MCN Curated Headlines Archive for August, 2010
Death To Humans!
Scientific American Picks Favorite Dystopias in Film And Fiction
And – Why We Like Tales Of Our Own Demise
“What a travesty my life would have been if those had been hits. I would be dead.”
At 40, Sundance Once-Wunderkind Morgan J. Freeman Finds Berth At MTV
“It may be possible to close a meeting without a blizzard of “f— yous”… even when both parties know they’ve been f—ed.”
Peter Bart Takes On Swears!
Oliver Noble Applies Cee-Lo’s “F-U” To All Kinds Of Movies With Malice Aforethought (vid; language NSFW)
Two Views Of Being Able To Watch Netflix On Your iPhone And iPod Touch
From Matson And From David Lynch
“My son is 22 and he just produced a film that I’m in. When I was 22, I was —-ing off to ‘Betty and Veronica’ in San Quentin. Oops, maybe you shouldn’t print that.”
Danny Trejo On How Times Change
Waiting For Godard
“If AMPAS is having trouble tracking Godard down, they should probably be relieved. If he does turn up in person, it’s a fair bet that he would give a speech that would provoke far more outrage than anything Vanessa Redgrave or Marlon Brando ever said or did on Oscar night.”
Macnab Sez “Idiotic Judges Get What They Deserve”
Plus – Guy Adams On “The Director Who Ignored Hw’d” And Commenter MrGooseberries: “I think the reason he’s ignoring them is that he’s just a pretentious arse.”
“Little things like the glint on the meniscus of the edge of an eyelid, on the surface of the eye, that suddenly made the eye look real, we had worked for months on that stuff. And it was all now just automatic, kind of built into the code of how it was being done.”
Mike Russell Geeks With James Cameron
“If he does not cast me again, I will hunt him down and kill him. He knows. New York is a small town.”
Ally Sheedy Has Grown Fond Of Todd Solondz
“There is more to life than this.”
Publisher’s Weekly Not Particularly Kind To James Franco’s Slim Wedge Of Short Stories