MCN Curated Headlines Archive for October, 2019
A surveillance dystopia is not inevitable — and the way we kept it out of music festivals is a lesson for the future, write @evan_greer and @tmorello https://t.co/9SzfhXROrv
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) October 25, 2019
“Morrissey has been increasingly speaking out against England’s liberal-leaning immigration policies, and has expressed his allegiance to For Britain, a far-right political party.”
Why Do Fans Overlook Morrissey’s Racism?
Sometimes I wake up remembering that this year a major studio quietly smothered a topical genre movie executed by some of the industry’s best talent… because the President of the United States made a tweet. And we don’t even talk about it now.
— Justin Marks (@Justin_Marks_) October 24, 2019
Spent 12 days in LA, here are the phrases people used in almost every meeting:
Singular vision
Filmmaker forward
Unique perspective
Director driven
Female driven
Elevated horror
Socially relevant
A24s of the world
Now more than ever
Podcast— Rebecca Green (@rebfive) October 24, 2019
The Farewell, Hustlers, Marriage Story, Uncut Gems, Waves
American Factory, Apollo 11, The Edge of Democracy, Midnight Traveler, One Child Nation
Gotham Noms Listed
***TW Sexual Assault***
Hey everyone. You might have seen my tweet about cursing out Harvey Weinstein last night. As a rape survivor I’m so furious and sad and frustrated.
Here is a thread about what happened.
— clever, but make it spooky (@ambercrollo) October 24, 2019
Kelly (@bellykachman) is my hero. Just a general fuck you to the Freddy Krueger in the room. pic.twitter.com/DZFm6fhxc1
— clever, but make it spooky (@ambercrollo) October 24, 2019
In @NylonMag, I wrote about Brad Pitt in AD ASTRA saying he's afraid of being like his dad, Adam Driver in MARRIAGE STORY being accused of being like his dad, and the fear of being a man who's little more than a houseguest in his own life:https://t.co/jK8R6S0iER
— Mark Asch (@therealmarkasch) October 24, 2019
Alain Delon, Dennis Hopper, Damon, Malkovich, Barry Pepper, Andrew Scott – has Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley been played by more great actors than any other franchise character? https://t.co/mKmmvQagc4
— Ben Schwartz ¡!¡! (@benschwartz_) October 24, 2019
Here we go pic.twitter.com/cY43tkH77Y
— Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken) October 23, 2019
At a dinner w/ Mike Leigh this past weekend, & the host asked what Mike thought of the Scorsese kerfufle regarding MCU movies. Mike's response: MCU movies are fine; the problem is that their bankability has made it so only global blockbusters will be made from now on. And: yes!
— (((jared gardner))) (@guttergeek) October 21, 2019
Ant-Man and the Wasp, because it’s a family-friendly sci-fi caper that scratches an itch studios seemed to lose interest in somewhere around the mid-90s.
— Robbie Collin (@robbiereviews) October 21, 2019
more filmmaking geniuses out here being forced by click-hungry outlets to reiterate the obvious and I’m perfectly fine with that tbh https://t.co/kIijacSnqs
— Larry Wright (@refocusedmedia) October 21, 2019
Kill nerd culture. https://t.co/BT9Ya8YawM
— Leslie Lee III (@leslieleeiii) October 21, 2019
Pacino asked Frank Serpico why he fought police corruption & didn’t just take the bribe money & give it to charity & get on with his work:
‘He looked at me and said ‘Al, if I’d done that, who would I have been when I listened to Beethoven?’ pic.twitter.com/uJc9OZecof— THE WICKER MANNION (@andymannion77) October 20, 2019
Love how Coppola and Scorsese are reduced to "someone's grandpa," as though their opinions come from their age and not their artistic taste.
— Akash Shetye (@AkashShetye) October 20, 2019
The death of theatrical for anything other than blockbuster tent poles has once again been exaggerated. Summer moviegoing patterns are screwy, but studios and corporations should be wary of leaning too far into streaming. There is a major opening for another minimajor tho.
— Gregory Ellwood – The Playlist 🎬 (@TheGregoryE) October 19, 2019
California Assemblywoman @LorenaSGonzalez has launched a direct attack on press freedoms with her bill.
I’d say she should be ashamed of herself, but knowing her, shame is not a sensation she’s familiar with. https://t.co/WbL5g4Ho0W pic.twitter.com/V8Qj9Idbbp
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 19, 2019
I'm all for preventing exploitation but what's happening to freelancers in California right now is an absolute horror show. Capping "freelance articles" at twice per month based off some kind of "weekly column" metric? @LorenaSGonzalez has no clue how modern media actually works. https://t.co/a3UiNo7M0w
— Nick Kolakowski (@nkolakowski) October 18, 2019
Happy birthday to the great French master, Jean-Pierre Melville! Over on @criterionchannl, you can spend the day with all 14 of his films! What will you be watching? https://t.co/wignfqOiwp
— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) October 20, 2019
another great obit by @genznyt https://t.co/WIbZcNVXIW
— 32 across (@aoscott) October 20, 2019
This law would functionally make it illegal for me to do my job in California. @LorenaSGonzalez please rethink this.
If you want to talk about the reality of freelance writing careers, I’m around. Contact me at https://t.co/cPuHPkpasehttps://t.co/6bcAOTw6pv
— Jennifer Wright (@JenAshleyWright) October 19, 2019
"Frances lives in 2013, and yet she refracts cinematic light from 1959 and 1964 and 1986. She is inside a movie learning that life is not a movie." — Annie Baker pic.twitter.com/LP5I6IYhWn
— MUBI (@mubi) October 18, 2019
If a freelance journalist writes for a magazine, newspaper or other entity whose central mission is to disseminate the news, the law says, that journalist is capped at writing 35 "submissions" per year per "putative employer." ttp://bit.ly/2qsm25D https://t.co/FRCjJVwco1
— Carl Franzen (@carlfranzen) October 18, 2019
Donald Trump letter to CNN…. https://t.co/NekuzkSsSS
— Eriq Gardner (@eriqgardner) October 18, 2019
“Young people generally make ‘older’ art than old people, don’t they?”
Fourteen Filmmaker Dan Sallitt At Length
The Robb Report, a joint venture between Penske Media and a private equity firm, threw a luxury yacht party for high-rollers in Saudi Arabia nearly a year after Jamal Khashoggi's murderhttps://t.co/kjpkCWBeba
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) October 18, 2019
Also, to be sure, in The Producers:
"Talk about bad taste!"
(May he indeed rest in peace.)
— Benjamin Dreyer (@BCDreyer) October 18, 2019
One of the most celebrated animators of our time has been living here in Texas for nearly nine years now.
“I think what a good cartoonist does is you strip things away, and you only leave what’s important." https://t.co/F9jZzKrDg5
— Texas Monthly (@TexasMonthly) October 18, 2019
Megyn Kelly called yesterday for NBC to do a new outside investigation into the Matt Lauer claims. That won’t be happening. Spokesperson: “There is no additional investigation being conducted. We are very confident in the report that was conducted.” https://t.co/kUcGZFNpHj
— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) October 17, 2019
debuting today on Netflix, Soderbergh's The Laundromat, based on my friend @Jake_Bernstein's Panama Papers book, Secrecy World. I worked on all three of these projects to various degrees so I'm deeply biased, but you should watch it (and read the book!)
— Ryan Chittum (@ryanchittum) October 18, 2019
Uber and Lyft almost certainly need regulatory pressure. But to think the same regulations apply across the board, whether you’re dealing with the country-sized economy of Uber or a 20-person media outlet, is astonishingly off the mark.
— Russ Fischer (@russfischer) October 18, 2019