MCN Curated Headlines Archive for October, 2015
Mike Leigh’s Favorite Film Is Not Blow-Up, Which He Deems “A Pile Of Pretentious Crap”
Tangerine‘s Sean Baker On How Frankenstein Changed His Life
“We’re excited to have Ricky Gervais back to host the most enjoyable awards show of the season in his own inimitable way. Disarming and surprising, Ricky is ready to honor—and send up—the best work of the year. Fasten your seats belts.”
Globes (And NBC) Submit To Gervais Again
“I’m a human being with a conscience, And if you believe there’s murder going on then you need to rise up and stand up against it. I’m here to say I’m on the side of the murdered.”
“The police officers that Quentin Tarantino calls ‘murderers’ aren’t living in one of his depraved big-screen fantasies—they’re risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime and mayhem.”
NYC Police Union Calls For Tarantino Boycott
How Much Does Australia Subsidize Overseas Productions? And Is It Worth It?
And – Has Anyone Noticed There’s An Oz Film Renaissance?
“She was in the very best sense of the word the obvious choice. She’s sort of like a lightning bolt, and kind of from another time in a weird way.”
Cara Buckley On Grown-Up Saoirse Ronan
And – J. Hoberman On The Blood Left By Tony Scott And Brian DePalma On The Hunger And Dressed To Kill
“Yes, we need ‘women’s media.’ We need as many ‘women in’ gatherings that we can dream up.”
ELLE’s Got Ava DuVernay’s Women In H’wd Keynote
Robert Levin, Shall We Read The Rest Of Your Review?
“Rock the Kasbah is a debacle, but it’s not your everyday cinematic disaster. No, it’s far more inexplicable and utterly mean-spirited than a run-of-the-mill piece of motion picture garbage.”
Back To The Future Past
Wim Wenders On The Final Cut Of His Mad, Methodical, Melancholy Masterpiece, Until The End Of The World, All 287 Minutes Of It
Fashion Labels Like Tom Ford, Omega, John Varvatos, Crockett & Jones And Burberry That Swaddle Mr. Bond Are Shy Specters
And – Blogging The Suits Of James Bond
“For years, she took singing lessons; she told her instructor that she wasn’t trying to become good at singing—‘‘I just want to be inside a song, to the extent that I can be. To just have my body inside a song.’’ The goal was raptness in a form she loves.”
Thirteen Thousand Interviews Later, Terry Gross On “The Art Of Opening Up”
“OK, so that’s where your mayor and I got off on the wrong foot, right away. What I didn’t like was him trying to paint me as this villain. I’m not the bad guy, but that’s how he was trying to portray it. Do I have the guns? Am I the one pulling the trigger? To be honest, he’s a bully. You know I’m from Brooklyn, so… He’s not gonna bully me. My tactic with the mayor—any bully—is to come out swinging. I said, ‘Mayor, Your Honor, you’re gonna be on the wrong side of history.'”
Spike Lee Comes Out Swinging Against Rahm Emanuel For Chi-Raq