MCN Curated Headlines Archive for April, 2018
“Mr. Jackson had wanted to cast Ms. Judd in a prominent role in the Rings series. But Mr. Weinstein ‘torpedoed Ms. Judd’s incredible professional opportunity,’ according to the complaint, by falsely telling Mr. Jackson that Ms. Judd was a ‘nightmare’ who should be avoided ‘at all costs.’”
Brooks Barnes On Ashley Judd’s Suit Against Harvey Weinstein
.@Lupita_Nyongo to star in 'The Killer' remake with John Woo directing https://t.co/JNbf65vfrd pic.twitter.com/bP4OUomiCB
— Variety (@Variety) April 30, 2018
When The Doves Fly
“Because we care so deeply about the important work of journalism, we must all together work to elevate it. Is it appropriate that we invite a celebrity to launch a relentless, and often vulgar, attack on the very people we cover? As if we can go back the next day to don our cloak of impartiality and all is well? I know you agree our credibility is far too important to compromise over a 20-minute abdication of the high road and a few cheap laughs.”
Gannett-USA TODAY Publisher Comes Out Swinging Against Comedian Michelle Wolf, In Spirited Defense of Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
“We did not act carelessly or in any way ‘force matters’ as Mr Juan Branco has said in the press. Our entire profession knows that ‘forcing matters’ has always been Mr Branco’s favourite method, and we should recall that he organised a press conference a few years ago where he denounced the Festival de Cannes because it had not kept a ‘promise to select’ one of his films. This was an accusation which didn’t go anywhere, because the Festival does not make promises to select films: it either selects them or it does not.”
Cannes Sets “Urgent Hearing” On Status Of Closing Night Film, The Quixote Of Gilliam
“I have no common place in contemporary film, not then, not now. I never got the Hollywood deal, I never went to film school, I never went to big Hollywood parties, I never had a PR person, which is probably why I used to call myself Captain Autonomous-Anonymous. I was never in favor with any group, be it audiences or critics or the financing system. They and I didn’t hear the same tune from the beginning. I barely had an agent half my career, and for me to go out begging for money at this age – some old guy no one’s ever heard of, and if they have, they don’t like his movies anyway! – I find it ridiculous.”
Alan Rudolph’s Got A New Alan Rudolph Movie
“The New York Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests — just look how it treated Roy Cohn, onetime lawyer to the president.”
Frank Rich Cover-Stories America’s Great Satan
“It’s increasingly impossible to make a living in theatre.”
Brit Playwright Hannah Khalil
“The Profound Normalcy of a Day at the Movies in Saudi Arabia: ‘It is truly a revolutionary time'”
Haifaa Al Mansour
“Marvel spent 10 years methodically and carefully creating a universe of characters, worlds and stories that all led to this and, in doing so, created an event unlike anything the business has ever seen.”
Disney Distribution Chief
“You’re not suggesting that I made this up, are you? I understand that there’s room for skepticism. I’m not a skeptic. I don’t make films or move through my life as a skeptic. I’m not interested in skepticism, that’s something you’re either born with or acquire as you live. You don’t know a damn thing, and neither do I. Nobody knows if there is an afterlife, a heaven or hell. What is our purpose here? Nobody knows that! We have no idea!”
William Friedkin
“One Has This Feeling of Having Contributed to Something That’s Gone Very Wrong.”
VR Pioneer Jaron Lanier on Silicon Valley Politics and What Went Wrong With the Internet
“I‘ve seen what happens when we pretend that these guys can simply disappear once they’ve been pushed out. In my experience, they resurface elsewhere, often to prey on others.”
The Problem With “Passing the Trash”
Streaming Services Face “Thirty-Percent Made in Europe” EU Directive; Must Fund Euro Series and Pics
“I don’t like its sterility. I like a film with a little more emotional balls, just as a movie, to get involved in. But as a work of art, I love it. It had an had an enormous, enormous impact on me, at a certain point.”
James Cameron Rejects 2001: A Space Odyssey
“When I first came up with the idea of utilitarian music, it was very, very unpopular. It meant Muzak. It was music reduced, stripped of its fundamental cultural importance. And that was my biggest hurdle. Artists were supposed to want people’s 100 per cent attention. But what was the least that I could do with music; how much could I leave out? What if I made music that was just like an atmosphere?”
Brian Eno
“The global adoption of one language form – in effect a standardization of mass audiovisual media – is a central issue of the media crisis. It means, for example, that a documentary film can basically have much the same form and narrative structure as a Netflix drama series.”
Peter Watkins Looks At “The Dark Side Of The Moon” At The Age Of Eighty-Two
