MCN Curated Headlines Archive for January, 2019
“I didn’t even vote for the guy. I don’t necessarily crave a conservative audience, but that may be an outcome, and it wouldn’t surprise me. I understand that audience deeply. But it’s not a mission statement.”
Catching Up To The Brute, Bloody Output Of Dallas’ Cinestate
Seriously though, I couldn't care less about cutting the songs, they were usually excruciating and cinema ain't Broadway. But you know what cinema is? CINEMATOGRAPHY.
— Jessica Kiang (@jessicakiang) January 28, 2019
As we move closer to one of the most misbegotten "reconceptions" of the Oscars ever, a thread with a scoop–they're not showing Best Cinematography this year. Stupid, wrong, won't help what needs helping, will hurt what doesn't need hurting. https://t.co/02yNP0hJlQ
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) January 28, 2019
There's potentially a world where they get shamed out of this. Potentially. Just FYI. pic.twitter.com/Akf6lMtp4r
— Kristopher Tapley (@kristapley) January 27, 2019
Couldn’t agree more. I like to think I was put on this earth to champion the risk-takers. It’s the complacent, color-by-numbers movies that get the hatchet. #Sundance2019 @ Sundance Film… https://t.co/Wo1A3CzFgk
— Peter Debruge (@AskDebruge) January 28, 2019
The appeal and potential of film aren’t lost on me; but few who use celluloid (the term has a pompous vanity of technical authority) do anything original with it—rather, it often gets used like a declaration of nostalgic fidelity, a ready-made excuse for non-originality.
— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) January 28, 2019
“I make home movies, therefore I live, I live, therefore I make home movies.” Only recently, while rewatching Walden, did I finally grasp the full implications of his use of ‘home movies,’ and how for him these two words had become inseparable.”
Dargis On Mekas
Je peux témoigner, miyazaki pere et fils sont au travail. 2 nouvelles productions des studios ghibli sont en cours et les dessins sont in-cro-ya-bles ! Tres grosse emotion
— VINCENT MARAVAL 🇲🇨 (@MARAVALV) January 21, 2019
“In a mystery the problems are all hidden, just as they are in life now. People don’t know how to feel about their anger or even what they are feeling angry about.”
Burning Director Lee Chang-Dong
Please delete the word (and concept) "biopic."
— Jay Babcock (@jaywbabcock) January 27, 2019
Great Mindy Kaling line about distribution deal for her @Sundance hit "Late Night:" "I have spent a fortune on Amazon, so its nice to see them reciprocate."
— Kenneth Turan (@KennethTuran) January 27, 2019
Bravo!!! That makes 37 individuals taking the #4percentChallenge. Who will be next? @TessaThompson_x @franklinleonard @ninajacobson @paulfeig https://t.co/CLzOLpnMTP
— Annenberg Inclusion Initiative (@Inclusionists) January 27, 2019
Has @TheAcademy considered that people at the Oscar show, backstage and in the house, can tweet the winners being taped during the commercials before they have time to edit their wins into the broadcast?
— Anne Thompson (@akstanwyck) January 27, 2019
Alan Canter, owner of Los Angeles landmark Canter's Deli, dies at 82 https://t.co/y720wfF5vF
— L.A. Times: L.A. Now (@LANow) January 26, 2019
So many great women-directed movies came out this year… Relieved that @sundancefest celebrates female directors! And honored that @tnyfrontrow gave #madelinesmadeline 5 Oscars!!! https://t.co/c1JmEuFUcM
— Josephine Decker (@JosephineJambox) January 27, 2019
“The nose job is a problematic Iranian rite of passage I had spent years successfully dodging, but my defenses were down. I probably would have undergone a lobotomy if someone told me it would turn me into a muse.”
Desiree Akhavan Regrets Rhinoplasty
“Every film is subtitled because the images are not interesting. And a story has to be followed. It’s always a story about a man who meets a lady and then there are problems… So, you need subtitles. And then, you read the text but if the text and the image are interesting at the same time, that’s uninteresting. No, I’ve always been for a dubbed version, not with voice-over but dubbing, but done well. And that requires as much money as the original film. You have to find the voices and everything, so it’s not done. It’s done a bit in France for what they call blockbusters, big films. So they make a dubbed version that’s even less interesting than the original version.”
Godard’s Only Interview For Image Book, Translated
Just ran into an agent from LA. Haven’t seen him in awhile and I went in for a hug. He pushed back immediately, saying, “No hugs at Sundance!” He paused a beat and then added, “But I love you very much…” #Sundance #NoHugsAtSundance #ButILoveYouVeryMuch pic.twitter.com/QDeDmZyuwp
— eugene hernandez (@eug) January 26, 2019
“What we must build next has to be built together, equally, across industries and job titles. A system that will allow all of our voices to prosper and succeed.”
Amber Tamblyn
They will build the largest surveillance system ever conceived and will sell it under the banner of consumer encryption.
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) January 25, 2019
AOC Elevates D.C. Above P.C.; Job Before Doc
This clip was made at the very beginning of our journey – before anyone knew what was happening. It’s wild to see now.
cc: @jubileefilms pic.twitter.com/Djp9Vo2Y8m
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 26, 2019
“Detainment was voted on by Academy members. When making their choices, each individual applies their own judgment regarding the films’ creative, artistic and technical merits. We understand that this will not alleviate the pain experienced by the family; however we hope it clarifies the Academy’s neutral role in the voting process.”
Academy Reacts To Brit Protests Over True-Crime Short About Children Who Murder A Toddler
“I think when we’re looking at these multiverses, we have to be very careful about who is not included in those worlds.” – @scarahnellis #NewFrontier #PowerOfStory
— SundanceFilmFestival (@sundancefest) January 26, 2019
“Tom has been able to build franchises for the studio with the bits and pieces that Sony has and launch them out of thin air.”
Has Sony Stemmed Slowdown?
Don’t have Fomo looking at all those people dressed nicely in the snow, all of that is bullshit that surrounds the real purpose, making risky and challenging film. Focus on making movies with your friends in blue jeans, everything else is silly. pic.twitter.com/xiHdcxyCLV
— Jim Cummings (@jimmycthatsme) January 26, 2019
Jennifer Kent’s THE NIGHTINGALE is a caustic brutal nightmare that hits you so hard you’ll never watch The Revenant or a Tarantino movie the same way again. A necessary reframing cinematic violence by my queen @IFCFilms
— Leslye Headland (@LeslyeHeadland) January 26, 2019
Daniel Zimmermann’s grand WALDEN, one of the few movies in #Sundance New Frontier, creates a chain of 360 degree pan shots from the forests & ports of Europe to Brazil, linking James Benning’s looking and listening to globalization and the life and death of forests. @sundancefest
— Robert Koehler (@bhkoe) January 26, 2019
Leaving Neverland premieres at #Sundance to a standing ovation and only a few protesters outside https://t.co/2OdqMUjBcs
— Lindsey Bahr (@ldbahr) January 25, 2019
“The fact that she would find any turbulence and that would happen is heartbreaking to me.” https://t.co/RTlqfLmmB7
— erickohn (@erickohn) January 25, 2019
“The subjects of the Michael Jackson doc actually defended him years ago. Later, after coming to grips with what they experienced as boys, both men said they tried to sue Jackson’s companies; those cases never went to trial and were dismissed by the court.”
Sundance Sees Jackson Sex Shocker
“The conflict between human reason and animal instinct has always fascinated me, and sex, drugs and violence are manifestations of that. It’s where the drama lies.”
Irvine Welsh