MCN Curated Headlines Archive for March, 2012
“Sure, there’s Christian bigotry. There’s also Democrat bigotry, Republican bigotry, straight bigotry and homosexual bigotry. There’s a lot of people here.”
John Schneider Speaks Beliefs
“The wolves are at the door and circling.”
Canada’s Harper Government Slashes Support For CBC
As Well As – 10% From Film And The National Film Board
Academy Acquires 70,000 Vintage Production Stills From Bison Archive (See The Gish Sisters On Set Of Orphans Of The Storm and Welles Shooting Opening Of Touch Of Evil—In Color)
Man Of Letters Harry Crews, 76; Wrote The Hawk Is Dying, Acted In The Indian Runner
And – About His Body Of Work
Plus – “When you get as old as I am, about the only goddamned thing you’ll have left is your word. If I tell somebody I’m gonna do something, by God I do it if I possibly can. And I don’t mind doing it. Truth is, I’ve probably given more f—in’ interviews than I should have.”
Vanishing Manhattan
Greenwich Village’s World Of Video Vaporized After 29 Years
And – Bleecker Bob’s Records Shuttering In East Village Over Rent
“I’m very worried,” Stillman says, his eyes fixed on a spot on the table somewhere past his chicken. “I’m a worrying person.”
Longworth And Stillman Talk Damsels
“The New Yorker piece ran under a headline that shocked me when I read it: ‘Pauline Kael, Film Critic, Contrarian.’ ‘Contrarian’ is also the brickbat regularly cast at me by bloggers and media pundits who can’t understand why one film critic’s reviews are different from all the others. It’s a derisive, belittling term.”
In The CJR, Harmin’ Armond Sez Shut Up At Eat Your Kael
“Lawrence looks as well-fed or un-hungry as a star player on the UCLA water-polo team, and as placid or chlorinated. Katniss climbs trees to escape from marauders, but we seldom feel we’re in trees, and there’s very little animal life.”
David Thomson Hates The Hunger Games
“I don’t want to consider a future populated by people who grew up without nice places to go and explore their developing interests with a stranger whose opinion they trust.”
Filmmaker Alex Ross Perry At Length On The Loss Of His Beloved Park Slope Video Store
“While the MPAA board pretends to be a source of neutral and non-ideological advice to parents, it all too often reveals itself to be a velvet-glove censorship agency, seemingly devoted to reactionary and defensive cultural standards. In short, the MPAA has sided with the bullies and creeps.”
O’Hehir Rejects The Raterade And Rates The Raters
And – “The Effect of the Word ‘F—‘ on Teenage Eardrums”