Movie City News Archive for August, 2019
“New York’s glorious Paris Theater on its sixtieth Anniversary. Today, the Paris went under. It was the last single-screen theater in Manhattan. And oh, it was a treasure.”
“New York’s glorious Paris Theater on its sixtieth Anniversary. Today, the Paris went under. It was the last single-screen theater in Manhattan. And oh, it was a treasure.”
Read the full article »BLOCKBUSTER
Jason is correct about Blockbuster but if he ever comes for Hollywood Video I am cutting him. https://t.co/Sz3Rzb4RCq — Bilge Ebiri (@BilgeEbiri) August 28, 2019
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So happy to see my superstar “PR icon” boyfriend @chuckmcduck quoted in this piece. Phwoar. https://t.co/rCp0LPF44G — Bumble Ward (@BumbleWard) August 30, 2019
Read the full article »“How a killer-clown horror sequel became a fable of courage and resistance”: Breznican Debuts At VF
“How a killer-clown horror sequel became a fable of courage and resistance”: Breznican Debuts At VF
Read the full article »Tallying Telluride 2019
Telluride, CO (August 29, 2019) – Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve, today announced its official program selections for the 46th edition of the Telluride Film Festival. TFF’s celebration of artistic excellence brings together cinema enthusiasts, filmmakers and artists to discover the best in world cinema in the beautiful mountain town of…
Read the full article »Larry Gross on Safdies
Congratulations to @JOSH_BENNY Safdie. Uncut Gems is a gigantic creative leap forward for them. A crime story that deepens into a portrait of an archetypal Jewish American hero chasing the bitch goddess Success. Adam Sandler brings it. It will be an Oscar nominated performance. — larryagross (@larryagross) August 29, 2019
Read the full article »I kind of am… an “I kind of am… an apologist is the wrong word, although some people think Visconti’s work is uneven. I don’t agree. I’m a huge fan, even, of Ludwig. I just luxuriate in Ludwig. I don’t care how long it is, or what’s going on. Five hours of Helmut Berger, and I’m in. There’s an incredible moment where he’s bankrupted Bavaria, building Neuschwanstein. Romy Schneider walks into the castle and it’s all filled with mirrors and gilded, and she looks at it, a beat of silence, looking around, what’s her reaction going to be? She just breaks into laughter, and it’s beautiful,’ James Gray says. “Why are we talking about Visconti? What are we supposed to talk about?” is the wrong word, although some people think Visconti’s work is uneven. I don’t agree. I’m a huge fan, even, of Ludwig. I just luxuriate in Ludwig. I don’t care how long it is, or what’s going on. Five hours of Helmut Berger, and I’m in. There’s an incredible moment where he’s bankrupted Bavaria, building Neuschwanstein. Romy Schneider walks into the castle and it’s all filled with mirrors and gilded, and she looks at it, a beat of silence, looking around, what’s her reaction going to be? She just breaks into laughter, and it’s beautiful. Why are we talking about Visconti? What are we supposed to talk about?
“I kind of am… an apologist is the wrong word, although some people think Visconti’s work is uneven. I don’t agree. I’m a huge fan, even, of Ludwig. I just luxuriate in Ludwig. I don’t care how long it is, or what’s going on. Five hours of Helmut Berger, and I’m in. There’s an incredible moment where…
Read the full article »“You know, I have a lot of flaws and one of them is that I miscalculate degree of difficulty. The jungle for The Lost City of Z was really terrible and very difficult physically. But I thought mistakenly that I was going to go into a soundstage and I would be in L.A. and it would be easier. And it was harder. It was harder than the jungle because you have to create the entire world. You can’t just look for a shot, point the camera. Everything has to be imagined.”
“You know, I have a lot of flaws and one of them is that I miscalculate degree of difficulty. The jungle for The Lost City of Z was really terrible and very difficult physically. But I thought mistakenly that I was going to go into a soundstage and I would be in L.A. and it…
Read the full article »“A Disney spokesperson says there has been no change in policy on their end for Canadian repertory cinemas. ‘If the theatre is a repertory theatre, they will still have their usual access to the Fox (and Disney) library through our non-theatrical department,” said Julia Caslin in an emailed statement. That’s not the message the Rio says it received . [and] was given no notice about a change, nor notice that her usual two contacts at 20th Century Fox had left the company.”
