MCN Curated Headlines Archive for July, 2010
“I’m terribly afraid Roger Ebert will show up at my house some time, and ask for residuals. Every time he’d attack the film we’d sell thousands and thousands of copies of the video.”
Bringing I Spit On Your Grave Into The 21st Century
A Squeamish Fresh Clip From Life During Wartime
Earlier – Todd Solondz Sez Every Film He Makes Is A Puzzle
NZ’s Oldest Moviehouse, From 1912, Set To Reopen
And – What Would It Take To Restore PDX’s Guild Theatre?
A Photographer Recalls Shooting On The Set Of Visconti’s The Leopard
And – Talking Celeb Pics With Fotog Leo Jaramillo
“Oh good god. Shut up. Just shut up. Not only is your contemptuous tone for your readers unparalleled, I don’t even know what being J. Hoberman’s ‘pawn’ might entail.”
May The Ouroboros Be Unbroken: NYPress Blogs On “Canadian” Attempt To Decipher Harmin’ Armond; Blah Squib But Oh Those Comments From Rizov, Others
“White has found a way to make criticism relevant again: write reviews that strike people as crazy… Ebert began ‘the destruction of intellectual film response.'”
Maclean’s Hopes To Crack Harmin’ Armond For Canuck Readers
“At night, when she would go to sleep, I would sneak in and snatch stuff back. It is utterly insane. Finally she had to slap me upside the head.”
Harlan Ellison’s Wife Cleans House
A Good TIME To Die: Newsweakly Puts Content Without Readers Behind Paywall; Weekly $5 IPad App Double The Price Of Netflix
But – “Once an issue is two weeks old, its content will be posted on the site and available to the public.”
“Gradually Antonioni brings us face to face with time and space, nothing more, nothing less. And they stare right back at us. It was frightening, and it was freeing. The possibilities of cinema were suddenly limitless.”
Marty On Micheangelo
“[The] twisted characterization of McDonald’s as ‘the stranger in the playground handing out candy to children’ is an insult to every one of our franchisees and employees around the world. We will vigorously defend our brand, our reputation, our food and our people.”
Annals Of Branding: McDonald’s Lashes Out In Defense Of Happy Meals
Plus – What Do McNuggets And Silly Putty Have In Common?
“I’m hoping the remake will work out fine. My brother made a film called Let The Right One In, that is also having a new version. That’s how it is. Sweden is such a small country; we have to be happy for everything.”
The Modest Director Of Girl Who Played With Fire
Vulture Via Slashfilm Via Rope Of Silicon Via MPAA Rating List, H/T THR
An Unknown Handful Of Parents Whose Identities Are Secret Have Seen Terrence Malick’s Tree Of Life, And It Is PG-13