Joker Statement

Warner’s statement on JOKER: pic.twitter.com/2PlBJ7Yhcu — Brooks Barnes (@brooksbarnesNYT) September 24, 2019

“A lot of thinkpieces [have been] written by people who proudly state they haven’t even seen the movie and they don’t need to. I would argue that you might want to watch the movie, you might want to watch it with an open mind. The movie makes statements about a lack of love, childhood trauma, lack of compassion in the world. I think people can handle that message… I don’t even want to bring up the movies in the past that they’ve said this about because it’s shocking and embarrassing when you go, oh my God, Do the Right Thing, they said that about [that, too]. Art can be complicated and oftentimes art is meant to be complicated. If you want uncomplicated art, you might want to take up calligraphy, but filmmaking will always be a complicated art.”

“A lot of thinkpieces [have been] written by people who proudly state they haven’t even seen [Joker] and don’t need to. I would argue that you might want to watch the movie, you might want to watch it with an open mind. The movie makes statements about a lack of love, childhood trauma, lack of compassion…

Times on Robert Johnson

It’s great that the NYT is finally publishing an obit of Robert Johnson, but in classic NYT fashion it feels obliged to explain that the story that he sold his soul to the devil so he could play Mississippi Delta blues is “dubious.” https://t.co/3x8mgrLgRU — Timothy Noah (@TimothyNoah1) September 25, 2019

Kwame Amoaku and Peter Hawley

Kwame Amoaku and Peter Hawley, Heads of the Chicago Film Office and The Illinois Film Office, In Conversation

The Irishman at NYFF

“I’ve known Marty for almost 30 years,” Kent Jones says of Scorsese, who exec-produced Diane, Jones’ narrative feature debut. Scorsese’s most recent films have skipped festivals entirely because of “timing. In the past, because of Marty’s and my relationship, people were always saying, ‘Of course you’ll be opening with The Wolf of Wall Street,’ or ‘Of…

Phoebe Waller-Bridge Signs Amazon $20 Million-Per-Annum All-Round Deal

Phoebe Waller-Bridge Signs Amazon $20 Million-Per-Annum All-Round Deal

Elgort

ansel elgort anticapitalist king! https://t.co/6MBhZq0NVo — evie (@francisforevers) September 17, 2019

“A couple of things. One, the picture edit itself was difficult. How different is my first cut from this? Not very. The structure is pretty straightforward. The thing that was difficult is a lot of the world creation with visual effects. You have to create a lot of those shots from scratch. You’re having to sign off on animation, which then gets rendered, and then you have to cut it into the stuff you’ve already shot. And if it doesn’t fit, you have to redo it. It is endless. But also, let’s be honest, the studio got purchased by another studio. Disney bought the studio, and they they couldn’t release two movies of their own on the same day. By the way, I was thrilled, because I thought the film was much more of a fall movie, and I got more time to work on the effects … But it is also true that you now have one studio controlling 40 percent of the marketplace, and I don’t know what that means. So when people say, ‘Where’s your movie?’ I’m like, ‘Have you read the newspaper?'”

“A couple of things. One, the picture edit itself was difficult. How different is my first cut from this? Not very. The structure is pretty straightforward. The thing that was difficult is a lot of the world creation with visual effects. You have to create a lot of those shots from scratch. You’re having to sign…

Blum Funko

The most shameless plug ever: Buy a little version of me!!!!! @OriginalFunko Pop is available for pre-order on our store! https://t.co/oXmaMUlqTG — Jason Blum (@jason_blum) September 23, 2019

Jennifer’s Body Turns 10

Jennifer’s Body Turns 10

Bahman Ghobadi

Famous Kurdish movie maker Bahman Ghobadi claims his mother was arrested in Iran pic.twitter.com/hVRcv4hlXT — Wladimir (@vvanwilgenburg) September 22, 2019

Marighella Censored And Brazil Release Canceled

Marighella Censored And Brazil Release Canceled

“On the creative side, even successful shows are likely to have shorter runs—as is increasingly the case on Netflix—because of rising production costs and the difficulty of keeping audiences’ attention given a plethora of viewing options. For consumers, that means more shows they love will run their course within three or four years instead of seven or eight. For the talent, it means moving on to new jobs more frequently.”

“On the creative side, even successful shows are likely to have shorter runs—as is increasingly the case on Netflix—because of rising production costs and the difficulty of keeping audiences’ attention given a plethora of viewing options. For consumers, that means more shows they love will run their course within three or four years instead of…

Lucrecia Martel

“The entire industry is speeding down this path that you’ve got to own the wires and the service and be producing everything for your own service into one giant integrated phalanx that you’ll march off to do… something? For the sake of this, Hollywood is supposed to be ready to throw everything else out the window.”

“The entire industry is speeding down this path that you’ve got to own the wires and the service and be producing everything for your own service into one giant integrated phalanx that you’ll march off to do… something? For the sake of this, Hollywood is supposed to be ready to throw everything else out the…

“Out of 17 films in competition there are six directed by women but we didn’t select the films looking for parity in numbers. I don’t think gender should be a criterium for selecting films. I think the key is to ensure the access of women to the film industry. Parity has to be supported from the start, making sure everybody has the same rights and opportunities to make the films they want to make. Festivals are at the end of this process and shouldn’t select the films by the gender of the person who has made. We don’t apply quotas but I’m happy that each year we are seeing more and more films directed by women.”

“Out of 17 films in competition there are six directed by women but we didn’t select the films looking for parity in numbers. I don’t think gender should be a criterion for selecting films. I think the key is to ensure the access of women to the film industry. Parity has to be supported from…

Dad Star Man: A Review Of AD ASTRA

What if there was intelligent life at the farthest reaches of the studio system?

The DVD Wrapup: Country Music, Cassandro, Hana & Alice, Hesburgh, Bottom of 9th, Chicago Cab, Socrates, Intimacy, Noir Archive III, In the Aisles, Midsomer … More

The wonderfully nostalgic, exhaustively researched, historically relevant and brilliantly produced series is broken into eight episodes, representing overlapping periods in the evolution of the genre …

“The movies have savored extinction, eradication and annihilation for years, accelerating after 9/11, with unspecified menace everywhere, set to ash the skies with snowflakes of death. Genre pictures love nothing more than a brooding calamity. The end of civilization, or even the planet itself, has been a sizzling, seething, sorrowful constant across features and series even before our latest apocalypses, major and minor, began to pile up like dead marine animals on our Pacific shores.”

“The movies have savored extinction, eradication and annihilation for years, accelerating after 9/11, with unspecified menace everywhere, set to ash the skies with snowflakes of death. Genre pictures love nothing more than a brooding calamity. The end of civilization, or even the planet itself, has been a sizzling, seething, sorrowful constant across features and series…

“Phoenix clearly hadn’t rehearsed smart responses beforehand, but was switched on enough to realise that his response was going to matter – and not finding a good one, he fled. Now that a few weeks have passed and my chronically clenched buttocks have almost returned to their former pliancy, I have to admire the blunt, pact-smashing honesty of it. Not that I can see it happening again during the Joker’s awards-season campaign: the Phoenix who presented the film at Venice and Toronto was charming, tactful and generally on his best behaviour. If he can keep it up until February, he’ll deserve an Oscar for that alone.”

“Phoenix clearly hadn’t rehearsed smart responses beforehand, but was switched on enough to realise that his response was going to matter – and not finding a good one, he fled. Now that a few weeks have passed and my chronically clenched buttocks have almost returned to their former pliancy, I have to admire the blunt,…