THE AFTERNOON REPORT, Thursday, 16 August 2018
The Grace of Bing Liu’s Minding the Gap Ray Pride
And — Eight Days, And 52 Years, of Wonders: The House of Kartemquin And The Making of America To Me And Minding The Gap Newcity
"Crazy Rich Asians Changes Nothing About Rom-Coms, And Everything About Movies" Jason Parham
"You can learn a lot about Crazy Rich Asians just by paying attention to hands. You see them chop bok choy, stir noodles, and clean fish, and gingerly unload spiky durians from the back of a truck. Hands, too, flaunt giant eye-catching emeralds, lift — gloveless! — million-dollar earrings for a better inspection, and are offered scented bowls of water in which to rinse themselves clean (bowls offered by other, anonymous hands). To the film's great detriment, those hands are divorced from bodies, shown only performing work for the crazy rich, but rarely the people behind it." Jeva Lange
Times Seeks Singaporeans Who Say, Based On Promotional Materials, Crazy Rich Asians Insufficiently Asian NYTimes
"All of the features that feel clumsy at best — all of the moments that border on insensitivity — gain a corrosive power because the product as a whole has been tailor-made to serve this present moment, targeting an audience that may accept something that seems so evidently substandard (judging from a very low standard indeed) simply because there appears to be no alternative." Ryan Swen
"How Dare You Represent Your People That Way: The Oral History of Better Luck Tomorrow" Alex Wong, GQ
The Plans Of Jordan Peele Variety cover
David Remnick's 2016 Profile Of Aretha Franklin The New Yorker
"Musicians only got 12% of the $43 billion the music industry generated in 2017, and it mostly came from touring." Business Insider
"the sixty best madonna songs" i-D
Michael Lehmann on Heathers at 30 i-D
"Books are the only form of physical media whose sales are growing." strategy + business
"The books I write often feel like the books I wanted to read, but they didn’t exist, so I brought them into being." Rebecca Solnit in NYTimes
"Now, instead of an old man yelling at the sky, Sorkin looks more like a middle-aged man yelling at a mountain of trash emitting toxic fumes. He’s still not offering any productive solutions, but he’s not incorrect." Kate Knibbs
"Rogers Media digital and print magazines for sale include Maclean’s, Canadian Business, Hello! Canada, Flare and Chatelaine" The Globe & Mail, $
"Condé Nast to merge U.S. and international teams producing Traveller" The FT
Lessons Sought From MoviePass Mayhem Jason Bailey
"'They were down for each other.' If one wanted to pitch the concept of Bad Timing in six words, this comment by its director, Nicolas Roeg, couldn’t be bettered." Criterion
"Google Staff Tell Bosses China Censorship is 'Moral and Ethical' Crisis" The Intercept
"The beauty of The Meg is that the message doesn’t distract from the shark-punching." The Grauniad
"Jim Carrey's (Reluctant) Return to Hollywood" The Reporter
"A Deep Dive Into the History of L.A.’s Craziest Architecture" Los Angeles
Peter Deming On Shooting "Twin Peaks: The Return" video, Deadline
Rosario Dawson On How New York Made Her Dazed
"Interviewing is very nerve-racking [sic]! I’m just gonna start with my list. So, Emily, you and I have never talked about acting because we’re not douchelords. So now we should talk about acting." Elle Satirizes Defunct Interview Magazine In A Howlingly Bad "Interview" Between Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone Elle
Alan Horn Courtesy Meeting"With James Gunn Only Goes That Far Variety
"For reasons which are really a matter for a trainee psychoanalyst, who plays James Bond is a big thing for Richard Spencer." Marina Hyde
"Here’s the short version: I no longer enjoy reviewing films. It’s like one day, my brain snapped. I suddenly found the idea of watching movies for critical analysis strenuous, pointless, and vain… and my brain it hasn’t snapped back since. I’m not sure it ever will." Steve J. Donahue
And — Eight Days, And 52 Years, of Wonders: The House of Kartemquin And The Making of America To Me And Minding The Gap Newcity
"Crazy Rich Asians Changes Nothing About Rom-Coms, And Everything About Movies" Jason Parham
