THE AFTERNOON REPORT, Tuesday 14 August 2018

Eric Allen Hatch starts survey column on film festivals worldwide; the grand ; posters Guy Peellaert made for Wim Wenders; Condé Nast plans maybe not best-laid; RBG goes CNN on Labor Day; performative pains of the great Madeline's Madeline; CinemaScore and Rotten Tomatoes  doubted; and more.


"My view of these festivals changed. A cynicism began to creep in—perhaps inevitable to a degree when one takes a passionate hobby and makes it their profession, with all the inurement and disillusioning behind-the-curtains peeks that leap requires. But I also became aware of some changes in these festivals—alongside a greater understanding of some functions they’ve always served."
Eric Allen Hatch Debuts Infinite Fest Mubi

Guy Peellaert's Posters For Wim Wenders Mubi 

"Condé Nast’s turnaround plan faces hurdles" Digiday

RBG Premieres On CNN On Labor Day Vulture
Theatrical Gross To Date: $13.7 Million Box Office Mojo 

"All Life’s a Performance: Madeline’s Madeline Is One of the Most Revealing Movies About Acting Ever Made; Josephine Decker’s vibrant new film, which depicts a young woman battling the world and discovering herself in an acting class, recalls the complicated acting heroes of ‘Barry’ and Tootsie" By Manuela Lazic The Ringer

Sean McAllister: "This film is a must see, worth more than a thousand worthy interviews with politicians or arts pundits.. It tells truths it’s wha creative is all about..sod the language!, it’s uplifting and real. It stays with you and begins to wriggle around inside." Hull Daily Mail

The Uncertain Future of Screens and Humans Vlad Dinu

"I wrote about why CinemaScore grades, Rotten Tomatoes audience scores, and other measures of audience opinion are not as useful as you might think." Alison Willmore

"What Spike Lee's Black BlacKkKlansman tells us about the KKK in the eyes of Hollywood" Steve Rose 
Tout De Tweet

my review of Mission Impossible: Fallout:
any movie where Henry Cavill doesn't get fisted as Tom of Finland is a wasted movie, but Tom Cruise does display an impressive death drive

— The Big Woman (@glind710) August 13, 2018

Take it from me, a female film critic: The discourse around female film critics is very annoying! 🙃

— Abbey Bender (@Abbey_Bender) August 13, 2018

BLACKKKLANSMAN (2018): A young black man in 1970s Colorado infiltrates the secretive brotherhood of a violent white-nationalist hate group, using his employment there to become a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

— Eric Allen Hatch (@ericallenhatch) August 14, 2018