MCN Curated Headlines Archive for July, 2017
“Film critics are now paid to find a balance between positive and negative reviews, to worry over the way an American audience spends money on movie tickets. This criticism-as-consumer reports plays in Nolan’s favor because he is a director of audiences and not an auteur working against the system. ‘We all find films through Hollywood,’ Nolan told the Times. ‘Nobody watches Godard when they’re ten years old.'”
A Highlight From A Very Baffler Diss Of Christopher Nolan
“There is legitimate concern over what the lack of objectivity at Sinclair portends for the future.”
Variety Cover-Stories Sinclair Broadcast Group And Its Ambitions To Bend Local News Coverage
“Critics and audiences alike can be suspicious of art that looks like it wants to have an effect. We like to be unsettled but we also want our politics to be confirmed; some of us disdain ‘preaching to the choir’ but like being in the choir; we want to discover resonance but prefer it to be well-enough concealed so that we can give ourselves credit for ferreting it out; we want artists to be clever but not to try to be clever.”
Mark Harris On Trumping Pop Culture
“To everyone who came to a screening or sat down for an interview or transcribed my rambles: Thank You. Having been able to do this is a luxury. A luxury that wears me out and makes me hate myself sometimes, but still: small price to pay for getting to do it in the first place.”
A Ghost Story‘s David Lowery Simmers Down At The End Of The Press Tour
“The Sun-Times also has a burdensome $25 million-a-year contract with tronc to print and distribute the paper, which the new ownership group has said it will honor.”
New Owners Of Chicago Sun-Times And Reader Outline Ambitions
“The word ‘erasure’ comes up frequently in the criticism, and it’s neither new nor unfounded.”
Sopan Deb Compares His Experiences To The Big Sick
“I was able to do my shit here,” David Ayers said. “I was able to tell my fucking story. I was able to do my thing.”
Netflix In Thick Of Genre Pics
“There are actors who have beautiful eyes, dramatic eyes, fantastically soulful eyes, and then there are actors who have eyes that burn with such multifarious fires that you somehow both know exactly what those eyes are saying and yet have no idea. Eyes that reveal and eyes that hold secrets. Those eyes could be tricking you: they could be harbouring depths of misery, sleepless nights of guilt, yearning or sadness, or they could be sleeping soundly, comfortable with their icy, sociopathic treachery.”
Kim Morgan Rhapsodizes Martin Landau
“Like all of Ms. Bigelow’s previous feature films, this new one is also as informed by the radical aspirations of conceptual art as it is by the techniques of classical Hollywood cinema.”
Manohla Dargis‘ 2009 Kathryn Bigelow Profile
“Charles Dickens, on the other hand, makes me throw up. Whence and whyfore his place in English letters? He was a penny-a-liner, not that there’s anything at all wrong in that. I write for money, too.”
David Mamet Has Spoken
“It didn’t have a lot of dialogue. It didn’t need any of the dialogue because it told the story visually and it was so real. I was in those little boats picking them out of the water… We can fly to the moon but we still do stupid things.”
97-Year-Old Dunkirk Veteran, Calgary’s Ken Sturdy, Is Impressed
“Remember, I’m someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg Says He Will Revolutionize “Mobile Content”
“Nolan is a skillful, stylish storyteller, capable of combining the spectacle of Spielberg with the intellectual intricacy of Nicolas Roeg or Alain Resnais and no less fanatically adored in his own way than any boy-band member.”
Ryan Gilbey Observer-Profiles Christopher Nolan
“I’m so used to making do with so little I am giddy with the plenty, the opportunity for a different kind of vision that this more opulent canvas offers me.”
Maggie Greenwald On Episodic Vs Indie Features
“The really clever people used to do film. Now, the really clever people do television. I’d been feeling, in the film world, that if you come up with ideas, and you share them, the first concern is: how is the audience going to react? Cinema in Australia and NZ has become much more mainstream. It’s broad entertainment, broad sympathy. It’s just not my kind of thing. As a goal, to make money out of entertaining doesn’t inspire me. But in television, there is no concern about politeness or pleasing the audience. It feels like creative freedom.”
Jane Campion Converts
“I can’t tell you how many people come in here, and a lot of them in tears, talking about how much they’ve missed Video 21 and how much they’ve missed Miracle 5.”
Tallahassee Cap City Video Lounge Turns To Crowdfunding For Survival
“Consummate deal makers like John C. Malone, the 76-year-old telecommunications billionaire, are increasingly testing the waters for potential transactions.”
Investor John Malone Again Fuels Flames Of Media Consolidation
