MCN Curated Headlines Archive for June, 2018
Our solidarity can save his life.
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg #Sentsov is imprisoned in Siberia for 20 years. Today is the 24th day of his indefinite hunger strike for the release of 64 Ukrainian political prisoners.https://t.co/iP468zYw9L— Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) June 8, 2018

“The bad grade, in this case, raises a question: Why are so many people turning on Hereditary who’d be all too happy to sit through the limb-severing, soundtrack-gonging, ghost-face-in-the-mirror megaplex horror implement of the week? The reason they’ve turned on it, of course, is that it’s not the horror implement of the week.”
Variety Stretches, Yawns, Has a Deep Think, Composes Nearly 1,300-Word Thumbsucker On Hereditary And Tracking Aid CinemaScore
“As an actor, I have periods of intense work and then a break. As you get older, learning lines gets harder, since your brain is slower. I have a little office space at home where I often stare out the window at the bird feeders in the garden.”
Alison Steadman
I wrote about my pal Tony https://t.co/4STkQsUxVV
— your friend Helen (@hels) June 8, 2018
News of Anthony Bourdain’s death, reportedly by suicide, did not compute. Who was more volcanically alive? https://t.co/7anIEwa3io
— TNY Culture Desk (@CultureDesk) June 8, 2018
Here's @Pete_Wells with a first cut on Bourdain. https://t.co/W4AzTJWE3h
— Sam Sifton (@SamSifton) June 8, 2018

“I said, ‘I need a kamikaze performance — I need you to jump off the deep end.'”
Jen Yamato On All the Brains Behind Hereditary
“When you tell people about sexual abuse, they think: “Oh my God! It’s so horrible!” Or they have this perception of a person who is sexually abused as someone crying in a corner, and it’s a big drama. For me, as a survivor, it’s not like that. You live with something in a very, again, ordinary way. It’s part of you. I don’t see this event as horrific in the way you see it as horrific. I see it as part of my life, and I’m investigating a narrative in my life, not something from a horror film. So I wanted to show the ordinariness of it all.”
“The Tale”‘s Jennifer Fox
David Ellis wrote it. https://t.co/s1Hf82OFju
— Sarah Weinman (@sarahw) June 7, 2018
“Good things can come from idiot men saying stupid shit and everyone reacting accordingly.”
Colin Trevorrow
“It’s time to start financing women and people of color who are directors, producers, and screenwriters with big money—and the rest will follow. Decades of talk have not moved the Hollywood gauge. It’s time for action.”
B. Ruby Rich On Film Quarterly Turning 60