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☆ Why 'Gladiator' director Ridley Scott keeps a 40-year-old negative review framed on his wall: 'I was actually hurt'
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-09 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

At 87 years old, director Ridley Scott has seen a tremendous amount of success over the course of his career. His films have grossed billions at the box office and taken home nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture for 2000's "Gladiator." Scott explained that Kael "destroyed Blade Runner in four pages" in the New Yorker, likening the review to "industrial espionage, because you're destroying a product before it's out." But more than forty years and 26 films later, Pauline Kael's review still sticks with the octogenarian director. For his part, Scott said he stopped reading reviews entirely — whether good or bad — after being hurt by Kael's response to "Blade Runner."

Persons: Ridley Scott, Scott, Fede Alvarez, Pauline Kael, Kael, Pauline Kael's, It's, Jenny Wang Organizations: CNBC, Hollywood Reporter Locations: Houston

☆ The Evolving Cost of Corporate Benefits
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Megan Cassella | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailThe Evolving Cost of Corporate BenefitsCFOs discuss rising healthcare costs amid the uncertainty a Trump administration places on the healthcare ecosystem, what we could expect from healthcare policy and ways to plan for an uncertain future. Ochsner Health's Jim Molloy, American Cancer Society's Kael Reicin and Pacific Life's Vibhu Sharma speak with CNBC's Megan Cassella at the CNBC CFO Summit on Dec. 4, 2024.

Persons: Ochsner Health's Jim Molloy, Kael Reicin, Vibhu Sharma, CNBC's Megan Cassella Organizations: CNBC, Summit

Teri Garr, the Oscar-nominated comedic actor best known for her spirited performances in classics such as "Young Frankenstein," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Tootsie," died Tuesday in Los Angeles, according to her publicist and friend Heidi Schaeffer. Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder and Teri Garr in "Young Frankenstein." Teri Garr in 1992. "The person I always think of is Teri Garr," Tina Fey was once quoted as saying. "There was a time when Teri Garr was in everything.

Persons: Teri Garr, Oscar, Young, Heidi Schaeffer, Schaeffer, Garr, Johnny Carson, Elvis Presley, Francis Ford Coppola's, Gene Wilder's, Inga, Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder, Steven Spielberg, Richard Dreyfuss, Dustin Hoffman's, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Porter, Coppola, Michael Keaton, Lisa Kudrow's, NBC Teri Ann Garr, Jack Nicholson, Garr's, Sonny, Cher, Garr's doggedness, Pauline Kael, there’s, Tina Fey Organizations: Hollywood, NBC, Yorker, CBS, Getty, CNN Locations: Los Angeles, bewilderment, Ohio, New York City

☆ Everything we know about Quentin Tarantino's 10th and final movie reportedly starring Brad Pitt
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The legendary director is currently working on "The Movie Critic," which he says will be his 10th and final film. For more than a decade, Tarantino has declared that he wants to stop directing films after his 10th movie. During a 2019 press conference for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," Tarantino said that he's envisioned his final movie as "a little more epilogue-y." The movie is inspired by a real-life film critic who worked for a pornography magazineWhen "The Movie Critic" was first reported to be in the works back in March, the premise was a little bit different. Brad Pitt is reportedly set to star in 'The Movie Critic'Brad Pitt has starred in two of Quentin Tarantino's previous movies.

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☆ They Review Movies on TikTok, but Don’t Call Them Critics
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Reggie Ugwu | More About Reggie Ugwu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Unlike film departments at major metropolitan newspapers or national magazines, individuals on MovieTok generally don’t aspire to review every noteworthy film. “A lot of us don’t trust critics,” said Lucious, 31. “They watch movies and are just looking for something to critique,” he said. “Fans watch movies looking for entertainment.”MovieTok creators are not the first in the history of film criticism to rebel against their elders. And movie bloggers in the 2000s charged print critics with indifference or hostility to superhero and fantasy films.

Persons: Joe Aragon, Monse Gutierrez, Bryan Lucious, Seth Mullan, ”, Lucious, “, François Truffaut, Jean, Luc Godard, du Cinéma, Pauline Kael, Bosley Crowther, “ There’s, Mattias Frey, Noël Carrol Organizations: du, New Yorker, The New York Times, City University of London

☆ William Friedkin, director of 'The Exorcist' and 'The French Connection,' dies at 87
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Daniel Arkin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

William Friedkin, the maverick film director who helped revolutionize 1970s Hollywood with the electrifying, era-defining classics "The French Connection" and "The Exorcist," died Monday, a representative from his office told the Associated Press. Friedkin won an Academy Award for directing "The French Connection," a white-knuckle 1971 crime thriller about a brash New York City narcotics detective played by Gene Hackman. Friedkin got his big break in 1971 with "The French Connection," a smash with audiences and critics alike. "The French Connection" catapulted Friedkin to the top ranks of American filmmakers, putting him in league with other New Hollywood rising stars like Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich and Francis Ford Coppola. Friedkin leaped from "The French Connection" to "The Exorcist," adapted from William Peter Blatty's novel of the same name.

Persons: William Friedkin, Sherry Lansing, Friedkin's, Friedkin, Gene Hackman, didn't, That's, Satan, Al Pacino, Sonny, Pauline Kael, Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola, William Peter Blatty's, Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Roger Ebert, Joe, —, Kiefer Sutherland Organizations: Associated Press, Paramount Pictures, New, New York, NBC News, Venice Locations: Venice, Italy, New, New York City, L.A, Chicago, Manhattan, Hollywood, New York

☆ Five Best: Books on Hollywood
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Charles Elton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

FlickerBy Theodore Roszak (1991)1. “Flicker” is the love child of Pauline Kael and Umberto Eco—a 700-page novel that combines religious philosophy and film theory, with some tantric sex thrown in. “There was no bliss to compare with the discovery of a lost von Stroheim scene or a Pabst without torn sprockets,” he muses. His search for the mysterious Castle takes him into a sinister Catholic organization called Oculus Dei, which will do anything to destroy Castle’s legacy. If “Flicker” sounds unlike anything you’ve ever read, it is—and gloriously so.

☆ Quentin Tarantino’s Greatest Hits of the ’70s
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Tom Shone | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

CINEMA SPECULATION, by Quentin TarantinoMost film directors would no more comment on one another’s movies than they would score each other’s performance in bed. Then there is the Quentin Tarantino approach. “When Daryl Hannah walks down the hall of the hospital in ‘Kill Bill Vol. Any film critic would give her left arm to have made that connection. He never sees Reggie again, and whenever young Quentin brings him up, his mother just shrugs her shoulders and says, “Oh, he’s around.”

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