MCN Curated Headlines Archive for June, 2019
Altered States (1980) directed by Ken Russell pic.twitter.com/6TXB3P9oCF
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) July 1, 2019
I think the best criticism is born out of curiosity and humility, and it’s hard to promote either when you’re saying you don’t like something.
— Ben Sachs (@1bsachs) July 1, 2019
I realized some time ago that there’s little money to be made in the kind of film criticism I want to write. I’m OK with that.
— Ben Sachs (@1bsachs) July 1, 2019
It is often best to step aside when there’s dogshit on the road. https://t.co/xS7VVtzxzE
— Ray Pride (@RayPride) July 1, 2019

“It was a race for bragging rights. Miramax just edged out Phantom Menace by an hour or a couple hours.”
How Harvey Weinstein Beat George Lucas to Digital Distribution, Just Because
Straight up chortling imagining Lucrecia Martel watching this in horror, mouth agape, vowing never to set foot on American soil again https://t.co/FuGXJX93uC
— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) June 30, 2019
you really shouldn't be tagging me in these. It's a story I made up so it's actually my story to tell & I decided to cast people who didn't look like me. It's fine if you don't like that but I believe in telling stories together.
— Julia Hart (@juliahartowitz) June 29, 2019
again if you had tweeted at me: "hey we'd like to see our perspective of your work I hope you view this as a conversation" etc that would have been different, but you know that's not how you tagged me so please don't pretend it is. You commanded me. And smacked your head.
— Julia Hart (@juliahartowitz) June 29, 2019
of course! but your intention was for me to listen to what you had to say, so I'm offering advice for how to better approach artists with criticism. people don't want to listen to what you have to say when your approach is to insult & offend them. best of luck!
— Julia Hart (@juliahartowitz) June 29, 2019
Possessed doll tired of being typecast by Hollywoodhttps://t.co/jDtWG5hd7r
— The Beaverton (@TheBeaverton) June 29, 2019
This tells you how dire the state of local news is. No “digital only” fallback strategy. No three-days-a-week print schedule. A daily newspaper just shuts it all down after more than 100 years: https://t.co/hnKzvenQWw
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) June 28, 2019
Riz Ahmed's Star Wars Celebration Chicago Appearance Was Canceled Because Homeland Security Wouldn't Let Him Board His Flight https://t.co/XZbiC06ckA via @io9
— Deanna ديانا (@deannaothman) June 28, 2019
Epic Chinese war film premiere cancelled in apparent censorship https://t.co/8xDavPvnga
— The Guardian (@guardian) June 28, 2019
Film News Roundup: AMC Theatres Launching Artisan Films for Non-Blockbusters https://t.co/ZrUQzL8xAa
— Variety (@Variety) June 28, 2019
Barenholtz only had 16 producing credits but they included Martin, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, and Requiem for a Dream and played a zombie in Dawn of the Dead https://t.co/oRmblwbMcA
— don (@donswaynos) June 27, 2019
"That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film."
— Krzysztof Kieślowski
Happy birthday to one of the greatest film directors of all time, Krzysztof Kieślowski. pic.twitter.com/bS85DwS7V5
— Art Film Art (@ArtFilmCinema) June 27, 2019
You know what they say… pic.twitter.com/ArfsPo1ZNT
— ben barenholtz (@bearben) July 22, 2016
The increasingly blurry line between journalism and IP-creation seems like something we should all be talking about more. For instance, how magazines are increasingly propping themselves up by marketing/selling their content to Hollywood. https://t.co/3PgDdrVevW
— Rachel Monroe (@rachmonroe) June 27, 2019
On his birthday, we're remembering the Polish master Krzysztof Kieślowski, who translated the mysteries of everyday life into incandescent, richly cinematic reveries with a mix of rigorous philosophical inquiry and operatic emotion. https://t.co/lDkSjFbmws pic.twitter.com/aszhnjHAr5
— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) June 27, 2019
“Like an even more precarious version of the Universal vault, the for-profit servers that host these primary documents of hip-hop culture can vanish in an instant." Who will save the mixtapes? https://t.co/lQu8x7XN5b pic.twitter.com/lCcjXs2Dea
— WFMU (@WFMU) June 27, 2019
Il avait ce qu'on appelle la gueule de l'emploi : rendu célèbre par le rôle de Frank Nitti dans "Les Incorruptibles", Billy Drago est décédé à 73 ans. #RIP #BillyDrago pic.twitter.com/et4En7uxJF
— TCM Cinéma (@TCM_Cinema) June 27, 2019
Tomorrow @LACMA, our LAST screening ever in the Bing Theater will be Ozu's final film, AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON. As both a send-off of the theater and a celebration of FILM at LACMA's legacy there, we hope to see you one last time at the Bing! https://t.co/IgZUr1bT6H pic.twitter.com/XQsHTGJb09
— Adam Piron (@adam_piron) June 27, 2019
Billy Drago Dead: 'Untouchables' Actor Dies at 73.
Billy played John Bly, a great bad guy on The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. He was sinister and understated on screen, sweet and humble off screen. Safe travels, fellow thespian. Well played! https://t.co/XJ7SiCcnk2
— Bruce Campbell (@GroovyBruce) June 27, 2019
Here Are Hundreds More Artists Whose Tapes Were Destroyed in the UMG Fire – https://t.co/HD4x9qcPJx <- It’s like the destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria. Irreplaceable originals (and we’ll never know what other treasures) lost, though copies of many highlights survive.
