MCN Curated Headlines Archive for July, 2017
“Elegance of nightmare, essence of terror. We are catapulted to war, in three interleaving but sometimes indistinct timeframes: a week, a day, an hour. Time collapses. There is the presence of fright, the adrenalized now. The soldiers and volunteers in “Dunkirk” fear the unseen, the unspoken. Fear without a face. No politicos, no Jerrys.”
Ray Pride Condenses Dunkirk
“Tortured, private and transient in both life and career, Shepard was in some ways the quintessential American: Full of restlessness, contradictions, and mysteries — and as handsome as they come.”
Lindsey Bahr Lavishes

“I wouldn’t call Sammy easygoing and funny, but everybody has their dark side, and he always does it with a sense of humor.”
Jessica Lange
“Shepard’s plays mix impulse, a blasted Americana speaking through archetypes like cowboys and noir detectives, a love of the broken places in people, and a willingness to explore and dramatize the unconscious.”
Isaac Butler‘s Sam Shepard Swoon From Childhood Forward

“PBS itself will not go away, but a number of our stations will.”
PBS Chief Expects To Lose Affiliates, Especially Rural Ones, Under Trump Cuts
“The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius. Somebody told me once that fugue means to flee, so that Bach’s melody lines are like he’s running away.”
Sam Shepard, “The Art of Theater No. 12”
“But once we began sharing stories about Orson Welles, she relaxed, reached for one of her slender, extra-long cigarettes that stood in a bowl on her coffee table, and reminisced about the films she had made and the men she had known and loved.”
Peter Cowie On Jeanne Moreau
“I just dropped out of nowhere. It was absolute luck that I happened to be there when the whole Off-Off Broadway movement was starting.”
From 2010, John Lahr On “Sam Shepard And The Struggles Of American Manhood”

“Our audience on Facebook loves this content. It’s what works in the news feed where people scroll quickly with the sound off.”
Publishers Editing Commercials Into “New” Videos To Shovel As “Content” Onto Facebook

”Personality is everything that is false in a human being. It’s everything that’s been added on to him and contrived. It seems to me that the struggle all the time is between this sense of falseness and the other haunting sense of what’s true – an essential thing that we’re born with and tend to lose track of. This naturally sets up a great contradiction in everybody – between what they represent and what they know to be themselves.”
Michiko Kakutani‘s 1984 Interview With Sam Shepard
“Malle’s Ascenseur pour l’échafaud is recognised as a precursor of the French New Wave, partly for its groundbreaking location shooting, but just as important is its moulding of the Moreau character as a new type of sensual heroine, a modern femme fatale without the clichéd trappings of the traditional vamp.”
Ginette Vincendeau On Jeanne Moreau
JEANNE MOREAU WAS 89
SAM SHEPARD WAS 73

“MTV at its best — whether it’s news, whether it’s a show, whether it’s a docu-series — is about amplifying young people’s voices. We put young people on the screen, and we let the world hear their voices. We shouldn’t be writing 6,000-word articles on telling people how to feel.”
The Future Of Viacom’s New MTV
“The ban would also render other means of ensuring online anonymity illegal, including the anonymous use of mobile messaging apps. The legislation also would require messenger apps to send out compulsory text messages from government agencies on request.”
Putin And Unanimous Russian Parliament Join Apple And China In Banning Software For Censorship Surge
“Cultural memory has a shelf life of eight to 10 years and then people forget.”
Bill Morrison On The Bountiful, Beauteous Deep Dive Of Dawson City: Frozen Time
“Once she’s left her Amazon family behind, she barely bothers talking to another woman for the rest of the movie. Gadot has real presence and charm as an actress—one longs to see her in something worthier of her talent. But the imperative to eradicate any hint of bossiness or anger from her character weighs heavily on the film, threatening to turn it into one long, dispiriting exercise in allaying male fears about powerful women.”
Zoë Heller On Wonder Woman

“Shut up till the movie or play ends, then talk about it afterward. It’s amazing. It’s this thing called conversation we do when we have views or opinions to share, and it is made all the more sweeter when we do it having experienced something. In peace. Every rustle, every whisper or word, every kick on the seat, slurp, burp, interruption, ping of a phone or barging person, is yet another sign of what a selfish, stupid society we have become.”
Local Man Revolted By His Fellow New Yorkers

“As the editor of the Ireland edition I take full responsibility for this error of judgment. This newspaper abhors anti-Semitism and did not intend to cause offense to Jewish people.”
“Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price, which is the most useful measure there is of inveterate, lost-with-all-hands stupidity.”
UK Sunday Times Fires Columnist For Antisemitic Barrage; Its Misogyny Gets Tacit Nod
“REALLY?! Girl. GUUUUUUUURL. Wake up and smell the Bad For You. She is what seems to be every man’s fantasy. The beautiful woman who will drop everything to follow him around with sex and comfort as he leads his life and follows his dreams.”
Get Yer Hottakes Here
The Mary Sue Sort Of Embraces Edgar Wright But Hates His Women, Of Which There May Be Too Few
“The debate over free music and royalties and streaming music can quickly get bogged down in entrenched, passionate arguments over ‘information wanting to be free’ – which I guess is true but is kind of an abstract metaphysical argument; who cares what information wants, I care about people – so it’s worth clarifying just exactly what the problem is here. Why are so many of these multi-billion-dollar market-cap companies unprofitable? Why is it so hard to be a musician in the new economy? Why are musicians always complaining so much?”
Ben Phelps On How Venture Capitalists Sway Modern Music