MCN Curated Headlines Archive for August, 2016
“Most attempts to explain this publication’s editorial direction tell you more about the person doing the explaining than they do about this publication.”
Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan: “What Was Gawker?”
“If you’d saw the finished product and the camera tests at 15 feet, you wouldn’t be able to tell the fucking difference.”
Equals Sequel: Colorful Disputes Over Costume Credit
“As an editor, Robert doesn’t consider notes from others unless he can decipher the hidden codes and unspoken meaning of what they are trying to say. If a scene is described as superfluous and he loves it, the task is about finding the one sour note which, when removed, makes the scene essential.”
Alex Ross Perry On Robert Greene’s Kate Plays Christine
“Women can achieve everything, but it’s appallingly hard work and shouldn’t be as difficult as it is.”
British Doc And Shorts Producer Anne Balfour-Fraser Was 92
“If I’d never seen you I could always dream that I’d be better off alone… Be alright ‘til we get back again… Be alright ‘til we get back again…”
Filmmaker Nadia Litz On The Canadianness of Gord Downie And A Moment When She Was 14
Gord Downie, “Unofficial Poet Laureate Of Canada,” Dying, Plays Final Concert Tonight
And – “Gord Downie Saved My Cat”
Plus – “I am like a lot of people in Canada when I say the first time I heard The Tragically Hip was in a vehicle on a gravel road.”
“You and I are buying a house together, and it is called a fixer-upper, darling. The main question is, what is Shari going to do?”
Second-Largest Voting Shareholder In Viacom And CBS Comments
“Rohmer did not live the way other filmmakers lived. Not just other filmmakers of the French New Wave, of which he was both a kind of father figure and crucial component. I mean pretty much all other filmmakers.”
Glenn Kenny On The Éric Rohmer Bio
“This isn’t curation – this is typing keywords into your iTunes search bar and downloading the top result.”
Jason Bailey On The “Autopilot Music Supervision” Of War Dogs And Suicide Squad
“Since the state has given an order, we will listen.”
China Ratchets Down On Control Over Live-Streaming And “Bullet Screens”
“We’re basically color-blind in terms of how we cast our films, and I think you can see that when you look at the totality of our movies.”
Kubo And The Two Strings Director Rejects Casting Contention