MCN Curated Headlines Archive for October, 2011
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H’wd’s Oldest Movie Camera Rental Shop Auctions Off Entire Inventory Of 16mm And 35mm Cameras
One More Cybermind Passes: John McCarthy, 84, Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Coined The Term Itself
Majority Of Independent NewsCorp Investors Lodge Ineffectual Protest Vote Against Murdoch Successors James And Lachlan
And – Correspondent For Oz’s Crikey Offers Keen Colour
What Cannes You Do?
There Is A New June Festival Coming… And It’s In Frickin’ Paris!
“Such a measure would bring down the system that has allowed French cinema to maintain a strong film industry … since the CNC’s founding in 1946.”
French Nat’l Assembly Passes Bill To Divert Money From Film Tax Revenue To Nation’s Budget Deficit
And – What The CNC Does
With – Its Unique Mission To French Cinema (2-page pdf)
“The dromospheric camera platform is ambiguous in its own relativizing mobility, because we lack an objective frame to determine relations or trajectories. The fun lies in the interpretation of the ambiguous sensory data.”
Michael Bay At Long Last Gets The Critic He Has Earned
Apple’s 81-Minute “Celebrating Steve,” Brought To You Only On Safari (What! No Flash?)
And – The Complete “60 Minutes” Profile Of Steve Jobs – Part I and Part II
Plus – “When Steve Met Bill,” An Excerpt From The Bio
“This is a not a finger-waving screed to suggest that some layoffs are more damaging than others just because they landed on people like me who type for a living. The people in the industry who are content to slide people out of the back of the truck until it runs out of gas not only don’t deserve tens of millions in bonuses, they don’t deserve jobs.”
Ladies And Gentlemen, The Righteous Mr. David Carr. He’ll Be Here All Week
“I haven’t got an idea that thrills my soul to go and do it. And that still remains the case. Also, the film industry is like, I don’t know. It’s like, um, say the film industry is a hot-rod car. And it was going about 120 miles an hour, straight down a road. But about five or seven years ago, it hit a little bump. And for some reason skipped over into the gravel. And it’s been in a spinning dust gravel, bushes flying spin, and it hasn’t stopped yet. It’s like if there was a cable that delivered power, that cable’s snipped.”
The Melancholy David Lynch
The Sunday NY Times
Anderson On The Intimacy Of Post-9/11 Bittersweet Romance Like Crazy
With – Drake Doremus Talks Craft (vid)
And – Skating With Dragonslayer
With – Emmerich On Declaring Shakespeare A Fraud
Plus – Former Gore-Puncher Frank Bruni Turns Political Once More, Mocking Occupy Wall Street For Celebrities Speaking Of It
With – “The Fierce Imagination Of Haruki Murakami”
Plus – Catching Up With “Coffin Joe”
And – Netflix’s Reed Hastings On Botching Stuff Up
And – At Table With The Late Sue Mengers And Her “Twinklies”
With – Scott On Bad Times Being Boom Times For Kevin Spacey