Movie City News Archive for December, 2018
Taffy Brodesser-Akner On Margot Kidder
Taffy Brodesser-Akner On Margot Kidder
Read the full article »” Had the visceral and vital ‘America to Me’ aired a generation or two ago, it might have been venerated as an event miniseries on a par with ‘Roots’ or Ken Burns’s ‘The Civil War,’ the kind of once-in-an-era insight into American identity that mandates family viewing and gets recorded by teachers and shown at next-day assemblies. But in 2018, when online word-of-mouth can outmuscle corporate marketing and millions of people are desperate to know where our country is headed, this epic on the intersecting lives of select students at a wildly diverse, and divided, suburban Chicago high school couldn’t compete with sensationalized long-form nonfiction.”
“Had the visceral and vital ‘America to Me’ aired a generation or two ago, it might have been venerated as an event miniseries on a par with ‘Roots’ or Ken Burns’s ‘The Civil War,’ the kind of once-in-an-era insight into American identity that mandates family viewing and gets recorded by teachers and shown at next-day assemblies….
Read the full article »Filmmaker’s Top 20 Posts Of 2018
Filmmaker’s Top 20 Posts Of 2018
Read the full article »Jen Yamato On The Visual Panache of Into The Spider-Verse
Jen Yamato On The Visual Panache of Into The Spider-Verse
Read the full article »Israeli Author Amos Oz Was 79
Israeli Author Amos Oz Was 79
Read the full article »Voice Filmers Fired
Thanks, April. Yes, it’s true: The Voice Media weeklies are done with film/tv effective 12/31. Thanks to everyone who ever read us or worked with us! https://t.co/O8WCcAeOWd — Alan Scherstuhl (@studiesincrap) December 28, 2018
Read the full article »Kendra James On Eight Seasons Of “Bewitched” Fashion
Kendra James On Eight Seasons Of “Bewitched” Fashion
Read the full article »Sandro Has Again Been Malkoviching
Sandro Has Again Been Out Malkoviching
Read the full article »“Die Hard isn’t just a Christmas movie — it’s the best ever, according to Twentieth-Century Fox”
“Die Hard isn’t just a Christmas movie — it’s the best ever, according to Twentieth-Century Fox” “Christmas movies are fucked up. Case in point: Last year, about this time, Die Hard played on several screens in several rooms at a house party thrown by a thirtyish couple I know. As the seasonal call of ‘Yippee…
Read the full article »Ben Schwartz on “Bad Day at Black Rock: When the Gorillas Take Over”
Ben Schwartz on “Bad Day at Black Rock: When the Gorillas Take Over”
Read the full article »Record $15 Million in China Presales for Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Record $15 Million in China Presales for Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Read the full article »“Why Pacific Rim: Uprising Is the Most Important Film of 2018: It Revealed We Are Now in the Chinese Moment of Capitalism,” Writes Charles Mudede
“Why Pacific Rim: Uprising Is the Most Important Film of 2018: It Revealed We Are Now in the Chinese Moment of Capitalism,” Writes Charles Mudede
Read the full article »Art of the Title’s Top 10 Title Sequences of 2018
Art of the Title’s Top 10 Title Sequences of 2018
Read the full article »The Original “Flash Mob” Ending Of A Simple Favor
The Original “Flash Mob” Ending Of A Simple Favor
Read the full article »“When we decided to strip out motion blur, the people at Imageworks said, ‘That’s not going to work, you won’t be happy.’ We said, ‘No, that’s the goal: Make us unhappy. Then figure out a new way to make us happy.’ We’re creating incredible images in this movie and we want to see them as clearly as possible, so let’s not soften them.”
“When we decided to strip out motion blur, the people at Imageworks said, ‘That’s not going to work, you won’t be happy.’ We said, ‘No, that’s the goal: Make us unhappy. Then figure out a new way to make us happy.’ We’re creating incredible images in this movie and we want to see them as…
Read the full article »Rachel Weisz
“It can just get really boring watching heterosexual people, whether you’re gay or not,” Weisz says. “It’s boring, particularly when the woman is the object of desire rather than the agent of desire. That’s what we’ve been spoon-fed — that the woman is the object of the male subjectivity, of his desire and passion. Oh,…
Read the full article »Kyle Turner
“To create narratives that do not acknowledge the inescapable fact that difference is what makes queer people and the artifacts, art and traditions they have what they are, is to either buy into a paradigm of straightness and a normativity in art and society that already has existed, or to force artists to create an…
Read the full article »“Facebook. Sigh. Criticize Facebook? Sure. Leave? Why?” by Jeff Jarvis
“Facebook. Sigh. Criticize Facebook? Sure. Leave? Why?” by Jeff Jarvis
Read the full article »“Very important for me was to have a black family at the center of a horror film,” Peele said. “But it’s also important to note, unlike Get Out, Us is not about race. It is instead about something that I feel has become an undeniable truth. And that is the simple fact that we are our own worst enemies.”
“Very important for me was to have a black family at the center of a horror film,” Peele said. “But it’s also important to note, unlike Get Out, Us is not about race. It is instead about something that I feel has become an undeniable truth. And that is the simple fact that we are…
Read the full article »Screenwriter Christina Hodson on The Road From Bumblebee To Harley Quinn
Screenwriter Christina Hodson on The Road From Bumblebee To Harley Quinn
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