MCN Curated Headlines Archive for May, 2014
Ebiri Offers 17 Facts About Palme d’Or Winner Ceylan
And – Ceylan Is Also A Fine Photographer
Plus – Cinematographer Gökhan Tiryaki On The Beauty Of Digital
Cannes Acquisitions
Cohen Goes To Timbuktu
And – Sony Pictures Classics Hefts Leviathan
“Doing an ensemble movie, every character needs their own conflict and the group needs a conflict. So every time you’re cutting to a character, you need to have their story and the group’s story advance.”
Lauren Schuler-Donner On Producing X-Men Movies
“The felicities of this half-dictionary, half-diary are to be found in Thomson’s careening, confiding prose and the minute precision of his observational eye.”
Dana Stevens On David Thomson’s Sixth Edition “New Biographical Dictionary Of Film”
Fifth Largest Publisher, Hachette, Escalates War Of Words Over Amazon’s Ban Of Their Books In Discount Dispute
And – Hachette Author James Patterson’s “Four Of The Most Important Paragraphs I’ll Ever Write”
“Why would an established filmmaker shoot on digital? I have no —ing idea at all,” Tarantino said. “Digital projection is death of cinema as I know it. It’s television in public. The fact that most films aren’t presented in 35mm means the war is already lost. I’m hopeful that we’re going through a woozy, romantic period for the ease of digital. I’m hoping the next generation will have more sense and realize what they’ve lost.”
“Mainstream media turned against Adam Sandler about the same time it was suspected that he might be a Republican. This attack has since hardened into bullying, mob-like ridicule that ignores Sandler’s artistic growth—the unmatched, deserve-to-be-classic comedies Spanglish, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and Jack and Jill.”
Harmin’ Armond Nests At National Review
Amazon Does What Amazon Does Because Amazon Can
Feud Over E-Book Discounts From Fifth-Largest Publisher Hachette Leads To Ban On its Books, Including Bio Of Bezos And New J. K. Rowling