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Check out episodes 1 & 2 of @themandalorian!They are great! More to come on @disneyplus. — Robert Iger (@RobertIger) November 18, 2019
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White House Claims Trump Hosted White House Joker Screening After Rush To Walter Reed Hospital
Read the full article »Edgar Wright On 1917
‘1917’ is a thrilling, immersive, emotional journey into the heart of war. It’s exceptional on a technical level, yet frequently stunning in its simplicity. Sam Mendes & DP Roger Deakin (along with their crew) created a hypnotic cinema experience that is both riveting & moving. pic.twitter.com/qCrdquwdqC — edgarwright (@edgarwright) November 17, 2019
Read the full article »Edifice Is Your Father
‘When you’ve seen enough movies in enough places, in drive-ins from childhood and city palaces in adulthood, do you remember the places as well, if not better than the films themselves? The edifice as much as the onscreen evidence? I do. (You should be able to remember what’s around or behind the flatscreen in your…
Read the full article »Photographer Terry O’Neill Was 81: A Life in Pictures
Photographer Terry O’Neill Was 81: A Life in Pictures
Read the full article »Martin Scorsese at AFI
‘Nobody owns cinema. We don’t own cinema. You don’t own cinema. Scorsese doesn’t own cinema. When we look at the box office[of Avengers: Endgame, we don’t see that as a signifier of financial success, we see it as a signifier of emotional success,”—The Russo Brothers
Read the full article »The Sunday Column Has Pondered Marriage Story
“From the moment I saw Marriage Story at the Venice Film Festival, I was always planning to circle back to this issue. But now that the film has been released, that question had bled into a new dynamic: the calling of the movie on the carpet for not being enlightened or woke enough.” The Sunday…
Read the full article »“Scooter never had a relationship with Taylor, he should have offered her a partnership when he bought the company. Even if he offers Taylor a 50-50 deal now and allows her to buy in, her masters have dramatically increased in value since the sale. Taylor is very unlikely to give Scooter hundreds of millions given the bad blood.”
“Scooter never had a relationship with Taylor, he should have offered her a partnership when he bought the company. Even if he offers Taylor a 50-50 deal now and allows her to buy in, her masters have dramatically increased in value since the sale. Taylor is very unlikely to give Scooter hundreds of millions given…
Read the full article »Cats
"One for CATS, please." https://t.co/FhFhWYaOrP — Norm Wilner (@normwilner) November 17, 2019
Read the full article »Saving Institutions
Oak Park’s iconic Val’s Halla Records was set to close after 47 years. Then a customer stepped in. https://t.co/F9YXr9CNjd — Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) November 16, 2019
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: After the Wedding, Buñuel in the Labyrinth, Bliss, Nuke ’Em High Redux, Tel Aviv on Fire, They Are We, Hitchhikers, Far Country, Popstar, Truth … More
After the Wedding: Blu-ray In 2007, After the Wedding became the first Danish film in 16 years to be nominated for a Best Foreign Language Oscar. The competition that year — The Lives of Others, Days of Glory, Water, Pan’s Labyrinth – was typically intense and Suzanne Bier and co-writer Anders Thomas Jensen’s drama lost…
Read the full article »Review: The Good Liar
I had great fun, from start to finish, trying to anticipate what was about to happen next and then being taken places that were unexpected. Are a few of the functional devices a little clanky? Absolutely. But I wasn’t judging the movie on that basis. For me, it was more like watching a Mission: Impossible film or episode. I didn’t have to believe that a guy in a rubber mask with a chip to adjust his voice passed without question for another person. I enjoyed the gag.
Read the full article »“It is done his way. The script is shot in sequence and actors learn the story as they go along – all the better to surprise them. “I just want the performance to come straight from their stomach,” he says. At lunchtime, everyone piles into a minibus to go to a church hall. Loach remembers shooting Bread and Roses in Los Angeles, and an actor asking: “Where are the chairs?” Loach said: “What chairs? There are a few around. Find one.” “We always have chairs with our name on.” Loach: “How old are you?” “Sixty.” “Well I’m fucking 75. When you see me sit down, you sit down.” Loach laughs then says: “We keep going because we’re so inexpensive.”
“It is done his way. The script is shot in sequence and actors learn the story as they go along – all the better to surprise them. “I just want the performance to come straight from their stomach,” he says. At lunchtime, everyone piles into a minibus to go to a church hall. Loach remembers…
Read the full article »OH, NO HUMANITY
Last Survivor Of The Hindenburg Disaster Dies In NH At Age 90 https://t.co/wxTh8HiBbV pic.twitter.com/VtUDyKo6ZL — WBZ | CBS Boston News (@wbz) November 16, 2019 OH, NO HUMANITY
Read the full article »“The first day subscription numbers are impressive, but not surprising, this being the greatest family brand, the one must-have brand in familydom. There’s been grumbling online, particularly from middle-aged critics, about how much is missing and how there is nothing for them to watch. D+ is failing to serve the all-important ‘Mad Men’ audience of media professionals!”
“The first day subscription numbers are impressive, but not surprising, this being the greatest family brand, the one must-have brand in familydom. There’s been grumbling online, particularly from middle-aged critics, about how much is missing and how there is nothing for them to watch. D+ is failing to serve the all-important ‘Mad Men’ audience of…
Read the full article »“Howard Hawks was a wonderful director, but he was not the greatest director Hollywood ever knew. The guys with the cigarette ashes on them ignored our greatest directors and humiliated George Stevens, Willie Wyler, Billy Wilder,” Mike Nichols once said of the film giants whose critical stock crashed when New Hollywood arrived. “The tragedy of Willie and Stevens and Fred Zinnemann, these were great men, but they just weren’t part of the froggy conspiracy.” Welles and Ford agreed the director was the driving creative force of their films, but to what end? What was it about?”
“Howard Hawks was a wonderful director, but he was not the greatest director Hollywood ever knew. The guys with the cigarette ashes on them ignored our greatest directors and humiliated George Stevens, Willie Wyler, Billy Wilder,” Mike Nichols once said of the film giants whose critical stock crashed when New Hollywood arrived. “The tragedy of…
Read the full article »Lawrence G. Paull Was 81
Oscar-Winning Production Designer Lawrence G. Paull Was 81 Over Fifty Films In Long Career
Read the full article »The Rise And Rise Of Queen & Slim’s Melina Matsoukas
The Rise And Rise Of Queen & Slim‘s Melina Matsoukas
Read the full article »Joker First Billion-Grossing R-Rated Pic
Joker First Billion-Grossing R-Rated Pic
Read the full article »Louis C.K. for part of his comeback tour “What’s mostly absent now though is the appearance that he’s at least trying to be decent,”
Louis C.K. “Comeback Tour“: “What’s mostly absent now though is the appearance that he’s at least trying to be decent.”
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