Movie City News Archive for February, 2019
Roma sound edit
Congratulations to #ROMACuarón for winning the MPSE Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Film – Foreign. #MPSEAwards #ROMACuarón pic.twitter.com/NOfT5S9rWa — ROMA (@ROMACuaron) February 18, 2019
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5 different movies winning the 5 major guild awards? Never happened before. (Closest was 2013, when a PGA tie meant 5 different winners—but Gravity won 2.) https://t.co/oZ4WSQiNU8 — Steve Pond (@stevepond) February 18, 2019
Read the full article »Writers Guild Nods: Eighth Grade
Writers Guild Nods: Original, Eighth Grade; Adapted, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Read the full article »“Facebook cannot be trusted to regulate itself and must be subject to sweeping new legislation, a parliamentary report will announce on Monday.”
“Facebook cannot be trusted to regulate itself and must be subject to sweeping new legislation, a parliamentary report will announce on Monday.”
Read the full article »“The internet was supposed to erase geographical boundaries, making art from all over the world quickly and readily available to people all over the world. In practice this has meant making people from all over the world painfully aware of a crazy quilt of copyright and licensing agreements from all over the world. Offering subscribers only seven of the 121 roles Bruno Ganz is credited for on IMDb doesn’t seem like much of a best-case-scenario for a streaming media library.”
“The internet was supposed to erase geographical boundaries, making art from all over the world quickly and readily available to people all over the world. In practice this has meant making people from all over the world painfully aware of a crazy quilt of copyright and licensing agreements from all over the world. Offering subscribers…
Read the full article »“Richard E Grant is a human exclamation mark and I love him for it!”
“Richard E Grant is a human exclamation mark and I love him for it!”
Read the full article »Majestic Meta-Meme: “H-tler Reacts To Bruno Ganz’s Death”
Majestic Meta-Meme: “H-tler Reacts To Bruno Ganz’s Death”
Read the full article »Disney Archivist Dave Smith Was 78
Disney Archivist Dave Smith Was 78
Read the full article »Christopher Knopf, 91, Former WGA Head, Wrote For TV, Emperor of the North
“Knopf wrote about meeting Marvin in Aldrich’s Fox office. ‘There was that squint in his eyes and the so familiar baritone voice as he held court, dissecting his role.’ Marvin told Knopf that his character is ‘a philosopher, a disciple of Kant’s metaphysics and ethics, right?’ Knopf agreed. ‘Bullshit,’ Marvin replied. ‘The man was already in character,’…
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“I love everyday people,” said Gigliotti, who lives in Manhattan. “I ride the subway with them every day in New York. Everyday people don’t get me ratings.”
Read the full article »“Is Porn Becoming a Monopoly? As the consumer internet becomes ‘sterilized and gentrified,’ alt-porn producers say they’re being marginalized”
“Is Porn Becoming a Monopoly? As the consumer internet becomes ‘sterilized and gentrified,’ alt-porn producers say they’re being marginalized“
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“Gigliotti would have to quickly retool the broadcast so that every Oscar was presented without edits, in the traditional manner. And the officials had a question: Could she still deliver a three-hour telecast — max? Pretty please? ‘The answer was no,’ Gigliotti said over the weekend.”
Read the full article »Adam McKay on Politifact
However, God bless you @PolitiFact for fact checking that Cheney drove a black VW Bug for years. Made my day.(He was also a terrible driver!) — Adam McKay (@GhostPanther) February 17, 2019
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Has anyone else watched all this year's Oscar nominated Live Action Shorts in one sitting? And are you as emotionally drained as I am? With one exception this could be a new category of Most Harrowing Short. — edgarwright (@edgarwright) February 17, 2019
Read the full article »Scott Feinberg On The Progress Of Early Oscar Prospect A Star Is Born
Scott Feinberg On The Progress Of Early Oscar Prospect A Star Is Born
Read the full article »China censorship worldwide
There's more. In a public statement, @aiww says one of the people involved in "Berlin, I Love You" wants to make a "Shanghai, I Love You." Which means access to China. In which case, Ai Weiwei became a liability. So he got cut. — Melissa Chan (@melissakchan) February 16, 2019
Read the full article »Alfonso Cuarón On His “Inspired By Roma” Album
“Probably the first time I saw music used this way was when I was seeing After Hours. There’s a scene in which Griffin Dunne is talking to someone and you can hear the Pretenders playing so far away, and you can tell that it’s something playing on a small radio through a window, and I…
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Ken Nordine Was 96
Read the full article »“To cover what we estimate could be the programming costs for its new Disney+ streaming service, Disney would need roughly 37 million subscribers paying $9 a month globally.”
“To cover what we estimate could be the programming costs for its new Disney+ streaming service, Disney would need roughly 37 million subscribers paying $9 a month globally.”
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