Movie City News Archive for February, 2018
Visiting With Lina Wertmüller, Still Directing At 89
Visiting With Lina Wertmüller, Still Directing At 89
Read the full article »George S. Kaufman, 89, Revived Astoria Studios
George S. Kaufman, 89, Revived Astoria Studios
Read the full article »Shyamalan Series To Apple
Shyamalan Series To Apple
Read the full article »Argentine Director Hugo Santiago, 78, Films Include Invasión, Inspired By Adolfo Bioy Casares And Jorge Luis Borges; Robert Bresson’s Assistant Director 1959-66
Argentine Director Hugo Santiago, 78, Films Include Invasión, With Adolfo Bioy Casares And Jorge Luis Borges; Robert Bresson’s Assistant Director 1959-66 Santiago On Bioy Casares And Borges 24’43” video
Read the full article »Alex Jones Begs Parkland Survivor To Help Prevent YouTube From Banning InfoWars Far-Right and Inflammatory Content
Alex Jones Begs Parkland Survivor To Help Prevent YouTube From Banning InfoWars Far-Right and Inflammatory Content
Read the full article »James Dean Cherry-Red Rebel Without A Cause Windbreaker Expected To Yield As Much As $600,000
James Dean Cherry-Red Rebel Without A Cause Windbreaker Expected To Yield As Much As $600,000
Read the full article »OSCAR VOTING HAS CLOSED.
OSCAR VOTING HAS CLOSED.
Read the full article »Coppola’s Got A Notion
Francis Coppola’s Got A Notion About That There Future
Read the full article »Oscar Spots More Stars As Presenters
MORE STARS TO PRESENT AT 90TH OSCARS® EMILY BLUNT, SANDRA BULLOCK, DAVE CHAPPELLE, EUGENIO DERBEZ, ANSEL ELGORT, JANE FONDA, JODIE FOSTER, EIZA GONZÁLEZ, ASHLEY JUDD, NICOLE KIDMAN, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, HELEN MIRREN, RITA MORENO, LUPITA NYONG’O AND CHRISTOPHER WALKEN LOS ANGELES, CA – Producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd announced additional presenters for the 90th Oscars telecast. …
Read the full article »Greta Gerwig
“When I was in preproduction and then shooting it and then editing it, it really felt like ‘this is what I always wanted to do’. I got to draw on all the experience that I had and the work that I’d done in learning to make movies. All of that kicked in, which was tremendously…
Read the full article »Hilton Als On Tiffany Haddish
Hilton Als On Tiffany Haddish
Read the full article »Producer Benjamin Melniker Was 1o4; Batman Was A Life’s Pursuit; Was Major Figure At MGM, Making Deals Including Ben-Hur, Dr. Zhivago, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Gigi
Producer Benjamin Melniker Was 104; Batman Was A Life’s Pursuit; Was Major Figure At MGM, Making Deals Including Ben-Hur, Dr. Zhivago, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Gigi
Read the full article »A Sweet Conversation With Martin Short About Now And Then And Now
A Sweet Conversation With Martin Short About Now And Then And Now
Read the full article »“Three Billboards is a film that both benefited enormously from its timing and been hurt by it. It went into wide release on November 10, just over a month after the first Harvey Weinstein story broke, as it was becoming clear that the flood of stories about powerful men who preyed on women with impunity was not going to slow down anytime soon. In that context, a movie in which a woman’s rage is portrayed as operatic, in which Frances McDormand’s speeches are less like rants than like arias, is immensely cathartic.”
“Three Billboards is a film that both benefited enormously from its timing and been hurt by it. It went into wide release on November 10, just over a month after the first Harvey Weinstein story broke, as it was becoming clear that the flood of stories about powerful men who preyed on women with impunity was not…
Read the full article »Rotten Tomatoes Gets New Editor-in-Chief
[pr] ROTTEN TOMATOES NAMES JOEL MEARES AS NEW EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Los Angeles, CA (February 27, 2018) – Rotten Tomatoes, entertainment fans’ go-to destination for movie and TV show reviews and information, today announced that it has named Joel Meares as Editor-in-Chief. In his role, Meares will oversee editorial content and expansion as Rotten Tomatoes continues to build a multi-platform…
Read the full article »MoviePass Sues Rival
MoviePass Sues Rival
Read the full article »Josephine Decker
“At Sundance, we had such a diverse crew of all-female department heads, and every executive producer is a white man. And they’re great fucking white men! They invested in this movie and gave me all this freedom. They’re perfectly awesome. But I was like, Wow, the money still lives in one place. And I think that’s…
Read the full article »Stan Lee And Alain Resnais Nearly Made A Monster Movie 9’22’ vid
Stan Lee And Alain Resnais Nearly Made A Monster Movie 9’22’ vid
Read the full article »Camille Paglia Weighs In On Movies And Modern Communication
“Endless sexual miscommunication and bitter rancor lie ahead. But thanks to the miracle of technology, most of the great movies of Hw’d history are now easily accessible — a collective epic of complex emotion that once magnificently captured the magic and mystique of sex.” Camille Paglia Weighs In On Movies And Modern Communication
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