MCN Curated Headlines Archive for November, 2011

“Telefilm redefines Canadian film success”

The Onion Rightly Covets USATODAY Holiday Headline
“Thanksgiving revelry reaches far, wide”

wsj

Kicky Hollywood

guardian

“I keep trying to find a space somewhere between ‘propagandistic’ and ‘cryptofascist’  to describe my feelings about Miller’s screed.”
Rick Moody On “Frank Miller And The Rise Of Cryptofascist H’wd”

Cinematographer John Bailey On The Expressive Use Of The Long, Uncut Take
And – The Journalist Who Livestreams “Occupy” Activities For Hours At A Time

NY Times

Browsing Miranda July’s “It Chooses You” Store

guardian

JK Rowling‘s Statement To Brit Inquiry On Phone Hacking, Stalking By Press

variety

French Senate Passes Bill To Siphon Money From Film Support Agency To General Budget

BBC

The New Business Of Chinese Blockbusters

“I get annoyed with the garbage I hear about film versus digital. Most of it is simply nostalgia and silly thinking. I love film, sure, but this camera has brought us to a point where digital is simply better.”
Roger Deakins On the Digital Capture Of In Time

Wyndham Wise On 40 Years Of Writing About Canadian Filmmaking

variety

Robert Duvall On Christoph Waltz

LA Times

What Thrills Hugo Author Brian Selznick?

NY Times

AT&T-Mobile Tie-Up Staggers, FCC Merger Application Withdrawn; Would Cost AT&T $4 Billion To Deutsche Telekom To Withdraw

guardian

“Simple things seemed utterly, utterly wonderful. Fruit at Christmas. Ohhh. I can’t tell you. I was lit’r’ally sick with happiness.”
If You’ve Never Heard Director Terence Davies Speak, Here’s A Treat starts 3:00

variety

Jane Fonda On Elizabeth Olson In Martha Marcy May Marlene

More On The Assault And Arrest Of Journalists And Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim In Cairo

Salon

“Just clear your head and listen to the music,” she said, “and see what happens.”
Matt Zoller Seitz Remembers His Wife, Who Would Have Been 40 Today, And How She Shaped Him

NY Times

Hazanavicius Narrates A Scene From The Artist

LA Times

Russell Garcia, 95, Composer-Conductor Arranged Limelight And For Fitzgerald, Armstrong, Torme, Garland, Julie London; Scored 1960 Time Machine

NY Times

“But if you want to know how I really feel, just get the cameras rolling, get the action going… How do you like it?”
Andrea True, 68, Sang “More, More, More,” Was In 40 Carats, The Way We Were

“Rakugo” Comic Danshi Tatekawa, 75, Influence On Takeshi Kitano

Visual Representations Of 15 Overused Movie Poster Clichés

guardian

Cleese Closer To Fish Called Wanda Musical

Report: Peter Jackson Gets Same Tattoo As Damien Echols

guardian

One More Keen Chat With The Great Terence Davies

Matt Singer And John Landis Speak Monster

nymag

Producer Gavin Polone Sez Stop The “You Stole My Idea!” Lawsuits

James Murdoch Quits Board Of Companies That Publish The Sun And Times Of London

guardian

“Explaining Philip K. Dick’s Exegesis”

“The Muppets are like Harry Potter or the Simpsons or Radiohead. If you say you don’t like them you have to explain yourself before a room of people who often react to your opinion like you just said you keep a bunch of puppy organs in a bloody sack in your closet.” language

“You know what really gets my goat? When some —hole badmouths the most beloved children’s franchise of all time. It’s like, come on, guy.”

In Ongoing Violence By Military Police In Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim Reportedly Among The Arrested

How “Mah Nà Mah Nà,” From A Softcore Italian Movie, Became The Muppets’ “Catchiest Tune”

Sabers Raised, “Gold-Plated” Indiana Jones Fans Take On M. Phillips’ Professed Indifference To Raiders

LA Times

J.J. Abrams On Working With The The “Small” $55 Million Budget Of Super 8

“TribCo sends a clear, bad message to the women and men at the company who continue to do their jobs well.”
David Carr Comments On Proposed Near-Million Dollar Payout To Disgraced CEO Randy Michaels

When Steve Jobs Took Customer Service Calls link fix’d

Scorsese Talks The Films He Made On The Way To Hugo

LA Times

L.A.’s Disused Downtown Movie Palaces Still Asset To Local Filmmaking

Anil Dash On How Facebook Is “Gaslighting” The Internet And Becoming “Badware”

NY Times

Rupert Murdoch Sells Almost All Of Non-Voting Stock In News Int’l

BBC

Why Isn’t B’wd Global?

hollywoodreporter.com

Cinematographer Don McAlpine Wins Australian Academy Lifetime Achievement Award

Media Executives To Clamor For A David Carr Takedown
TribCo Asks To Pay Fired CEO Randy Michaels $725,000 For His Service To The Company

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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

Tribune Trolley Problem

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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