MCN Curated Headlines Archive for April, 2015
“Scorsese crystallizes several of his obsessions, leaves others behind, and finds his new, great subject that would define all of his best films to come: the corrosive effects of rampant materialism on the soul.”
Jim Hemphill On Goodfellas‘ Legacy To American Film, American Filmmakers TV And Especially Tarantino
“Underneath the film is a basic thing: to what extent does one establish or fail to establish what is going on in someone else’s head?”
Kyle Buchanan Has Seance With Alex Garland On Ex Machina‘s Take On Gender
Park Slope’s Ragged 9-Screen Pavilion Theater To Be Torn Down For Apartments, New Arthouse Part Of Plan
While – Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre Even Gets Its Original 1920s Furniture Restored
MPAA Dodd Implies Feds Should Go After Wikileaks; Takes Good Faith Statements Of Meerkat And Periscope
And – Trevor Timm Says Sony Shouldn’t Tell Journos What To Print
Christopher Nolan Tells Tribeca Crowd, It’s Good To Be Lucky
And – Nolan Joins Scorsese’s Film Foundation Board
“I hope that the actors don’t feel trapped.”
Wes Anderson On Control
“He spoke of being ‘a failed suicide,’ and asked me, ‘What would you do if your only choice was between institutionalization in a mental hospital and suicide?'”
Oliver Sacks On His Post-Catastrophe Consultations With Spalding Gray
“Almost nothing in the movie is ‘true’—in terms of both the source material, as it was published, and my life, as it has been lived. Bad art tries to hit the nail on the head, and in missing, it smashes the audience’s collective thumb. Adderall or no, the last time someone wrote a 200-page book in two days was never.”
Stephen Elliott On Seeing His Memoir, The Adderall Diaries, Get Fully Franco-fied
“We have a budget cap of about $4 million per film, maybe a little more, and we came up with that number by looking at the movies that don’t work.”
Calculating Jason Blum