Movie City News Archive for December, 2017
Vanity Fair Writer Displeased With Being Called “Sexist” For Viral Video Directed Against Hillary Clinton
“i don’t appreciate being taken out of context to make me seem super sexist” Vanity Fair Writer Displeased With Being Called “Sexist” For Viral Video Directed Against Hillary Clinton
Read the full article »“Inside Harvey Weinstein’s Other Nightmare”: Dealings With AmFAR AIDS Charity To Bankroll B’wy “Finding Neverland”
“I’m going on the record here to express my concerns about this whole process. Nothing about this deal feels right to me.’ But it was too late. The money had changed hands.” “Inside Harvey Weinstein’s Other Nightmare”: Dealings With AmFAR AIDS Charity To Bankroll B’wy “Finding Neverland”
Read the full article »“The moments we see in the photographs feel like sacred snapshots of lives lived in defiance of authority, while at the same time Larry Clark and his boys are seamlessly absorbed into the gendered order of things. They objectify women, they hurt themselves, they play together. These images are confessional, and reveal a moral paradox. It is difficult for the audience to accept the possibility that boys can be simultaneously victims and perpetrators, products and consumers, powerful and powerless, tragic and heroic. This paradox is the core of audience discomfort about Clark.”
“The moments we see in the photographs feel like sacred snapshots of lives lived in defiance of authority, while at the same time Larry Clark and his boys are seamlessly absorbed into the gendered order of things. They objectify women, they hurt themselves, they play together. These images are confessional, and reveal a moral paradox….
Read the full article »Kristin Thompson on The Ten Best Films Of 1927
Kristin Thompson on The Ten Best Films Of 1927
Read the full article »At Least Bono’s Latest Breathless Interview Isn’t Installed On Your Phone Without Your Permission
“Music has gotten very girly. There are some good things about that, but hip-hop is the only place for young male anger at the moment — and that’s not good. When I was 16, I had a lot of anger in me. You need to find a place for it and for guitars, whether it…
Read the full article »“I recently asked Mark Bridges, the Oscar-winning costume designer who created all the clothing in Phantom Thread, how much he had looked to the life of Charles James when creating the garments for the House of Woodcock. We were eating French onion soup at a brasserie in Soho. Bridges was dressed in a natty gray suit and a vintage silk tie printed with red and yellow hexagons.”
“I recently asked Mark Bridges, the Oscar-winning costume designer who created all the clothing in Phantom Thread, how much he had looked to the life of Charles James when creating the garments for the House of Woodcock. We were eating French onion soup at a brasserie in Soho. Bridges was dressed in a natty gray…
Read the full article »“George Wayne has a theory about why his celebrity column has been a hit at Vanity Fair for more than two decades: sex. ‘When you read my interviews, I want you to have a good laugh and I want you to learn something you didn’t know about these people before’ he said as he dipped his spoon into a bowl of butternut squash soup over lunch in Chelsea recently. ‘So, of course, I am always going to ask about sex. That’s my No. 1.'”
“George Wayne has a theory about why his celebrity column has been a hit at Vanity Fair for more than two decades: sex. ‘When you read my interviews, I want you to have a good laugh and I want you to learn something you didn’t know about these people before’ he said as he dipped…
Read the full article »“It is like giving up your Nobel, rejecting your Oscar, pushing back on your Pulitzer: Jérôme Brochot, a renowned and refined chef, decided to turn in his Michelin star. He is renouncing the uniquely French distinction that separates his restaurant from thousands of others, the lifetime dream of hundreds. But Mr. Brochot’s decision was not a rash one, born of arrogance, ingratitude or spite. Rather, it was for a prosaic, but still important, reason: he could no longer afford it.”
“It is like giving up your Nobel, rejecting your Oscar, pushing back on your Pulitzer: Jérôme Brochot, a renowned and refined chef, decided to turn in his Michelin star. He is renouncing the uniquely French distinction that separates his restaurant from thousands of others, the lifetime dream of hundreds. But Mr. Brochot’s decision was not…
Read the full article »William W. Graham, 69, Son Of Katharine Graham, By Gunshot
William W. Graham, 69, Son Of Katharine Graham, By Gunshot
Read the full article »Remembering Radical Film and Media Scholar Chuck Kleinhans, Co-founding Co-editor of JUMP CUT
Remembering Radical Film and Media Scholar Chuck Kleinhans, Co-founding Co-editor of 43-Year-Old JUMP CUT
Read the full article »Tibetan Filmmaker Escapes To U. S. After “Arduous” Trek From China
Tibetan Filmmaker Escapes To U. S. After “Arduous” Trek From China
Read the full article »Male Supporters Of Golden Globes Who Customarily Wear Black Also Expected To Wear Black
Male Supporters Of Golden Globes Who Customarily Wear Black Also Expected To Wear Black
Read the full article »David Simon
Well-written and well-executed films about humans without super powers. And an open bar. https://t.co/LIFHJp6c9Q — David Simon (@AoDespair) December 27, 2017
Read the full article »Steve Jobs’ Doomed 35-Year-Old Apple Lisa OS Will Be Free To Download
Steve Jobs’ Doomed 35-Year-Old Apple Lisa OS Will Be Free To Download
Read the full article »“Dalian Wanda’s Mr Wang and his fellow countrymen are in retreat from Hollywood, part of a Chinese crackdown on capital flight. Paramount’s $1 billion three-year film financing deal with Huahua Media has been scrapped, which the Viacom-owned studio said was due to ‘recent changes to Chinese foreign investment policies.’ Wanda’s planned $1bn purchase of Dick Clark Productions, the company that produces the Golden Globes awards show, was also pulled. Mr Wang, meanwhile, has not been seen in Hollywood for several months: in the summer Wanda denied rumors that he had been forbidden from leaving China.”
“Dalian Wanda’s Mr Wang and his fellow countrymen are in retreat from Hollywood, part of a Chinese crackdown on capital flight. Paramount’s $1 billion three-year film financing deal with Huahua Media has been scrapped, which the Viacom-owned studio said was due to ‘recent changes to Chinese foreign investment policies.’ Wanda’s planned billion-dollar purchase of Dick Clark…
Read the full article »Paul Thomas Anderson
“In my experience, and the experiences that I’ve seen of the people around me, there is a never-ending shift of power in a relationship: Who’s driving? And who’s criticizing the driver? That’s kind of a natural thing that we all deal with if we decide to share this life with somebody. In the movie, we…
Read the full article »Sir Ridley On A Practiced Process
“I rediscovered painting, because I was at college with Hockney, Kitaj, all those fucks. I mean, it was a serious college! I would watch Hockney fuckin’ paint. So I’ve been painting a lot. Painting is like writing a book. Are you writing anything, a book or anything like that? Do you go over what you…
Read the full article »John Oliver Thinks His Dustin Hoffman Confrontation Could Have Been More Productive
John Oliver Thinks His Dustin Hoffman Confrontation Could Have Been More Productive
Read the full article »Cahiers du cinéma L.A. CorrespondentBill Krohn On Meeting Jerry Lewis
Cahiers du cinéma L.A. Correspondent Bill Krohn On Meeting Jerry Lewis
Read the full article »Academy President John Bailey On A Trek To CamerImage 2017 And Showing Mishima
Academy President John Bailey On A Trek To CamerImage 2017, Showing Mishima, And Getting Lost In Permutations Of Philip Glass’ Score
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