MCN Curated Headlines Archive for July, 2011

Gilbey Enumerates 8 Things Every Spielberg Or –Ish Production Requires

hollywoodreporter.com

David Legrant, 87, Acting Teacher To Carol Burnett, Steve Martin, Danny Glover, Sara Gilbert, Alyson Hannigan, Tobey Maguire, Others

LA Times

The Sunday LA Times
Serious Talk With Rachel Weisz
And – Hello, Harvey Feirstein!
Plus – The Women Of The Help
And – Funny Women Burp, Too; Is That Leading To Societal Ruin?
Plus – Zach Braff Goes Off-B’way

NY Times

“Before her YouTube stardom, she was turned down for a job at a Lancôme makeup counter; now she is a company spokeswom[a]n.”
Asian-Americans, Shunted To Side By Traditional Casting, Find Auds Online

ny post

Responsibilities Shift At  H’wd Reporter Parent Co

NY Times

“Dreary And Dull” Opera Adapted From Trier’s Dancer In The Dark Has NYC Preem

Jonathan Mirsky On “Murdoch’s Chinese Adventure”

Here Comes The Asian Film Database

“I can’t help but think that as a nation we bear some responsibility in the Norwegian tragedy.”
Von Trier On Oslo Mass Murderer

guardian

Being Juliette Binoche

Feig On Funny At Montreal’s Just For Laughs Fest

guardian

Remembering London’s Great And Sleazy Scala Cinema
And – The “Scala Forever” Tribute, Through October All Across London

guardian

What Samuel L. Jackson Knows

hollywoodreporter.com

Weide On Shooting Woody

guardian

“Dream Repairman”: Oscar-Winning Editor Jim Clark Tells Cutting Tales In Memoir

NY Times

How Writer Alex Kotlowitz Became A Producer On The Interrupters

variety

“Showbiz Braced For Default Fallout”

“Treat this film as you would treat a visit to the temple. Go with an empty cup and an open mind. Else, just skip and don’t ruin it for those who want to pay attention to the God in Malick’s detail.”
The Hindu Reviews Tree Of Life

How “Christian” Is Tree Of Life?

NY Times

The Sunday NY Times
Riff-Rafferty Goes Apes
And – Scott And Dargis Survey Modern Movie Alpha And Omega Men
Plus – Exec Editor Bill Keller Sez Tyrants Love Criticism Of Murdoch Publications
And – Scott On Raoul Ruiz At 70 And His 100-Plus Films
And – A Review Of Sam Peckinpah’s 1976 “Batman” Movie
And – Jon Favreau, Swingers And Aliens
Plus – Reinventing The Brick-And-Mortar Videostore
And – Kehr On John Landis’ Greatest Hits On Blu Ray
 And – The Explosion Of Location Filming In NYC
Plus – Transgender Performers On Film
 And – Building Bellflower’s Apocalypse In A Garage
Plus – Whistleblowing With Rachel Weisz
 And – More New Nuovo Neorealism From Italy
And – Pappademas Wants To Save Your Superheroes

NY Times

Behind The Linguistic Wrangles Of The Legal Letter “Clearing” News Of The World In 2007

What The Onion Has To Teach Newspapers About Social Media

telegraph.co.uk

“My mum used to take me to the cinema, and I thought, ‘Hell yeah, it would be great to be up there on that huge screen.’ Of course, as a working-class kid growing up in West Kirby, I had no idea how I’d get there. Maybe that’s part of the reason that it’s taken me 20 years.”

Jango Fett Attends Rotorua High School Star Wars Ball

Jeff Wells On Von Trier On Oslo Mass Murderer On Dogville

Jonnie Rosenbaum Sez Penelope Houston’s Review Of Marienbad Made Him Want To Be A Cricket

The FT Lunches With Angelina Jolie

indie wire

“Ah, the sour taste of buttered popcorn is dissipating and the headier airs of the fall film festival circuit are upon us, as peeks at the films vying for awards are going to be coming in full force.”
Lede Of The Week In Movie WTF

“Life in a Day is either a brilliant brainstorm or a fiendish scam.”

indie wire

Why There Are Three Versions Of The Interrupters And 125 Minutes Is The Final Length

LA Times

NewsCorp Tells NYPost To “Preserve And Maintain” Any Phone Spying Or Scoop-Buying Documentation

Trailering George Lucas’ Red Tails

Bujalski Crowdsources “Computer Chess”

NYFF Opens With Polanski’s Carnage

Your Internet Service Provider Now Legally Obligated To Snoop On You For A Year

guardian

MP Apologizes To Piers Morgan Over Phone Hacking Comment In Parliament After Tabloid Journalist Starts Circulating Allegations About Her Personal Life

Forty Films, Forty Fords: Drawing Harrison

NY Times

Remembering Polly Platt

“Emma Stone Channels Her Inner Thespian”

Sally Hawkins’ Cultural Life

LA Times

Crash Money: Yari Loses Long-Running Suit To Haggis, Fraser And Moresco

How To Make Generic H’wd Sausage For Fun And, Well, Fun

guardian

Former News of the World Staff Offered Postings In Siberia, Finland

Why Doesn’t Every Movie End With Samuel L. Jackson In An Eyepatch Saying Indecipherable Stuff? Not “Only In Theaters,” Here’s Captain America‘s Avengers Teaser

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“I don’t think it’s cruel to say this, because John himself would undoubtedly have turned it into a gleeful anecdote: When he had the stroke that killed him, he was at a local dinner theater. Hell of a review.”

“I am inclined to aver that every activity needs its critics, from narcissists bloviating in Washington to exhibitors of knee holes in their blue jeans by way of following a fad. So, too, tennis players and others wearing their caps backward. There is, to be sure, only fairly innocuous folly in puncturing pants or reversing caps, but for political or artistic or religious twisting of thought or harboring holes in the head there is rather less excuse. I have always inveighed against the bleary journalism practiced by newspaper reviewers, as opposed to the real criticism performed by, well, critics.”

“I often felt a twinge of grief at the idea that John Simon had devoted his life to a method of work that could only make him increasingly unhappy. Here was a man, elegant, articulate, and vastly knowledgeable, fluent in at least half a dozen languages, whose gifts of mind gave nothing back to the arts he wrote about except a few unkind remarks that made fun of someone’s performance, ethnicity, physical attributes, or, with a pun, on his target’s name. (“If this is Norman Wisdom, I’ll take Saxon folly.”) Other theatre critics keep such darts in their rucksacks for occasional use; John lived by them.”

“One person’s critic is another person’s crackpot. That they are not united in their opinions is ascribable to the Latin saying: quot homines, tot sententiae. I myself prefer being considered a creep, but that is what you get for having what Vladimir Nabokov called ‘Strong Opinions.’ It is odd that in a country so wallowing in negativity, starting with mass shootings and climaxing with Trump, such an unimportant matter as theater criticism should generate so much hostility. The only target patently more important is lead in the drinking water.”

The DVD Wrapup: Cold War, Betty Blue, Official Secrets, Demons, Olivia, American Dreamer, Land of Yik Yak

E. Scott Weinberg On Youthful Fangoria Encounters

Rome Bookstore Closes

With a Grauniad-Alleged $300 Million Budget, Could The Yet-Unseen But Surely Weird Cats Pass A Billion Dollars at The Box Office?

WEEKEND READS ON MEDIAQUAKE

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon