“These are the kind of rookie camera placement and editing errors that not even a sophomore year film production student would make.”
Vadim Rizov Suffers The Visual Illiteracy And Incompetence In Trump Personal Videos

Zach Clark Wallows In Quad Cinema’s “Erotic City” Sleaze Series

“It’s our goal to keep corrupting the youth of America into the pleasure of reading and questioning authority. We still think we’re winning at that.”
A Modest Consideration Of The Legacy Of The Dwindling Field Of Alt-Weeklies

Presenting… Actor Buddy Duress

“Netflix has artistic ambitions, perhaps fueled by its obvious rivalry with HBO, which has brand sensibility to spare, as well as other strongly identified networks, such as FX, that routinely bring out shows that feel like part of a visionary whole. Even Netflix’s nearest streaming competitors, Hulu and Amazon, have done a better job of convincing a discerning viewer that less is perhaps more when it comes to the green light.”

Mike Leigh And Jarvis Cocker On How The British Film Scene Hid On Television For Decades 2’38” vid

“The Wachowskis’ vision may have been unsustainable from a production standpoint, but in this moment of fracturing coalitions on the left and rising nationalist xenophobia everywhere else, the abrupt end of ‘Sense8’ felt as much about a rejection of intersectionality.”

“Hw’d’s most provocative contemporary dramatization of political revolution is the resuscitated Planet of the Apes franchise. While the original famously ends with one of the most iconic images of post-apocalyptic catastrophe, the Apes saga insistently combined Swiftian social satire with allegorical depictions of civil rights issues, the unholy alliance between science and the military-industrial complex and political activism. The new trilogy has firmly embraced the radical political spirit that infused the older films.”

“The production was overwhelming. As with many documentaries, it happened through a combination of intuition, passion and coincidence. Documentaries are important because what is captured is unrepeatable due to shifting conditions. Documentaries can be understood to be a more honest record of what took place. Organizing such a massive logistical effort, while filming in the most difficult locations — war zones and areas of political and economic instability — was a daily challenge.”
Ai Weiwei On Making Human Flow

Steve Dollar On Barry Jenkins Honoring His Florida Home State

New York Casting Director Bernie Styles Was 99

“James Cameron’s inability to understand what Wonder Woman is, or stands for, to women all over the world is unsurprising as, though he is a great filmmaker, he is not a woman. There is no right and wrong powerful kind of woman.”
Patty Jenkins On James Cameron’s Remarks About Wonder Woman

China Censor Will Require Name Verification For Online Commenting After October 1

“I was making changes until recently. I hope that process is over, because Zama seems to resist being finished.”
Nicolas Rapold On The Return Of Lucrecia Martel

“There’s zero exposition in Dunkirk, to the point where you don’t even know who the characters are at times. But that adds to the element of the mass of people, of the experience of being one of 400,000. I think people are ready to move on from the idea of exposition, of ‘Let’s set it up and spoon-feed you information.’ I think, on an everyday basis, people do a lot of deduction in real life, especially when no one knows what’s real and what’s fake, and fake news this and that. I think people like to do their own detective work.”
Josh Safdie

“The six major Hollywood studios and the couple dozen smaller American movie-makers are fuelled by profits. The average cost for a major motion picture is now about $60 million before marketing costs, and it seems like comic book movies can’t be made for less than $100 million. China will have 80,000 movie theatres by 2021, twice the North American count. If simplification and, in the case of places like China, a dollop of censorship are the price, Hollywood is in.”
Mark Kamine On The Economics And Politics Of The Comic Book Movie

“I like goats. I had a pet, a small goat. See, when I look at a goat I see it different. It is very simple, like people believe evil is a kind of animal. Recently on YouTube I saw sheep going wild and kick someone. Or children who get chased and attacked by ducks, and the duck hits them with their wings.”
Menashe Lustig, Lead Of Menashe, Who Had Never Been In A Theater Before The Film’s Sundance Premiere, Interprets Key Art From Eight A24 Releases

India’s Oldest Cinematographer Ramananda Sengupta Was 101

“There’s no new oxygen in this system.”
Another Essential Steven Soderbergh Interview

Tom Brueggeman Forecasts Various B. O. Calamities

“The Safdies’ handmade cinematic world is full of characters that can be selfish, self-destructive, calamitous to anyone foolish enough to enter their orbit. And yet there is a pull to these people, a raw charisma from which it’s goddam hard to turn away.”

