MCN Curated Headlines Archive for January, 2016
“In an unprecedented sprint from headline to gallery wall, news of the covert intelligence program to which the works pertain will have scarcely broken— last night— before the large-scale prints go on view to the public on February 5.”
“Why The Whitney Is ‘Nervous’ About Upcoming Laura Poitras Show”
“Akerman conjured up a world and a rhythm of life that had never appeared on the screen before, and did so with an extraordinary and radical beauty, political intelligence and mastery of both storytelling and filmmaking.”
Film Theorist Laura Mulvey Lists Her Criterion Top 10
Plus – 81 Minutes Of Mulvey, Who Popularized Notion Of “The Male Gaze” In Movies, With Catherine Grant In Conversation video
“I remember Kevin Smith was also at Sundance ’94 with Clerks. He’s in this book talking about my film and how it’s an example of a film that should have never been made. They say that it looks like it was shot on postage stamps.”
Kelly Reichardt Tells Logan Hill She Had To Go It Alone To Make Her Own Movies
“As a general rule of thumb, the longer Rivette’s features run, the better they turn out to be.”
Jonathan Rosenbaum On Rivette’s OUT 1 And OUT 1: Spectre
“With All The Billionaire Art Patrons That Reside In NYC Why Wasn’t A Plan Put In A Place To Save This Major Cultural Institution. Would This Have Ever Happened To Lincoln Center Or Carnegie Hall? Is Film A Bald Headed, Buck Toothed Step Child In The Hierarchy Of The Arts? The Sad Thing There Is Nothing To Replace The Ziegfeld Theatre.”
Filmmakers React To Shuttering Of NYC’s Ziegfeld
“I vividly remember the shock of seeing his first two films, Paris Belongs to Us and The Nun. Two very different experiences, both uniquely troubling and powerful, quite unlike anything else around. Rivette was a fascinating artist, and it’s strange to think that he’s gone. Because if you came of age when I did, the New Wave still seems new. I suppose it always will.”
Martin Scorsese On The Late Jacques Rivette
Patricia Resnick, Gay Female Screenwriter Of 9 To 5, Weighs In On Oscar Diversity Moves
“It’s ageism, pure and simple.”
Wishing It To The Cornfield: Long-Grown Child Actor Billy Mumy Objects To Oscar Membership Changes
“A moviegoer who just left a screening might receive marketing relating to the movie they’ve seen, such as a coupon for a Star Wars mask. Or they might get a coupon for an ad they saw earlier in the theater. They might be pinged with a coupon for a discount on a large popcorn as they walk by the concession stand.”
Screenvision Offers Movie Theaters “Beacons” To Track Your Activities
“I don’t know if I want to say anything about a director because I don’t want to be marked as the girl who causes trouble. It’s a very competitive environment and you don’t want to lose opportunities.”
Charges Of Extensive Sexual Harassment In Chicago Improv Community
“For those in the Board of Governors who may not know who Gene Kelly was, he was a pathfinder in the American film musical. ‘I am not exactly hirable as a dancer or a director these days. My legs are shot,’ he said, with his legendary twinkle in his eye, ‘but I am still a voting member of the Academy.'”
Former Exec David Kirkpatrick Joins The THR Oscar Voter Chorus
“They were the ones who embraced their culture, who learned their language, who had children and married.”
Québec Actor Takes On The Revenant For Portrayal Of French-Canadian Fur Traders
“On Sunday afternoon, at a reception hosted by the Academy at the Festival, filmmakers and insiders chatted with each other and questioned AMPAS reps about the new initiative.”
Eugene Hernandez On The Sundance Birth Of A Nation Moment
“Having a social media presence: The critics who survived are the ones that created online numbers. [An editor at EW told me that] they moved out senior critics like Ken Tucker and Lisa Schwarzbaum not because of their expense, but because they didn’t have a social media presence.”
Ira Deutchman, Anne Thompson And Sam Adams Talk Representation And Film Critics At Arthouse Convergence
“Few of the roughly 300 features eligible for best picture last year told stories from the points of view of women or minorities. Besides, we’ve been fed narratives from an overwhelmingly white male perspective since Hollywood began. Isn’t it high time for some alternate narratives, at the very least? Isn’t the purpose of art to jostle, broaden and challenge our worldview?”
Cara Buckley Editorializes What Matters Is Representation Behind The Scenes, Not “The End Of The Sausage-Making Machine,” i.e., Oscar
“Being a voting member of the Academy is an important way for me to affirm my life experience.”
Mentor-Director-Oscar Voter Sam Weisman Joins THR Open-Letter Section
“Saul smiles, beatifically, out of the simple pleasure of seeing a living child.”
Jonathan Rosenbaum Four-Stars Son Of Saul
“I think when everybody’s story is told, then that makes for better art. That makes for better entertainment. It makes everybody feel part of one American family.”
President Obama Weighs In On Oscar autoplay
“Just think of the great films that not only display the diversity of America, but the diversity of the human experience.”
Says Candidate Clinton
