MCN Curated Headlines Archive for December, 2014
“A successful franchise gives you enormous value. But it gives you enormous value only to do the same thing.”
Director Rupert Wyatt On His Move From Apes To The Gambler To “Echo Chamber”
“Somehow it ends up being so deep, meaningful and soulful. I don’t know how he does it. There’s not many people that can do that–have that many jokes and that much humanity. Usually one or the other wins out. But Pynchon’s got it all.”
Kermode On Anderson
“Sony’s decision to provide numbers gives rare insight into the home entertainment results of a major film release, figures that usually remain shrouded in secrecy.”
Sony Says Opening Weekend VOD For The Interview Topped $15 Million
“A scorched-earth strategy in which anything negative in his accusers’ pasts is fair game”
Cosby Employs Ranks Of High-Power PIs To Seek Dirt
“Big Eyes just got better and better in the editing because of the pull of the movie quietly on Amy because there’s so much happening on her face. So as for why an audience would identify with her, I think they identify with her because she draws you in. You really feel for her.”
Karaszewski And Alexander Justifiably Love Amy Adams
“Exactly like the outside world, the movie business clings to dusty stereotypes as when insiders refer to directors as generals and ship captains, as if today women don’t have those jobs. All that said, it remains surprising that the industry fails to grasp that women, on screen and behind the camera, are good for the bottom line.”
Manohla Dargis Surveys The Man’s Man’s Man’s World Of H’wd
Rolling Stone Moves Along
“Pam And Tommy: The Untold Story Of The World’s Most Infamous Sex Tape”
“What’s startling to consider is that Hillenbrand has done this with little access to the outside world. She is cut off not only from basic tools of reporting, like going places and seeing things, but also from all the promotional machinery of modern book selling. Because of the illness, she is forced to remain as secluded from the public as the great hermetic novelists.”
The Unusual Life Of Laura Hillenbrand, Whose Massive Bestsellers Inspired Seabiscuit And Unbroken
“I got more than I deserved. I never put my stamp on anything. I’ve tried, but never succeeded. I was just a witness.”
On A New Doc About Danny Fields, Possibly The Father Of Punk Rock