“The final impression he gives is of a man of considerable intellectual integrity who is not prepared to compromise, in ill-considered conversation, the greater truths he seeks to express on stage.”
Playwright Bernard Pomerance, 76, Won Tony For “The Elephant Man”

NYTimes Prevails Against Sarah Palin In Defamation Complaint

“His look alone — the inky perfect hair, the thrusting chin and reluctant smile, the killer eyes that could melt or freeze you — was worthy of 007.”
In Late August Doldrums, Owen Gleiberman Thrusts Poor, Poor Jon Hamm Toward An Indifferent Screen

Nolan To Intro Free Show Of Dunkirk At Toronto Int’l For IMAX Corp’s 50th

“For secular or modern-minded viewers, the solution to Menashe’s problems is blindingly obvious: Leave Borough Park, take your son, and never look back.”

“We work far too hard crafting our jokes for them to be taken as fact. If someone doesn’t recognize the joke we’re making, then that’s a whole lot of labor lost. We aim never to trick people but rather to train them to see the world as we see it. In a world infested by ‘fake news’, the intention is everything.”
Onion On Onion Action

Cinematographer Tim Ives On Shooting “Stranger Things”

Pro Clowns Pissed By It

“The phrase ‘everyone’s a critic,’ once the complaining sigh of the creator, is today closer to literal truth. Criticism was always vulnerable to careerism and hackery, but amid the pinging of Twitter and along the web pages of Goodreads and Amazon, the fast one-star slash and the instant five-star burble are now given the same algorithmic weight as the lengthy and well-considered three- or four-star comment. There are, one should note, many of the latter, but they always seem about to drown in the shrill orthographical chaos surrounding them, complaints often written by those who look forward to the demise of critics — and editors — with a populist glee.”

President Of Financially-Rocked D.C. Newseum Flees

“Fox News is focused on the U.S. market and designed for a U.S. audience and, accordingly, it averages only a few thousand viewers across the day in the U.K.”
Murdochs Yank Fox News From Blighty As $15 Billion-Plus Sky Deal Remains Aloft

“Belove doesn’t drop the H-word pejoratively — in fact, breaking through the cycle of “hipster self-loathing” is key to the “family” part of Cinefamily’s mission. “ ’Hipster’ just means anyone who’s interested, who is hip to culture. It should be something of a badge. We want to be welcoming. We want to be a theater that encompasses a little bit of everybody. Come on in, grandpa, come on in.”
From 2010, Katrina Longworth On Cinefamily’s “Hadrian Belove: Pathologically Idiosyncratic Programming”

From 1998, Philip Brophy Goes Wild On Sound Design of Texas Chain Saw, Among Many Other Transgressive Pics

Anne Thompson Looks Under The Hood At Searchlight And Releases Like Patti Cake$

Cinefamily Shutters, Simmers As Supplemental Sexism Accusations Surface; 17 Former Employees And Volunteers Talk To Buzzfeed

“When the president tweeted about me the morning after I released the image, it served as an executive order of sorts to his family and supporters to go after me. You may say I deserved it, but just think about it… the president of the United States and his family are going after a stand-up comic who had a show on the Bravo network called ‘My Life on the D-List.’ If that isn’t punching down, I don’t know what is.”
Kathy Griffin Strikes Back

Michael Phillips On The Malevolent Magnificence Of The Closing Shot Of Texas Chain Saw Massacre vid

Marc Webb, Nick Hornby, Bill Pohlad, Condé Nast, Bruna Papandrea And Reese Witherspoon Team Of Bio Of Westboro Baptist Escapee

“Representation of ethnic diversity is important.”
“Hellboy” Reboot Actor Leaves After Race Concerns

“The same day that Fred Roos came to Rome to speak with me, I met with Jodorowsky; he was planning to direct ‘Dune,’ and he offered me the chance to shoot it. I love Frank Herbert’s book, and at that time I thought Apocalypse Now was just another war picture. To Italians in the year 1975, the topic of the Vietnam War was not that compelling, because it was so far away from us. But Francis told me, ‘Read Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” I took some of the spirit of Apocalypse from that.'”
American Cinematographer Unlocks Vittorio Storaro On Making Apocalypse Now

“Distracted Boyfriend” Photographer Learns What A Meme Is
With – The “Meme Documentation Tumblr”

“Has it changed my life? Well, I don’t know how it would be without having won awards. What I can say for sure is that without the Tarantino movies, everything would be completely different. That changed my life — not the awards.”

