MCN Curated Headlines Archive for August, 2019
There needs to be an Oscar for Best Stunts. Full stop. https://t.co/smAxIyHion
— Bilge Ebiri (@BilgeEbiri) August 12, 2019
Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela won the top prize at the Locarno Film Festival https://t.co/NWniuWYrR3 pic.twitter.com/NTZeP9vHnQ
— Screen International (@Screendaily) August 17, 2019
Goodbye to Patricia Louisianna Knop, screenwriter of 9 1/2 Weeks, Wild Orchid, Siesta, Red Shoe Diaries, and Delta of Venus. Married to Zalman King for 46 years, their unapologetic romanticism and fascination with mercurial female desire is the secret magic behind many films! pic.twitter.com/CO6MfxpryK
— We Kill For Love (@wekillforlove) August 8, 2019
Three years ago, before Paramount bought the spec script for #AQuietPlace and months before John & Emily came aboard, we created a visual look book to help sell the studio. A few fun discrepancies here from the final film. Also note our push for practical creature fx, ala ALIEN. pic.twitter.com/kN1nopbP8Y
— Beck/Woods (@beckandwoods) August 15, 2019
We're sad to learn of the death of master animator and director Richard Williams. Best known for his work on WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT and THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER, he also created titles for films like CASINO ROYALE (1967)https://t.co/BPCF5kU77l #RichardWilliams pic.twitter.com/P8nqNdqdaU
— Art of the Title (@ArtoftheTitle) August 17, 2019
“Quentin was practically face-to-face with each performer on the ground-level stage, so the pressure was definitely on. It was a huge relief to me that from the very first act on he seemed to really be enjoying himself and emoting along with the acts — nodding, clapping, laughing, throwing his hands up. He seemed quite drawn to the very specialized technical acts. I was very humbled to receive a standing ovation from Quentin.”
Tarantino Checks In At “Tarantina: Hollywood 1969, the Un-Official Quentin Tarantino Cabaret” Burlesque
#BoycottMulan began to trend on social media after Crystal Liu posted a message to her 65 million followers on Chinese social media platform Weibo that read: “I support Hong Kong’s police, you can beat me up now” https://t.co/rKktU6lt8j
— Äbid Rahman (@gentlemanabroad) August 16, 2019
Need For Sanitation, As Well As Protests, May Chase Trump From The Street He Loves And Hates; Chamber Of Commerce As Policy Never Removes A Star, Not Even Bill Cosby’s
The city of West Hollywood approved a proposal to remove Trump’s star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame last week, citing recent costly vandalism and recent demonstrations around the star. https://t.co/mBndqVZDkz
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2019
“International fascism again looms large and the dislocations that have followed the global economic meltdown of 2008 helped bring us to a point where the planet itself seems likely to melt down. Armageddon seems somehow plausible and we’re all turned into helpless children scared of forces grander than we can imagine, looking for respite and answers in superheroes flying across screens in our chapel of dreams.”
Marvel Comics Reportedly Refuses Art Spiegelman Introduction: They Hope To Be “Apolitical”
“I still believe in the future of the cinema.”
MEDIA MESHUGGAH
Not to be tinfoil hat but don’t forget most of the “Bruce Lee OUATIH” stuff is because of branding. From 2009: https://t.co/zoCZBeMkOj pic.twitter.com/dtsnEcbLVC
— John Lichman (@jlichman) August 16, 2019
Love, hate or meh the Tarantino it is really nice to have an original, non superhero film everyone is going to the cinema to see and having a lot of opinions about. It’s like the 1970s or something
— Jonathan Dean (@JonathanDean_) August 16, 2019
OMG, they know what Blockbuster is from CAPTAIN MARVEL… the way I knew who Chuck Berry was from BACK TO THE FUTURE. https://t.co/rAJ1jtDdV8
— Rebecca Keegan (@ThatRebecca) August 16, 2019
Another devastating blow to LGBT rights in Korea. The 3rd Busan Queer Culture Festival has been cancelled due to the homophobic atmosphere created by local authorities making the pride parade impossible to take place (denied rally permission) and impossible to guarantee safety. https://t.co/MtwtpDT6rv
— Raphael Rashid (@koryodynasty) August 16, 2019
If you know of cinephiles/historians who would be great for this but aren’t on Twitter, please share it with them! I’d also love to get pitches from people outside of the film world, coming from the study of fashion, cosmetics, gender, advertising, etc. https://t.co/iRU53NEX2s
— Karina Longworth (@KarinaLongworth) August 15, 2019
After threats to disband a film funding agency, more grief for Brazil’s film sector—another fund,@BancodoBrasil, now asks directors if their project includes “explicit sex” (no def.), any religious or political angle, any reference to sex, drugs, crime, prostitution or pedophilia
— Ela Bittencourt (@Ela_Bittencourt) August 14, 2019
Unpopular movie take: Almost all unpopular movie takes are posted by people who are stupid down to the marrow of their bones.
— Joe Leydon (@JoeLeydon) August 15, 2019
MS. WARREN DEMURS
First Disney acquired 21st Century Fox.
Now CBS and Viacom are merging.
Consolidation raises serious concerns for consumers, employees, and the entire sector. The Department of Justice should be paying close attention. https://t.co/weQGTRL1ga
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 15, 2019
“There were issues with, ‘How do you tell the story? You’re kind of ruining the feel of the book with the way the movie’s done.’ But that was falling on deaf ears." My dive into the convoluted development process of Where'd You Go, Bernadette https://t.co/Nh9pDVnWdu
— Chris Lee (@__ChrisLee) August 15, 2019
You know what cannot be predicted by big data? Fandom. You know what global media industries are currently banking on? Fans. You’d think someone out there would be interested in the qualitative side of this. #butno #cantbequantifiedmeans #itdoesntexist
— lori morimoto (@acafanmom) August 14, 2019
the field as obsessed with IDK Star Trek (although that’s there too, and valid given that it’s the franchise that cannot die). We are fucking HERE, and there are exactly no jobs, no interest in what we do, but let’s have a few more hires in vaguely defined digital whatever
— lori morimoto (@acafanmom) August 14, 2019
And the shitty practice of killing sites without notice, erasing people's work and depriving them of clips to show future editors. I wrote thousands of posts for Zap2it, a lot of which got lost in prior CMS changes before this last death.
— Rick Porter (@rickporter) August 15, 2019
Using just a basic green screen, a group of Nigerian student filmmakers have created slick sci-fi short films #AfricaJournal pic.twitter.com/9CJHBMOkP3
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 14, 2019
And I say this as an individual who is considered by some to be a critic and who has filed a rather negative assessment of a Malick picture. https://t.co/EVZSaBqY9m
— Glenn Kenny (@Glenn__Kenny) August 15, 2019
Alternately, a perfectly acceptable late-period Cameron Crowe movie.
— Ty Burr (@tyburr) August 15, 2019
Just remembered that Ken Russell's appearance on Celebrity Big Brother led to a season of his films on More4
And this beautiful specially-shot trailer,
which I still haunts me a decade on.
(by @knucklehead_HQ's Siri Bunford) pic.twitter.com/ybGS5KbEsI
— afterglow (@afterglow2046) August 14, 2019
For context, Lego Batman was a pretty good movie.
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) August 15, 2019
Bruce Lee’s Daughter Tells Quentin Tarantino to ‘Shut Up’ After Latest Comments (EXCLUSIVE) https://t.co/DklXcQDeFe pic.twitter.com/XROERsultR
— Variety_Film (@Variety_Film) August 14, 2019