MCN Curated Headlines Archive for August, 2016
“Monetizing the significant assets of Tribune Media’s real estate portfolio is a strategic priority for the company and we are extremely pleased with the outcome of this sales process.”
Chicago Tribune Tower Sold Off To Redeveloper
And The Awards Campaign Season Commences
“I’m honestly crying with happiness. That film no-one makes any more? Damien Chazelle just made it.”
And – “La La Land is a film you simply never want to stop watching. It has wisdom and joy and sadness and such magic, from the evocative power of music to the transportive power of movies.”
And – “Stone fits the part beautifully: something in the hesitancy and even frailty of her singing voice is just right. Both actors are also very accomplished dancers within a shrewdly limited range.”
“When, a quarter century from now, a pop-music visionary refers to Men Go to Battle or For the Plasma or Krisha or Viktoria or Kate Plays Christine or another under-the-radar low-budget film of imagination and ingenuity, woe unto the critics who were here at the time and didn’t pay attention.”
Richard Brody On “Why Movies Still Matter”

“It is fun to speculate how the famously comic Wilder might have interpreted the dramatic role of Rene Gallimard. But when I think of Gene, I am lucky to remember him as more than the brilliant performer who brought the world so much joy. I can think of him, not only as a major actor, not only a comic genius, but also, as a great lover.”
David Henry Hwang On Gene Wilder
“I came away believing that no other city in the United States would be a better setting, intellectually and artistically, for the Lucas Museum.”
After Rejection By Chicago, George Lucas Opens Part Of Art Collection To San Francisco Chronicle

“I say this in full awareness that the only thing more tedious and predictable than sequels, remakes and reboots is a critic who complains about sequels, remakes and reboots.”
Justin Chang Chews Over Summer 2016 At The Movies
Two Votes For Late Woody
Screenwriter Matthew Wilder On “Darkness, Lightness and Other Anxieties of Influence”
And – Chadd Harbold Says “The Woody Allen Fan Club Is A Lonely Place To Be”
“What is there to say, really, when someone so uniquely good takes his final bow? ‘Thanks for the laughs’ doesn’t begin to cover it. Still: Thanks for the laughs.”
Michael Phillips On Gene Wilder