Movie City News Archive for January, 2018
Harvey Weinstein Lawyers Say He’s Not A Human Trafficker
Harvey Weinstein Lawyers Say He’s Not A Human Trafficker
Read the full article »SXSW Announces 2018 Features
SXSW Announces 2018 Features
Read the full article »Ray Pride On Dave Kehr’s “Movies That Mattered”
“Clarity is the abiding virtue.” Ray Pride On Dave Kehr’s “Movies That Mattered”
Read the full article »“An ode to the audio jack as an engineering marvel”
“An ode to the audio jack as an engineering marvel”
Read the full article »“Is it the long-term enmity showing itself again? He’s not a kid. He’s a gray eminence by now,” said Lester D. Friedman, emeritus professor of cinema at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and the author of “Citizen Spielberg,” which examines the filmmaker’s career. “I just think it hit the wrong note in the wrong historical period.”
“Is it the long-term enmity showing itself again? He’s not a kid. He’s a gray eminence by now,” said Lester D. Friedman, emeritus professor of cinema at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and the author of “Citizen Spielberg,” which examines the filmmaker’s career. “I just think it hit the wrong note in the wrong historical…
Read the full article »Bruce Handy’s Eulogy for New York City’s Lincoln Plaza Cinemas
Bruce Handy‘s Eulogy for New York City’s Lincoln Plaza Cinemas
Read the full article »A. O. Scott On The Case Of Woody Allen
“A sensibility that seemed sweet, skeptical and self-scrutinizing may have been cruel, cynical and self-justifying all along.” A. O. Scott On The Case Of Woody Allen And – Times Creates Allen-Farrow-Farrow Timeline
Read the full article »Edinburgh Fringe Festival Among Arts Defunded By Gov’t
Edinburgh Fringe Festival Among Arts Defunded By Gov’t
Read the full article »Harvey Weinstein Says Stuff About Rose McGowan And Published It Is
“As a general matter, Harvey Weinstein and his attorneys have refrained from publicly criticizing any of the women who have made allegations of sexual assault against Mr. Weinstein…” From His Sanctuary, Harvey Weinstein Via Spokeslawyer
Read the full article »“An Afternoon with Jerry Lewis: Jerry Lewis interviewed by members of the Documentary Film Group of the University of Chicago, January 26, 1971”
“An Afternoon with Jerry Lewis: Jerry Lewis interviewed by members of the Documentary Film Group of the University of Chicago, January 26, 1971”
Read the full article »Wim Wenders, Photographer vid
Wim Wenders, Photographer vid
Read the full article »Falling Lottery Proceeds Lead To Slashes In British Arts Funding
Falling Lottery Proceeds Lead To Slashes In British Arts Funding
Read the full article »The iPad Lost Years for Apple’s Media Partners The iPhone maker took newspaper and magazine companies on a detour to a boondoggle.
“The iPad Lost Years for Apple’s Media Partners: How The iPhone Maker Took Newspaper and Magazine Companies on a Detour to a Boondoggle”
Read the full article »Eric Shorter, 88, Telegraph Critic and Obituarist
Eric Shorter, 88, Telegraph Critic and Obituarist
Read the full article »“A disaster like The Heretic just makes it very difficult to make your next film, so it’s important in that respect. It didn’t actually lose money, because it had been pre-sold. A success like Deliverance was what allowed me to make Zardoz, but after The Heretic I didn’t work for a while. It took me a while to recover and wait for people to forget it. My judgment was severely dented, it felt that my relationship with the audience was completely skewed. David Lean said to me, ‘Make the films to please yourself, but if they don’t please the audience, then give up.’ So according to his advice I guess I should have given up a long time ago.”
“A disaster like The Heretic just makes it very difficult to make your next film, so it’s important in that respect. It didn’t actually lose money, because it had been pre-sold. A success like Deliverance was what allowed me to make Zardoz, but after The Heretic I didn’t work for a while. It took me…
Read the full article »Guardian Explainer Of The Day: Roman Polanski
Guardian Explainer Of The Day: Roman Polanski
Read the full article »DOJ Close to Okaying Sinclair-Tribune Media Merger
DOJ Close to Okaying Sinclair-Tribune Media Merger
Read the full article »Previewing Rose McGowan’s “Brave”
“I felt so dirty. I had been so violated and I was sad to the core of my being. I kept thinking about how he’d been sitting behind me in the theater the night before it happened. Which made it – not my responsibility, exactly, but – like I had had a hand in tempting…
Read the full article »WV’s Charleston Gazette-Mail, Pulitzer Winner for Pioneering Portrait of Opioid Crisis, Declares Bankruptcy
WV’s Charleston Gazette-Mail, Pulitzer Winner for Pioneering Portrait of Small-Town Opioid Crisis, Declares Bankruptcy “Follow the pills and you’ll find the overdose deaths. The trail of painkillers leads to West Virginia’s southern coalfields, to places like Kermit, population 392. There, out-of-state drug companies shipped nearly 9 million highly addictive — and potentially lethal — hydrocodone…
Read the full article »Sundance Director of Programmer Trevor Groth Joins 30WEST
[pr] 30WEST HIRES SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING CHIEF TREVOR GROTH LOS ANGELES (January 29, 2018) – 30WEST has hired the Director of Programming of the Sundance Film Festival, Trevor Groth, who will join the company in February. Groth first joined the programming staff of the Sundance Film Festival in 1993, was named Senior Programmer in 2003 and Director in…
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