“There are cruel, realistic images in Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq—images that should haunt Chicagoans who might not know, or care, of the city’s gang wars and bloodshed. But there’s also an interwoven blend of satire—the mayor of Chicago, wears a pharaoh costume to try to lure his biracial former model wife to bed during a sex strike.”

“In these moments after terrorist attacks, you suddenly become sensitized to the bizarrely intimate relationship dramatic storytelling enjoys with shock and violence. When the world suddenly seems unsafe, you feel every sound cue, every screech and jolt.”
Chris Jones On How Art Works In A Time Of Uncertainty

“While it’s petty to pick at a film that posted the fifth best opening of 2015, and one of 34 titles that opened to $100 million-plus…”
Deadline Indicates It Knows Exactly What It’s Doing Wrong

“Boxing and cinema are so perfectly mated that if the sport didn’t exist Hollywood may well have invented it. Its tropes—man’s internal struggle with his demons, his past, and his station, all externalized in a desperate fight against an opponent who could be a drinking buddy but who stands, right now, in the way of dreams, success, and validation—dates back to Homer, and they’re ready-made for the movies.”

“If Donald Trump becomes president, that will be the end of the world.”
Star Of Post-Apocalyptic Serial Jennifer Lawrence Tells EW

“Terrific, a wonderful picture…”
“We have eight tent poles for fiscal year 2016… nobody has that.”
Matthew Garrahan Profiles Disney’s Alan Horn On The Eve Of Awakens

“We understand that not everyone will embrace the way they are portrayed in the film, but we feel confident, based on our extensive research, that the movie captures with a high degree of authenticity the nature of events, personalities, and pressures of the time.”
Tom McCarthy Responds To Complaint That Spotlight Is Not A Documentary

Métis-Canadian Filmmaker Gil Cardinal Was 65
And – Watch His Award-Winning Foster Child 43’05”

Winslet On Boyle’s Theatrical Tactic Of Dividing Each Act Of Steve Jobs Into Ten Days Of Rehearsal, Then A Chronological Shoot

“The fun part is we get to come out from behind the camera, and somehow we are in the spotlight,” Ed Lachman said. “We feel like we’re the rock stars.”
Camerimage, The Bydgoszcz Film Festival For Cinematographers

The Assassin Takes Five Taiwan Golden Horse Awards: Film, Director, Cinematography, Makeup & Costume, Sound Effects

Billy Ray Says His Remake Of Secret In Their Eyes Is “More Muscular”

Trudeau To Double Investment In Canada Council For The Arts. Increase Funding For Telefilm Canada And National Film Board

“We discovered that public posters with the image of a female are often torn down in Jerusalem, while Bnei Brak does not allow posters with female images,” a representative of Mockingjay‘s Israeli PR firm said.”
Image Of Jennifer Lawrence Foregone In Parts Of Israel

Mankiewicz Family To Auction Ben Hecht-Gifted “Rosebud” Replica Sled 

The Dish Rewatched

“It was so amazing, because the film is really about dying from sex and then everyone started dropping. It was really, really eerie. That happens sometimes in creative life. You do something and it’s an accident that it actually comes true. It’s mystical.”
Not Yet Lost, Liquid Sky Negative Liquifying

“I find that documentaries are hard to watch because you know that it’s real; those films are harder to watch than any narrative movie.”
Gaspar Noé In The Criterion Kitchen

“An actor whose droll delivery pairs well with Vonnegut’s irascible charm.”
Michael Ian Smith Reviews John Malkovich Audiobook Of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Breakfast Of Champions”
With – A Sample Of The Recitation 4’02” audio

Mexico’s Horror Actor, TV Pioneer And Voice Dubber Germán Robles Was 86 español

“Changing Times For Bollywood’s Women”

“Mr. Gibbons’s persona, if not his actual personality, is at once guileless and entirely untrustworthy, as if the distinction between lying and telling the truth had never occurred to him.”
Boston Magazine Goes Long On “Joe Gibbons, The Bank-Robbing Filmmaker”

Gregg Turkington On The Success Of Failure In Entertainment (While Shedding The Neil Hamburger Interview Persona)

Richard Brody Sez “So-Called Bad Movies” Showing In NYC As “Turkeys” “Prove The Urgency Of Film Criticism”

Talking Carol
“There’s something unsettling about it; it was reminiscent of feelings I’ve had in relationships. You feel like you’ve been chosen, like you have a special knowledge of this person—everything feels laden with meaning and implication, just for you. And then, of course, there are the moments when they hold you at bay, and you feel completely shut out, and that’s devastating.”
And – Cinematographer Ed Lachman Takes Golden Frog At Camerimage
“The rules were a little up in the air in the McCarthy Era, and that created an interesting territory for this kind of love to sprout.”
Plus – Kim Morgan Cover-Stories Todd Haynes For Filmmaker

“Don’t blame the Hollywood Reporter for that all-white cover. Blame Hollywood.”

Author Michael Lewis Expresses Surprise H’wd Was Able To Make A Movie From His Big Short

LAX Sets Private Terminal For Celebs And The Wealthy
With – LAT’s Paywalled First Report

“Why Seth Rogen Is The Greatest Comedian Of His Generation”

“I worked in a video store for 25 years. Here’s what I learned as my industry died.”

Ed Catmull Tells The Pixar Tale

“We made a film this fall, one of the films I’m most proud of in my career, a film that Robert Zemeckis made called The Walk. Got incredible reviews, it was incredibly experiential, it opened the New York Film Festival. And nobody alive gave a fuck.”
So Sez Sony’s Tom Rothman

“Contrary to your declaration of denying Syrian refugees a home in our state of Michigan, I myself am going to defy your ban and will offer my home in Traverse City, Michigan, to those very Syrian refugees you’ve decided to keep out.”
Michael Moore Writes To Michigan Governor

“There was a Matrix bullet time type-of-thing. There was a woman there and I’m thinking, ‘She looks like, that’s definitely JK Rowling.’ Then she came by after the show, just to say hello to Jon. I was still trying to work out what had just happened and she said, ‘Nice to meet you’ — and, ‘You look like Harry.’”
The FT Lunches With John Oliver

“Cumberbatch’s character is clearly portrayed as an over-the-top, cartoonish mockery of androgyne-trans-non-binary individuals. This is the modern equivalent of using blackface to represent a minority.”
A Petition Is Issued Against Zoolander 2

Star Wars Passes $50 Million In Advance Ticket Sales

French State Of Emergency Includes Internet Blocking, Seizure Of Electronic Devices Without Warrant Or Judicial Review

“Leslye Headland wants to be a Martin Scorsese, and ‘’not just the female Martin Scorsese.’ She wants to make films in which women behave badly and are not held to a higher moral standard or seen as ‘less than.’ She wants to look cool in magazine pictures so that ‘little girls will put female filmmakers on their Pinterest boards.’ She has several movie tattoos: ‘redrum’ from The Shining on her lower back; a line from War Games—’The only winning move is to not play’—on her left forearm; ‘How would Lubitsch do it?’ in script on her right.”
“Just Get Us In The Room”: Maureen Dowd Surveys “The Women Of Hw’d”

The Perils Of Being Al Pacino And Bruce Willis On B’wy

Wanda Studios Qingdao Rebuilding “American Dream Factory” From Scratch For 2017 Opening

Networks And Netflix Negotiate Branding For When Episodes Stream

“It’s so clean, her performance. And then that explosion of emotion, it knocks you back in your seat. It breaks your heart. It makes you weep. Breathtaking. To watch that breakdown—the snot and the tears and the… Jesus, I love her to death.”
Thelma Adams Visits With Hunger Games‘ Donald Sutherland