MCN Curated Headlines Archive for May, 2017
“This review will be short and dismissive. Its pleasures are so meager, its delight in its own inventions so forced and false, that it becomes almost the perfect opposite of entertainment. To insist otherwise is a variation on the sunk cost fallacy. Since you exchanged money for fun, fun is surely what you must have purchased, and you may cling to that idea in the face of contrary evidence. But trust me on this: This movie would be a rip-off even if someone paid you to see it.”
A. O. Scott Would Have You Know A Thing Or Three About The Latest Pirates
“You will not just write reviews. You will visit film festivals, talk to industry people, moderate film premieres, write liner-notes for avant-garde DVDs.”
Scout Tafoya Reports On The State Of Film Criticism From Academic Conference In New Hampshire
“Baywatch is the type of release that some critics will mercilessly bash because everyone is doing it. What baffles me is that these are the same people who, as I sat in the theater with them, were laughing hysterically at the film. How can you bash something that apparently you found entertaining enough to laugh? Are you really going to tell me something is the worst film of the summer when you clearly seemed to be enjoying yourself? Zac Efron and Dwayne Johnson were a hell of a lot of fun on screen.”
Criticism!
“We must continue to streamline our multilayered editing and production systems, which are an outdated legacy of our newspaper traditions.”
New York Times To Buy Out Editors to Accelerate Digital Shift
“The simple truth is, I make movies. And the thing with movies is, that when you direct them, there can be nothing else in your life.”
Netflix Axes Razzed Baz
“Until you feel it — until you feel what it’s like to be 20 years old, not leftwing or rightwing or any wing — you can’t really talk about it.”
Iñárritu On VR And His Borders
“Though they’re directed by Lynch, they play as Lynchoid, like the work of a skilled and dutiful imitator of Lynch I don’t know whether he filmed ‘The Return’ sequentially but the first hour and a half feels like a filmmaker under cobwebs, working not merely tentatively but conventionally, following patterns rather than inventing, recording and divulging information rather than creating.”
Richard Brody Says The Episodes Are Not What They Seem