MCN Curated Headlines Archive for August, 2011
“It was on the internet–everyone’s a f—ing critic these days.”
Joe Wright Hurt When Called “Hack”
“Everyone involved in Moneyball, at every stage, was very passionate. I look at the movie now, and I feel everyone’s fingerprints are on it. It’s been … well, listen. It’s been an interesting process.”
A… Well… Gentle Mark Harris Profile Of Moneyball
There’s also a triple child killer who has walked free for the last 18 years … seemingly an unimportant detail in today’s white-washing job (by the State of Arkansas).
Peter Jackson’s Statement On The Release Of The Memphis Three
“Why I Left My Heart In Sarajevo”: Feinstein On “The Schizophrenia of Film Festivals”
And – Sarajevo Film Fest Responds
“Through my very personal prism, it is a triumph. And if people write to me and say, ‘How could you let this happen to poor Alec Guinness,’ I shall reply that, if ‘poor Alec’ had witnessed Oldman’s performance, he would have been the first to give it a standing ovation. I’m very proud to have provided Alfredson with the material, but what he made of it is wonderfully his own.”
John Le Carré First-Reviews Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
The Sunday NY Times
Brother And Sister Team Say Our Idiot Brother “Weirdly Not Autobiographical”
And – Creating Tehran’s Underground For The Movies
With – “The Secret Life Of A Rock Dad”
Plus – Twelve Horror Filmmakers Get Specific About What Spooks Them
And – Dick Cavett’s Patter About TSA’s Professional Genital Patters
Plus – Biographer Of Wendy Wasserstein On Divining Layers Of Secrets
And – Maud Newton Considers How The Late David Foster Wallace Fomented The Voice Of The Modern Internet
Plus – Kehr Likes To Watch: Streaming Video Surprises
And – Filming The Apocalyptic Decay Of Gary, Indiana
With – Trebay, Gossiping About Hollywood’s Tower Bar’s Maître d’Hôtel, Who Does Not Gossip
“Farmiga makes her way through five mushroom-and-sauerkraut pierogi. She takes approximately ten minutes per pierogi, as if the film actress inside her were doing battle with her inner Ukrainian-American. “Boy, this is comforting,” she says. “This is medicinal for me, just to smell fried onions.”
Having A Bite With Vera Farmiga