another maniacal Armond White review, this time "Fahrenheit 9/11"

bcz I'm increasingly forgiving of showing most Americans as greedy nitwits?

Payne should adapt James Michener novels.

South Pacific w/ Luther Billis as the hero

So Twitter's aflame today for Armond calling Llewyn Davis a Jew pretending to be Welsh.

he's half Italian, right? That's why they cast a Marisa Tomei lookalike as his sister.

AW is famous for getting details wrong.

He's famous for getting EVERYTHING wrong.

excited that screening of Nebraska tomorrow is at 9:45 a.m.

have an eye-opener

In the midst of his raving rave for American Hustle, he makes it too easy:

When Irving describes Sydney’s awesomeness, he says “Like me she had to reinvent herself” but “reinvent” is a 90s word, Stephen Holden coined it in a New York Times article describing and institutionalizing a Madonna tour.

http://cityarts.info/2013/12/18/david-o-russells-stock-company/

from Merriam-Webster:

First Known Use of REINVENT

1686

Do his editors not even bother because "aw, fuck it, its Armond?"

he IS the editor!

Explains a lot.

So he looks it up himself and says, "Fuck it! I'm Armond!"

The title of his upcoming autobiography right there.

Great bump but I'm disappointed it's not his better than list

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/12-years-a-slave-director-steve-mcqueen-heckled-at-new-york-critics-circle-awards-1201032911/

The 79th annual New York Film Critics Circle Awards turned awkward on Monday night when CityArts editor Armond White started to heckle director Steve McQueen.

McQueen had just accepted his prize for “12 Years a Slave,” presented by Harry Belafonte, when the interruption broke out.

As soon as McQueen took the stage, White started shouting from his table at the back of the room. “You’re an embarrassing doorman and garbage man,” White boomed. “F—you. Kiss my ass.”

lol what does that insult even mean

White is a vile embarrassment.

wrong

elaborate

hes cool as hell

awards dinners at their best are vile embarrassments

lol

Especially when they serve paella.

kinda love heckling 'you're an embarrassing doorman!'

Especially when your table is practically next to the doorman.

MAYBE HE WAS YELLING AT THE DOORMAN!

You waste, you little doorman!

It's cool to yell at people in public and say whatever is on your mind, even if what is on your mind is insulting.

doesn't he do this every year?

I kind of hope every year White calls someone an embarrassing doorman

iirc he was the roastmaster of the NYFCC when he was chairman, and now he's like the apollo sandman

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-07MtbQjYWaI/UUksVK7ID-I/AAAAAAAAH1M/l-AQUQFgP-I/s1600/rhoda+carltondoorman.png

"Hello, this is Carlton, your embarrassing doorman . . ."

"Grudge Match is the most purely entertaining movie released during the Christmas season (American Hustle excepted), yet its strange lack of prestige reveals a change in contemporary film culture where Stallone and DeNiro–one-time pop totems–are now out of media favor."

He writes like there's a doorman sitting on his keys.

http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/new-york-critics-group-apologizes-to-mcqueen/?_r=0

"Disciplinary action" is being taken.

NYFCC promises "disciplinary action" xp

The New York Film Critics Circle has issued a formal apology for the behavior of at least one of its member critics at last night’s awards ceremony when director Steve McQueen accepted his prize for 12 Years A Slave. Our sister publication Variety identified the heckler as CityArts editor and well-known cantankerous contrarian critic Armond White, who, per Ramin Setoodeh’s report, said some remarkably inelegant foul-mouthed things to McQueen after the filmmaker was introduced in an impassioned speech by Harry Belafonte. The apology was issued to McQueen and the film’s distributor, Fox Searchlight, by NYCC chair Joshua Rothkopf.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/ny-film-critics-circle-apologizes-for-steve-mcqueen-heckling-latest-outburst-in-classless-oscar-campaign-season/

*googles "classless oscar campaign season" finds Armond White*

of course all critics awards are about the Oscars

fuck American film culture in the ear

Pretty sure that influencing the Oscars were the actual, for-real genesis of these critics' groups.

What are some good film cultures

Some where the state funds films, for starters.

Are there any states that fund film critics

Thumbsupistan

lol

this guy is a shitty writer and an asshole

he usta be good, honest. (I understand his Tupac book was good, too)

Some states have film-programs on state-run tv. So yeah.

i wish i could remember what reality show The Soup used to show a clip of with some horrible rich woman casting aspersions on her doorman and saying over and over "A DOORMAN! A DOOR. MAN."

morbs: is any of his older work available online?