MCN Curated Headlines Archive for February, 2016
“I rule out Leonardo immediately because it’s a ridiculous performance. They are running his campaign based on how hard it was to make the movie, right? I’m tired of hearing about it—that’s what he gets paid for!”
Scott Feinberg‘s Annual CYA For Unnamed Oscar Voters To Hiss And Spit Begins Here
“What It’s Really Like to Work in Hollywood*
(*If you’re not a straight white man.)”
“The movie has been nominated for six Oscars, including best picture. And, journalistic objectivity be damned, I’m hoping it wins the entire lot. I feel indebted to everyone who made a film that captures, with uncanny authenticity, how journalism is practiced and, with understated force, why it’s needed.”
Marty Baron On Watching Himself In Spotlight
Dalian Wanda Group Billionaire Chairman Says China Conglom Will Announce Another “Major Deal” Friday
And Oscar Voting Has Closed.
“Underlying the heightened nature of the films was a deep, questioning soulfulness related to literary antecedents coupled with a vision of cinema open to shifting levels of perception and fantasy.”
David Thompson On The Late Andrzej Zulawski
“A withering, perfect punchline involving two celebrities, too lewd to get by Oscar censors.”
Chris Rock Oscar-Monologuing At Comedy Clubs
“We love the films we love for themselves, not because they’ve received some award.”
Glenn Kenny Offers His Reasons Not To Watch The Oscars This Year
“Costner loves close-ups of his own face the way Ben Affleck loves shots of himself shirtless and working out before cutting to a shot of a helicopter flying over downtown Boston.”
Will Leitch Looks Askance At Best Picture Dances With Wolves Twenty-Five Years Later
“This is an asset that has significant value, and strategic value, to a number of potential investors.”
Feeling Stockholder Pressure, Viacom Floats Idea Of Selling Paramount Minority Stake
“Some Oscar winners, like Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx and Steve McQueen, refused to be included for this story. When McQueen talked to Variety by phone for an interview not realizing the questions would be about race, he quickly retreated. ‘No, no,’ he said, before hanging up.”
Variety Convenes An Oral History Of Oscar And Race
“I have this obsession with deconstructing mendacious facades, an obsession with saying, ‘Hey, this is a lie that’s been told to justify…'”
Errol Morris And Josh Oppenheimer Find Common Ground