MCN Curated Headlines Archive for August, 2019
No, it's not the perfect headline. Using my assault as a teenager 42 YEARS ago, failing to mention the judicial misconduct that has left me to deal with these vulgar tweets, and then using me shit on a man who should be allowed to do his work, is not perfect, it is abusive to ME https://t.co/IDdj8U0fQW
— Samantha Jane Geimer (@sjgeimer) August 31, 2019
It’s a bit like when someone at a film festival (niche or mainstream) introduces a genre movie: My experience has been the quality of the movie is inversely proportionate to the number of fucks or fuckings or motherfuckings dropped during the intro.
— Joe Leydon (@JoeLeydon) September 1, 2019
It’s all culture-war bullshit, and it turns movies into ammunition, rendering the act of actually experiencing them irrelevant.
— A.A. Dowd (@AADowd) August 31, 2019
You are getting personal by constantly going after what I/many who take film seriously do. If Telluride cut out what you dismiss as Oscar bait, the fest would no longer exist to celebrate Varda (who, by the way, was recently nominated for an Oscar and awarded an honorary one).
— Scott Feinberg (@ScottFeinberg) August 31, 2019
Nope. Kieslowski represents the Pence-era festival. It’s a different event now. It used to be about the fun that Les Blank would bring. Now it’s about if Peggy Siegal shows up. But more deeply, this is about how it’s covered. The coverage is profoundly different.
— Robert Koehler (@bhkoe) August 31, 2019
Red Buttons took home an Oscar® but not Hitchcock. From Nov. to April it's the same fucking 25 movies clogging multiplexes. Netflix releases films to theatres only to qualify for prizes. Can't we all agree that art shouldn't compete and move on?
— Scott Marks (@scottmarks) August 31, 2019
When I was younger I was self-conscious about my diction because I’d learned many of the words I used from books and would say them wrong. Now, listening to podcasts in the age of the internet, I’m pleased to see that no one can correctly pronounce anything.
— Simon Barrett (@Simon_Barrett) August 31, 2019
#BREAKING Actress Valerie Harper, known for 'Rhoda," 'Mary Tyler Moore Show," dies at 80, family sayshttps://t.co/ker20tZqPf
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) August 30, 2019
Have you ever guessed the number of partners you’ve had?
It would be in the double-digit thousands, but that is not unusual.
Double-digit thousands. You mean like 2,000 or 3,000?
That’s not double digits, that’s single digits.
Oh! So 20,000 or 30,000. Somewhere in there.
Or 10, or 20.
That’s really amazing.
It’s not for a gay male, because it’s available.
Did you date famous men?
I’ve had sex with famous people, and I’ve had sex with married people, and they go to the grave. I’ve never kissed and told about anybody who gives me the favor of sharing a bed with me.
RIP Manhattan's last commercial single-screen moviehouse, and with it, goodbye to a whole mode and era of moviegoing. I understand why it's gone and don't really want it back, but I can still shed a tear. https://t.co/Ne97bbBIzd
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) August 29, 2019
Wish I had been able to attend the last picture show at the Paris, the way I did for Manhattan's late, great Ziegfeld. I covered that theater's closing night for @YahooEnt, which was also the last time I saw Force Awakens on the big screenhttps://t.co/lO81NJiCWQ
— Ethan Alter (@ethanalter) August 30, 2019
i need to stress this: if you live in new york city, you are now a historian, moving through a future lost place; write it down, remember it. it's probably going to outlive you, but it won't stay this way forever, and people will need to look to you to know what it was like
— rachel syme (@rachsyme) August 29, 2019
I'm sad to post the news today the December-January issue of National Geographic Traveler will be its last. Its end, at age 35, is due to the medium through which you are reading these words, but on which Nat Geo… https://t.co/5bGQbu2MVc
— Andrew Nelson (@andrewnelson) August 29, 2019

“No matter what the political situation is, art should always prevail and be given top priority, because it is what pushes for civilization to grow, what shapes people’s minds and hearts. It’s important not to give up on that.”
Saudi Filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour
We’re fully in the era where cinemas as we know them are becoming extinct. Even great movie cities will, in 10-15 years, have only a handful of operating cinemas. https://t.co/x7fG0zd06X
— Robert Koehler (@bhkoe) August 30, 2019
Jason is correct about Blockbuster but if he ever comes for Hollywood Video I am cutting him. https://t.co/Sz3Rzb4RCq
— Bilge Ebiri (@BilgeEbiri) August 28, 2019
So happy to see my superstar “PR icon” boyfriend @chuckmcduck quoted in this piece. Phwoar. https://t.co/rCp0LPF44G
— Bumble Ward (@BumbleWard) August 30, 2019
Congratulations to @JOSH_BENNY Safdie. Uncut Gems is a gigantic creative leap forward for them. A crime story that deepens into a portrait of an archetypal Jewish American hero chasing the bitch goddess Success. Adam Sandler brings it. It will be an Oscar nominated performance.
— larryagross (@larryagross) August 29, 2019
The @globeandmail, thanks to @HertzBarry, ran an oral history of @cleojournal featuring some of our past editorial voices @mallory_andrews @Kathleenytimes @manishaclaire @yo_mk @cellwand and Cathleen Evans 💜https://t.co/pSdGeqlP2M
— Kiva Reardon (@kiva_jane) August 28, 2019
Paris-based Lisa Nesselson gives Woody Allen’s new-ish film a nice review @Screendaily – pushing back on the sneers & smears: https://t.co/PBnNVAUlPx pic.twitter.com/jTvA3xlp4w
— Whit Stillman (@WhitStillman) August 29, 2019
The budget for "Venom" was $100 million. https://t.co/DmgzPfaztF
— Todd Vaziri (@tvaziri) August 26, 2019
Dave Chappelle calls Michael Jackson rape accusers liars, defends Louis C.K. and Kevin Hart https://t.co/7bVkFENtKR
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 26, 2019
“As soon as I logged on that day, I was swarmed — ad trackers surrounded me, and, identifying me by a 19-digit number I think of as a prisoner tag, they followed me from page to page as I traipsed across the web.”
— Faris (@faris) August 26, 2019