MCN Curated Headlines Archive for February, 2014
“I hope it is nothing serious.”
NYT Proffers Op-Ed Turf For James Franco To Bloviate Over The Skywriting Plagiarist
Assaying Sir Ridley And Cormac McCarthy’s Extended Version
“This is a film written in an almost novelistic way by a writer possessed of a singular vision, and, were that perspective more obvious throughout, few could continue to maintain that The Counselor is a failure in conventional terms.”
And – “The movie isn’t a packet of misogyny: it’s misanthropy, no chaser.”
Plus – “Whittling down the film only served to hollow it out, like a radio edit that strips a pop song down to chorus and verse but loses a transcendent guitar solo in the process.”
Earlier – “From all the ellipses, as well as the eccentric, mesmerizing poetry of his dialogue, Mr. McCarthy appears to have never read a screenwriting manual in his life.”
“Stone has proven that he he can generate headlines.”
Variety Salutes Slow News Day By Writing Further Headlines About Its Support Of Faith-Based Pollster’s Assertions On Noah
“I personally would have to say that it would take overwhelming evidence to convince me that he had sexually abused a child, just as it would take overwhelming evidence to convince me that Desmond Tutu, Franklin D. Roosevelt or Doris Lessing had sexually abused a child.”
Wallace Shawn On Woody Allen
“I’ve never made a picture just because I think it will provoke a strong response from the audience. I’ve made the pictures I’ve been drawn to make, and I’ve tried to translate my own reactions to the material into images and sounds. You can’t make pictures in order to be liked by everybody—or rather, you can, but it doesn’t interest me. You make the ones you’re drawn to, the best way you know how. Once they’re released, they’re out of your hands.”
Scorsese On Scorsese
“Comcast perfectly fits the old notion of monopolists as robber barons, so-called by analogy with medieval warlords who perched in their castles overlooking the Rhine, extracting tolls from all who passed. “
And – ‘Take a step back, and it’s abundantly clear that the U.S. has something approaching a national broadband crisis on its hands.“