Movie City News Archive for January, 2019
BuzzFeed Quizzes
BuzzFeed’s director of quizzes, who was laid off: https://t.co/jEfFUleTCv pic.twitter.com/NL4tGRUQ18 — Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) January 28, 2019
Read the full article »Amazon Flows $14 Million To Scott Z. Burns’ Starry The Report, Depicting Bush-Cheney Torture Program
Amazon Flows $14 Million To Scott Z. Burns’ Starry The Report, Depicting Bush-Cheney Torture Program
Read the full article »Original Mary Poppins Called Out For Blackface, As Well As A Convoluted Allusion In Mary Poppins Returns
Original Mary Poppins Called Out For Blackface, As Well As A Convoluted Allusion In Mary Poppins Returns
Read the full article »“Comedy Central Is Advertising With Every Comedian’s Worst Enemy”
“There’s something about advertising on an Instagram account that got successful for posting stolen jokes—and spending ad money to run sponsored posts stylized like stolen jokes, no less—that feels antithetical to everything Comedy Central stands for.” “Comedy Central Is Advertising With Every Comedian’s Worst Enemy”
Read the full article »Cinematography on air
If @TheAcademy doesn't air Best Cinematography I won't be watching the Oscars, and I hope my fellow DPs won't be either. I also stand in solidarity with the other below the line folks whose work is disregarded. Film is a collaborate medium. Directors are nothing without the crew. — Elle Schneider (@elleschneider) January 28, 2019
Read the full article »Mark Harris on deadline and Roma
Deadline has long had an unacknowledged right-wing lean, but this take, positing that Roma is by definition a political vote cast by "virtue signalers" that will "split and diminish" the Oscar audience, is another low in a very low season. pic.twitter.com/luDm0tRO6B — Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) January 28, 2019
Read the full article »Catching Up To The Brute, Bloody Output Of Dallas’ Cinestate
“I didn’t even vote for the guy. I don’t necessarily crave a conservative audience, but that may be an outcome, and it wouldn’t surprise me. I understand that audience deeply. But it’s not a mission statement.” Catching Up To The Brute, Bloody Output Of Dallas’ Cinestate
Read the full article »Once Upon a Time in Finance; QT Pie Boosted By China Bona Film
Once Upon a Time in Finance; QT Pie Boosted By China Bona Film
Read the full article »Cinematography
Seriously though, I couldn't care less about cutting the songs, they were usually excruciating and cinema ain't Broadway. But you know what cinema is? CINEMATOGRAPHY. — Jessica Kiang (@jessicakiang) January 28, 2019
Read the full article »Harris On Oscar
As we move closer to one of the most misbegotten "reconceptions" of the Oscars ever, a thread with a scoop–they're not showing Best Cinematography this year. Stupid, wrong, won't help what needs helping, will hurt what doesn't need hurting. https://t.co/02yNP0hJlQ — Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) January 28, 2019
Read the full article »Oscar
There's potentially a world where they get shamed out of this. Potentially. Just FYI. pic.twitter.com/Akf6lMtp4r — Kristopher Tapley (@kristapley) January 27, 2019
Read the full article »Debruge
Couldn’t agree more. I like to think I was put on this earth to champion the risk-takers. It’s the complacent, color-by-numbers movies that get the hatchet. #Sundance2019 @ Sundance Film… https://t.co/Wo1A3CzFgk — Peter Debruge (@AskDebruge) January 28, 2019
Read the full article »Brody on Celluloid
The appeal and potential of film aren’t lost on me; but few who use celluloid (the term has a pompous vanity of technical authority) do anything original with it—rather, it often gets used like a declaration of nostalgic fidelity, a ready-made excuse for non-originality. — Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) January 28, 2019
Read the full article »Dargis On Mekas
“I make home movies, therefore I live, I live, therefore I make home movies.” Only recently, while rewatching Walden, did I finally grasp the full implications of his use of ‘home movies,’ and how for him these two words had become inseparable.” Dargis On Mekas
Read the full article »A24 Throws $6 Million Farewell Party; Native Son And Share Shift To HBO Films
A24 Throws $6 Million Farewell Party; Native Son And Share Shift To HBO Films
Read the full article »Miyazaki
Je peux témoigner, miyazaki pere et fils sont au travail. 2 nouvelles productions des studios ghibli sont en cours et les dessins sont in-cro-ya-bles ! Tres grosse emotion — VINCENT MARAVAL 🇲🇨 (@MARAVALV) January 21, 2019
Read the full article »John Fordham Remembers Michel Legrand
John Fordham Remembers Michel Legrand
Read the full article »Burning Director Lee Chang-Dong
“In a mystery the problems are all hidden, just as they are in life now. People don’t know how to feel about their anger or even what they are feeling angry about.” Burning Director Lee Chang-Dong
Read the full article »“Biopic”
Please delete the word (and concept) "biopic." — Jay Babcock (@jaywbabcock) January 27, 2019
Read the full article »Kaling Amazon
Great Mindy Kaling line about distribution deal for her @Sundance hit "Late Night:" "I have spent a fortune on Amazon, so its nice to see them reciprocate." — Kenneth Turan (@KennethTuran) January 27, 2019
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