— (((The Other David Cohen))) (@David_S_Cohen) June 25, 2019
This just in: As we kind of expected, NBCU will take back the exclusive domestic streaming rights for #TheOffice for its new streaming service, starting in 2021 and for five years. It's currently believed to be one of, if not the, most-watched shows on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/JPhZqgqUvS
— Michael Schneider (@franklinavenue) June 25, 2019
Brit Ann Sarnoff New Warner CEO
Amazon Studios marketing and distribution chief Bob Berney departinghttps://t.co/6vY2bVfFud
— Screen International (@Screendaily) June 25, 2019
“There was the night a blizzard buried Manhattan and Dunleavy, “reclining” with a young woman in a snowdrift outside Elaine’s, and had his foot run over by a snowplow. Snarled Pete Hamill of the Daily News, ‘I hope it was his writing foot.'”
Tabloid legend Steve Dunleavy dead at 81, family confirms https://t.co/DgJ6N3GPvZ
— larry mcshane (@lmcshanenydn) June 25, 2019
The legendary @nypost reporter Steve Dunleavy dead at 81. Some of my favorite classic photos of him from 2006 at Langans. #RIPDunleavy https://t.co/Y7ThgMyXFx pic.twitter.com/8B48AxsAIU
— Zach Kouwe (@zkouwe) June 25, 2019
Whenever I think of Steve Dunleavy, I think of this column about him getting rolled by some kids after passing out drunk on a bench down the street from Langans “No, I didn’t call 911. You get drunk, fall down, take the consequences. Those are the rules.” https://t.co/PWjXr8qAAg
— Lukas I. Alpert (@lalpert1) June 25, 2019
Goodbye, Steve Dunleavy
Ignore the official obituaries, and read this 2008 Gawker article on the Australian New York Post journo, if you want at least a bit of reality. https://t.co/pgarWHwBmz #ausmedia also, this on the man he campaigned to have released https://t.co/tCFxzIS1GO— Leroy (@Leroy_Lynch) June 25, 2019
I’ve told the people who have no physical media – especially the ones who don’t live in an area with good art or revival houses – that they will eventually be at the mercy of what corporations think they want, but the response is ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
— Farran Nehme (@selfstyledsiren) June 24, 2019
This is a must read about the smoke and mirrors that is the Endeavor IPO. $7bn in liabilities… annually running in the red… with my former independent analyst hat on, I’d have advised investors to run a mile. https://t.co/JJTn3R9r5a
— Arash Amel (@arashamel) June 23, 2019

“I recently came down with an acute case of movie-world-itis — call it ‘franchise fatigue’ fatigue. The symptoms are as follows. It’s blockbuster movie season (otherwise known as: any given week of the year), and a handful of sequels, reboots, and tentpole-smash wannabes have all come out and performed badly. The media predictions of weekend grosses were not met. The studio dreams of box-office triumph were not fulfilled.”
A 1990s Sunday Peter Bart Column by Any Other Byline
Amazing video. Google was scraping Genius’ content and showing it to users without sending them to Genius. Google denied it. Genius proved it by embedding a hidden message in the apostrophes of their text. Applied steganography for plagiarism detection!https://t.co/mu1oqE2mO6
— Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) June 16, 2019
This is to me wholly separate from an issue like censorship. This isn’t about this guy saying stuff I don’t like, this is about a demonstrated pattern of predatory behavior toward his coworkers
— Kath Barbadoro (@kathbarbadoro) June 23, 2019
I freely admit bias. I hate what studios are now, hate that script development has been replaced by cautious brand management, and feel that corporate consolidation is a serious threat. All that said: This summer is not going according to plan. And good, because the plan stinks.x
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) June 23, 2019
“Endeavor is burdened by debt and has an uneven profit history and an even shakier future.”
ICYMI, this pretty eviscerating piece about #Endeavor’s IPO is in the print version of @THR. But it’s ONLY in the print version. Strange, right? pic.twitter.com/9igfspLXtm
— David Slack (@slack2thefuture) June 23, 2019
Read The NY Times piece about imminent demise of cinema and concept of, ahem, “theatricality”. Then watched the Macedonian doc about a woman living alone with bees and haven’t seen anything so rich at the multiplex all year. #honeyland
— Tom Charity (@VIFFSTER) June 23, 2019
Thread about summer box office, which has been slightly disappointing for franchises. I keep repeating this and I really believe it’s true: Hollywood has successfully trained people to not leave the house for anything but franchises. And now they are getting bored by franchises. https://t.co/wivHTPyGKF
— MZS (@mattzollerseitz) June 23, 2019
I freely admit bias. I hate what studios are now, hate that script development has been replaced by cautious brand management, and feel that corporate consolidation is a serious threat. All that said: This summer is not going according to plan. And good, because the plan stinks.x
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) June 23, 2019
The premium movie theater chain the Alamo Drafthouse has been coming soon for years, and now it's coming… well, still soon, but in this case, NEXT MONTHhttps://t.co/rAnSJCoEk8 pic.twitter.com/pAGpwwyDlz
— LAist (@LAist) June 23, 2019