MCN Curated Headlines Archive for May, 2017
“Wherever poor Ned Beatty went, people would say: Squeal like a pig! It went on for years”
John Boorman & Co. On Making Deliverance
“Good Time doesn’t peddle a message or redemption, but instead tethers you to an oblivious narcissist who pushes the story into an ever-deepening downward spiral. As errors turn into catastrophes, Connie grows increasingly feral, becoming a character who is a biliously funny reproach to the American triumphalism that suffuses superhero flicks and indies alike and insists that success isn’t just inevitable but also a birthright.”
Manohla Dargis With Robert Pattinson
“May understands there is a judging prick inside many of us, particularly when we’re rolling through a series of terrible dates. You don’t exactly feel sorry for Henry, you just recognize those moments of distaste. And cringe. For everyone involved.”
Kim Morgan On Elaine May’s A New Leaf
“Working mothers are not very welcome at the Cannes Film Festival, it seems. This year at least two mothers attending the fest have spoken out about the major barriers they’ve encountered.”
Nanna Frank Rasmussen Says Cannes Doesn’t Do Enough To Accommodate Mothers
Almodóvar Jury Awards Palme d’Or To Östlund’s The Square; Grand Prix, BPM; Director, Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled; Actor, Joaquin Phoenix,You Were Never Really Here; Actress, Diane Kruger In In the Fade; Screenplay (Tie) The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, You Were Never Really Here; Jury Prize: Zvyagintsev’s Loveless; Nicole Kidman, With Four Fest Features, Gets A Special 70th Anniversary Award
“It sold out immediately, and with good reason—what better way to spend an evening than with Gal Gadot, a vat of rosé and a blissfully testosterone-free environment?”
League Of Internet Men Diss Drafthouse Woman-Only Wonder Woman Showings; Drafthouse Adds More Sister-Solo Seances, With Proceeds To Planned Parenthood
“Sitting in the Roman Polanski Suite at the Cannes Carlton Hotel, Kirsten Dunst did her best to smile.”
Manohla Dargis On An Actress Who Calls Her Own Shots
“Ismail was my life’s partner. From the beginning right on down to his final day. I lived openly with him for forty-five years, in New York and wherever else we were. That says what it says.”
James Ivory At 89
“His America is a troubled land, staggering from wretched excess and aching losses, a country where dreams have often slipped into out-and-out delusions, and people hunger for deliverance, if only in the person of a half-baked messiah. Reason is in short supply here, and grifters and con men peddling conspiracy thinking and fake news abound; families are often fragmented or nonexistent; and primal, Darwinian urges have replaced the rule of law.”
Michiko Kakutani On Denis Johnson
“I come from a middle-class family and I grew up at a time when the golden age of cinema was over in Mexico. Cinema was my survival instinct, I needed it. I wouldn’t recommend the path I took to anyone!”
Watch Or Listen To Alfonso Cuaron’s Cannes Masterclass 85 minutes
“This was both fortunate and unfortunate. Fortunate because it made Leviathan a public event, so even the name of the movie has become a kind of a meme, a synonym for certain political and social troubles. It polarized the audience in a brutal way, made everyone discuss the movie, and divided not just the viewing audience but society itself. There were people who defended the movie and people who considered it to be Russophobic.”
Loveless Released In Russia Directly After Cannes Debut Over Previous Pic’s Piracy In Form Of Ten Million Downloads
“Write naked. Write in exile. Write in blood.”
Breathtakingly Great American Novelist Denis Johnson Was 67; Work Includes Jesus’ Son, “Tree Of Smoke”
From “Jesus’ Son,” “Happy Hour” And “Emergency Room”
Johnson’s “Homeless And High“
“Once in a while, I lie there as the television runs, and I read something wild and ancient from one of several collections of folktales I own. Apples that summon sea maidens, eggs that fulfill any wish, and pears that make people grow long noses that fall off again. Then sometimes I get up and don my robe and go out into our quiet neighborhood looking for a magic thread, a magic sword, a magic horse.”
From Denis Johnson‘s 2014 “The Largesse Of The Sea Maiden”