Movie City News Archive for September, 2017
Director Jesse Noah Klein On His Eternal Return To Elaine May’s Mikey And Nicky
Director Jesse Noah Klein On His Eternal Return To Elaine May’s Mikey And Nicky
Read the full article »Two China Minority Investors In Dalian Wanda’s Legendary Entertainment Exit
Two China Minority Investors In Dalian Wanda’s Legendary Entertainment Exit
Read the full article »Rolling Stone Pitches Going Monthly, Pivoting To Video
Rolling Stone Pitches Going Monthly, Pivoting To Video
Read the full article »Mr. Crowe, what is your biggest vice?
Mr. Crowe, what is your biggest vice? Smoking, by miles! I enjoy drinking, but I don’t drink daily or what have you. I am not sure if smoking even comes under vice, there’s got be some other word that underlines the absurdity of it.
Read the full article »“I know nothing about this film other than what I see in the trailer and yet every part of me is screaming, ‘Piss off.’ Piss off, twee fantasies about life in early-20th-century Britain, where everyone is white, mildly scarred by the war, but still terribly attractive. Piss off, elaborate[ly] cut scenes where our heroes stroll through the vast green fields of the empire, naming fictional donkeys. Piss off, father-and-son-bonding movies. Piss off, another film about a wonderfully talented white male writer who is the sole person to realize the Truth, where the Truth is ‘War is bad; don’t do it.’ Piss off, Nigel Farage wank fantasies that prompt people to think, ‘Gosh, wasn’t England nice when it was just us?’ I realize that this is all a huge overreaction on my part and has nothing to do with the combined talents… You probably knew that this is where this article was going: We need more movies about women.”
“I know nothing about this film other than what I see in the trailer and yet every part of me is screaming, ‘Piss off.’ Piss off, twee fantasies about life in early-20th-century Britain, where everyone is white, mildly scarred by the war, but still terribly attractive. Piss off, Nigel Farage wank fantasies that prompt people…
Read the full article »“So why is ‘I Love Dick’ being the one that’s like ‘Jill Soloway’s “I Love Dick” gets huge fine’? I think that has something more to do with the triggering component of the bombastic, proud, content female, insisting that there’s such thing as the female gaze. Why is this the show that’s causing controversy?”
“So why is ‘I Love Dick’ being the one that’s like ‘Jill Soloway’s “I Love Dick” gets huge fine’? I think that has something more to do with the triggering component of the bombastic, proud, content female, insisting that there’s such thing as the female gaze. Why is this the show that’s causing controversy?”
Read the full article »“So as much as I applaud Patty directing the film and Hollywood, uh, letting a woman direct a major action franchise, I didn’t think there was anything groundbreaking in Wonder Woman. I thought it was a good film. Period. I was shocked that was a controversial statement. It was pretty obvious in my mind. I just think Hollywood doesn’t get it about women in commercial franchises. Drama, they’ve got that cracked, but the second they start to make a big commercial action film, they think they have to appeal to 18-year-old males or 14-year-old males, whatever it is. Look, it was probably a little bit of a simplistic remark on my part, and I’m not walking it back, but I will add a little detail to it, which is: I like the fact that, sexually, she had the upper hand with the male character, which I thought was fun.”
“So as much as I applaud Patty directing the film and Hollywood, uh, letting a woman direct a major action franchise, I didn’t think there was anything groundbreaking in Wonder Woman. I thought it was a good film. Period. I was shocked that was a controversial statement. I’m not walking it back, but I will add…
Read the full article »“Unlike traditional stories of possession and exorcism, I think Żuławski wrote Possession not to explain a woman, but to understand her.”
“Unlike traditional stories of possession and exorcism, I think Żuławski wrote Possession not to explain a woman, but to understand her.”
Read the full article »Dee Rees Adapting Joan Didion Novel With Producer Cassian Elwes And Others
[PR] Award-winning independent filmmaker Dee Rees (Mudbound, Pariah) will direct the best-selling 1996 Joan Didion political thriller The Last Thing He Wanted from publisher Alfred A. Knopf. Elevated’s Cassian Elwes (Dallas Buyers Club, Lee Daniels’ The Butler) optioned the book last year from Didion to develop it in partnership with Rees following their incredible collaboration on Mudbound, which premiered to standing…
Read the full article »Harry Knowles Says He’s Leaving Ain’t It Cool News For “Therapy, Detox And Getting To A Better Place”
Harry Knowles Says He’s Leaving Ain’t It Cool News For “Therapy, Detox And Getting To A Better Place”
Read the full article »Harry Knowles Is Still Posting, Here On The “Ins And Outs” Of His Website
Teaching my sister the ins and outs of AICN for take-over. I feel she’s doing a great job, while I step away. Tomorrow she emails contacts — Harry Knowles (@headgeek666) September 27, 2017 Harry Knowles Is Still Posting, Here On The “Ins And Outs” Of His Website
Read the full article »Does This Pseudonymous Blatt Pass For An Acknowledgment From The AICN Family?
“Looks like AICN is going under ‘Female Control’ for a while! MUUHAHAHAHAHAAA! Boy’s club out, Girl’s club in. For my first post, let’s talk about a beautiful strong female creator and actress/director whose most recent directorial feature, ‘First They Killed My Father,’ which has debuted on Netflix, and I’ll be watching tonight and posting a…
Read the full article »How John Boorman’s Gaudy, Great, Garish Point Blank Still Inspires Awe (And Homage)
How John Boorman’s Gaudy, Great, Garish Point Blank Still Inspires Awe (And Homage)
Read the full article »Susan Doll On Dave Kehr’s Forthcoming “Movies That Mattered,” Excavating Work From 1974-1986
Susan Doll On Dave Kehr’s Forthcoming “Movies That Mattered,” Excavating Work From 1974-1986
Read the full article »Louis Black’s 1998 Texas Monthly Profile Of Harry Knowles
“Despite the press, Harry is the same large red fireball I remember bouncing around comic book conventions run by his parents in the late seventies—the kid who would stop and look at your comics and say, ‘I have that, but in better condition.’” Louis Black‘s Slim 1998 Texas Monthly Profile Of Harry Knowles
Read the full article »Ain’t-It-Daily News: Four More Women Accuse Harry Knowles of Sexual Assault and Harassment
“On more than one occasion HK has grabbed my ass and other parts of me. I just learned to not go within grabbing distance of him.” Ain’t-It-Daily News: Four More Women Accuse Harry Knowles of Sexual Assault and Harassment
Read the full article »Michael Phillips On Horror, It And That Pesky Exorcist Gross
Michael Phillips On Horror, It And That Pesky Exorcist Gross
Read the full article »Ben Fritz Inside The Making Of Blade Runner 2049
“If you’re not in a position to make the fifteenth Star Wars movie, you have to search for things that people really feel they have got to go out to a movie theater and see.” Ben Fritz Inside The Financial Making Of Blade Runner 2049
Read the full article »Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner 2049 really is next-level staggering. I’m still processing how good it is — Peter Bradshaw (@PeterBradshaw1) September 26, 2017
Read the full article »Sundance Institute Documentary Fund Awards Grants Across Nonfiction Formats
Los Angeles, CA — Projects and artists on the frontlines of nonfiction storytelling received nearly $2 million in grants from Sundance Institute, furthering their work across subjects and forms. Works originate in 26 countries and six continents, and teams include Academy Award nominees (Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar, Richard Rowley, Jon Else and David France), and first-time feature filmmakers (Cody Lucich, Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu…
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