MCN Curated Headlines Archive for July, 2016
“With great power there must also always be great responsibility.”
Marvel CEO’s Family Donates At Least $400,000 To Trump Campaign
Scorsese Remembers Kiarostami (11’52”)
“I don’t have much regard for how it’s going to filter out into the world because of how little control I have. Every conversation I have is completely personal, and if a question is asked by someone who cares, I will fucking go there with you. But if I have someone sitting in front of me who’s prodding into details that will make their websites really popular that night, I just don’t engage. And then they’ll criticize that and be like, ‘Oh, you’re so guarded. That must be sad, to live like that.’ And I’m like, ‘No, it’s just with you, actually. I have really good conversations with your coworkers. You’re bad at your job.'”
Kristen Stewart On The Additional Job That Is Publicity
Did you have problems with producers?
Not really. Remember that I had lived under a Stalinist regime, so I knew how to deal with little Stalins in America.
Ronald Bergan Catches Up With 83-Year-Old Ivan Passer At Karlovy Vary’s Grandhotel Pupp
Criterion For October Includes Boyhood, Del Toro Trilogia Box Set And Olmi’s Great Tree Of Wooden Clogs
“This Hollywood Vampires cash-in concert tour stopping over in a casino ballroom owned by the Chippewas of Rama Mnjikaning First Nation in rural Ontario is as rock ’n’ roll as a pair of Rolling Stones boxer shorts.”
John Semley Goes Gonzo On Johnny Depp
“Did somebody think here that, in order to take on the boys, women have to toughen up and tamp down any traits stereotypically thought of as feminine? If so, is that really a step forward for anybody?”
Joanna Langfield Has A Movie “Meh” Over Ghostbusters 2016
“Harold Ramis was a kind, generous, and gracious person. Professionally, he was always about sharing the spotlight and making the other guy look good. Please, stop using my dad as an excuse to hate the new Ghostbusters. It degrades his memory to spew bile in his name.”
Violet Ramis Stiel On Her History With All Ghostbusters
“Ghostbusters refutes sexist sentiment not by hopping on a feminist soapbox to fulminate against the haters, but by strapping on a proton pack and taking care of business.”
Dana Stevens: Team Ghostbusters
“Word to the studios: We lack penises, not brains! Taking a creaky but beloved Bill Murray franchise and recasting it with chicks isn’t progress. And shaming men as fanboys or misogynists for not embracing this dreck doesn’t help.”
Thelma Adams Not Team Ghostbusters
“There are now big conversations at Oberlin about cultural appropriation and whether the dining hall sushi and banh mi disrespect certain cuisines.
The press reported it as, ‘How crazy are Oberlin kids?’ But to me, it was actually, ‘Right on.'”
Lena Dunham Talks To Food & Wine
“Cimino’s life work is a cinema of mourning, an art of grief, a nightmare of memory that finds its sole redemption in ecstasy—the heightened perception that transforms experience into a grand internal spectacle, which finds its embodiment in Cimino’s own profound visual imagination.”
Richard Brody Recollects Michael Cimino
“It would be intellectually careless to equate the actions of the Dallas shooter with the retaliation of slaves against their oppressors. They’re not at all one and the same. But there is shared DNA between the emotions that sparked the two events.”
Kris Tapley On The Moment And Birth Of A Nation