THE AFTERNOON REPORT, Tuesday 20 August 2018
Nobody has ever stared as intently and as smugly at a phone as @chrismcquarrie is doing right now.— Daniel Benneworth-Gray (@gray) August 21, 2018
Steven Soderbergh has already shot Bond 25. It’s up on iTunes now. pic.twitter.com/n0w3ElxeLt— Marcelo J. Pico (@MarceloJPico) August 21, 2018
Paging @UweBollRaw. Dr. Boll to the courtesy phone. https://t.co/2gSlrZWvmT— Ray Pride (@RayPride) August 21, 2018
"I had been brainwashed into believing that my existence was limited to the boundaries of another person's approval. I had been tricked into thinking that my body was not my own, that I was beautiful only if someone else believed it, regardless of my own opinion. I had been told and retold this by everyone..." Kelly Marie Tran On Instagram Harassment NYTimesToday is the 100th day of Oleg Sentsov's hunger strike for the freedom of all Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin. #FreeSentsov #LetMyPeopleGo pic.twitter.com/sEB3wx4tVi— Let My People Go_En (@LetMyPplGoUA_en) August 21, 2018
"The Times has tried repeatedly to obtain a response to the allegations from Ms. Argento and her representatives but has been unsuccessful. Mr. Bennett, who lives in Los Angeles, has not yet agreed to be interviewed." NYTimesI just received this statement from @AsiaArgento in response to the NYT story published late Sunday evening. pic.twitter.com/jAOo7TAULX— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 21, 2018
"With CBS chief Les Moonves, the Me Too movement is facing a critical test of its strength." Emily Peck, HuffPost
Kyle Buchanan Is The Latest Carpetbagger NYTimes
European Film Academy Recommends Forty-Nine European Titles For Nomination for the European Film Awards 2018 EFA
Mike Leigh: Teach Peterloo Massacre In British Schools Grauniad
"I recently came across fifty letters I'd written my brother from 1968-71, which Film Comment published online. They cover my years at UCLA, the LA Free Press and the AFI. Film Comment decided to print them without abridgment, which means a fair amount of dross among the occasional nuggets. It was an exciting time. The most exciting thing about it was how normal it all felt." Paul Schrader’s youthful correspondence with his brother, Leonard, runs 120 pages; much of it repetitive, but still... Film Comment; Direct link to digital formatBilge Ebiri On Andrei Rublev: "How do you write about one of the most written-about films of all time? I gave it a shot."
"Mary Shelley: On Body Horror and Biopics" Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
"True desire for what we want burns and yet we so often repress it. What is it that we really, truly want from life?" Adam Scovell on The Red Shoes
It's Much More Than Netflix: It's Netflix With Commercials Ad Age
Media Empires Of Egypt Shaken Further Egyptian Chronicles
"Where are the brown people? Crazy Rich Asians draws tepid response in Singapore" Grauniad
