MCN Curated Headlines Archive for October, 2012
Russell Means Was 72; Oglala-Lakota Sioux Activist; Acted In Natural Born Killers, The Last of the Mohicans
With – Means’ Career Website
Head-To-Heady With Tom Hall And Holy Motors‘ Leos Carax
And – Fuller On Kylie Minogue’s “Love Song For The Ages”
“I recall once doing a presentation to a room full of Japanese distributors in a room with about 2,000 men and four women.”
What Does Warner’s Presidential Of Int’l Distribution Do?
“Like Altman’s The Player, another well-known movie about movie storytelling, Argo ends up being about the snake swallowing its tail.”
So Sez Emerson
“The Trump character as essayed in the documentary would have very limited utility in a sophisticated fictional drama. That’s not to deny his usefulness elsewhere, say in a comparatively primitive or cheap drama.”
Long-Quiet Bill Forsyth On Local Hero And You’ve Been Trumped!
Murdoch’s NewsCorp Denies Interest In Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune As Company Prepares To Spin Newspapers And Entertainment (Fox, Fox News) Into Separate Entities
And – Four More Years: Roger Ailes Re-Ups At Fox News
DGA Quarterly Gets Political
Rod Lurie On The Campaign Trail
And – Alan J. Pakula On Directing All The President’s Men
Plus – Jay Roach On Kazan’s A Face In The Crowd
With – Rafferty On How The Movies Learned To Politick
And – Abele On How Frankenheimer Saw Politics
“Hoberman is one of the very few people in the world who still finds a “tragic grandeur” in the new films of Jean-Luc Godard.”
Aspden On Thomson, Denby And Hoberman’s Dire, Available-For-Purchase Assessments Of The State Of Cinema