Movie City News Archive for July, 2019
Rothman
“I basically did the same thing I did with my wife, who I had to ask to marry me four times,” Tom Rothman said of acquiring Tarantino’s film. “I just don’t think we can give up on this audience. We could write ourselves out of a big portion of the business if we don’t keep…
Read the full article »Brooks Barnes
When you are having drinks with a big-time media CEO, and he reaches across the table to pull a clump of cat hair off the sleeve of your jacket ♂️ — Brooks Barnes (@brooksbarnesNYT) July 25, 2019
Read the full article »Grauniad Contributor Hopes To “Cancel” Tarantino
“The question remains whether we should continue to indulge the director’s fondness for piling abuse on women, particularly in light of his own admission of acting out scenes of physical violence towards his female actors, even if he claims it is in pursuit of the perfect shot.” Grauniad Contributor Hopes To “Cancel” Tarantino
Read the full article »What’s the Fate Of Montreal’s World Film Festival?
“Quebec media have regularly predicted the WFF’s demise, but Losique has always managed to dismiss the gravediggers. The Montreal scene is crowded with film festivals, including the Festival de Nouveau Cinéma, the Montreal International Documentary Festival and the genre-oriented Fantasia festival. These events have whittled away at the WFF’s claim to be Montreal’s window on…
Read the full article »Mohammad Rasoulof
“Strangely, they’re accusing me of ‘propaganda against the state’ for telling stories. None of my films are political, they are social criticisms that have political repercussions. Instead of understanding the films, they are interpreting them as slander against the state. I think intolerance and impatience toward criticism is reactionary.” Iran Jails Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof
Read the full article »Emotions moving
Vulture: Motion Smoothing Is Ruining Cinema Filmmakers hate it. Viewers do, too. So why is it the default setting on almost every new TV in America? By @BilgeEbiri https://t.co/aQSDDCx6hA — Todd Vaziri (@tvaziri) July 24, 2019
Read the full article »Rutger
"I want more life, fucker."-Roy Batty Rest in peace, Rutger Hauer pic.twitter.com/NcltSXlfCO — D'annic (@d_annic) July 24, 2019
Read the full article »“I’ve seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”
“I’ve seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: Ash Is Purest White, Fast Color, Dogman, High Life, Space 1999, Big Bad Fox, Fassbinder’s BRD, Klute, Baker’s Wife, Noir Archive, Master Z, Keaton 2, Hellboy 4K … More
Qiao’s pursuit takes her on a ferryboat ride down a scenic stretch of the Yangtze River, to a city that soon will be swallowed by the rising waters behind the Three Gorges Dam. Millions of people will be displaced to feed the country’s insatiable appetite for electrical power.
Read the full article »Rohrschach
Dude Rorschach is my favourite superhero i just wish his mask didnt have a picture of my parents fighting on it — Raptors (@Raptors__) July 22, 2019
Read the full article »QT Dissenter
I really want Tarantino to make that Star Trek movie now. Get him away from revisionist history, away from quoting bygone cinema and TV, and channel his enormous talents into making a superlative genre film that has nothing to do with his well established, careworn obsessions. — Adam B. Vary (@adambvary) July 23, 2019
Read the full article »QT deal
No that rare. Every deal I ever made as an agent in independent films the producers owned the copyrights after 20-25 years. Obviously these were smaller films but this article is misleading https://t.co/e8Ho9tX42v — cassian elwes (@cassianelwes) July 23, 2019
Read the full article »Stallone opens out
Read Sylvester Stallone's first-ever public account about the deep-seated resentment he’s harbored for decades over not being given any ownership of #Rocky https://t.co/w5RoGTmTgP — Variety (@Variety) July 23, 2019
Read the full article »Bay Area critic
Sad news for lovers of dance and music in the Bay Area and worldwide:https://t.co/ieb7RGNcVf — Joshua Kosman (@JoshuaKosman) July 23, 2019
Read the full article »Ridley Scott to Direct Matt Damon, Ben Affleck in 14th Century Revenge Tale Adapted By Damon, Affleck and Nicole Holofcener
Ridley Scott to Direct Matt Damon, Ben Affleck in “The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France,” Adapted By Damon, Affleck and Nicole Holofcener
Read the full article »Sweet, smoothies are
I've seen film critics say the MCU is like "series television, but at the movies." It's simpler than that. Multiple franchises in a shared universe. Interweaving subplots and soap opera. That's COMICS. "It's comics, but at the movies." And that's not a bug, it's a feature. pic.twitter.com/zaXe202TjM — Dan Slott (@DanSlott) July 22, 2019
Read the full article »“Being an absolute movie encyclopedia, Quentin ran films from the Sixties”—such as The Wrecking Crew, Valley of the Dolls, and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice—”at his movie theater once a week for us. 1969 was such a vivid period of color, particularly in Los Angeles, and there was a feel of neon and Op Art everywhere.”
“Being an absolute movie encyclopedia, Quentin ran films from the Sixties”—such as The Wrecking Crew, Valley of the Dolls and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice—”at his movie theater once a week for us. 1969 was such a vivid period of color, particularly in Los Angeles, and there was a feel of neon and Op…
Read the full article »Krassner
@PatThomas1964 reports that Paul Krassner has left us to party with Groucho Marx, Lenny Bruce & Abbie Hoffman. RIP (the P meaning anything you want it to) — MONDO 2000 (@2000_mondo) July 21, 2019
Read the full article »Men in Black
You need to talk to me about men in black. — Vincent D'Onofrio (@vincentdonofrio) July 21, 2019
Read the full article »Sunny Bunch on DVDs
“Even if you’re not an obsessive who demands Criterion Collection-caliber 4K transfers from interpositives made from the original negatives, there’s still reason to be concerned about digital’s total victory over physical in the media wars. If you don’t own a physical copy of the thing you want to watch, there’s no guarantee that you’ll be…
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