“A Disney spokesperson says there has been no change in policy on their end for Canadian repertory cinemas. ‘If the theatre is a repertory theatre, they will still have their usual access to the Fox (and Disney) library through our non-theatrical department,” said Julia Caslin in an emailed statement. That’s not the message the Rio says…
Read the full article »Cleo Oral History
The @globeandmail, thanks to @HertzBarry, ran an oral history of @cleojournal featuring some of our past editorial voices @mallory_andrews @Kathleenytimes @manishaclaire @yo_mk @cellwand and Cathleen Evans 💜https://t.co/pSdGeqlP2M — Kiva Reardon (@kiva_jane) August 28, 2019
Read the full article »“Martel clearly defended the choice of Polanski’s film in the Lido lineup, despite the controversy. “I will not congratulate him. But I think it is right that his movie is here at this festival.’ She said that her comments had been ‘deeply misunderstood.'”
“Martel clearly defended the choice of Polanski’s film in the Lido lineup, despite the controversy. “I will not congratulate him. But I think it is right that his movie is here at this festival.’ She said that her comments had been ‘deeply misunderstood.’”
Read the full article »Whit on Woody
Paris-based Lisa Nesselson gives Woody Allen’s new-ish film a nice review @Screendaily – pushing back on the sneers & smears: https://t.co/PBnNVAUlPx pic.twitter.com/jTvA3xlp4w — Whit Stillman (@WhitStillman) August 29, 2019
Read the full article »“For a long time I think I thought being a tough guy meant being tough at oneself. Like, how much can I take? And now I think I see it quite differently. My lineage is dark survivors. I come from real Auschwitz stock. So Hitler was a big player in my childhood, and it was this mentality of surviving and no matter what sort of horrors life throws your way, that was something that had been endured by my grandmother and my grandfather and therefore it was kind of the litmus test of a human experience. For a long time I think I thought being a tough guy meant being tough at oneself. Like, how much can I take? And now I think I see it quite differently. I certainly think it made me very curious to sort of like, see what else was out there, and kind of push at the edges of this thing called reality.”
“For a long time I think I thought being a tough guy meant being tough at oneself. Like, how much can I take? And now I think I see it quite differently. My lineage is dark survivors. I come from real Auschwitz stock. So Hitler was a big player in my childhood, and it was…
Read the full article »“Allen makes fun of well-off people — including, in a late-arriving masterstroke, how some of them got that way — places a few excellent digs at privilege across generations, skewers the pitfalls of celebrity-obsessed lazy journalism and bundles more than one romance into a breezy one-weekend package, with and without rain, exquisitely filmed by Vittorio Storaro whose work on Wonder Wheelwas alone worth the price of admission.”
“Allen makes fun of well-off people — including, in a late-arriving masterstroke, how some of them got that way — places a few excellent digs at privilege across generations, skewers the pitfalls of celebrity-obsessed lazy journalism and bundles more than one romance into a breezy one-weekend package, with and without rain, exquisitely filmed by Vittorio…
Read the full article »“I’ve never been recognized in my industry. I’ve never been nominated for anything. Maybe like, twice for Golden Globes when I was little, and one for ‘Fargo.’ Maybe they think I’m just the girl from Bring It On.”
“I’ve never been recognized in my industry. I’ve never been nominated for anything. Maybe like, twice for Golden Globes when I was little, and one for ‘Fargo.’ Maybe they think I’m just the girl from Bring It On.”
Read the full article »“People perceive all my stuff as red state, and it’s the most ridiculous thing. If you truly look at ‘Yellowstone’ or Wind River or Sicario, these are pretty wildly progressive notions. The people who are calling it a red-state show have probably never watched it. I am apolitical publicly. I don’t want to be preached to, so I’m not going to preach to anybody else. But I’m not just going to show you one side. I’m going to show you all sides. I happen to think a Native American trying to buy back the land that was stolen from his people, like Gil Birmingham’s tribal-leader character is doing on the show, is historically pretty progressive. And it’s not a fantasy. That is happening.”
“People perceive all my stuff as red state, and it’s the most ridiculous thing. If you truly look at ‘Yellowstone’ or Wind River or Sicario, these are pretty wildly progressive notions. The people who are calling it a red-state show have probably never watched it. I am apolitical publicly. I don’t want to be preached to,…
Read the full article »“How UTA’s Rena Ronson became one of international film’s biggest players”
“How UTA’s Rena Ronson Became One of International Film’s Biggest players”
Read the full article »Irishman
We Pain Moviehouses: The Irishman Won’t Go Wide
Read the full article »Annabella Sciorra Will Testify That She Was Raped By Disgraced Former Producer Harvey Weinstein
Annabella Sciorra Will Testify That She Was Raped By Disgraced Former Producer Harvey Weinstein
Read the full article »Venom Vs. Penny-Diming Amazon Relief
The budget for "Venom" was $100 million. https://t.co/DmgzPfaztF — Todd Vaziri (@tvaziri) August 26, 2019
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