MCN Curated Headlines Archive for January, 2017
“All of our senses are heightened and that’s a pleasing feeling — to be really alive, like it’s awake and you’re present. You know, right now, for example, If I got frightened for a second, I would be aware of all the textures around me and the cab that just drove by outside and that someone’s talking in the next room…”
M. Night Shyamalan On Horror
“What makes this moment so much more poignant is that I’m in India right now. This enthralling country holds such a deep place in my heart, and it is where Saroo’s journey was born.”
The Nominees React
La La Land leads with record-tying 14 nominations (matching Titanic and All About Eve) followed by 8 each for Moonlight and Arrival (but not Amy Adams)
Oscar Nominations
“We would sit at his piano together and discuss the themes for The Thin Blue Line. I remember telling him, ‘The trouble with your music is that it’s not repetitive enough.’ He looked at me without smiling and said, ‘That’s a new one.'”
Errol Morris Salutes Philip Glass At 80
“I also hold myself accountable because, even though I was not present, I knew and had written about how ineffective AHA has been over the years.”
A Dog’s Purpose Producer Gavin Palone
“Some years back — it’s startling to contemplate just how long ago it was — Mr. Shyamalan was puffed up into a cinematic visionary, hailed on the cover of Newsweek as ‘The Next Spielberg.’ That hype (and his own self-aggrandizing tendencies) placed a disproportionate burden of significance on a filmmaker who has always been, at heart, a superior genre hack. Blumhouse seems like the right company for Mr. Shyamalan.”
A. O. Scott On Split
“For all its attention to detail in depicting the trappings of 17th century life in is settings, Silence is shot and edited with a directness and immediacy of the sort that Scorsese has not brought to bear on his prior period films.”
Glenn Kenny On Later Scorsese
“Axanar and Mr. Peters acknowledge that both films were not approved by Paramount or CBS, and that both works crossed boundaries acceptable to CBS and Paramount relating to copyright law.”
Paramount Makes Settlement In Star Trek Fan Film Infringement
“Millennials will not be silenced – we’re the powerhouse now. We’re not going to let those who want to ‘make America great again’ truly take over. We’re not allowing him to run the world, even though he thinks he is.”
Janelle Monáe Says “I Am The Whole Package”