Chalamet's idiotic comments may be the best thing to happen to ballet and opera in years. His unlikability in interviews has folks coming out of the woodwork to profess their love!
Perfection.
Brooke Shields >>>> Shield of the Americas
No doubt he has an actual shield in mind, one with his face on it. Probably straight out of Clash of the Titans (a movie I love, but he's so stuck in the 80s!).
It would've been insanely funny. Just showing men at their most vainglorious, increasingly drunk, all to impress some lecherous old man.
Elaine May's The Symposium (which she did want to do)
Tom Ford’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
No spoiler, but in general it’s so misogynist/sad how many shows depict the loss of a child as only a mother’s issue. You never see a father hysterical. It’s such bullshit.
Young Sherlock is Muppet Babies meets Wicked in terms of a Holmes prequel.
Top Chef: Carolinas starts at the CLT Motor Speedway, and I need everyone to know that in 8th grade I won a science contest and got to ride in a car around the track and attend a race. Both we’re extremely boring.
That’s entirely different! Archer was imagined, created, written, and voiced by people.
I wrote a little essay on that years ago for Screen! (In a dossier on Cavell)
I have a long essay (hopefully) coming out soon spelling out the rationale, but, in a nutshell, if you think such a figure is acting, emoting, thinking, or doing anything else intentional you are deforming and degrading your own humanity. (Don't give it a click!)
Black and white close-up of the director’s face, against the white background.
Jean Renoir by Richard Avedon
Beverly Hills, May 11, 1972
events really pushed this off the page today but I wrote about the public pressure building against concentration camps
newrepublic.com/post/207116/...
A true hellscape.
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
When we say no war but class war we mean that no one in Iran is poisoning our water or stealing our wages or kidnapping our neighbors. And the people who are? They're spending our money on killing Iranians
This is beautiful.
My latest review for @bookforum.bsky.social is also out now. In it, I think alongside Namwali Serpell’s resplendently rigorous new book on Toni Morrison about the last greatest living writer’s legacy and how we’re meant to read her.
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
Just so we're clear: No war but the class war.
The Traitors (US) is such a metonym for our times. One has no idea how the whole system/game has ended up solely in the hands of one idiot! But here we are.
A poll showing the Democrats are viewed as elitist by 43% of people while Republicans are viewed as elitist by 60%. It also shows that only 31% of people view Dems as tough, and 56% view Republicans as tough. 60% of people view Republicans as extreme and only 42% view Dems as extreme.
A lot of obvious stuff in this poll (people want Dems to act with more conviction and stop tearing their ACLs trying to reach across the aisle), but the thing I learned is that Republicans are viewed as the elitist ones now! Run with that! Usain Bolt with that shit!
I refuse to link to it, but the NYTimes obit doesn't even MENTION this book, which is appalling.
Teresa de Lauretis has passed. What a GIANT she was, and what a legacy she leaves. Her book Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema was essential in the 1980s and 1990s for anyone in film and feminism.
"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"
HELL. YES.
(Despite James Cord*n, of course)
There are so many good movies (or what promise to be good movies) coming out this spring and summer, but this one may be at the top for me. youtu.be/m2d1x7VuDmo?...
Delighted to be hosting a book launch for the new edited collection WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD’S DREAM FACTORY: TALES OF INEQUALITY, ABUSE & RESISTANCE. Join us March 18. 📚
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