“The mainstream Hollywood thinking still seems to be that movies and stories about straight white people are universal, and that anyone else is more niche. It’s just not true. I’ve been watching characters with middle-age white-guy problems since I was a small Indian boy.”
Category: media
Five Things HBO Needs To Get Its New Show Mojo Back
Lately the network has been having a run of trouble making its newest shows successful. Alyssa Rosenberg has five suggestions. Number one: “Stop trying so hard to be important all the time.”
Are Live Streams Of The Arts Cannibalizing The Live Theatre Audience?
ETO’s 2014 research with Guildhall School of Music and Drama found that 81% of cinema opera attenders were over 60, had an age profile “slightly older” than that typically found at live opera, and reported no increased motivation to attend live opera afterwards.
‘Thelma And Louise’ Feels Like It Could Be Made Today – And This Is Not A Good Thing
“‘No one would believe us’ runs like a refrain through the film’s taut dialogues … The fundamental fact of Thelma & Louise – the one that ultimately drives its plot, and the one that makes it feel so disappointingly fresh today – is the women’s recognition that they can’t trust the law, because the law doesn’t trust them.”
The Problem With Peak TV (For Some Of Us)
“The shift from network TV’s relatively flat, manageable terrain to our current Wild West is exciting for some viewers (fuck commercials!) and bewildering for others – wait, so I’m supposed to make my own TV-watching schedule now? … That’s what scares me the most about the state of TV – it’s no longer a useful marker of time.”
The Lumière Brothers Didn’t Just Invent Moving Pictures, They Were Film Artists
“The Lumières were responsible not just for a successful invention but a huge number of films, which experimented with techniques that were necessarily new and roamed across a rapidly changing landscape, from their factory in Lyon and across Europe to America and east Asia.”
‘The Exorcist’ Director Says Church Let Him Film An Actual Exorcism
William Friedkin “said he was taken aback at how close the ceremony was to the exorcism depicted in his 1973 film. ‘I was pretty astonished by that. I don’t think I will ever be the same having seen this astonishing thing.'”
What Will Happen To The Chicago Tribune And L.A. Times As Tribune Publishing Rejects Gannett’s Offer?
“Like many American newspapers, the Times has struggled with continual budget and staffing cuts in recent years, including several changes of publisher and a buyout last November that resulted in the departure of dozens of senior reporters and editors. Daily circulation, which topped 1 million a quarter-century ago, is now barely half that.”
Watching Game Of Thrones Confirmed A Belief That Americans Are Violent Psychopaths
“‘Jem, this is a bad movie,’ she said, shaking her head. ‘You shouldn’t watch. When we see people don’t have heart, our heart will harden too. We always get inferenced by the thing we see.'”
Making A (Possibly Great) Movie In One Take, With No Script, Requires A Strong Actor
“I have never been on drugs but I had the feeling that I was on drugs. We were doing this scene the whole night and in the end we couldn’t stop. We were saying, ‘We have to do it again’ and everyone else was saying, ‘No, look guys, it’s done.'”