MCN Curated Headlines Archive for October, 2013
“Reed went from a widely misunderstood, even reviled underground figure into an international man of letters, published author and respected artist.”
Greg Kot On Lou Reed
Not A Perfect Day
LOU REED WAS 71
“Every film I’ve ever made, I’ve been able to make it in the way I wanted it to be. In the end, no matter what. By doing that, you kind of just have to accept the reality of what they are.”
Nic Refn, Still A Card
Brody On “The Sexual Politics” Of Blue Is The Warmest Color
And – “In truth, it isn’t sex per se that makes Blue Is the Warmest Color problematic; it’s the patriarchal anxieties about sex, female appetite and maternity that leach into its sights and sounds and the way it frames, with scrutinizing closeness, the female body.”
Dargis, Too
“Nikki has not been locked out of the site. If she had been, if would’ve been difficult for her to post that she was locked out of the site. Nikki has been restricted to filing and editing her own stories. She has built a Twitter following with a site that gives the appearance she writes every story on Deadline, when her output continues to diminish. That traffic belongs to Deadline’s Twitter feed. We are trying to strip away the distractions and diversions that have gotten between her doing what she does best. Penske invested his money and time to help her build this business, and ultimately make her a multimillionaire. “
The Wall Of Jericho Rises At Deadline Dot Com
RIP, Nikki Finke’s Love Of Jay Penske’s Financially-Remunerative Contractual Encumbrance, At 7.5 Years, After A Protracted Bout With Hubris
Antonia Bird, 54, Directed Face, Priest, Ravenous
With – Bird And Robert Carlyle Talk Collaboration In 1999
Plus – Bird On Priest In 1995
“12 Years a Slave is an easy landmark. It’s a rare sugarless movie about racial inequality. McQueen doesn’t even give you any orchestral elevation.”
Wesley Morris Sees A “Cultural Crater”