MCN Curated Headlines Archive for February, 2015
“When people tell me, ‘I’m just voting for American Sniper, and that’s it,’ it infuriates me. That just defeats the purpose of the system. Essentially, they’re wasting their vote.”
How The Best Picture Winner Could Actually Be A Third Choice
The Reporter Goes Oscar-Wild
Chris Kyle’s Widow At Center Of To-Be-Expected Furor Of Unexpected American Sniper Profit
And – Laura Dern On Her Acting Coach Of Many Decades, Sandra Seacat
With – Ava DuVernay On Her Awkward First Meeting With Oprah
“Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I’m not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person—Quentin Tarantino. We acquired Reservoir Dogs and have been in business with Quentin on every movie of his ever since.”
Plus – Bob Weinstein Pens A Love Letter To His Brother, Harvey
“Superimposing intricate, baroquely subliminal symbol-patterns and glazed, death-masque motifs on hoary gothic thriller conventions, it feels like a Hitchcock film that went missing in Venice and whose remains were dredged up by divers from the canals.”
Howard Hampton On The Blu-Ray Of Don’t Look Now
Ramin Setoodeh “Burns” With Six Questions About Fifty Shades Sequels
“Fifty Shades of Grey, the book and the movie, is a celebration of the sadism that dominates nearly every aspect of American culture and lies at the core of pornography and global capitalism. It glorifies our dehumanization of women. It champions a world devoid of compassion, empathy and love.”
Left Journo Chris Hedges Not Aroused
“The future that has arrived in 2015 does not have us orbiting distant stars or descending through the clouds of a mysterious moon, but instead packing our own groceries at self-service machines.”
Charles Mudede Considers Alien In The Reflected Light Of Self-Checkout
“When you’ve had kids and you go into a meeting and people are like, ‘What have you been doing for the last few years?’ and you say, ‘I’ve been building my family,’ you can just see them zoning out. I wasn’t getting sent anything, I was asking my agents to send me anything that was interesting and I would see scripts and say, ‘Yeah I’ll do this,’ and they’d say, ‘Okay, well you’re fifteenth in a queue of very powerful male directors, ‘ and I just thought I needed to go out there and do something that’s going to mean that afterwards I could do anything. So this is definitely going to help.”
Sam Taylor-Johnson On Doing Fifty Shades Of Grey
Oscar Ballots Are Due Today
“If I did not take down his soul, he was going to take down mine.”
Chris Kyle Shooter Confesses To His Killing
“I think it’s a mistake to make caricatures of what different cultures worship. It’s a good idea to stop doing that.”
Miyazaki-San Says Charlie Hebdo Cartoons A Mistake
“An adventurous but wildly uneven filmmaker as well as a paradoxical personality, Eastwood has a propensity to play the fool (straight man to an orangutan in Every Which Way But Loose, lecturing an empty chair at the 2012 Republican Convention). But here, the octogenarian director is fully engaged with his material.”
J. Hoberman Sez Clint Eastwood’s Made The American Rohrschach
“When your mom calls to tell you that her mom has requested a trip to their local Wellington, Florida, movie theater on the evening of Feb. 14 to see Fifty Shades of Grey, you do what any sane PEOPLE editor would do: You demand they review.”
Time Inc. Assigning Editor Offers Another Review Of Taking The “Wrong” Relative To Fifty Shades
“Great. My safe word is ‘restraining order.'”
Laurie Penny Interviews Christian Grey
“The 24-screen AMC theater at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., sold out multiple showings on Saturday, including a 4 p.m. matinee.”
“Today” Show Favorite Fifty Shades Of Grey Whips Up The Publicity Angles Everywhere
“Thanks to plunging exchange rates around the globe, Warner Bros. and MGM ultimately will take in nearly $90 million less than they planned on receiving from The Hobbit.”
How Weakened Currencies, Including The Euro At A 9-Year-Low, Are Endangering The Billion-Dollar-Grossing Movie And Even More Returns
“PBS recommends that its affiliates schedule the shows on Mondays during prime time, but increasingly, each station has found more valuable properties to air during those timeslots—usually shows with more appeal to the elderly viewers who plunk down dollars at pledge time.”
“Why Cinephiles Need To Care About POV And Independent Lens”
“Lil Bryant was run over and killed the other night. He lived for years on the streets of Nashville. He was a legend. He ran wild. He was only three feet tall, but he was a great basketball player. He would have lived 100 years if that car hadn’t run him down. He slept under bridges and sidewalks. He could have been Brando in another life. He could have been Buster Keaton. Maybe he was, who knows.”
Bryant Crenshaw, 42, Appeared In Harmony Korine’s Debut, Gummo
“It was crazy that some people thought that when President Obama, the first time, put his right hand on Abraham Lincoln’s bible, that hocus pocus abracadabra: racism just went “poof.” I wasn’t drinking that Kool-Aid the minute I heard it. People were swept up in the euphoria of an African-American president. And now we’re back in reality.”
Spike Lee Talks “Disarray”
