MCN Curated Headlines Archive for September, 2014
Michiko Kakutani Continues NYT Drumbeat for Lena Dunham’s Semi-Memoir
And – Dunham Releases A Dozen Advice Videos
“I love movies and I love the communal experience and got into this business wanting to make documentaries for theatrical audiences, but, even a filmmaker like myself who loves cinema,would rather sit in my living room with my high-end home viewing system and watch most films at home under my own terms.”
Joe Berlinger Takes On Michael Moore’s 13 Rules For Documentarians
“I have had 71 incredible years. The week I found out about it all was quite funny, it was like a comedy sketch. I got acid reflux, deafness, cancer and Parkinson’s in the same week. You have another meeting and you get another diagnosis.”
Billy Connolly Testifies
“I didn’t think Times readers would take the opening sentence literally because I so often write arch, provocative ledes that are then undercut or mitigated by the paragraphs that follow.”
Erik Wemple On Columnist-For-Life Alessandra Stanley And Her “Contempt For New York Times Readers”
“The readers and commentators are correct to protest this story. Intended to be in praise of Ms. Rhimes, it delivered that message in a condescending way that was–at best–astonishingly tone-deaf and out of touch.”
“There was never any intent to offend anyone and I deeply regret that it did. Alessandra used a rhetorical device to begin her essay, and because the piece was so largely positive, we as editors weren’t sensitive enough to the language being used.”
NYT Public Editor Margaret Sullivan Describes Much Of The Work Of Critic-For-Life Alessandra Stanley
And – “I’ve been too busy being angry and black. Also a woman. Takes up a lot of time.”
And – “The shock that someone would ever dare to say such things out loud, coupled with a pit-of-the-stomach throb of recognition.”
Plus – “From Fincher’s point of view, the ultimate bleakness of life as portrayed here is similar to the perspectives of his other dark and murderous films, but this one does not stare mercilessly into the existential void in the manner of his best, most disturbing work.”
And – “Thank heavens for Fincher, who keeps the tale so coiled and intense that we are prepared to stick with it, even as it pitches towards outright hysteria.”
Plus – “Purgatory in beige.”
“If we could find a few more movies to make, we would. The challenge is finding movies that are worth making. If other studios are going to make less movies while we’re making more, that’s a real advantage.”
Cieply & Barnes On The Status Of Warner Bros