MCN Curated Headlines Archive for October, 2011
“He gave me a carefully crafted self-portrait of a tyrannical genius. I gave him the satisfaction of seeing my total self-abasement. We’re even.”
Seemingly Mad Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s Years-In-The-Making Movie That Transformed A City In Ukraine
Warner Withholds Product From Blockbuster
While – Studios Consider 60 Days Before Redbox, Netflix Rentals
“She fired up her exultantly vernacular American prose as if she were writing high-octane fiction, not passing judgment on Cabaret.”
Frank Rich On Pauline Kael
And – Louis Menand’s 1995 NYRB Essay On The “Promiscuity” Of Her Attentions
Plus – Renata Adler’s Notorious 1980 Shakedown Of Kael, Cited By Rich
Shaks. Smear?
“To remain silent in the face of stupidity this blatant is to acquiesce to a kind of culture-destroying ugliness.”
Ron Rosenbaum‘s “10 Things I Hate About Anonymous And The Stupid Shakespearean Birther Cult Behind It”
“Not just a failure; it is an assault on a great body of art so thuggishly moronic as to make one genuinely depressed.”
One More BritWit Takes A S—: Guardian Showcases Its Fourth Tintin Takedown
“Do I have a small movie in me? Yeah, probably, when I’m 60. But I’m not Hal Ashby, I’m not Roman Polanski. I’m true to myself. Whether you like it or not.”
“Rat” Ratner Talks The Talk
“I f—ing hate photos. It makes me so self-conscious because the whole goal is to look attractive and sell the clothing. My friends always laugh at me because I’ll send them pictures from the studio and they know that I’m such a f—ing ghoul.”
Anton Yelchin Is Not A Commodity
Raising Kael
Tom Carson: “As for her effect on future pop-culture scribblers, all I can do is misquote Blue Velvet: “She put her disease in us.”
Jim Emerson: “Kael may have been the Velvet Underground of movie critics (she inspired so many to take up criticism).”
Farran Smith Nehme: “She was, and this should never be under-emphasized, a self-made woman, born into none of the literary or Ivy League connections that can elevate a critical career to this day.”