“You’ve got to understand something: These actors and actresses, they’re all dumb as ticks — and they’re all lazy. Right, they’re like pieces of furniture. They’re all dumb as ticks. By the way, that’s why movie attendance is down, people are tired of it. That’s why they’re not watching the National Football League, cutting the cord at ESPN. They’ve politicized everything, and you guys are voting with your feet, which I think is fantastic.”
Failed Screenwriter Steve Bannon Potshots The Industry That Wouldn’t Have Him

Abbey Bender On When Fashion Designers Become Filmmakers

“Everything really is a spoiler. It’s true. Every. Damn. Thing….
Stopped reading?
Good.
Then you won’t see me declare that Denis Villeneuve is the Stanley Kubrick of our time, and he just made his 2001: A Space Odyssey. Except it’s a 35-years-later studio sequel with a lot of plot, which is awkward and risky to write, I know. I know.”

“We meet the grizzled blade runner of yore, Harrison Ford, who reminds us that these movies were always about the most human of inventions, love, even if manufactured by machines. It’s a unicorn in the fog.”

“A rugged vulnerability that hints at the anguish that awaited Deckard after the first film’s enigmatic ending.”

“I mean, when you cast Tom Cruise in your movie, I’m acutely aware he’s Tom Cruise and all the baggage that comes with that. And I love using that. I loved in Edge of Tomorrow making him a total coward and I’m sort of making fun of Mission: Impossible Tom Cruise. Or in American Made, I’m going to make fun of the Maverick, Top Gun Tom Cruise.”

George Englund, 91, Editor-Producer-Director-Actor-Husband Of Cloris Leachman

Record Bid For Audrey Hepburn’s Working Script Of Breakfast At Tiffany’s Is From… Tiffany’s

“The cinema is very, very young, but many of the people who write about it treat it as if it were very, very old. When you really stop to think about it, the idea is ridiculous. Poetry and painting developed over a few thousand years, but the cinema zipped its way up to speed because it developed in the age of air travel and penicillin: absurd.”
Kent Jones On All Manner Of Things Cinematic

An Eye-Stingingly Good Profile Of The Great New Yorker Writer John McPhee, By Sam Anderson

Newcity’s Fifth Annual “Film 50,” By Ray Pride, Covers Chicago’s Thriving Film Community In 20,000 Words (But Fifty-Two Small Bites); Dozens Of Portraits By Joe Mazza

“Hefner himself may have been an upstanding man of personal integrity; indeed, in his desire to dismantle social mores, he broke many barriers. But he was the king of the male id. Could he really have been unaware of how that might go wrong? Hefner’s world — a world in which, by the end, he exclusively wore pajamas and a smoking jacket in — reduced everything and everyone to a sexual gambit played on his terms. Hefner reduced women to a pair of tits and a cotton tail on the ass, because that’s what he liked. Perhaps he brilliantly exposed desire — but whose desire, and at what cost?”

“Hugh Hefner To Be Buried Next To Marilyn Monroe, Whose Photos Were Used To Launch Playboy Without Her Consent”

“In the daytime, Hugh Hefner wore custom-made silk — not satin, satin made him slip off the bedsheets, he said — in a shade he liked to call “gunfighter black.” At night he would transition into rich colors. Of an evening, he would add a bathrobe. For company, he’d put on a smoking jacket. Mr. Hefner said that he did not wear underwear.”
Choire Sicha On “Pajama Man” And His Influence On Sloppy Man Garb

April Wolfe In The Embers And Ashes Of Fantastic Fest

Thirst Street‘s Nathan Silver Says “The Movie Industry Doesn’t Have Any Etiquette, Just Fear”

“Amazon doesn’t have Netflix’s sharp elbows. Likewise, Bob Berney, a bookish sort who exudes affability, isn’t eager to get into a battle of put-downs with its streaming rival. “They can take their swipes, but it’s more about showing that our model is actually working,” he says. “We’ve done that. They’ve done some great projects,” Berney adds, complimenting Netflix. “They have their own very religious philosophy that everything just goes online. I think that our approach is working. It enhances and incentivizes artists globally, and that encourages filmmakers to come work with us.”