Chicago Underground Sets Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration

Guardian Looks To Philanthropy To Advance Investigative Reporting

Google Doodles Cinematographer James Wong Howe At 101

Longtime Variety Publisher-Owner Syd Silverman Was 85

“Race, and how your characters in Good Time exploit and use others, largely a range of black figures, have distressed, even offended, some reviewers.”
“I think there is a general difference between reflecting society and saying that you adhere to those same ideas. Just because you’re showing certain things that exist doesn’t mean you subscribe to the same point of view. How do you have a conversation about something without bringing up things that you will be uncomfortable with?” 

“They staged their performance before 14,623 fans at the T-Mobile Arena, many of the men in sharp suits and no socks, many of the women in cocktail dresses and heels, as if attired for a garish wake. There were A-list celebrities, D-list celebrities, people who consider themselves celebrities and swarms of Irish people wrapped in their country’s tricolours. Also, some boxing fans.”
“Mayweather vs McGregor: Business Partners Pull Off Fleece Of The Century”

“You can’t hide on the internet. Your sentence structure is more unique than a fingerprint. If an organization wants to find you, it will.”

Old Forester Spins A Bourbon From Its Invention In Kingsman Sequel

“In a time when the political climate seems very much divisive, it fills my heart with hope that a masterful filmmaker like Lee Unkrich is using his and Pixar’s considerable talents to showcase the people and culture of our beloved Mexico. I will be there on Coco‘s opening night with my whole family, living and remembered. Support films that celebrate the diversity in our world.”
Book Of Life Director Jorge R. Gutierrez

CBS Corp Bypasses Murdoch Bid, Taking Australia’s Troubled Ten Network, Reportedly As Launchpad For Video-On-Demand
With – A Summary Of Its Pains

“I became obsessed with Texas Chain Saw right away and have seen it almost as many times as I have seen Psycho or Repulsion or any of the other romantic comedies I’m so steeped in.” 
Glenn Kenny‘s Notes On Tobe Hooper

Berlin’s Messedamm Underpass Has Starred In Six Action Movies So Far, From Hanna To Bourne Supremacy To Atomic Blonde

“I was kind of freaking, just wanted to get out of there, get out of the crowd. And so I found myself in front of a chain-saw display in the hardware department, and that’s where the idea came from — ‘Well, if I pick this damn thing up and start it, they’ll part like the Red Sea and I can get out of here.’”

“The more you learn about its making, the less it seems the invention of a screenwriter or a director or an acting company than the product of Austin itself at the end of the Vietnam era.”
Texas Monthly’s Expansive, 13,000-Word 2004 Oral History Of The Making Of The ‘Saw

300 Attend Gaza’s First Cinema Screening In Decades, A Film About Palestinians In Israeli Prisons

Cinefamily Board Tweets A Page-Long Memo Announcing Temporary Shutdown

“An endgame that is pure political show, as government seeks to dragoon a state-created asset and thoroughly degrades it in the process.”
Gov’t Mandated Move For UK’s Channel 4 From London To Birmingham, Just Because, Will Cost Tens Of Millions

“Not many people have 35mm projectors at home. If you have it on Blu-Ray or DVD, to see it on film is a way of dragging someone out from their house to come and see it at the cinema.”

“Word quickly spread that this tiny newspaper was willing to publish information others ignored. That’s when anguished mothers started arriving at the Herald in the hopes of getting answers.”
141-Year-Old English-Language Buenos Aires Herald Outlasted The Generals But Not The Modern Economy

From England: “Why the sexy nurse stereotype is no laughing matter”