MCN Curated Headlines Archive for August, 2013
“I always felt that as long as he went on reviewing, it was OK for me to keep making movies. I am in the middle of doing one, my last. It saddens me that he couldn’t have hung on a bit longer to review it.”
Senior Filmmakers Pay Tribute To Retiring Observer 50-Year Film Critic Philip French, Including Boorman, Scorsese, Walter Hill And Nicolas Roeg
“One imagine—hopes—that playing Pinter with Weisz will require many such leaps onto moving trains over abysses. Only the trains will be wayward emotions, the abysses those pauses, the cuffs left unstraightened.”
Daniel Craig And Rachel Weisz And Purple Prose And “Betrayal”
“This is one of the finest film libraries in the world. If it were to disappear, it would be a disaster. What is missing right now is action.”
Portuguese Cinematheque Threated With Closure français
“Pro football is the most popular sport on ESPN and generates the most income. But the NFL is also dealing with more than 4,200 named player-plaintiffs in lawsuits over concussion-linked injuries.”
“Was ESPN Sloppy, Naive Or Compromised?” Asks Ombud Over Decoupling From Frontline Doc On Football And Concussions
“Jane Fonda in my opinion is a treasonist person. Jane Fonda had a wonderful opportunity to show the world how horrible our prisoners were being treated, yet she decided to call them baby killers and support our enemy.”
Elizabethtown, Kentucky Theater Bars The Butler: It’s Got Jane Fonda In It
Observer Film Critic Philip French Takes Some Questions At Retirement After 50 Years
And – Will Be Replaced By Mark Kermode
“Screenplays are unmade movies and about as enjoyable to consume as a cake recipe written on a piece of paper. If I am going to read a script, there had better be a reasonable chance I will profit from it.”
Polone: “No, I Will Not Do You A —-ing Favor”
Vadim Yusov, 84, Soviet/Russian Cinematographer On Tarkovsky’s Solaris, Ivan’s Childhood, Andrei Tarkovsky
With – A Russian News Report
“The source added Chinese directors must routinely cut details disagreeable to the government to get their films made.”
NYPost Runs With Unsourced, Unlikely Item That Changes In Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster For U. S. Were Made To Placate China Censors