MCN Curated Headlines Archive for January, 2013

“Young hipsters in northern Tehran, fruit peddlers in the bazaar, teachers in the suburbs, parliamentarians and members of the plainclothes Basij militia loyal to the regime have seen it.”
Bootleg Argo DVDs Of Interest To Iranian Citizenry
“Thing is, what Netflix needs is network-level smashes.”
Poland Defines Netflix 2013
MCN Public Service Announcement
Oscar Voting Starts In One Week
“She must have been named after the ’90s R&B group Zhané.”
Harmin’ Armond Gets Around To Beasts Of The Southern Wild; Vocabulary Invokes “Freaks,” “Gaudy,” “Lurid,” “Pickaninny”; “Motherly Black Whore”
“Well, this is a big bugaboo of mine watching what’s happening lately because I’m like you should have a reason for every shot, a reason for every cut. If you don’t then you’ve broken … I don’t know if you’ve broken a contract with the audience but you’ve broken a contract with me.”
Soderbergh Answers Qs After Walter Reade Side Effects Preview

“Let’s monetize this mother——. I’m more or less at the end of my career and it’s just a gas to do this.”
Eug On A Nearly-Finished Cut Of The Schrader-Ellis-Lohan The Canyons
“Financiers, insurance companies did not like the insurance profile. But they’re based on dumb — not facts, perceptions. We just had to not have insurance, which was fine.”
Longworth Inside Inside Charlie Sheen
“In comes Sam with a burger in his hand and a drink in the other hand and stinking like fast food. Me and Quentin and Lawrence were sitting on the couch, and he walked in and just started sipping that shake and biting that burger and looking at all of us. I was scared —-less. I thought that this guy was going to shoot a gun right through my head.”
Sampling VF’s Pulp Fiction Oral History