MCN Curated Headlines Archive for December, 2012

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“I’ve had my own mild struggles with some of these bipolar issues and my son struggled with some of them. When you’ve been through that, you get it. And then on top of that I just found the family, the neighborhood and the community very enchanting.”
David O. Russell On How He Arrived At Silver Linings Playbook

variety

J. Mark Travis, 61, Produced Richard Pryor: Live In Concert

LA Times

L.A.’s Big Business Of MagicSnow

Keith Phipps‘ Own Private This Is 40

NY Times

More NYT Mag 2012 Remembrances
Pappademas On Yauch
And – Conceptual Art Based On Nora Ephron’s Orgasmoliloquoy In When Harry Met Sally
Plus – Kimmelman On Lebbeus Woods

Listen To Jonny Greenwood’s Unreleased Score For The Master
And –  Have You Read “The Cause Footpath”?

“New Portuguese Cinema” Director Paulo Rocha Was 77 Português

LA Times

Turan‘s Personal Reminiscence Of Charles Durning

Billy Crystal Says He Was Always Cold At The Oscars

guardian

“My successors will inherit a profession with a remarkable past and an assured future.”
Queen Names Observer Film Cricket Philip French OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) For 50 Years Of Film Reviewing
And – The Daily Mirror Thanks Danny Boyle For Refusing Knighthood

guardian

“At 12, I swore I’d have my own film in the cinema,” Sez Tom Hooper

Judd Apatow 60 MINUTES Preview: Writing As Therapy

Paris Has A Tarantino-Inspired Nightclub With QT Set To Visit: The —– Twister

Let The 2013 Sell-A-Thon Ensue! TribCo Exits Bankruptcy December 31

guardian

“The Dazed Brutality Of Roman Polanski’s Films”

variety

The Searchers, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Gremlins, Back To The Future III: Harry Carey, Jr. Was 91

Adrian Curry‘s Best Movie Posters 2012

More Individual Critics Top Ten Lists 2012 With Plenty More On The Way

“Americans always like a good villain, and one of the reasons they like it is that it makes the world safe for them to be apolitical.”
Eugene Jarecki Takes The House I Live In On The Road

Marche Cage-Fights Django And Lincoln

guardian

Obergurgl, Austria Holds Out Hope Of Finding Lost Hitchcock Pic

“There may, in all cinema, be no more self-hating a nerd. Tarantino shows enough of what horrifies him to shock, as much of what excites him to delight, and the pornographic element of his depiction of violence is in its moral economy. The cinematic unconscious shines through in moments where Tarantino just can’t help letting loose his own pleasure in filming pain.”
Richard Brody Goes Medieval On Django

In Blog About Oscar E-Voting SNAFUs, Yamato Mocks Elders

NY Times

“Ask him about a film in some lesser-known Indian dialect, without subtitles, and he’ll most likely give you the plotline… ‘My friends were like, ‘Can we punch you in the face right now?'”
NYT Offers Acreage—And Ample Condescension—To A 28-Year-Old Who’s Watched A Movie A Day In Theaters The Past Four Years

“I always come back to the fact that I had a girlfriend then who I was in love with who wasn’t quite in love with me. She told me that time was on my side, that in time we would be together. And I’m still married to her. She liked the fact that I understood music and was a good drummer, but it wasn’t all that.”
Brian D. Williams On David Chase On Not Fade Away

NY Times

Rafferty Rediscovers Trintignant

“Is Ozu Slow?”

indie wire

Singer On Esteeming Death Proof Above All Other Tarantino

Listen To Vanity Fair’s Entire Interview With Elaine May And Mike Nichols 82’20” audio

“Rupert came out and hung out in the office, It was funny. We took him to a bar in Williamsburg and we got him drunk on tequila; and then everyone started tweeting and freaking out.”
FT’s Garrahan Lunches With VICE Media Mogul Shane Smith

NY Times

Scott, Dargis And Holden Chirp Their Best Picture Shouldas, Including Triple Play For Amour

Lindy West On Gywneth’s Year In Goop

NY Times

Rich Moore On The Passion Of Wreck-It Ralph

indie wire

Rome Film Festival And Ennio Morricone To Honor Tarantino Next Week

“Django‘s mind may be immersed in the Spaghetti Westerns of Corbucci or the choreographed mayhem of Sam Peckinpah but the film’s heart remains in Blaxploitation.”

“Nino Brown was not an abolitionist.”

variety

Is The Accelerated Voting Deadline A Bigger Oscar Problem Than The Electronic Lockouts Of Voters?
And – The Atlantic Aggregates Some Stuff They Read

Putting New York-Set Films In Their Locations, One Still Held Up At A Time

NY Times

Schwarzenegger Sez He Misses The Unexpurgated Versions Of Grimm Fairy Tales, Unlike His Autobiography

variety

Zero Dark Thirty, Meet Sam Fuller

General Norman Schwarzkopf, 78, Led First Persian Gulf War, Featured In Courage Under Fire, “Schwarzkopf: How the War Was Won”

LA Times

“White, who is black, said her feelings evolved significantly. Two days after reflecting on the matter of slavery and Tarantino’s treatment, she pronounced the movie mostly ugly.”
Times Seeks Race Comments On Django

hollywoodreporter.com

“‘It’s easier to break into the CIA,’ one Academy member told me.”
Oh-Oh. Oscar E-Voting Not A Bingo

“Marauding elephants tramped through her village, and little Sally Martin did what she was supposed to do: She ran, and she took her tiger cub with her.”
Child Star Sally Marks, 82, Played A Younger Dorothy Lamour

NY Times

“No, on this chilly Los Angeles day, over her bowl of mushroom soup at a secluded restaurant near Mulholland Drive, Ms. Bigelow wanted to discuss her Zero Dark Thirty crew.”
“One does long for the day when it’s only about the work.”
Barnes Matches Wits With Kathryn Bigelow

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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.”

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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