MCN Curated Headlines Archive for December, 2017
How has your family reacted to the movie? “They were there at the premiere. My parents are refugees from Vietnam, so they didn’t grow up with Star Wars. I don’t think they know what’s going on in the movie at any given time. But my dad stayed awake during this movie, and my dad never stays awake when I take him to the movies, so that was a good sign.”
Kelly Marie Tran
“Because a handful of Twitter users don’t like it, the rest of us have to pretend that Matt Damon is somehow guilty of something awful. And if we don’t pretend, we may ourselves be seen as collaborators in whatever crimes he supposedly committed and forced to share his punishment.”
Tucker Carlson Defends Matt Damon
“She also penned a movie script about World War II spies living in Akron called ‘Zeppelin Blondes.'”
A Lilting Obit For Betty French Jarmusch, 96, One Of The First Female Film Critics At A Major U. S. Paper; Mother To Filmmakers Tom Jarmusch And Jim Jarmusch
“I’ve seen it three times, and honestly I would be thrilled to see it again. It deepens every time, it’s so rich. I think it’s just extraordinary, I really do. The first time I watched it on a politically subversive level; the next time I watched it as this legacy to Carrie, and to Luke Skywalker, and to what George Lucas created, and to Joseph Campbell. And then you’re just in the fun and the bliss and the irreverence of it… it just keeps unfolding.”
Jen Yamato And Laura Dern Talk Jedi
A Fine, Positive Review
“The Last Jedi Environmental Impact Assessment: Report to UNESCO on Film Production Activities Undertaken at the World Heritage Property” pdf
Scott Macaulay Remembers NYC Production Designer Thérèse DePrez
With – “When the Design is Really Part of the Whole of a Film, the Film is Well Designed,” Ted Hope’s 1994 profile of DePrez
“This is an extremely difficult time for everyone at NYPR [but producers will] be at work developing new programming that invites necessary conversations and addresses the most important, intriguing issues in American culture and the way we live now in New York.”
New York Public Radio Fires WNYC Hosts Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz
“I never like the idea of trying to figure out how to talk about a film before it’s done or before it’s out; that seems crazy to me. And too hard. But on the other hand, it’s really important to find the ways to get the people to understand what the film is, create trailers and materials that are interesting. Mysterious but not obtuse.”
Paul Thomas Anderson
“The FCC proposed fining Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. $13.4 million for programming that appeared more than 1,700 times without disclaimers telling viewers the messages were sponsored by another business.”
Housekeeping Before Approval Of Sinclair Absorption of Tribune?
“Even though Star Wars takes place in another galaxy, a lot of the themes and things that characters deal with in terms of lessons that they’re learning are things that are completely relatable to real life. That moment for me, the Canto Bight moment — I’m getting emotional thinking about it, because I made it so personal to me when we were filming it — it just feels so… specific. I’m hesitant to align a movie with any sort of current politics, but yes — for me, it was very emotional.”
Jen Yamato Has A Few Words With Kelly Marie Tran
“She’s swiping at us so we’re swiping back. We wanted to take a swipe back.”
Rightwing L.A. Wild-Poster Claims Streep Broadsides Are Payback For Criticism Of Trump
“If it were possible to prove a negative, Mr. Goddard would debate these 40-year-old allegations.”
“Goddard directed and choreographed the production, giving him close access to its young male actors, many of whom were playing ‘The Lost Boys,’ Peter Pan’s tribe of loyal acolytes.”
Eight Former Child Actors Allege Gary Goddard Sexual Misconduct explicit abuse descriptions