MCN Curated Headlines Archive for November, 2011
Mapping Shame‘s City spoilers


“I believe in what I’m doing wholeheartedly, passionately, and what’s more, I simply go about my business. I suppose such a thing can be annoying to some people.”
Dennis Lim Obits Ken Russell

“I believe in the things I make. The fact that God doesn’t want me to make them is beside the point.”
Hard-Luck Kid Terry Gilliam Turns 71

“There’s not a lot of films I’d watch that are made over the past 20 years, because I’m much more of a romantic.”
Spielberg Sez Not Many Good Movies Made Anymore
“What seems grossly unfair is there doesn’t seem to be any adult supervision looking out for the average investor like myself. You have unemotional, ruthlessly efficient and litigious investors attempting to extract whatever they can from whomever they can.”
Bankrupt TribCo’s Creditors Set To “Claw Back” Bucks From Even Smallest Past Investors

“He is playing to the movie industry’s wobbly sense of self, exactly at a time when it is fretting about declining attendance, weak economics and constant pressure from other media.”
Together Again For The Very First Time! Weinstein As Seen By Cieply!
And – “I told my girls that I have a weakness for movies about the creative process.”
Harvey Blogs Freely At HuffPo

“I have a career that’s sort of stacked up behind me, and if I was once guilty of that sin of doing too much, which seems rather vulgar in British eyes, it can be forgiven if a few conspicuous failures and kickings pile up. So you go through the hubris and schadenfreude and out the other side. And there’s a whole bunch of people coming up behind you who are the next lot to annoy.”
Kenneth Branagh Likes To Think The Public No Longer Detests Him
Michael Shannon On Take Shelter‘s “Happy Ending” spoiler-ish
“It’s one of the great performances in my 50 years of movie-going.”
Vanity Fair Film Cricket Paul Mazursky Chirps For Michelle Williams’ Marilyn
“My Lovely Teacher… It’s Never Too Late… Larry Crowne – Smile of Fate”
2011 US Releases Get Refreshing Titles Elsewhere
Oscar? “It’s the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It’s the greatest brand. It’s as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It’s the Super Bowl. It’s just greater than all the above.”
Rocchi Gets On The Blower With Harvey
“We kept all the KEMs and the Moviolas, and we kept all the white gloves, we kept the Scotch tape. We’ve still got a couple million feet of sound leader, sound film standing by for us.”
Spielberg On Digital Editing

“We happen to be building spaceships.”
Richard Branson Refutes Critic Of Virgin’s Many Brit Businesses

“A previous version of this article incorrectly spelled the name of Alfred Hitchcock.”
Rafferty Would Like To Point Out That A Dangerous Method’s Mad Character Would Have To Be A Woman, Wouldn’t She?

“Everything in the Philip K. Dick world is complicated”
Even The Rights To Adapt His Work