hood At Searchlight And Releases Like Patticake$
Anne Thompson Looks Under The Hood At Searchlight And Releases Like Patti Cake$
Read the full article »Cinefamily Shutters, Simmers As Supplemental Sexism Accusations Surface; 17 Former Employees And Volunteers Talk To Buzzfeed
Cinefamily Shutters, Simmers As Supplemental Sexism Accusations Surface; 17 Former Employees And Volunteers Talk To Buzzfeed
Read the full article »Kathy Griffin Strikes Back
“When the president tweeted about me the morning after I released the image, it served as an executive order of sorts to his family and supporters to go after me. You may say I deserved it, but just think about it… the president of the United States and his family are going after a stand-up…
Read the full article »Michael Phillips On The Malevolent Magnificence Of The Closing Shot Of Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Michael Phillips On The Malevolent Magnificence Of The Closing Shot Of Texas Chain Saw Massacre vid
Read the full article »Marc Webb, Nick Hornby, Bill Pohlad, Condé Nast, Bruna Papandrea And Reese Witherspoon Team Of Bio Of Westboro Baptist Escapee
MARC WEBB TO DIRECT AND NICK HORNBY TO WRITE THE SCREENPLAY FOR “THIS ABOVE ALL”—THE TRUE STORY OF MEGAN PHELPS-ROPER, A WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH CONVERT River Road and Condé Nast Entertainment Producing along with Reese Witherspoon, Bruna Papandrea and Marc Webb The Script to be Adapted from a New Yorker Article by Adrian Chen and…
Read the full article »“Hellboy” Reboot Actor Leaves After Race Concerns
“Representation of ethnic diversity is important.” “Hellboy” Reboot Actor Leaves After Race Concerns
Read the full article »American Cinematographer Unlocks Vittorio Storaro On Making Apocalypse Now
“The same day that Fred Roos came to Rome to speak with me, I met with Jodorowsky; he was planning to direct ‘Dune,’ and he offered me the chance to shoot it. I love Frank Herbert’s book, and at that time I thought Apocalypse Now was just another war picture. To Italians in the year 1975, the…
Read the full article »Premiere: “Raising Bertie” On POV
One of my favorite docs of the year, Margaret Byrne’s long-in-the-works Raising Bertie, is a behaviorally rich and visually ravishing six-year immersion into the largely African-American North Carolina farming community of Bertie County.
Read the full article »“Distracted Boyfriend” Photographer Learns What A Meme Is
“Distracted Boyfriend” Photographer Learns What A Meme Is With – The “Meme Documentation Tumblr”
Read the full article »“Has it changed my life? Well, I don’t know how it would be without having won awards. What I can say for sure is that without the Tarantino movies, everything would be completely different. That changed my life — not the awards.”
“Has it changed my life? Well, I don’t know how it would be without having won awards. What I can say for sure is that without the Tarantino movies, everything would be completely different. That changed my life — not the awards.”
Read the full article »Chicago Underground Sets Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration
CALLING ALL STARS: CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL (CUFF) ANNOUNCES CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR 25 ANNIVERSARY EDITION Still Alive at 25: Special Events, Special Screenings, Art Exhibits and Celebrity Guests of Honor Kick off the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Longest Running Underground Film Festival in the World. In 1994 a gallon of gas was $1.09,…
Read the full article »Guardian Looks To Philanthropy To Advance Investigative Reporting
Guardian Looks To Philanthropy To Advance Investigative Reporting
Read the full article »Google Doodles Cinematographer James Wong Howe At 101
Google Doodles Cinematographer James Wong Howe At 101
Read the full article »Longtime Variety Publisher-Owner Syd Silverman Was 85
Longtime Variety Publisher-Owner Syd Silverman Was 85
Read the full article »“Race, and how your characters in Good Time exploit and use others, largely a range of black figures, have distressed, even offended, some reviewers.”
“Race, and how your characters in Good Time exploit and use others, largely a range of black figures, have distressed, even offended, some reviewers.” “I think there is a general difference between reflecting society and saying that you adhere to those same ideas. Just because you’re showing certain things that exist doesn’t mean you subscribe…
Read the full article »“Mayweather vs McGregor: Business Partners Pull Off Fleece Of The Century”
“They staged their performance before 14,623 fans at the T-Mobile Arena, many of the men in sharp suits and no socks, many of the women in cocktail dresses and heels, as if attired for a garish wake. There were A-list celebrities, D-list celebrities, people who consider themselves celebrities and swarms of Irish people wrapped in their…
Read the full article »“You can’t hide on the internet. Your sentence structure is more unique than a fingerprint. If an organization wants to find you, it will.”
“You can’t hide on the internet. Your sentence structure is more unique than a fingerprint. If an organization wants to find you, it will.”
Read the full article »Old Forester Spins A Bourbon From Its Invention In Kingsman Sequel
Old Forester Spins A Bourbon From Its Invention In Kingsman Sequel
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