MCN Curated Headlines Archive for March, 2017
“If his other films are historical fantasia, then the experience of The Boy Friend is about being high on movie-musical iconography; dream-factory fantasia in the highest form.”
Steve Lippman On Ken Russell’s The Boy Friend
Surviving Cast And Crew Reflect On Possible Conclusion Of Orson Welles’ “The Other Side Of The Wind”
“I don’t think I have a problem with happy endings. I’ve got a problem with the neatness of life. Because it’s never neat, is it? Cruelty and randomness just feels more honest to me. When I see stuff which has a really good resolution and everything is all right, I think: ‘What the fuck?’ Because a happy ending is only the point at which you choose to end the film. I mean, if you ended the story a few years later, it probably wouldn’t be so happy. They’d only have got themselves into still more trouble.”
Free Fire‘s Ben Wheatley
“What issue could there possibly be with casting her? The Major is a cyborg and her physical form is an entirely assumed one. The name ‘Motoko Kusanagi’ and her current body are not her original name and body, so there is no basis for saying that an Asian actress must portray her. Even if her original body (presuming such a thing existed) were a Japanese one, that would still apply.”
Original Director Mamoru Oshii On Ghost In The Shell
From The DGA Visual History Series, Six Hours And Twelve Minutes Of Walter Hill vid and transcripts
“The greatest nightmare of any filmmaking experience I’ve ever had.”
Taylor Hackford Remembers Rocking Good Times Filming Chuck Berry
“They don’t make very many comedies anymore, if you look at the marketplace. Comedies are really the one thing that’s gone by the wayside. There’s only a few people that mean anything in the world of comedy nowadays. Mainly, it’s women, the Melissa McCarthys. And they’re hysterical.”
Bobby Farrelly Says Comedy Filmmakers Are “Too “Sensitive”
“A lot of filmmakers invest in a story for years, but they also have stories they want to tell quickly. We wanted to utilize that moment and that way of thinking to bring cinematic and artistic works to the internet.”
Behind The Field Of Vision Doc Strand
“From Lee Garmes, I learned simplicity. He had an eye for composition and good taste. Boris Kaufman was from a different generation; he was a master of hard light. Like Harry Stradling, he knew how to use one large source and make it do the work of many lamps.”
Cinematographer Sol Negrin Was 88
“The broadband privacy rules are not some kind of blitzkrieg attack on monetizing consumer data, but simply a recognition of the importance of consumer consent.”
Senate GOP Votes To Allow Internet Providers To Sell User Private Data, Including Browsing History, Without User Consent
“Quite who Warner Bros imagined their target audience was for this is a mystery on a par with the Zodiac killings: the material seems aimed at a hyperactive eight-year-old boy with the jaded sexual palate of a vengeful divorcé.”
Robbie Collin Boots CHiPS Reboot
“Horror is like any other genre – there are bad horror movies and great horror movies – but I think the great part of horror movies is discounted by the coastal elites, and it shouldn’t be. Horror has been kind of a forgotten genre, but what I’m doing – and will continue to do – is to say let’s not forget about it because it can be really important and relevant.”
Jason Blum
“You clearly want to make a movie that stimulates the brand.”
Post-Transformers, Hasbro Hopes To Derive Motion Picture Content From ‘Vast Store Of Intellectual Property”
“He gave me dialogue pages, or sometimes it was even long monologues that he would type out the night before shooting, or even on the same day. Then he’d say, ‘Find what speaks to you.’ So you’d find one or two lines out of pages and pages that felt like something you would say, and you’d use that.”
Natalie Portman On Her Terrence Malick Double Feature
