MCN Curated Headlines Archive for November, 2018
When the late great Bertolucci visited MoMA in the late 60’s the 1 film he was eager 2 finally C was his poet-father’s favorite American film, the effervescent NY comedy, Easy Living (1937, Mitchell Leisen ) which NY’s Film Forum has already scheduled for a New Year’s week run.
— Laurence Kardish (@laurencekardish) November 26, 2018
ICYMI: Joan Graves helped decide movie ratings for 30 years. @nytimes shares some of her perspective. https://t.co/6jBuqg9OLb
— MPAA (@MPAA) November 26, 2018
“What an extraordinary film-maker Nic Roeg was, a man whose imagination and technique could not be confined to conventional genres. He should be remembered for a clutch of masterly films, but perhaps especially for his classic Don’t Look Now, not merely the best scary movie in history, but one infused with compassion and love.”
This is truly another golden age in narrative fiction. The opportunities to tell imaginative, inventive, original, artful, odd, multi-faceted, ambiguous, weird, dark, quirky, amazingly PERSONAL stories are abundant. And guess what? THE FORMULAIC APPROACH AIN’T GONNA HELP YOU.
— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) November 24, 2018
Guillermo del Toro Introduces The Night Of The Hunter
“I reject the whole notion that the only reason people go to the movies is to see spectacle. There’s something magical about a shared experience. A specialty movie that has something on its mind, that has artistic intent, is best seen in the theater, especially in 2018. Watching a movie in a movie theater is superior to watching it at home.”
What Makes A Roadside Attraction?
BREAKING: Amazon bids for 22 regional sports networks Walt Disney must divest in Fox deal; Amazon, Blackstone also join Yankees with bids for YES Network; 2nd round bids expected before year-end – sources https://t.co/JQRAEQLQkp
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) November 20, 2018
“Cuarón uses one household on one street to open up a world, working on a panoramic scale often reserved for war stories, but with the sensibility of a personal diarist. It’s an expansive, emotional portrait of life buffeted by violent forces, and a masterpiece.”
Dargis On Cuarón
“Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before.”
Howard Rodman On William Goldman
“If he’d stuck exclusively to novels, Goldman would most likely be eulogized now as a minor author, a middle-range talent who plied his craft in the shadow of more illustrious contemporaries. Instead, he occupies a special place in the history of movies. He wasn’t the first novelist to strike out for Hollywood, but he managed the crossover with exemplary dexterity, professionalism and panache.”
A. O. Scott On William Goldman, From Page To Screen
“I’ve been apart from the world, working away on these little interior worlds. Basically, I’m like a cloistered nun.”
Willem Dafoe
“Dick Cheney was the safe-cracker, the professional you brought in who knew all the ins and outs of our government. With Trump, the front door to the White House is wide open. There’s deer and dogs and hyenas running around. So I would take the hyenas, the random wild animals running through the White House over Cheney any day of the week.”
Adam McKay
“The first thing I did was give my Twitter to one of my assistants. I didn’t want to make that rash tweet choice at 3am like the president.”
“Jim Carrey Was Warned Against Getting Political With His Twitter Art”
“How lucky can you be? I mean it. We work for the best filmmaker around.”
Lindsay Bahr Talks To Marvin Levy About Honorary Oscar
“‘Dr. Fantasy is a great party host, and a master of several complicated high dives into large cakes,'” Harrison Ford said.”
“What It’s Really Like to Work for Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall”
Both negative and positive personal context impacts the movies we watch. When @ebertchicago named The Third Man as one of the ten best films ever made, he also qualified his view by describing the memorable rainy day he saw it in a small Paris theater.
— Sc**t De£ick$0n (@scottderrickson) November 16, 2018
There Was Somebody Who Knew Something
William Goldman Was 87
William Goldman’s opening page of his screenplay of Butch Cassidy is better written than most novels. A complete master. pic.twitter.com/UeZh5zmpMJ
— Jonny Geller (@JonnyGeller) November 16, 2018
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— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) November 16, 2018
Truly saddened by the passing of Richard Lormand (@FilmPressPlus), the hardest-working, most passionately invested publicist on the festival circuit. He consistently took chances on challenging films he believed in, and worked his ass off to make them seen. I’ll miss him greatly.
— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) November 15, 2018
Coming: The Gurus O’ Gold Revisit Best Picture; Nod Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor
“‘The Americans’ was already a big inspiration. For Se7en, there was something else about Robert Frank’s photos that interested me, which was more related to the grittiness of them, the blandness, the loneliness of a past era and the texture of death. At the same time, there’s something monumental about the way Frank captured such loneliness and grittiness, and he really made those Americans of the 1950s look like giants.”
Darius Khondji On Shooting Se7en
‘Like my friend David Hammond said to me one time, “I don’t shit on command.” But I guess when I’m actually on set, it’s a case of trying to be as accurate as possible; it’s craft. When I was a kid, a young person, I had a Super 8 camera and that film was very, very expensive. So, if I shot something, oh my God, that’s like 50 pence! I would edit in my head! But these days, sometimes I go on set not knowing the scene! I don’t even do shot lists. I love that! I love being in the moment.”
Steve McQueen Talks
「今から100年後、もし誰かが私の名前を挙げて、その頃まで私の名前が残っていたらですが(笑い)「おお、彼は素晴らしい物書きだった、彼の物語が多くの喜びを与えてくれた」と言ってくれたら、物書き冥利に尽きる。それが物書きにとって一番嬉しいこと」スタン・リーpic.twitter.com/LYPdgYWstg
— ヒロ・マスダ / Hiro Masuda (@IchigoIchieFilm) November 13, 2018