Category: media

“A new, large-scale study finds a link between heavy TV viewing as a young adult and below-average thinking skills in middle-age.”

“Mary Pickford was America’s original sweetheart, the ‘girl with the golden curls,’ who became an international superstar playing plucky children filled with innocent wonder. Frances Marion was a patrician sophisticate, ‘just as beautiful as the stars she wrote for,’ who was continually told that she was wasting her looks on writing. Together, they would become one of the powerhouse teams of silent Hollywood.”

“The question we should ideally always be asking in a drama – I wonder what would it feel like to be that character in that situation? – is suddenly replaced by a less helpful (and essentially pornographic) one: what might it feel like to be the actor doing that or having that done to them? “

“Based on a best-selling 2012 novel, Er ist wieder da (‘Look Who’s Back’) imagines what it would be like if Hitler woke up in modern Germany and morphed into a media sensation. … Predictably, the movie has also raised a debate over what role – if any – the infamous Nazi ruler should play in popular culture.”

“Just as you might poke around neighborhood corners on Street View, with Google’s technology, you can creep up behind a violinist, hover above Henry V during a monologue, even zoom in to explore every brushstroke on the theater ceiling.”

“The lesbian drama starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara made a strong showing, taking Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography” – although, in an upset, not Blanchett for Best Actress.

“For two days this fall, a group of 44 entertainment industry leaders gathered quietly, turning off their phones and setting aside their rivalries to tackle an increasingly visible problem in their business: the lack of women both in front of and behind the camera.”

“Welles causes endless trouble because of his unstable place in the American cultural hierarchy of high and low. He loved tragedy and vaudeville, Expressionist cinema and boys’ adventure stories. He converted genre vehicles like Touch of Evil into surreal labyrinths; he made Macbeth look like Gothic horror.”

“We’ve noticed over many months that these stories draw a disproportionate number of comments that cross the line and violate our guidelines. Some of the violations are obvious, some not so obvious; some comments are clearly hateful and vitriolic, some are simply ignorant.”