A. O. Scott On New York As Movie City

“All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood’s been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided. She’s an objectified icon, and it’s just male Hollywood doing the same old thing! I’m not saying I didn’t like the movie but, to me, it’s a step backwards. Sarah Connor was not a beauty icon. She was strong, she was troubled, she was a terrible mother, and she earned the respect of the audience through pure grit.”
Maker Of At Least Four Future Avatar (2009) Sequels Calls Wonder Woman “A Step Backwards”

“Please arrive in your own Pennywise best and be ready to float with us.”
Austin Alamo Drafthouse Sets Clown-Only It Screening

“A hero like R. Crumb is so reclusive and so fickle about who he allows to get close to him, but close they get. He’s a Slob over Snob for life. This film is more about Charles Crumb, the hidden master in the family than it is about Robert.”
Josh And Benny Safdie Craftily Top-Ten The Criterion Collection

Whole Foods To Cut Prices On Staples Beginning Monday With Aid Of Those Deep, Deep Amazon Pockets

“I don’t want to get all state of the industry standing here but it’s a tough time in a tough industry, seriously. It’s been genuinely hard to know who to work for these days. You can find yourself having to work for companies that don’t pay their tax or having to work for companies that put Donald Trump in power. It’s getting dodgy out there. We do have a government which treats the BBC with contempt.”
“Doctor Who” Producer And “Queer As Folk” Writer Russell T. Davies

“Vastly superior to the earnest classics of the genre, not merely in its satirical imagination but in its cinematic imagination over all, in its power to astonish.”
Richard Brody Takes One For Hudson Hawk

On Picking Up A Werner Herzog Book In A Charity Shop And Wondering Just Which Werner Lies Inside

“What is beyond doubt is Murdoch’s role in creating the modern tabloid and with it the modern political culture. Before Murdoch, the British popular press still retained a strong sense of public service and public good.”
“The Meaning Of Rupert Murdoch”

NYT Removes Young Adult Novel By Paul Blart: Mall Cop Extra From Bestseller List Amid Suspicions Of Tampering

Could The Kremlin Be Behind Arrest Of Leading Russian Director Kirill Serebrennikov?

“If you lean into the customer, you will win every time. They’re telling us they don’t want to wait week after week for advertising… Look, if the only reason you do things is because that’s the way you do them, that’s not good enough.”
Netflix Sarandos On His $6 Billion Worth Of Annual Content And Residuals Buyouts

Submission Deadlines For 2017 Oscars Are Near

Focus Features Live-Streaming Three Older Features On Facebook Live On Friday

Kyle Buchanan Is Watching Your Movie On An Airplane

Drilling Deeper Into Silicon Valley’s Data Streams

FTC To Allow Amazon $13.7 Billion Acquisition Of Whole Foods , Its Data And Distribution System

“Dunkirk‘s success lies in its convincing portrayal of being inside a war zone, and trying to ‘escape,’ or in other words, ‘survive.’ This is an extreme outlier in the war movie genre. In movies, the director has precise control over what the viewer sees, and this level of control has given birth to several masterpiece-class ‘war movies without conflict.’ Recent examples include Shinya Tsukamoto’s Fires on the Plain, and László Nemes’ Son of Saul.”
Hideo Kojima On Dunkirk, Games After “Metal Gear” And “Death Stranding”

The Stories Behind Dave Kehr’s Towering NYT Jerry Lewis Obit

“Truth is, the Village Voice was destroyed and made redundant by 1995. It was an exquisite relic, like some Catholic saints that die but do not physically rot, a monument to a way of life that was eroding in our city. But when New York was New York and downtown was downtown, the Village Voice was the communication organ we were all connected to, not only those of us who lived in New York, but from all over the world. The Voice was a tangible piece of New York, so I suppose now that New York itself is no longer tangible, the physical, palpable Voice is no longer necessary.”

Screenwriter-Playwright Janusz Glowacki, 78; Work Included Wajda’s 1969 Hunting Flies And  2013’s Walesa: Man Of Hope; “Cinders,” “Hunting Cockroaches” (Directed By Arthur Penn)

“Mostly it’s the directors you have to be careful of. Many, many directors, particularly in musicals, are more interested in serving themselves rather than serving the text, because musicals invite a lot of invention. Even if that director is inventive, he or she should be serving the piece, and you don’t always get that. That’s the thing I look for.”
Stephen Sondheim On Revivals