MCN Curated Headlines Archive for September, 2015
“Every so often while watching the work of Nathaniel Dorsky, I let out a yelp of joy. Mr. Dorsky makes blissfully beautiful films that don’t tell stories but instead explore the world, the medium and our relationship with each.”
Manohla Dargis On Her Experimental Gods
“I hope when he sees the movie, he enjoys it as much as I enjoy his products.”
Sorkin Apologizes To Cook For Jobs Jab On China Child Labor
‘The metaphor is so good it almost seems not true. Bob is Philippe.’”
Tom Rothman On The Walk
“I made the mistake of showing it to David Stratton. It was a bad thing for our plans to lengthen the movie because he thought it was great at that length and agreed to launch it at the Sydney film festival as a feature film.”
Luke Buckmaster Travels Philip Noyce’s Little-Seen Backroads
“They are trying to eviscerate the BBC and it is not their BBC, it belongs to the British public.”
“Cultural Vandalism” Cited By “Wolf Hall” Director Peter Kosminsky On Concerted Attacks Against BBC
“If you give the jurisdiction to the politicians on how much money we are going to get every year, in the end the BBC money is cut off.”
Sir David Attenborough Slams Planned BBC Cuts
“These posters were very much about promising the impossible, seeing something you would never otherwise have seen. It’s all about promising to show sex and violence in one way or another. There was a carny sensibility to the promises they made.”
Nicolas Winding Refn Tells Mekado Murphy About A Few Of His Exploitation Posters
“I like everyone involved in this film, and for the most part, do not hold this giant sadness pile against them.”
“Reasons I Hated Prometheus: Doubling Down; Or, I Have More To Say About Prometheus”
Because – Country-By-Country Licensing Provides Much Finance; TV And Film Could Be Excluded From Plan
“We have to call ourselves storytellers, content-makers. If you want to go into the business today, you have to be prepared to make your stories work on all different kinds of platforms.”
Christine Vachon On A New Killer Century
“If you’ve got a factory full of children in China assembling phones for 17 cents an hour you’ve got a lot of nerve calling someone else opportunistic.”
Aaron Sorkin Addresses Tim Cook’s Commentary On Steve Jobs
Filmmaker Chris Doyle On HK Today 4’32” vid
“I was lying down at the time with at least two juveniles on my back and nursing bruises from a male who whacked me all over in the belief that I was a challenge to his females. So please don’t tell me these photos are not my property.”
Photographer Contests Activists Who Say Copyright On Monkey Selfie Belongs To Sulawesi Macaque
“By his own admission, Mr. Cosby’s sexual exploitation of women was premeditated and ongoing.”
Dr. Cosby Stripped By Fordham, Marquette