The Weekend Report, August 31-September 1, 2018


VOICE Stilled; Roma Raves; Ryan and Petri on C. K.; Amazon Shelves Woody?; Depardieu Accusations; Star Wars Turns; e. e. cummings on "Freakdom"








"Today is kind of a sucky day. Due to the business realities, we are going to stop publishing Village Voice new material. About half the staff, it’ll be last day today. About half the staff staying on to wind things down and to work on the archive project. “I’ve been having conversations with other entities for months now and it all depends, but [ending editorial content] is something we have to do before they could talk to us any further. I bought the Village Voice to save it. This isn’t exactly how I thought it was going to end up, and I’m still trying to save the Village Voice." CJR 

"Cuarón has an extraordinary way of combining the closeup and the wide-shot, the tellingly observed detail – humorous or poignant or just effortlessly authentic – with the big picture and the sense of scale. At times it feels novelistic, a densely realised, intimate drama giving us access to domestic lives developing in what feels like real time. In its engagingly episodic way, it is also at times like a soap opera or telenovela. And at other times it feels resoundingly like an epic." Peter Bradshaw

"A grand, epic tale on the scale of Gone With the Wind — and as a result, more a portrait of a time and place than a specific character. The resurgence of the 1968 student movement rumbles in the background, along with fires and crashing waves and the earth itself, and the personal intersects with the movements of the wider world, as it tends to do in real life." Emily Yoshida

"Guillermo del Toro says gender disparity is 'a real problem'" Grauniad

Kim Morgan On Preminger's Fallen Angel Sunset Gun

"The Aristocracy of Freakdom": E.E. Cummings on Coney Island Paris Review

Michael Caine: "'Crime comes from poverty, and those suffering are darker people'" Grauniad

"The domestic scenes are steeped in mild melancholy, as the workaholic, buttoned-up Armstrong seems a good candidate for clinical depression." Bordwell On First Man DB

Maureen Ryan: "Once the industry has stopped enabling toxicity and begun prioritizing the needs of survivors, we can talk about paths to rehabilitation for abusers. Hard pass on Louis C.K. though: He used his comeback to do more damage." Reporter

Amanda Hess: "Louis C.K. Slithers Back, Whether We’re Ready or Not" NYTimes

Alexandra Petri Lays It Out: "I, an admitted abuser of women, have decided that I have atoned enough" Washington Post

Depardieu Accusation BBC

Amazon Keeps Woody Allen's Rainy Day In New York On Shelf Grauniad

"Woody loves working. He never takes a vacation. But he will be taking time off this year until he can find a backer." NYPost

Arts Bucks Recognized Regionally: "Re-committing to the arts: Let's celebrate the vibrancy of Louisville" Courier-Journal

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