"You can learn a lot about Crazy Rich Asians just by paying attention to hands. You see them chop bok choy, stir noodles, and clean fish, and gingerly unload spiky durians from the back of a truck. Hands, too, flaunt giant eye-catching emeralds, lift — gloveless! — million-dollar earrings for a better inspection, and are offered scented bowls of water in which to rinse themselves clean (bowls offered by other, anonymous hands). To the film's great detriment, those hands are divorced from bodies, shown only performing work for the crazy rich, but rarely the people behind it." Jeva Lange
Times Seeks Singaporeans Who Say, Based On Promotional Materials, Crazy Rich Asians Insufficiently Asian NYTimes
"All of the features that feel clumsy at best — all of the moments that border on insensitivity — gain a corrosive power because the product as a whole has been tailor-made to serve this present moment, targeting an audience that may accept something that seems so evidently substandard (judging from a very low standard indeed) simply because there appears to be no alternative." Ryan Swen
"How Dare You Represent Your People That Way: The Oral History of Better Luck Tomorrow" Alex Wong, GQ
The Plans Of Jordan Peele Variety cover
David Remnick's 2016 Profile Of Aretha Franklin The New Yorker
"Musicians only got 12% of the $43 billion the music industry generated in 2017, and it mostly came from touring." Business Insider
"the sixty best madonna songs" i-D
Michael Lehmann on Heathers at 30 i-D
"Books are the only form of physical media whose sales are growing." strategy + business
"The books I write often feel like the books I wanted to read, but they didn’t exist, so I brought them into being." Rebecca Solnit in NYTimes
"Now, instead of an old man yelling at the sky, Sorkin looks more like a middle-aged man yelling at a mountain of trash emitting toxic fumes. He’s still not offering any productive solutions, but he’s not incorrect." Kate Knibbs
"Rogers Media digital and print magazines for sale include Maclean’s, Canadian Business, Hello! Canada, Flare and Chatelaine" The Globe & Mail, $
"Condé Nast to merge U.S. and international teams producing Traveller" The FT
Lessons Sought From MoviePass Mayhem Jason Bailey
"'They were down for each other.' If one wanted to pitch the concept of Bad Timing in six words, this comment by its director, Nicolas Roeg, couldn’t be bettered." Criterion
"Google Staff Tell Bosses China Censorship is 'Moral and Ethical' Crisis" The Intercept
"The beauty of The Meg is that the message doesn’t distract from the shark-punching." The Grauniad
"Jim Carrey's (Reluctant) Return to Hollywood" The Reporter
"A Deep Dive Into the History of L.A.’s Craziest Architecture" Los Angeles
Peter Deming On Shooting "Twin Peaks: The Return" video, Deadline
Rosario Dawson On How New York Made Her Dazed
"Interviewing is very nerve-racking [sic]! I’m just gonna start with my list. So, Emily, you and I have never talked about acting because we’re not douchelords. So now we should talk about acting." Elle Satirizes Defunct Interview Magazine In A Howlingly Bad "Interview" Between Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone Elle
Alan Horn Courtesy Meeting"With James Gunn Only Goes That Far Variety
"For reasons which are really a matter for a trainee psychoanalyst, who plays James Bond is a big thing for Richard Spencer." Marina Hyde
Today's underrated film I'm learning from is James Gray's 'We Own the Night' -- as usual for Gray, the cinematography and editing are explored with poetic determination that consistently works to find something special even in normally ordinary character arcs, shots, and cuts.— Aleš Kot (@ales_kot) August 15, 2018
Everything about We Own the Night is so lovingly built. Every actor lives their character. The way Duvall collapses in the boxing gym. Phoenix inhabiting the hustle. It’s one of the best 70s crime films not made nor set in the 1970s.— Aleš Kot (@ales_kot) August 15, 2018
And the rawness, physical and emotional! Crime dramas so often either overdo or are afraid to show emotion and effects of violence as they are. We Own the Night shows both matter-of-factly, without a moment of stylization towards anything else but realism.— Aleš Kot (@ales_kot) August 15, 2018
In some places, We Own the Night does things almost nobody in crime drama has done as effectively since Sidney Lumet. That slow, steady, wonderfully patient zoom on Phoenix at the diner is worth the price of admission alone.— Aleš Kot (@ales_kot) August 15, 2018
