Movie City News Archive for December, 2018
Greene on Hynes
This is a good time to say that there is no better writer on nonfiction film in the world than Eric Hynes. His Make It Real column for @FilmComment is the definitive doc criticism of our era. Yes he’s my pal. Doesn’t matter. His work is essential and we’re all lucky to have him. https://t.co/wBTQv8NXH5…
Read the full article »Matt Zoller Seitz On Louis Székely
“We were left with a smeary self-portrait of an asshole being an asshole. Most of the set looked like what professional wrestling fans call a “heel turn“—as if he’d made a business decision to un-ironically embrace the persona that disappointed fans had ascribed to him, and peddle it to Fox News Channel/Breitbart types who embrace…
Read the full article »“Four reasons 2018 was a bad year for the Khans of Bollywood: Why Aamir, Shah Rukh, Salman and Saif need to change tack”
“Four reasons 2018 was a bad year for the Khans of Bollywood: Why Aamir, Shah Rukh, Salman and Saif need to change tack”
Read the full article »Irish Film Classifications
Irish Film Classifications G: GrandPG: Mostly grand but sure you know yourself 12: Might be a bit of shifting15: Shifting, implied riding, lads getting a box in the mouth, a few bad words18: Riding, young wans in the nip, heads blew clean off, and the LANGUAGE out of them — Damien Owens (@OwensDamien) December 31,…
Read the full article »“Robert De Niro is, famously, a man of few words. In the past two years, those words have included “punk,” “dog,” “pig,” “con,” “bullshit artist,” “mutt,” “idiot,” “national disaster,” “embarrassment,” “disgrace,” “fool,” “bozo,” and “Jerkoff-in-Chief”—all directed at Donald Trump. At seventy-five, De Niro has turned political pundit, often in terms that you’d expect to find in a Martin Scorsese movie. In return, Trump has called him ‘a very Low IQ individual.'”
“Robert De Niro is, famously, a man of few words. In the past two years, those words have included “punk,” “dog,” “pig,” “con,” “bullshit artist,” “mutt,” “idiot,” “national disaster,” “embarrassment,” “disgrace,” “fool,” “bozo,” and “Jerkoff-in-Chief”—all directed at Donald Trump. At seventy-five, De Niro has turned political pundit, often in terms that you’d expect to find…
Read the full article »Vulture Funds
Turns out it wasn’t “we’re all streaming now” or “the high street is dying” but good old-fashioned asset-stripping. Just like the death of EMI a few years ago. https://t.co/K1SrzMXydq — Robert Rotifer (@robertrotifer) December 30, 2018
Read the full article »Canada Film’s 2018 Local Heroes
Canada Film’s 2018 Local Heroes Chicago’s 2018 Film 50
Read the full article »“I like specialist and second-hand record shops, but these weren’t the sorts of shops I went to as a kid. I spent vast amounts of my time rifling through record browsers in Debenhams, Boots and WHSmiths, and going to high-street shops that sold a broad selection of records for a wide variety of tastes — including, of course, whatever was in the charts. These are the shops I feel most nostalgic about, a nostalgia heightened by the fact that there are hardly any left.”
“I like specialist and second-hand record shops, but these weren’t the sorts of shops I went to as a kid. I spent vast amounts of my time rifling through record browsers in Debenhams, Boots and WHSmiths, and going to high-street shops that sold a broad selection of records for a wide variety of tastes — including, of…
Read the full article »Cameron Bailey on Mrinal Sen
Thread 👇🏾 Rest in Power, Mrinal Sen. More power to filmmakers pushing ahead on the ground he broke. https://t.co/mfcpstZ2hc — Cameron Bailey (@cameron_tiff) December 30, 2018
Read the full article »Bilge Ebiri Cites His Ten Favoirte 2018 Film Scores
Bilge Ebiri Cites His Ten Favorite 2018 Film Scores
Read the full article »Manohla Dargis
“What I know from a life of watching and reviewing movies is that outrage is tedious, and exhausting. Sometimes it is just easier to go with the flow, though much depends on what’s happening onscreen and off. Sometimes, I don’t want to let a movie’s banal, casual sexism ruin my good time. I make expedient…
Read the full article »Peter Morgan
“They have an uncomplicated mandate to entertain, and that that has led to charges of them being like a Walmart because they have so much of everything, and they don’t have a particular line or objective or goal in the way that FX does or HBO. But I don’t understand this talk of talent drains….
Read the full article »Mrinal Sen
The great Bengali director Mrinal Sen has died. https://t.co/ch0eV10CEq Tried to do retrospective of his films, but prints were not in good shape. Wonderful filmmaker. — mark cousins (@markcousinsfilm) December 30, 2018
Read the full article »Agnes Varda, Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves and Agnès Varda. By Patrick Swirc. pic.twitter.com/MVuVqoDXgD — TATJANA SL (@TATJANASL) December 28, 2018
Read the full article »JCVD on Ringo Lam
I’m deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Ringo Lam. We worked together on Maximum Risk, In Hell and Replicant. My heart goes out to his family, friends and loved ones. Jean-Claude#JCVD #RIP pic.twitter.com/JMs3rSVcl2 — JCVD Official (@JCVD) December 29, 2018
Read the full article »It’s Time to Retire the Phrase “Diversity Is Good for Business”
“It’s Time to Retire the Phrase ‘Diversity Is Good for Business’”
Read the full article »The Great Ringo Lam Was 63
The Great Ringo Lam Was 63
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: 2018’s Most Memorable Titles, Hobbyhorses, Martyr, CMA Live, Tailspin Tommy, Gilda, Miracle Worker … More
In Martyr, Hassane (Hamza Mekdad) is one of countless young Lebanese men for whom a college degree is no more useful than a medal earned in a long-ago war.
Read the full article »“The psychology behind Hallmark Christmas movies”
“The psychology behind Hallmark Christmas movies”
Read the full article »Voice Media Film Firings
NO. No no no no. This news makes me heartsick. Alan is one of the best editors I have ever worked with, and anything I managed to achieve at the Voice was largely thanks to him. But then, he is also an astonishingly gifted writer. The world will be hearing more from him. https://t.co/YGc6GazxYj —…
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