Movie City News Archive for March, 2018
Paddy Considine
“There’s a part of me that’s going: ‘I haven’t touched it yet.’ I haven’t touched that exquisite thing, a really great performance. I don’t think I’ve done it, yet. What I’m looking for is that bit when it transcends acting. Where you feel like you’re literally looking through a window at someone else’s life.” Paddy…
Read the full article »Will Ferrell Deleting Facebook Page over Cambridge Analytica
Will Ferrell Deleting Facebook Page over Cambridge Analytica
Read the full article »Amazon’s Videogame Twitch Fires 25
Amazon’s Videogame Twitch Fires 25
Read the full article »A Roger Ailes Chief Lieutenant Secretly Back Working At Fox News
A Roger Ailes Chief Lieutenant Secretly Back Working At Fox News
Read the full article »Playboy Deletes Facebook Account, Citing Values
Playboy Deletes Facebook Account, Citing Values
Read the full article »Behind The Titanic-Like Groundswell For The Greatest Showman In Blighty
Behind The Titanic-Like Groundswell For The Greatest Showman In Blighty
Read the full article »“Facebook film and nonprofit pages are virtually cut off from their followers, with independent filmmakers forced to pay to ‘boost’ posts to reach the followers they once reached organically through likes and shares. Facebook would not comment on the record about how changes to its algorithm had lessened the reach of public pages for films, filmmakers and nonprofit organizations.”
“Facebook film and nonprofit pages are virtually cut off from their followers, with independent filmmakers forced to pay to ‘boost’ posts to reach the followers they once reached organically through likes and shares. Facebook would not comment on the record about how changes to its algorithm had lessened the reach of public pages for films, filmmakers…
Read the full article »Laurie Penny On Her Decade Past
“The internet hates women. Everyone knows that by now, and nobody precisely approves, but we’ve reached a point of collective tolerance. It’s just the way of the world, and if you can’t handle it, honey, delete your account. Stop engaging online. Cut yourself off from friends, family, and professional contacts, shut down your business, blow…
Read the full article »Maya Arulpragasam On MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A
“Whilst Arulpragasam says she’s completely over the whole incident, the film has clearly refreshed the frustrations she felt. “A middle finger, it’s like get a fucking grip. People were like, ‘oh you’re lucky you’re not in jail, give up all your profit, be this slave for the rest of your life’,” she stops herself before…
Read the full article »Laurie Metcalf And Her Four Decades Of “Overnight Success”
Laurie Metcalf And Her Four Decades Of “Overnight Success”
Read the full article »Creator Of “Ren & Stimpy” Has History Of Underage Sexual Abuse
“I think this 40 year old man is hitting on me,” she wrote. Rice, then 14, continued in her diary, “But he’s never perverted. He is also very nice. He gives me a lot of drawing tips.” “The 1990s were a time of mental and emotional fragility for Mr. Kricfalusi, especially after losing ‘Ren and…
Read the full article »“What It’s Like to Watch Isle of Dogs As a Japanese Speaker,” By Emily Yoshida
“It’s hard to call it offensive, exactly, and yet, it’s not devoid of a kind of opportunism. It’s not a crime, but it’s certainly something to unpack… The film’s use of Japanese language felt bizarre to me, even as a nonfluent (seriously, the opposite of fluent) Japanese speaker. Human characters speak Japanese throughout the film,…
Read the full article »A Conversation With IDFA’s New Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia
“I love producing. But producing in Europe is different than producing in Syria. I’ve been producing in Europe for the last four or five years and so much that surrounds it today is bureaucratic and technical. Producing in a place like Syria was a revolutionary act, energizing, full of motivation and dreams. I think in…
Read the full article »Conservation Film Pioneer David Cobham, 87, Director Of “Vanishing Hedgerows,” “Tarka The Otter” and “Woof!”
Conservation Film Pioneer David Cobham, 87, Director Of “Vanishing Hedgerows,” “Tarka The Otter” and “Woof!”
Read the full article »Cosby Judge Will Not Step Down Despite Defense Insistence
Cosby Judge Will Not Step Down Despite Defense Insistence
Read the full article »Animator Fred Crippen, 90; Body Of Work Includes “Roger Ramjet,” Roger Rabbit, Sesame Street
Animator Fred Crippen, 90; Body Of Work Includes “Roger Ramjet,” Roger Rabbit, Sesame Street
Read the full article »Brit Arts And The Brexit Wreck-It
Brit Arts And The Brexit Wreck-It
Read the full article »Tracey Thorn On The Return Of Sade
“Her style and poise was a legacy from the fashion school days. She always knew exactly which Levis were correct. She could make a trench coat look edgy. She could make huge hoop earrings look like the crown jewels.” Tracey Thorn On The Return Of Sade
Read the full article »Onion Inc. Unionizes
Onion Inc. Unionizes
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: Last Jedi, Behind the Mask, Executioners, King of Jazz, Sacha Guitry, 1:54, Nicholas, Peyton Place and more
Whew. I’m exhausted just trying to summarize the first 20 minutes.
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