MCN Curated Headlines Archive for October, 2014
“The hubris! The hubris of that!”
Keanu On “You Owe Me A Life”
“Netflix rejects the conventions of digital media. It is not user-generated; it is not social; it is not bite size; it is not free. And now its approach is the one most other digital companies with big media ambitions — Google, Amazon, Yahoo—are looking to pursue: that is, to become like television. The digital revolution is a digression, and television—the real video revolution that began in the 1950s—continues.”
Michael Wolff Sez The Promise Of The Internet Has Been Disrupted By Old Media
The Gothams Nominate
Birdman, Boyhood, Budapest, Love Is Strange, Under The Skin; Actress, CITIZENFOUR, Life Itself, Manakamana, Point And Shoot
“We are damaging the environment, and the Earth, and it’s definitely changed a lot in the last 10 years. I’m hoping we continue on that course.”
Stephen Galloway Gets The THR Takeout On Interstellar, With Nolan, McConaughey, Chastain, Hathaway
“Keaton’s associated with a time in movies before everything become so cool and so cynical. I hate that bullshit. I just hate it. It’s like David Foster Wallace said, the irony in our culture—it’s just ruining everything. Michael represents the sort of humanism that a lot of movies have been missing.”
David Fear Goes Backstage With Alejandro González Inárritu
“He introduced us to the rest of our lives.”
Wes Anderson And Owen Wilson On L. M. Kit Carson
“Baby, you’re mine on a platter.” Her expression had a kind of stunned intensity. When the pianist did a solo, she turned toward him, dancing from the pelvis up. The last line felt menacing: “This time I’m not only getting—I’m holding my man.”
Sarah Larson Contemplates Molly Ringwald, Jazz Singer
Marjorie Baumgarten Remembers L. M. Kit Carson As A Son Of Texas
And – Dallas’ Robert Wilonsky Remembers Him As Local, Too
Plus – Carson On David Holzman’s Diary
And – Carson On Paris, Texas
“The online cinema biz has given us a business model where ambition and diversity can flourish, freed of the demand to diminish risk and all other costs.”
So Sez Fandor CEO Ted Hope
New Developments With Your Data Overlords
Apple Topper Tim Cook Meets With Chinese Vice-Premier To Talk “Data Security”
Plus – “Is There A Crisis At IBM?”
And – “Why iOsS QuickType Won’t Predict ‘Abortion'”
“I am different. I’m happy.”
Renée Zellweger Sez She’s “Glad Folks Think I Look Different”