MCN Curated Headlines Archive for December, 2011
“These perfectly normal American women probably have an education, and are gainfully employed, but I don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. The movies they liked, ‘feel-good movies,’ are f—ing awful, beyond stupid.”
Lunching With Bad, Bad Billy Friedkin
“What is the degree of our relationship to beauty these days? Not much at all, and I think beauty is ineffective and boring. I’ve waited many years for it, but beauty has not appeared, so if it won’t come then I won’t keep waiting. It is hard to wait for beauty.”
Ai Weiwei On The Of “Insistence And Force” Of Documentary
The NY Times 2011 “Lives They Led”
MoDo On Sue Mengers
And – Dominus On Maria Schneider
With – Jack LaLanne By His Wife Of 51 Years
And – Ira Glass & This American Life Pick Unknowns
Plus – Dwight Garner On Wilfred Sheed
The Gilbert Adair Files
Which Include – His Sweet Review Of Gregory’s Girl
2000’s Battle Royale Gets First U. S. Theatrical Open Run At Cinefamily
After – A One-Night Debut Years Ago At Chicago’s Facets
“Daniel Craig hopped up and picked up his iPod and scrolled through it and said, ‘Here it is.’ And we all almost pissed ourselves, we were laughing so hard. I thought, this guy is going to make Blomkvist as metro as we need.”
A Spoiler On A Song Source In Dragon Tattoo
“For the first time in history, the technical industries will have to deal with the salvage of works whose dematerialisation makes it infinitely difficult to locate them physically and identify them digitally.”
36 French Features, Including Carax’s Latest, In Danger Following Quinta Industries Collapse