MCN Curated Headlines Archive for January, 2015
“As American Sniper continues to spawn think pieces, internecine celebrity squabbles and diatribes from hand-wringing lefties and chest-thumping righties, it’s interesting to remember the naysaying about the film’s prospects that swirled just last month.”
Cara Buckley Carpetbags The Emergence Of American Sniper As Cultural Phenom
“Every day we face new technology challenges. We have to look at our models—the theatrical model, the VOD model. We have to think about what we do with the lack of a DVD business. That was once an insurance policy for the industry. How do we deal with the newer technologies that are emerging and with the piracy that’s a part of the new digital age?”
Variety Cover-Stories “Broken H’wd”: Eller And Wallenstein Survey Execs For Fixes
“I’ve completely created my own life. Structure, it’s all imposed.”
Juliane Moore Believes In Therapy, Not God
“More power to him. But he’s feeding them black shit white people like.”
Wesley Morris Finds “Exploitation Blues” At Sundance In Dope, Tangerine And End Of The Tour
“Leviathan is a filthy libel against the Russian church and the Russian state. Leviathan is evil, and there is no place for evil in the cinema.”
Leviathan, Honored In West, Delayed, Altered, Scorned, In Putin’s Russia
“Since the IRS is unlikely to reopen the case, Going Clear lays out the case against Scientology and then says, essentially, that Cruise and Travolta may be the only ones who can do anything to, at the very least, reform the organization. Or, perhaps, renounce the organization and bring it down. The question now is: Will they?”
Logan Hill Sees Going Clear At Sundance
And – The Church Of Scientology Responds With Detailed Attacks On Interviewees