MCN Curated Headlines Archive for June, 2012

guardian

“A Life Less Ordinary”: How Sam Frears, Stephen’s Son, Made It To 40 Despite Riley-Day Syndrome

hollywoodreporter.com

Variet_y.Com Editor Moves Over To THR.Com

wsj

WSJ Would Have You Think Murdoch Would Like Another Waiver, This Time To Go After The Los Angeles Times

guardian

Vangelis Sez Message Of Chariots Of Fire Still Important

hollywoodreporter.com

Ted Screenwriter Sulkin Peddles Big Book O’ Tweets

Glenn Kenny, Prompted By A Naysayer Of Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Offers Some New Entries For The “Dictionary Of Received Critical Ideas”

NY Times

When Dan Cutforth And Jane Lipsitz Met Katy Perry

hollywoodreporter.com

Rahman Sez “Jai Ho” Still No-Go If B’way Slumdog Tuner Sings Sans Boyle

guardian

“We are satisfied that the animals won’t now end up in an abattoir and that much more attention is now being paid to their welfare.”
Danny Boyle Assures PETA The Olympics Opener Will Be Kind To The Animals

NY Times

“Mr. Baldwin possesses what you might call the salutary egotism of avid living, as opposed to the rotten narcissism of amoral grasping and mistreatment of other people.”
Lee Siegel Elucidates His Alec Baldwin Issues For The Fashion Section

“Back to business as usual, which means being crabby about Cannes and printing long articles about filmmakers nobody has heard of.”
A Genial Editor’s Letter From Cinema Scope’s Mark Peranson 

guardian

William Friedkin Could’ve Been A Serial Killer

Sundance Cinemas Sets Up Shop In Seattle

wsj

WSJ’s Anna Russell Will Blog Her Way Through The Criterion Collection
Yes –  Just Like Matthew Dessem
Who –  Ebert Wrote About In 2009

Sarah Polley, Canadian

Thelma Adams Talks “Restless Housewife Dance” With Waltz‘s Michelle Williams

guardian

Docmaker Nicolas Philibert: “I have no idea what my films are about”

Brave Has Its Very Own Page For Projectionists To Get It Right

The FT Lunches With Funnyman Armando Iannucci

Ebiri: “This Is Not A Prometheus Thinkpiece”

Guy Maddin Among Three Manitobans Appointed To Order Of Canada 

Academy Invites 171 To Membership, Including Terrence Malick, Asghar Farhadi, Wong Kar Wai, The Dardennes, Amy Berg, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Stephen King, J. C. Chandor, Maria Djurkovic, Michel Hazanavicius, Lucy Walker, Matthew McConaughey, S. Epatha Merkerson, Alberto Iglesias, Sean Bean, Demián Bichir, Tom Berenger, Kyle Cooper, John Battsek, Nicholas Stoller, Richard E. Grant, Diego Luna, Oren Moverman, Marshall Curry, Michaël R. Roskam, Kristen Wiig, Toyomichi Kurita, Letty Aronson, Alwin Kuchler

“I disliked Prometheus intensely. I do think that having acrimonious feelings towards the film is the actual point…”

Curry Surveys The Remarkable Early Film Posters Of Polish Designer Waldemar Swierzy

NY Times

Larry King To Interview Optimus Prime At ComicCon Because James Lipton’s Fee Is Too Damn High

Swansburg Sez: “Straight Dudes of America! Go See Magic Mike!”

Hoberman On Fassbinder In America: “The Single Antidote To Thoughts of Suicide”

Esquire Goes Ephron
Junod: “If you are a magazine writer, you are always worried about the afterlife.”
And – Chiarella: “I never wanted to be a journalist. What I wanted, and I knew this by the time I was 30, was to be Nora Ephron.”
With – Taddeo: “I met Nora Ephron at one of those parties where women like her will be accosted by people trying to slip their Chardonnay into her circle, where women like me will get her eyes for four anonymous minutes, and go home grateful.”
And – Marche: “‘Having a baby is like throwing a hand grenade into a marriage.'”

“I loved whoever was making these actresses comfortable enough to express the minutiae of being a human woman onscreen.”
Lena Dunham Remembers Nora Ephron

nymag

How Male Strippers Really Dress For Work

Alex Pettyfer: “How Is It That I Am In A Steven Soderbergh Movie Being Grinded By Matthew McConaughey?”

deadline

Packaging Magic Mike, The Musical

wsj

“I don’t give a —- about that,” he said.”
NewsCorp’s WSJ Gets Behind-The-Scenes At Murdoch Choice To Spin Off NewsCorp Newspapers

guardian

Why Christopher Eccleston Prefers The Stage And TV To Film

Editor Of Rotten Tomatoes Zooms In On Film Crickets’ “Pitfall Of Getting Too Indie-Focused”

Soderbergh Tired Of Making “Important Movies”?

“It’s all about the truth. It’s really about how important searching for the truth is, and how digging for the truth then is different than it is today.”
Redford Talks Watergate To Sean Means

Emerson, Overflowing, On “Life In Movies (And Vice Versa)”

NY Times

“She could get a little wry about the more self-obsessed aspects of the movement at its height, like the meetings where everyone was required to bring mirrors and examine their private parts.”
Times Adds Gail Collins To Its Many Cooks In Nora Ephron’s Kitchen

“Neil Young And Jonathan Demme’s Ragged Glories”

“Why Kickstarter ‘Can’t’ And Won’t Protect Backers Once A Project Is Funded”

indie wire

Whoopi Goldberg Turns To Kickstarter To Fund Her Moms Mabley Doc

Pitchfork Talks To Music Supervisor Randall Poster About The Aural Soundscapes Of Wes Anderson, Harmony Korine And Skrillex

Meet Dwight Henry, The Baker Who Became Co-Star Of Beasts Of The Southern Wild

Scott Macaulay On Aaron Sorkin And Listening To “Internet Girl”

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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