MCN Curated Headlines Archive for May, 2016
“We can quickly back a filmmaker to keep them filming and then help them shape it into something we can make available worldwide in just a matter of months.”
How Field Of Vision Makes Such Rapid Turnaround On Its Excellent Short-Form Documentaries
“He’s definitely a cad, but without being a bounder. Donald Trump is definitely a cad, a knave and a fool, but I would say that his brothers and sisters are less low-class than he is, so he’s not really bounding. He wants to wallow in top models and things like that.”
Whit Stillman Defines Donald Trump
“Basically, there was an engine under the hood. When people work on material that doesn’t have an engine, it doesn’t have that tension to takes it to interesting places. And that’s what’s so frustrating about the film business: so many times you hear people saying that everyone’s done such good work, but in fact, it’s still dead.”
Whit Stillman Makes More Metaphor For Love & Friendship
“The cathartic high point is when the mousy doormat played by David Spade punches the Paula Patton character in the stomach, over and over, as he rages: ‘I’m so TIRED of women LYING to me and ——- me over!'”
Michael Phillips Gets Done By Adam Sandler’s “Do-Over”
“We are a nation of immigrants—at least for now. I don’t have to tell a crowd of Red Sox fans that we are wired for tribalism.”
Spielberg Addresses Harvard Grads
“On television and on the political stage, Trump is giving a nonfiction performance for the ages. He’s exploited a system that fetishises political show over substance and has thoroughly taken advantage of our deeply ingrained culture of media inanity.”
Robert Greene Offers Trump-Media Reality Check
“If somebody came forward with a suit against one of these people, I would certainly be more than happy to back them up. But that hasn’t happened.”
Corey Feldman Would Like To Name Names
“We can hold the discussion in person with a moderator of your choosing, in front of an audience, under the auspices of the Committee to Protect Journalists, or in a written discussion on some neutral platform such as Medium. Just tell me where and when.”
Gawker’s Nick Denton Open-Letters Peter Thiel, The Billionaire Who’s Spent $10 Million Funding The Lawsuits Of Others
“We created 11,000 new jobs at Disneyland in the past decade, and our company has created 18,000 in the U.S. in the last five years. How many jobs have you created? What have you contributed to the U.S. economy?”
Disney’s Bob Iger Picks Bone With Bernie Sanders
“Mell Lazarus is the second-funniest writer in America and has written the second-funniest novel.”
Cartoonist-Novelist Mell Lazarus, Of Miss Peach And Momma, Was 89; Known For Kindness And Inspiring His Friend Joseph Heller
“Gawker has been a singularly terrible bully. If I didn’t think Gawker was unique, I wouldn’t have done any of this. If the entire media was more or less like this, this would be like trying to boil the ocean.”
Paypal-Co-Founding Billionaire On Why He’s Financed Multiple Lawsuits Against Gawker