MCN Curated Headlines Archive for August, 2015

Netflix Partners With SoftBank Mobile Provider In Japan Launch

NY Times

“The solution, both Mr. Wenners said in interviews, is to stick with the magazine’s original values.”
25-Year-Old Gus Wenner Set To Succeed His 69-Year-Old Father, Jann, At Rolling Stone

hollywoodreporter.com

“Walking Dead” Series Creator Frank Darabont Gets No Credit (Or Cash) For Prequel

“I think people watched Django and Inglourious Basterds and thought they were really out there, but they got it. They felt themselves on solid ground. It wasn’t just, ‘What the fuck was that?’ And people understand what I’m doing with genre. They’re not befuddled. They don’t think I’m doing it wrong. They get it… Any naysayers for the public good can just fuck off. They might be a drag for a moment, but after that moment is over, it always ends up being gasoline to my fire.”
Halfway Through The Edit, QT Begins The Tubthump Toward Hateful 8

variety

“He’s totally smart, he totally gets it, he just likes to have fun.”
Today Show Celebrates “Fat Jew” With Spa Visit
And – Vulture’s Jesse David Fox On The Thief Of Bad Gags

Kyle Buchanan Avers, “No 2015 Oscar Contender Has Been Better Than Mad Max: Fury Road”

“She’s not pretending to have a deeper voice. She’s just a girl who is being herself and is chasing the opportunity to start hormone treatment. So to actually use a trans boy was not an option because this isn’t what my story is about. I would never discriminate against a trans kid or actor coming up to audition, but in this day and age in cinema, where it’s almost impossible to raise the financing, unfortunately we have to have some people that mean a certain amount of money,”

telegraph.co.uk

“Mean. Arrogant. Delusional. Why did America fall in love with Chevy Chase?”

NY Times

“Oddly, he repeatedly nods toward complications and then proceeds to essentially ignore them.”
“Future Of Music” Coalition Responds To NYTimes’ Pollyanna Piece, “The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t”
And – The Magazine Piece In Question

daily beast

“The Pokémon Company International takes the safety of our fans seriously and will continue to ensure proper security measures are a priority.”
Massacre-In-Making Foiled At Boston Pokémon World Masters Championship

NY Times

NYC Film Commisioner Quits

Composer Dean Wareham Shares A Banjoful Track From The Mistress America Soundtrack

Frequent Chabrol Composer Pierre Jensen Was 85 français

daily beast

“I mean, how big does the elephant in the room have to be before you ask about it?”
Paul Haggis Says “Shame On You” To Interviewers Who Don’t Press Tom Cruise

Aretha Franklin May Enjoin Release Of Sydney Pollack’s Unearthed Concert Doc

Is 25-Year-Old Pump Up The Volume The Grandfather Of The Podcast?

Joe Queenan Paid Once Again To Write Badly About Bad Films

The FT On How The BBC Will Deal With Gov’t Attrition By Budget

timeout.com

Expansively If Not Exquisitely Infographing The Rise Of Hong Kong Cinema

“Disney will be smarter than Lucasfilm, more ruthless than Lucasfilm. But these very qualities probably dictate that Disney will keep marketing and fan-servicing backward, even as the franchise pushes carefully ahead.”
Brian Phillips‘ Very Personal Consideration Of His Star Wars Past And Franchise Future

variety

Shattered Glass From Breaking Alarm Injures Actor Jean-Hugues Anglade In French Train Shooting Stopped By Barehanded U. S. Marines

daily beast

Ellen Page Confronts Ted Cruz (Wearing “Pork: Be Inspired” Apron) At Iowa State Fair vid

Juli Kearns‘ “In-Depth Shot-By-Shot Analysis Of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining” Remains A Daunting Amazement

wsj

States, And Chicago, Start Taxing Streaming And Digital Downloads

Articulate Filmmaker John Magary On The Vagaries Of Making The Mend

“I can’t think of another film that better captures the curious artificial intimacy that can arise in the process of interviewing, at length, the subject of a magazine profile.”
Rebecca Mead On “How The End Of The Tour Nails An Entire Profession”

wsj

Miriam Gottfried Enumerates The Major Reasons For Netflix Or Apple Not To Buy A Major Media Co.

NYFF Adds Nonfiction, Revivals, Restorations And A New Doc By Paul Thomas Anderson

UK Gov’t Orders Google To Remove Links To “Right To Be Forgotten” Removal Stories

hollywoodreporter.com

Bogdanovich Dishes, Praises Streisand While Bashing Cher, Leachman, Ali McGraw And Others

NY Times

“I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives.”
Post-Compton, Apple Exec Dr. Dre Apologizes To “Women I’ve Hurt”
Earlier – “That event isn’t depicted in Straight Outta Compton, but I don’t think it should have been, either. The truth is too ugly for a general audience. I didn’t want to see a depiction of me getting beat up, just like I didn’t want to see a depiction of Dre beating up his one-time girlfriend who recently summed up their relationship: ‘I was just a quiet girlfriend who got beat on and told to sit down and shut up.’”

