MCN Curated Headlines Archive for December, 2015
“’We got back to the Econo Lodge from a long location scout,’ Maggie Renzi said, ‘and the lady at the desk said, in her deep West Virginia accent: ‘A fella named Hacksaw Wexler called for you. From a phone in his car. He says, ‘Tell them whatever they want the answer is yes.’”
John Anderson‘s Obit For Haskell Wexler
“I remember being fascinated by him. But I was a bit terrified.”
J. Hoberman Recalls Avant-Garde Filmmaker Andrew Noren
“We’re not giving this guy any more free publicity. We have nothing to say about it.”
New York Patrolman’s Benevolent Association Abandons Tarantino Boycott
Star Wars Fan Spends Year Building 7,500-Piece LEGO Millennium Falcon
And – Then There’s The Gingerbread Overlook Hotel
“Sipping a Coke and occasionally stroking his salt-and-pepper goatee, Mr. Iñárritu looked surprisingly relaxed for a man who only recently wrapped a project that seems destined to join Apocalypse Now, Fitzcarraldo and others in an unofficial Hollywood Hall of Fame for Most Difficult Shoots.”
Times Writes Of Alejandro G. Iñárritu As The Times Will
“Daniel Bowmen of Sylmar, who has owned a Disneyland premium pass for 24 years and visits at least twice a week, said he is disappointed that the park is closing so many attractions during construction. But that won’t keep him away.”
After Price Hikes, Disneyland To Close Ten Attractions To Make Room For Star Wars
“Look out, Haskell, it’s real!”
Cinematographer, Activist, Director, Union Man Haskell Wexler Was 93
“I got a print of Mad Max on 35mm and I watched it in my house, and I had it all weekend and I ended up watching it three different times, and I resisted seeing it for a while because I was like, ‘Mad Max without Mel Gibson? Forget that!/ In a world where Mel Gibson exists, how can you cast Tom Hardy? Then I saw the movie and, ‘Okay, it’s terrific,’ and he’s pretty good in it, I have to admit.”
Tarantino’s Favorite 2015 Film: Fury Road
“I was in charge of reading over a thousand plays a year. I can never read a play again.”
David Hare On His Writing Life
“Carol isn’t a comedy, and as I gazed at its resplendent upholstery I often wished it was.”
Viewing Carol As “A Gorgeous Closet Of A Film”
And – “A sharper picture of lesbianism in the mid-century American imaginary than reviewers have been able to see.”
“Rukov was everyone’s Movie Father. A hugely charismatic and inspirational man. His characters had to be complex and contradictory people. That he loved. The complexity of life. Out in the industry some saw him as a drunken fool. But for us students he was essential because he was extreme.”
Essential Danish Screenwriter And Mentor Mogens Rukov, 72, Collaborated On Celebration, The Idiots, Kira’s Reason, It’s All About Love, Reconstruction, Inheritance (Danske)
With – A 2007 Summary Of Rukov’s Ideas About Screenwriting