MCN Curated Headlines Archive for October, 2015
“Ultimately, it is terribly difficult to sustain an ironic erection. To do so involves a kind of anxiety that the men and boys of the 21st century know very well.”
Laurie Penny On James Bond As Tragic Hero
“Mr. Tarantino has made a good living through his films, projecting into society at large violence and respect for criminals; he it turns out also hates cops.”
Philadelphia And LAPD Unions Join NYPD In Condemning QT’s Free Speech
“In industries riddled with bias, you tend to hire women only if their previous work is very masculine, which is hilarious given that this is not how male directors are chosen. I am pretty sure when Kenneth Branagh came up for Thor, nobody at Marvel thought: ‘Yes, that Kenneth Branagh is masculine enough to do action, just look at Henry V and The Magic Flute.’”
“Lexi Alexander On Why More Women Aren’t Directing Superhero Franchises”
“Depraved indifference to any feedback from the women who have been targeted by online harassment”
A Further Take On The Cancellation Of SXSW Interactive Panels On Gamergate After Threats Of Mortal Violence
A. O. Scott On “Star Wars, Elvis And Me”
“I’ve never known audience participation like it, absolutely rocking. I was so inspired I wanted to shoot myself. My biggest compliment can be [to get] green with envy and really bad-tempered. That damn George, sonofabitch. I’m very competitive.
Star Wars Memories From Ridley Scott, Trey Parker, A Texas Senator And Others
“Beneath a calm exterior is the subconscious, right? Everybody has their little—the denizens of the deep and all that.”
Dennis Lim (In The New Yorker) On “David Lynch’s Elusive Language”
“Film criticism is dying as a paid profession, but people remain interested in consuming, discussing, and evaluating movies. Until new paradigms for journalism delivery and profitability evolve and take hold, it will remain a very insecure time for film critics.”
A Jejune, Even Cavalier Attempt At Grasping The Film Critic Trade With Not Quite Enough Evidence
Leader Of Poland’s Newly-Elected Law And Justice Party Says Send Polanski Back To Los Angeles Courts
“One thing I learned from the last one is that you’re in no fit state to make any decision about your career–or any form of creative involvement in Bond–until at least six months after you’ve finished.”
Sam Mendes On Returning For Bond
After Harassment, SXSW Cancels Two Gamer Panels About Harassment
So – BuzzFeed Says It Withdraw From Interactive Conference If SXSW Bows To “Threats Of On-Site Violence”
“He was extremely moral about his work. He didn’t see it in any frivolous way. One of the most shocking things to him was the idea of leaving a screening before the credits had rolled. It was one of the worst signs of decadence.”
Philip French, The Observer’s Film Critic For 35 Years And Who Wrote For The Paper For 52 Years, Was 82
And – “Philip was enormously good company: he would regale us with anecdotes and quotations, all delivered of course with that distinctive, in fact legendary stammer–not actually as pronounced as all that, but noticeable, and which endowed his speaking voice with an elegant syncopation.”
“Isn’t the point of awards to bring attention to movies that otherwise wouldn’t get it? Rather than paving the way to the Oscars, which a near-infinite number of precursor awards do already, shouldn’t the Gothams—and the Spirits, and the awards given out by critics groups—zig where the others zag?”
Sam Adams Is Good With The Gothams
How Ira Glass Ruined The Airwaves With Measured Plumminess corrected link