“I come from a writing background. That was my genesis.”
Thief Of Bad Gags Says He Won’t Steal Others’ Work Again

A Hitch In Netflix’s Paid Baby Leave Plan: You Don’t Get It If You Work In Still-Profitable DVD-By-Mail Division

NY Times

“They are more like photographs, which are not ‘about’ but rather ‘of’ their subjects and therefore also eternally themselves.”
A. O. Scott On The Pace Of Frederick Wiseman’s Docs

Yet-To-Be-Unadapted Novelist Jonathan Franzen Says He Considered Adopting Iraqi Orphan “To Figure Out Young People’

Eric Hynes On The Attentive Documentary Pleasures Of The Iron Ministry

Spotify Adds Language Allowing It To Rummage At Will Through Your Data

ny post

At 545pm, TWC Notifies Lou Lumenick Years-Delayed Shanghai Moved From A Few Hours From Now To Ocrober 2
After – Farran Smith Nehme Review Published

hollywoodreporter.com

What was the last thing you apologized for?
It was too many years ago to remember. I have one of the great memories of all time, but it was too long ago.
Janice Min Cover-Stories Donald Trump As “Reality” Candidate

NY Times

“Some of this was skill. Some of it was luck. Some of it is just the randomness of the movie business. I don’t think even the people at Universal can really explain it.”
James T. Stewart Tea-Leaves Universal’s Boffo Year

Ex-TIFFer Shane Smith Takes Reins Of Hot Docs Programming

The Brothers Quay Assemble In The Criterion Stockroom

NY Times

Farhad Manjoo On “Ad Blockers And The Nuisance At The Heart Of The Modern Web”

Two Killer Indie Conversations
“A lot of it comes from spending a lot of time at Film Forum and watching George Cukor and John Ford. We had gone to the Leos Carax retrospective at the French Institute. What was inspiring about his work is that you can see him chasing two ideas within the film.”
Filmmaker John Magary On The Mend

“John Magary’s acerbic sibling dramedy is like Arnaud Desplechin’s Margaret, a ballsy, sprawling, messy, grueling, go-for-broke experience that doesn’t stop to breathe for 111 furious minutes. Music, slo-mos, zooms, elliptical editing… it’s all here, and it’s always alive.”
Filmmaker Michael Tully On The Mend

How To Make Remy The Rat’s Provençal Vegetable Tian From Ratatouille

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“I don’t think it’s cruel to say this, because John himself would undoubtedly have turned it into a gleeful anecdote: When he had the stroke that killed him, he was at a local dinner theater. Hell of a review.”

“I am inclined to aver that every activity needs its critics, from narcissists bloviating in Washington to exhibitors of knee holes in their blue jeans by way of following a fad. So, too, tennis players and others wearing their caps backward. There is, to be sure, only fairly innocuous folly in puncturing pants or reversing caps, but for political or artistic or religious twisting of thought or harboring holes in the head there is rather less excuse. I have always inveighed against the bleary journalism practiced by newspaper reviewers, as opposed to the real criticism performed by, well, critics.”

“I often felt a twinge of grief at the idea that John Simon had devoted his life to a method of work that could only make him increasingly unhappy. Here was a man, elegant, articulate, and vastly knowledgeable, fluent in at least half a dozen languages, whose gifts of mind gave nothing back to the arts he wrote about except a few unkind remarks that made fun of someone’s performance, ethnicity, physical attributes, or, with a pun, on his target’s name. (“If this is Norman Wisdom, I’ll take Saxon folly.”) Other theatre critics keep such darts in their rucksacks for occasional use; John lived by them.”

“One person’s critic is another person’s crackpot. That they are not united in their opinions is ascribable to the Latin saying: quot homines, tot sententiae. I myself prefer being considered a creep, but that is what you get for having what Vladimir Nabokov called ‘Strong Opinions.’ It is odd that in a country so wallowing in negativity, starting with mass shootings and climaxing with Trump, such an unimportant matter as theater criticism should generate so much hostility. The only target patently more important is lead in the drinking water.”

The DVD Wrapup: Cold War, Betty Blue, Official Secrets, Demons, Olivia, American Dreamer, Land of Yik Yak

E. Scott Weinberg On Youthful Fangoria Encounters

Rome Bookstore Closes

With a Grauniad-Alleged $300 Million Budget, Could The Yet-Unseen But Surely Weird Cats Pass A Billion Dollars at The Box Office?

WEEKEND READS ON MEDIAQUAKE

Tribune Trolley Problem

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon