MCN Curated Headlines Archive for November, 2016
“I just don’t know what the future of movies is going to be. It’s starting to look more and more like, ‘We’re done making movies now,’ if people don’t go. It’s a business. All that filmmakers can do is try to do the best work that they can, but if we’re in a situation where the audience is ambivalent and doesn’t care, you can’t force people to go to a movie. Nothing lasts forever.”
Robert Zemeckis On Movies
“Chazelle has a shot at something that has eluded auteurist titans like Bogdanovich and Coppola: to make musicals matter again. Musicals have been for kids, for knowing winks and nostalgia. Contemporary American movies could use more s’wonderful, more music and dance, and way, way more surrealism. One of the transformative pleasures of musicals is that even at their most choreographed, they break from conformity, the dos and don’ts of a regimented life, suggesting the possibility that everyone can move to her own beat.”
Manohla Dargis On La La Land
“We want to make sure that when we bring a female director, they’re set up for success. They’re gigantic films, and you can’t come into them with essentially no experience.”
Kathleen Kennedy On Future Star Wars Pictures
“It’s the piece of music that makes her fall in love with him. It’s supposed to be about yearning and searching for something. It’s about somebody who doesn’t have what they want and doesn’t know what they want.”
Chazelle And Hurwitz On Tuning Up La La Land
“Who you should be asking is the producer roundtable: ‘Do you think minorities are underrepresented? Do you think women are underpaid?’ I don’t want to be a headline anymore about pay equality.”
Amy Adams Questions News Judgment
“It’s such an exciting time to be an American because we are at this amazing inflection point. People are clearly tired of the status quo, and it’s sort of like someone threw it all in the air and we’re going to see how it all lands.”
Gwyneth Paltrow Looking Forward To What Trump Presidency Will Bring Her
“The spirit of punk is not dead, it’s even more valuable now than ever.”
So Sayeth Jim Jarmusch
“When Sandow the Magnificent went backstage after a show in Washington, DC, the assembled group of senator’s wives and daughters began to tremble.”
Anne Helen Petersen On A Century Of Shirtless Men
“It’s mad that we regulate such material that aren’t even criminal acts. If we are regulating things like menstrual blood or urination, that’s detracting from a focus on what I think is really the harmful material, and that would be material around child sexual abuse, but also around sexual violence.”
United Kingdom Sliding Law Through Parliament To Prevent Depiction Of “Unconventional” Sex
“Next to us, a worn brown film box with black canvas straps leaned against a wall.
I asked, “Is that the print?”
He nodded and said, “Yes, and what you will see now, few others have seen in 50 years.”
“How We Rediscovered Paul Newman’s Lost Masterpiece”
“It would offer the software to enable a third party — in this case, most likely a partner Chinese company — to monitor popular stories and topics that bubble up as users share them across the social network.”
Facebook Won’t Prevent Fake News In The U. S, But Is Eager To Provide News Censorship To China
“So I waited a long time. And I had some very, very nice… well, nice is too mild a word—very meaningful relationships with wonderful women who, interestingly, were also not very interested in marriage. I think they had a sense of how the society was changing.”
Jen Yamato Listens In On Warren Beatty
“‘I’m sure they’re very nervous to be releasing a movie with an explicit political theme when the whole political landscape has suddenly changed,’ said the film historian Peter Biskind, the author of ‘Easy Riders, Raging Bulls,’ who has not seen the movie.”
Miss Sloane, Post-Trump
“As for showbiz itself, what was exposed on Friday night at ‘Hamilton’ was the dawning of the age of anxiety. Hollywood doesn’t know what to do right now; neither does Broadway. What should oppositional entertainment be in the age of Trump? Is the job to buck up the left, to reach out to the right, to depict an America that’s routinely ignored by Trump, to depict an America that’s routinely ignored by the makers of entertainment, or all of the above? Anger, fear, and sadness can, no doubt, inspire a lot of great creative work. But planning popular art as a sweaty reaction to electoral defeat is a surefire way to create something bad.”
Mark Harris On Why “Hamilton”-Pence Matters
