MCN Curated Headlines Archive for December, 2014
“People are experts all the time and they are often wrong.”
Philip Kaufman Looks Back In A Fine, Career-Ranging Interview
“Honestly: Has there ever been a movie more anally fixated than The Interview? Now it’s time for me to get my rectum out of this chair and go join my family, and not stream anything for a while.”
Michael Phillips Seats Himself For The Interview
“Lovers in all but the technical, physical sense, they sustain an elaborate charade of heterosexual heartiness.What this means is a lot of jokes about the remarkable fact that the male body, so to speak, is equipped with both a car and a garage.”
As Does — His Old Partner A. O. Scott
“Although it’s a Hollywood blockbuster aimed at young adults, it presents potentially quite subversive ideas of mass revolution, economic sabotage and the populist fight against oligarchy.”
“People And Organisation” Lecturer Peter Bloom Warns Against Hunger Games Movies
Once More, With Feeling
“The Star Wars Holiday Special George Lucas Wants To Smash Every Copy Of With A Sledgehammer”
“Your heart goes out to Warner Bros. The studio also happens to be the home of Edge of Tomorrow, and it actually is, in its way, taking risks, still spending shitloads of money on original screenplays and evidently hard-to-market films based on unproven material.”
Wesley Morris Surveys The 2014 Filmic Landscape For Hope, Or The Soothing Illusion Thereof
“As a drummer, I’m interested in the percussion; there’s some especially fine tambourine work.”
Brian Reitzell Sez Powaqqatsi Made Him Want To Score Movies
Another Unexpected Online Premiere: Von Trier’s “Extended Director’s Cut” Of Nymphomaniac Is On Netflix
Part One (2’28”) And Part Two (2’58”)
“Imagine a perfectly tailored high-fashion take on the librarian look of silver screen cliché and you’ll get the idea: soft power for the celluloid set.”
NYT Offers Fashion Critique Of Angelina Jolie On Awards Circuit
“You’ve gotta remember, the original was in a big theater. You’re looking at a naked wolf, but it’s not in your face. But you’re doing a movie…”
James Lapine Notes Into The Woods‘ Changes From Stage To Screen
“Few people in Turner’s orbit impress him much, and nearly everyone is on the receiving end of an astringent mmmeh at some point.”
Kyle Buchanan Calibrates Timothy Spall’s Grunts And Murmurous Utterances In Mr. Turner
‘When the protagonists do blow Kim Jong-Un away, it is in self-defense not only of themselves but of the world. In this way, the film exemplifies an older Hollywood sensibility. The good guys are good guys in the end, they prefer nonviolent means, and commit violence only when forced to deploy it to save lives.”
Well, It Would Be A Spoiler In Most Cases, But… Juan Cole On The Interview
“Free speech is the fundamental principle of civilization that will hold our world together. When North Korea shuts down Sony Pictures, that’s a very frightening thing for any American. That disgusts me.”
Revisiting The Law Of Unintended Consequences: Indie Theaters May Thrive With Last-Second Bookings Of The Interview
And – Shareholders Likely Lack Basis To Sue