MCN Curated Headlines Archive for September, 2015

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“Don’t give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain or being ignored.”
Meryl Streep Takes Some Softballs

John Berger Lights Up Caravaggio

Academy Reveals Nicholl Scholarships

Art Of The Title Credits Raging Bull

The Battle For Manos: The Hands Of Fate, “World’s Worst Movie,” Continues

Lena Dunham Talks Wall Street With Hilary Clinton

Four Tantalizing Glimpses Of The 80 Unseen Hours Of Vivian Kubrick’s Behind-The-Scenes Shining Footage

Producer Mike Ryan Sez Distribs Ought To End The 20-Year License Term

NY Times

“He lives in a legal limbo and would face six years in prison if authorities decided to charge him with violating the ban.”
Jafar Panahi’s Made A Third Fine Film Since Iran Regime Barred Him

NY Times

“There is a disappearing common experience among coworkers, and evidence shows that interpersonal connections foster the trust and rapport necessary for successful collaborations.”
Times Assembles Panel To Juggle Proposition, There Is Too Much Teevee

“Jack was referring to newspapers broadly in all of their manifestations.”
Trib Publishing Clarifies CEO Comments

LA Times

So What’s Up With That $871-Per-Theater Stonewall Gross?

Meet The 2015 MacArthur Fellows, Including Ta-nahesi Coates, Novelist Ben Lerner, “Hamilton”‘s Lin-Manuel Miranda, Puppeteer Basil Twist

Did Matt Damon Actually Advocate A Return To The Closet?

Largely Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Could Lead To End To Canadian Broadcasting Corp

A Bouquet Of Current Jonnie Rosenbaum
“Remembrance of Things Passed: Some Reflections about Moral Agency and Global Synchronicity”
And – The Latest “Global Discoveries On DVD” Column
Plus – The Movie Paintings Of Manny Farber
And – Reflections On Godard And Welles From Zagreb, Via Cinematographer Fabrice Arangno And Muse Oja Kodar

“Effie Brown, Peter Farrelly And How We Talk About Women In Power”

variety

Catherine Coulson, 71, “Twin Peaks”‘ Log Lady, Theater Actor, Camera Assistant, Jack Nance’s Wife During The Long Eraserhead Years
And – A Fetching, Lengthy Interview With Coulson 

“I use mobile devices all the time. But I use them to find stuff that I’m looking for, and I read the paper to find out things I don’t know. I don’t think they’re going to completely unplug and just go to Google News when they want to find out the answer to a question, and then know nothing else other than what they see on Facebook.”
Tribune Publishing CEO Again Says Things That Prompt Concern

Jose de Teodoro On The Real-Life Terrors Of Denis Villeneuve
And – Flashing Back To Brian DePalma’s Guilty Pleasures From 1987

Brian Eno Calls For Brit Cultural Rethink

At 93, Reader’s Digest Association Drops Reader’s Digest From Its Name In Favor Of “Trusted Media Brands”

“What if PETA have the wrong monkey? How can Naruta testify under oath that he is or isn’t the monkey that took the picture?”

Sicario As “The Apocalypse Now Of The Drug War”

World’s Richest Doctor May Hope To Cure San Diego Daily

daily beast

Lost Japanese 1970s Erotic Anime, Belladonna Of Sadness, Has Psychedelic Rebirth

Economist Obit For Jackie Collins Is Jackie Collins-Worthy

The Selby Pictures Banksy’s Dismaland

LA Times

Chris Sarandon Looks Back To Dog Day Afternoon

NY Times

Thanks, We’ll Just Stop At The Byline “By Bono And Mark Zuckerberg”

Peter Greenaway On The Quay Bros.’ Street Of Crocodiles

NY Times

Texas Billionaire Richard E. Rainwater, 71, Elevated Eisner To Disney, Provided Investment Opportunities To George W. Bush

NY Times

“The mantra in the building is web, web, web. But they haven’t figured out how to monetize the web yet. And so it just gets trashier and trashier in an effort to juice the numbers.”
Transforming The NY Daily News From Tabloid To Digital Product

NASA And The Martian Share Wet Dream: There’s Water On Mars

Kim Dotcom Megaupload Trial Begins In NZ

variety

At Disneyland, Star Wars Attraction Will Supplant “Big Thunder Ranch” And Shutter Other Rides For A Year

A Look At The Martian‘s Super-Specific Science

indie wire

“Zemeckis’ version shows less interest in  Petit’s ethically dubious behavior and instead reduces his story to a simplistic, Disneyfied notion of chasing one’s dreams. Still, no working filmmaker enlivens that concept better than Zemeckis.”
Eric Kohn On Fears For Moviegoing’s Future Seen Through The NYFF Premiere Of The Walk

France Ready To Hit Google With Big Fines If It Doesn’t Remove Challenged Search Results Globally

“Whether the legacy will be an artistic one I am not sure, but from a tourism perspective I know people who had never been will return to the town because of their visit to Dismaland.”
Banksy’s Dismaland In Weston-Super-Mare Soon To Shutter

variety

Feel The Bern: CNN To Livestream Dem Debate In VR

North America Just Ran Out Of Old-School Internet Addresses

What’s Roland Emmerich Saying About Stonewall Now?

“Gordon-Levitt is the perfect fit for Zemeckis’ vision. As Petit, he does nothing but grandstand for the entire picture and speak with a committed yet deeply-dubious French accent. His Petit is a showman and nothing else; less an Oscar actor contender than an audition to be the host. Based on his work in The Walk, he ought to get the job.”

daily beast

“Elon Musk saw it, and he liked it a lot,” recalled Mr. Scott. “He told me, ‘Now I’m really determined to go to Mars.’”

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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