MCN Curated Headlines Archive for February, 2013

The Lost Projects Of Michael O’Donoghue

Jaglom On His Surreptitious Lunch Tapes With Welles; Denies Uploading Other Side Of The Wind Footage To YouTube

Stream Clint Mansell’s Stoker Score

“If you’re going to follow around somebody to murder, I’d much rather be photographing a woman than a man.”
Talking Blood With Brian DePalma

NZ Has Trouble With Argo, Too

guardian

Park Chan-Wook On Liberation & Cutting 20 Minutes From Stoker

NY Times

Pandora Sez Music Royalties Too High, To Limit Mobile Users’ Monthly Usage

hollywoodreporter.com

Spielberg On Schindler’s At 20
As – He’s Set To Head Lead Cannes Jury

variety

Could VFX Economic Issues Lead To Cyber Attacks? 

hollywoodreporter.com

Ruling May Loose Millions From Bergstein Companies In ThinkFilm, Etc. Dealings

LA Times

“The Oscar in general is a blood sport,” Zadan said. “A lot of the TV press goes back year after year and complains about a traditional host, but if you have someone groundbreaking they complain about that.”
The Self-Canonizing And Further Self-Anointing Of Oscar Producers Aided By LAT

Tilda Swinton Turns Face For Chanel
And – That David Bowie Video She Co-Stars In, By Floria Sigismondi

NY Times

Ryzik Combs For Clues On Lincoln‘s Loss And Chooses Next Year’s Host: Jennifer Lawrence
And – Huffington Post GIFS, Videos, Clichés Way Through Its Girl-Crush On Lawrence

“And then Paul Schrader let me see The Canyons. “
DiGiacomo (AKA Who’s Left At Movieline) Has A Personal Santa Ana

deadline

Fleming‘s Inside: Weinstein Collects Salinger For Oscar 2013

A Few Notes On How Pay-TV Operators Perpetually Slay Their Golden Geese

Apple CEO Tells Investors “Great Stuff” Still To Come

hollywoodreporter.com

“When will all the dead-serious $200-million battle-centered giant-infested similarly cast rousingly scored fabulously rendered 3D fairy-tale reimaginings all finally merge together into one enormous Anglophilic fantasmagoria of monarchical order and virtue so we can all be done with this?”

Kevin B. Lee Salutes Jonnie Rosenbaum At 70
And – Lee And Vishnevetsky Listen In At Home (12’27”)

NY Times

What The Music Supervisor Can Do For Your Movie

NPR On Faking Authenticity

guardian

Bergen Obituarizes Aleksei German

hollywoodreporter.com

Kiwi Filmmaker Adam Strange Eaten By Sharks

telegraph.co.uk

BBC Trust Clears “Jugs,” “Melons” And “T–s On A Plate,” But Has Difficulty With Tantric Sex And “Genital Frenzy”

hollywoodreporter.com

Iran Seals Border For Those Who Aided Jafar Panahi’s Closed Curtain

“Did you find it morally objectionable?”
Glenn Kenny On Muddled CultCrit, The Breast Of Oscar, And “Cutting Your Throat In Your Sleep”

Warren Ellis On “The Inexorable Rise Of The Crapjects”

guardian

Afternooning With Danny DeVito

LA Times

Cablevision-Viacom Bundling Battle Resembles The Malone-Redstone Fight
And – An Interesting Entry On What The Suit Could Mean For The Future Of Television

A Picture Of Emad Burnat And His Family At The Oscars

LA Weekly Goes After Michael Moore And The Atlantic For Defending Michael Moore But Likes Buzzfeed For Suggesting Michael Moore Is A Liar; Almost Leaves Last Word To Emad Burnat
And – “So mostly, on the Moore side, there is an emotional plea, an initial story (as told by Moore) that is now pretty clearly inaccurate, and an attack on Buzzfeed that is so ferocious that I guess Buzzfeed is supposed to just go away.”
David Poland Amends His Less-Of-Moore Reaction

NY Times

Bob Hope’s Palm Springs Lautner-Designed Compound Yours For Only $50 Million

“How Google Glass Will Change Our Lives”

hollywoodreporter.com

Imagining What Lena Dunham’s Audition Video For Zero Dark Thirty Would Look Like

Surowiecki Asks Is Apple Is “Getting Lazy”

telegraph.co.uk

Willy Rizzo, 84, Photographed Marilyn, Bardot, Dietrich, Caricatured By Herge

hollywoodreporter.com

$50 Million Escape From Planet Earth Lawsuit Settled

NY Times

Matt Mattox, 91, Jazz Dance Pioneer Was In Seven Brides, Guys And Dolls

telegraph.co.uk

“Skyfall failed at the Oscars because it is ridiculous and overhyped and its James Bond is a weary anachronism”

Atlantic’s Reporting Favors Burnat-Moore Over Buzzfeed; Minutiae Fly 

“I don’t understand why I’m being asked whether it was 23 minutes (it definitely was not) or more [at LAX]. That is the wrong question. And I think Americans should be proud that there are people like Michael Moore and so many others I met in LA who are willing to ask the right question: why was I held in the first place?”
Oscar-Nominated Documentarian Emad Burnat Questions Buzzfeed’s Priorities 

“My conviction is that the main missing element in most depictions of jazz on film is musicians listening to one another.”
Jonathan Rosenbaum On Jazz And Film Criticism

Good Dr. Bordwell On Donald Richie

“Hollywood’s not necessarily the most supportive community. There is a lot of schadenfreude and a lot of snark.”
VICE Ventilates The Canyons

wsj

“It was made without any Canadian consultation. And we can live with that. But at the same time the ‘Canadian community,’ felt we played a larger and more active role than that which was portrayed in the movie.”
Former Canadian Ambassador Says “Canadian Caper” Should Have Been More About Canada And Less About Argo

“The next morning, right before she got in her car to head off to work, my wife turned back and—standing there on our front steps—and said, ‘Ang, don’t forget your dream.’”
Ang Lee On How He Stayed On His Path

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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