MCN Curated Headlines Archive for February, 2015
“Neil Meron and Craig Zadan are the producers of the show. They are the guiding lights. This year the charge was that they wanted as much visual excitement as possible.”
Meet Henry Hobson, Designer Of All The Swell Oscar Show Graphic Cards
“Google said it will still allow nudity if the content offers a substantial public benefit—for example in artistic, educational, documentary or scientific contexts.”
Google’s Blogger Platform To Ban Sexually Explicit Images And Videos
Oh, The Poor, Poor Grey Lady
Noted Cinematic Wags Frank Bruni And Ross Douthat Thumbsuck About Oscar
“It’s sad, but most people have to finally accept that the Oscars have become, well, elitist and not in step with anything that is actually popular. No one really believes anymore that the films they chose are the ones that are going to last over time.”
And – Michael Cieply And Brooks Barnes And A Film Studies LIbrarian Add Their Tuppence Of Thumbing Down
“Richards II and III; Henrys IV, V and VI; Lear; and Macbeth, among others.”
Alan Howard, 77, Shakespearean Actor, Voice Of “The Ring” In Two Movies; Doomed Lover In Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover
“I think it’s about the creative process. I don’t know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous. I have been always demanding of myself a lot, maybe more than my capacities. That has been becoming a —-ing chronic dissatisfaction. Anything that I have done, I consider a piece of shit.”
A Pre-Oscar Flashback With Alejandro González Iñárritu
“Linklater’s movie, though sanctimonious about its virtuous youth and family values, is still the slightly better film. The director’s perceptions are finer and subtler, his sense of milieu truer, his compositions both more precise and more relaxed. Linklater sees; Iñárritu shows.”
Richard Brody Cites H’wd For Its “Birdmania”
Oscar Winners 2015
Birdman/Iñárritu/Redmayne/Moore/Arquette/Simmons
Birdman – Picture/Director/Screenplay/Cinematography
Grand Budapest – Production Design/Make-up/Costumes/Score
Whiplash – Supporting Actor/Editing/Sound Mixing
“He has learned the caution of old men, and that has killed the thing that made him so great originally.”
Drew McWeeny Says Eddie Murphy Just Doesn’t Care Anymore