Academy Releases Renderings Of Its Eventual Museum

Alex Haley’s 1965 Playboy Interview with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The 15 Worst Things Playmates Said About Life in the Playboy Mansion”

“Progress necessarily requires the exchange of outdated ideas for new and better ones. By keeping open all lines of communication in our culture, every new idea—no matter how seemingly perverse, improper or peculiar, has its opportunity to be considered, to be challenged, and ultimately to be accepted or rejected by society as a whole or by some small part of it. This is the important advantage that a free society has over a totalitarian, for in a free exchange of ideas, the best will ultimately win out.”
Consider The Playboy Foundation And Its Philanthropy Toward Free Speech And Other Issues

“That I changed attitudes toward sex. That nice people can live together now. That I decontaminated the notion of premarital sex. That gives me great satisfaction.”
Hugh Hefner Was 91; Survived By His Bathrobe, Which Is 66

Anne Thompson Says A24 Has Nine Oscar Contenders

Netflix Set For $500 Million In Canadian Product Over Five Years

Playwright Albert Innaurato Was 70; Work Includes “Gemini,” “The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie,” “The Idiots Karamazov”

Wanda’s AMC Entertainment Partners With Startup Dreamscape To  Build “Multi-Person, Room-Scale VR Stories And Adventures”

“The shocking allegations of sexual harassment and groping of women by bloggers popular in the fringe film community is a microcosm of what happens when bad behavior isn’t addressed head-on. Just as we saw with Ailes, Cosby, O’Reilly and even filmmaker Nate Parker, there is no statute of limitations on the emotional scars inflicted upon women who’ve seen their complaints fall on deaf ears. What is clear is that whether it is a studio, network, talent agency or fringe film festival, the corporate price for dismissing sexual harassment complaints, and not enforcing a zero-tolerance policy for misbehavior, can be devastating as careers and possibly branded companies fall by the wayside.”
Mike Fleming Jr and Dino-Ray Ramos Have Posted

“It’s a pattern we’re going to see until either we collectively stop believing that people who have geeky interests are somehow still wacky, misunderstood outcasts in this day and age, or the Universe grinds to a halt. You know, whichever comes first.”

“Even well-meaning allies are guilty of missing the bigger picture, of not realizing that their words have power and that they can do more to create a positive, safe environment for women. Over the past few weeks, the /Film staff has grappled with the knowledge that we could have done more, that we could have offered more support to members of our community who were assaulted and harassed and harmed by predators operating around us. The knowledge that others, individuals that we trusted, were harboring these predators is dispiriting and devastating. So many of us are guilty of not looking, of not noticing, and not offering the support necessary to protect our community and the women who call it home.”
Another Meandering Film Website Mea Culpa

Another AICN Contributor Says It Ain’t Cool No More

“Last-minute Oscar-hopeful buys are relatively rare; awards campaigns aren’t meant to be rush jobs. Sometimes it pays to be opportunistic and the 2018 race looks like one of those years.”

Academy Museum Gets $50 Million Gift From Cheryl And Haim Saban

Louis C. K.’s Hot-Button Clandestinely-Produced Woody Allen Homage Gets November NY/LA Release

Director Jesse Noah Klein On His Eternal Return To Elaine May’s Mikey And Nicky

Two China Minority Investors In Dalian Wanda’s Legendary Entertainment Exit

Rolling Stone Pitches Going Monthly, Pivoting To Video

Mr. Crowe, what is your biggest vice?
Smoking, by miles! I enjoy drinking, but I don’t drink daily or what have you. I am not sure if smoking even comes under vice, there’s got be some other word that underlines the absurdity of it.

“I know nothing about this film other than what I see in the trailer and yet every part of me is screaming, ‘Piss off.’ Piss off, twee fantasies about life in early-20th-century Britain, where everyone is white, mildly scarred by the war, but still terribly attractive.  Piss off, Nigel Farage wank fantasies that prompt people to think, ‘Gosh, wasn’t England nice when it was just us?’ You probably knew that this is where this article was going: We need more movies about women.”

“So why is ‘I Love Dick’ being the one that’s like ‘Jill Soloway’s “I Love Dick” gets huge fine’? I think that has something more to do with the triggering component of the bombastic, proud, content female, insisting that there’s such thing as the female gaze. Why is this the show that’s causing controversy?”

“So as much as I applaud Patty directing the film and Hollywood, uh, letting a woman direct a major action franchise, I didn’t think there was anything groundbreaking in Wonder Woman. I thought it was a good film. Period. I was shocked that was a controversial statement. I’m not walking it back, but I will add a little detail to it, which is: I like the fact that, sexually, she had the upper hand with the male character, which I thought was fun.”

“Unlike traditional stories of possession and exorcism, I think Żuławski wrote Possession not to explain a woman, but to understand her.”