MCN Curated Headlines Archive for February, 2014

NY Times

Fashion Editors Fear Not Being Able To View Oscars From Paris

deadline

Oscar-Disqualified Music Insider Proposes Oscar Music Reforms, Offers Further Description Of His Actions

What Happened Down In Howard, Texas On Tex Avery Day

June Squibb Speaks

NY Times

“‘I’m really glad I attended. I had hesitated because I was told it’s graphically violent and there are survivors of the genocide participating in the re-enactments. Now I understand that neither of those things are true.'”

Charlotte Rampling, A Fashion Icon At 68

NY Times

Sound Lessons From Apocalypse Now vid

Richard E. Grant Has Spice Girls Memories

The Interiors Of Her

NY Times

Scott And Carr Sweet-Spot Oscar vid

Ebiri Articulates Harold Ramis’ The Ice Harvest

variety

Gravity Wins Publicists’ Top Flack

Chaz On “Roger’s Last Oscars”

Oscar Will Livestream For Cable Subscribers Only

hollywoodreporter.com

Lionsgate Drops Tyler Perry First-Look Deal

“What’s most appealing about documentary is you get to reinvent it every time you make a film. If you’re gonna do the same thing over and over, why bother?”
Errol Morris Talks The Unknown Known

Salon

Thompson Sez “House Of Cards” And “Breaking Bad” Killed Oscar

Why There Will Be Silver On The Red Carpet To Oscar Gold

Every Dress Worn By Every Best Actress Oscar Winner

“Lawrence seems like a weird, idiosyncratic, charismatic human. She’s never polished; she’s always —-ing up.
Anne Helen Petersen Places Jennifer Lawrence In The Lineage Of “Cool Girls”

Faux-Saul Bass-Postering The Best Picture Nominees

Pleasure Of Terrors: A Glimpse Of Spalding Gray’s Short-Lived Career In 1970s Porn

Colin Maccabe Sez Derek Jarman Still Mysterious Twenty Years After His Death

Gravity As “Workflow Cinema”

NY Times

“Who wouldn’t want to see next year’s Oscars written by 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley? Or what about Spike Jonze? His mooncalf surrealism might just suit a show whose jagged juxtapositions and elastic tempo reliably melt clocks the world over.”

Inside The White House Movie Bunker

“For the next two weeks, I will work and get drunk with the country’s top directors, composers and film stars.”
Anna Broinowski Check$ In On North Korean Filmmaking

variety

“The film is inspired by the story of Noah. While artistic license has been taken, we believe that this film is true to the essence, values, and integrity of a story that is a cornerstone of faith for millions of people worldwide. The biblical story of Noah can be found in the book of Genesis.”
Noah Marketing Will Now Concede That There’s No Such Thing As A Movie That Reflects The Bible As Understood Differently By Millions Of Individuals

hollywoodreporter.com

Cesar Noms Include Eighth For Polanski, Eight Each For Stranger By The Lake And Blue Is The Warmest Color

NY Times

“And heeeere they are!”
Jim Lange, 81, Host Of “The Dating Game”

NY Times

SeaWorld Questions Ethics Of Blackfish Investigator

Tavi Gevinson‘s Most-Overlooked Wes Anderson Costumes

Orson Welles’ Personal Script For Citizen Kane Yours For Mere Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars

variety

Who Put The Crew On The “Midnight Rider” Death Bridge?

Her As Gen-X Midlife Crisis

Why 12 Years A Slave Needed To Be Shot On Film

hollywoodreporter.com

Lisa Kudrow Loses $1.6 Million Suit From Ex-Manager

“Membership in the Academy is for life, and there are doubtless many members who are no longer involved in the movie business in any significant way but who, nonetheless, are voting.”

hollywoodreporter.com

“Girls”… In Outer. Space. In Outer. Space! 
Adam Driver To Be Baddie In Next “Star Wars”?

the wrap

Cassian Elwes On Calling In The One Favor That Got Dallas Buyers Club Made

A New Wrinkle In Case Of The Endangered VFX Industry Vs. The Studios

indie wire

“Likewise per usual at this juncture, my mind became crowded with questions, each one a pin ready to poke holes in what at first seemed like an easy decision.Through these factors, I’ve come to the realization that I don’t need to own a film to feel ownership of it.”
IndieWIRE Advises Readers To Buy Criterion At Retail, Not Via “Flash Sales”

Why Dub Miyazaki?

“Today’s rooster is tomorrow’s feather duster. Pride does come before a fall.”
Catherine Martin Talks Style, Gatsby And Beyond

Steve Buscemi Remembers Maggie Estep

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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