MCN Curated Headlines Archive for January, 2016
“The good news is that these movies somehow managed to get made in a system that so seldom entrusts anyone but white guys to tell its stories—though it should be said that even the white guys run into trouble when they try to color outside the lines.”
Chang–Debruge–Lodge Approve Of Sundance 2016 Diversity
“It’s also about critics: the male gaze on things, the white gaze on things. It’s about, ‘I value that which I understand and which I relate to.’ It’s really systemic. It’s throughout the culture.”
Hw’d, According To Stephanie Allain, Alan Yang And Justin Simien
“I don’t know about you, but when I go to Netflix it’s almost entirely to watch one TV program or another; but when I want to see a movie I, well, go to the movies.”
A Mid-Sundance Argument That Netflix And Amazon Can’t Be Both Television And Cinema
“Shonda Rhimes, speaking last weekend, defined the task simply and beautifully: ‘to write the world as it actually is.’ Because it’s 2016.”
Writers Guild’s Howard Rodman Weighs In On Diversity
“My dream at Sundance to take off from the Olympic ramp on skis remains unfulfilled, but I am even more exhilarated by the fact that my film now is taking flight through Magnolia.”
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Ted Sarandos Goes Long On The State Of Netflix Programming also video autoplay
“It is a stark history lesson to realize that this film, for many years the most popular ever made, expressed widely-held and generally acceptable white views.”
Roger Ebert On D. W. Griffith’s Birth Of A Nation (2003)
“Now the question is not, ‘Is this a good movie?,’ it’s, ‘Is this a good model?'”
Execs, Producers Show Indie Optimism At Sundance
“Movies about the very nature and inseparability of civic and intimate life, of the public and private realms, of fantasy and practicality. Their importance is paramount, especially at a time when the most urgent and crucial political film, Chi-Raq, is also a playfully imaginative work—and has been wrongly derided as such.”
Richard Brody Goes For Florida-Set Meditations Kate Plays Christine And Dark Night