MCN Curated Headlines Archive for March, 2017
“It’s remarkable to think how our political process has just deteriorated into this grotesque reality television spectacle. I feel a responsibility to really create as much resistance art as possible, given our current political reality, and to not be afraid of making some political statement with my art. It’s always been a part of my work to be political. I’m going to continue to try and do that, and I feel more emboldened to do that.”
Richard Kelly Muses Beyond Donnie Darko Reissue
“We experimented a lot with facial features where we might try an Asian eye with an African arm. It was really difficult to get all that stuff working in harmony in a concise character that doesn’t just look like some hodgepodge that’s been thrown together.”
WETA Workshoppers On Making Ghost In The Shell‘s Robotic Psycho Geisha Girls And More
“Oh, man. Thank you for this question. As a football supporter, I feel Mexican. But my true self is completely Latin American. Mexico is my cocina, my kitchen. It is where I hang, where I talk to my mother. But Latin America is my home. If you travel through Latin America, you see we are one. We all share the same history, the same spirit. It is the real melting pot. Go back far enough and I don’t even know where I come from.”
Gael García Bernal
“I see movies all the time where I question why the hell they even made them, because the animus is so clearly nonfilmic. I don’t mean that you need to have thundering herds or raging gunfights as opposed to ideas, but I think certain things are more filmic than others. Genre filmmaking does supply a kind of structure that allows the filmmaker and the audience some common ground to then say, ‘Let’s see what we’re going to do on our little journey here.'”
Walter Hill On Genre
“The only platform I’m interested in talking about is theatrical exhibition.”
“Netflix, my ass.”
“I hope people see it in the theatre, where it was meant to be seen.”
Christopher Nolan, Tom Rothman And Sofia Coppola At CinemaCon
“I think we proved to you that we really believe in the theatrical experience by fully supporting the theatrical window for our releases.”
Amazon Studios On Supporting Theatrical Window
“These days, there’s also a continuing crisis in masculinity that’s tied up with deindustrialization and the rise of feminism and cultural equality.”
T2 Trainspotting‘s Irvine Welsh In The Modern World
“I got sick and tired of seeing ballets about relationships, or mythological forests 10 centuries ago. Of the ballets I saw, very few of them were about the contemporary world. So I thought why not take an extreme subject — like psychotics in a prison for the criminally insane — and see if something resembling a classical ballet could be made out of their behavior, their movements, their tics, convulsions and obsessions.”
At Eighty-Seven, Frederick Wiseman Turns To The Ballet
“It’s a true collaboration with us. He taught me everything. I knew nothing about editing. But it’s a true collaboration now, and I can’t begin to tell you how much of a joy it is to be in the room with him. Because we talk about everything, not just the movie. And he’s so rich, he’s such an extraordinary genius, and to watch the suffering he goes through while making a movie is something quite special to share.”
Thelma Schoonmaker On A Life In Martin Scorsese Movies
“I can’t presume to say what everybody is getting from the film. It definitely, for lack of a better word, is a more fun way to engage in a discussion about race.”
Jordan Peele On What Get Out Can Teach H’wd
