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"The scope of today’s call and any questions will be limited to the quarterly results of the company."
NYT: Leslie Moonves Speaks on CBS Earnings Call but Not About Harassment Allegations NYT

Google Employees Resist China Censorship Plans The Intercept

China Bars Christopher Robin; Winnie-The-Pooh Verboten As Resistance Emblem Against Chinese Leader Xi Jinping  Reporter

"Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Too Far Left for Hollywood?" The Reporter Headlines Reporter
"Dinesh D’Souza is no longer preaching to the choir; he’s preaching to the mentally unsound. That’s how detached from reality his 'philosophy,' his armchair rage, and his passionate and consuming desire to be a radical-right shill have become." Owen Gleiberman on The Latest From Pardoned Electoral Felon Dinesh D'Souza Variety

Harvey Weinstein Gets Approval to Disclose Rape Accuser’s Emails Variety
Harvey Weinstein to Seek Dismissal of Criminal Case Based on What Grand Jury Wasn't Shown Reporter

"I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do."
― James Baldwin

Scotty Bowers on Sex and Stars in the Golden Era, By Amy Nicholson Guardian
Sunset Strip Viper Room Sold, Property Likely to Be Redeveloped Variety

Ariel Levy's Lengthy Profile of Nicole Holofcener New Yorker

"Of course, Budapest isn’t unique in its chameleon capacity. Vancouver is often used as a stand-in for a generic US city, Montreal as an American stand-in for a generic European city. Canada is easier. Yet none of the others have quite the imaginative variety of Budapest. It’s partly because of Hungary’s movie industry expertise, partly because of the cost. But surely there’s more? The more is, I think, its obscurity. It’s the kind of city most people haven’t been to or, if they have, then only briefly or on a drunken stag-do or a business trip. It was built in an era when other cities were already established as exemplars." Edwin Heathcote On "Why Budapest Plays So Many Other Cities On The Big Screen" The FT
 Leonard Maltin's Envoi To 20th Century Fox Reporter

 Ted Danson and Jason Bateman on "Longevity" Variety

 "Like a parody of Brexit Britain, never has Mel Brooks' The Producers been more horribly pertinent than it is now." Guardian

 Stan And Ollie To Close London Film Fest Screen

“Exhibitors know that without MoviePass they will be able to continue to charge exorbitant prices for theater tickets and gouge customers with overpriced concessions. This is exactly the attitude the taxicab industry took when Uber entered their market. Furthermore, any crowing about the uptick in box office receipts this summer season should include the fact that a significant percentage of that total is directly attributable to MoviePass subscribers.” Variety

Department Of Justice To Review 70-Year-Old Consent Decree Between Exhibitors and Studios Variety — From 1941, "The Consent Decree in the Moving Picture Industry," By William F. Whitman pdf

 “The #MeToo, #NeverAgain and #BlackLivesMatter movements underscore why diverse, critical voices and lived experiences in the arts not only affect how we see the world but influence how we begin to heal it. We need a wide spectrum of voices to challenge the male-dominated narrative that drives much of Hollywood and the popular media." Chaz Ebert Makes Shifts At Her Website RogerEbert.Com
"Originality has always been in short supply. Does the proliferation of media mean that it is harder to be original today than it was 50 years ago? Well, yes. Today's viewers live in a biosphere of narrative. Twenty-four-seven, multimedia, all the time. When a storyteller competes for a viewer's attention, he not only competes with simultaneously occurring narratives, he competes with the variations of his own narrative. That's real competition."  From 2009, That Paul Schrader Essay Namechecked At TCA18 By John Landgraf Guardian

 Poland To Offer Location Shoots Thirty Percent Cash Incentives Reporter
"Blockbusters getting a wide release — in more than 400 of the country's 2,200-odd cinemas — took 23 percent of the box office a decade ago. Last year, they took 51 percent," Screen Australia Topper Moans Via Twitter

"This retreat from cities will impoverish the inner lives of the people who reside there. Cinemas offer the city dweller the option of stillness and relative privacy outside the confines of one’s home. And if that home is crowded, the cinema is all the more precious. Regardless of what is being screened, a sparsely attended matinee can act as a kind of pressure valve for someone caught up in the vehemence of urban life." Janan Ganesh in the FT

Kelsey Grammer: "People are so swift to judge, to react, to punish" Guardian

The Script Factory Co-Director Lucy Scher, "A Brilliantly Original Woman," Was 53 Screen
A Thirty-Minute Podcast With Whit Stillman From Curzon Soho Curzon

"SPRING BREAKERS + THE FLORIDA PROJECT + AMERICAN HONEY = NEVER GOIN’ BACK. Augustine Frizzell’s debut is a good time, y’all," Writes Katie Walsh LAT
IFC Takes Kent Jones' Loved And Lauded Diane Variety

Stubborn Brits: "The residents of these islands do not like being told what to do. They are stubborn, intractable and uppity. Once I grasped this, Brexit became just a little bit clearer." The FT

"I had this sense that with a film you could capture many emotions and many angles of a moment – with a captive audience, a soundtrack, and so on – that would be difficult to do with a painting. It just seemed that I could address some of the issues that were most meaningful to me through the moving image." Mike O'Brien Talks Dawson City: Frozen Time With Bill Morrison Take One Cinema

 "I think what you mean by that when you say 'the fans is actually 'a very noisy minority of fans.' Look, I would not necessarily have made every choice that Rian made because I’m not the same person or writer or fan that he is, but I respect and admire and appreciate and support every choice he did make. The film he wrote is far braver and more mature and more challenging than I could ever have written. I suspect that I would have written a more fan service-driven film that would have appeased some of that noisy minority but ultimately would have been a lesser and less important film because of it. Frankly I’m disgusted by the treatment that Rian has received, he’s not just one of the most talented film-makers working today but one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet in any walk of life, and both he and the film he made deserve far better." — Gary Whitta

Hilary Weston And Babette Mangold Chat For Criterion Criterion

For Martin Sheen's Birthday, From 2011, via Criterion Daily, Nathaniel Penn's Oral History Of Badlands GQ

Little Pyongyang: a North Korean's Life in London: "The latest Guardian documentary meets former soldier Choi Joong-wha, who lives with his family in New Malden, London, home to Europe’s biggest North Korean population" Guardian Documentaries

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