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

Us critic Thelma Adams was asked to present the award. Which she did, and very robustly."

oh DID she.

White's concept of using only past winners as presenters led to another odd decision in which 1984 NYFCC Best Supporting Actress winner Christine Lahti (for Swing Shift) presented George Clooney with his Best Actor award. She and Clooney have a history, apparently, but the general reaction was "why is Lahti presenting this again?" Clooney's people, I'm told, were at the front of the line with this question.

lol Armond that naughty boy!

i love how armond white has bitter rivalries with people who don't even know he exists

I wish I knew that Olbermann didn't exist

seems an unlikely fellow to be presiding over a critics' circle, given that his default steez is "all other critics are jerks".

It was the NYFCC that crowned Cameron Diaz for "There's Something About Mary"; several members even voted for sci-fi landmark "The Matrix" in its year; and this time around, the Michael Jackson documentary "This Is It" received strong support. These anti-hype choices reveal the way movies feel in the actual experience of moviegoers.

proudly bucking the hype by embracing cameron diaz, michael jackson and the matrix

i mean who's even HEARD of all of that stuff

i bleeve year-end film awards are the context, not that i'd defend any of that

is he arguing that films should be rewarded for how much the public is aware of them and not for their quality?

this whole thing has been utterly beautiful

Life?

i don't get why someone hasn't suggested that armond pirate the movie -- if he's gonna call for noah baumbach's abortion, he might as well openly steal his work

if the ny press lets armond run a review of the film a week late it's gonna be the greatest review of all time

he was overslept for the 'greenberg' press screening? what?

Someone give a quick summary of the whole thing plz.

armond was banned from the press screening of "greenberg" and then an anonymous film critic sent an email out to a bunch of other critics telling them to boycott reviewing the film, or if they had to review it for a publication that they make note of armond's banning in their piece

and today the voice unearthed a review of "mr. jealousy" where armond says that noah baumbach's mom (an ex-voice film critic who armond had feuded with) should've had an abortion

stay classy, armond

then an anonymous film critic sent an email out to a bunch of other critics telling them to boycott reviewing the film, or if they had to review it for a publication that they make note of armond's banning in their piece

it seems pretty clear that this "anonymous film critic" was armond himself. and he compares baumbach to the nazis! and complains about his "freedom of speech" being violated by not being allowed into a private advanced screening of a film!

armond white is a spoiled 12-year-old boy and i claim my $800. seriously who reads this fuck?

i'm sorry i mean "film critic".

same as "spoiled 12year-old-boy."

here's j hoberman on the whole thing:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/03/proof_that_armo.php

maybe this will finally end with armond being fired and todd mccarthy replacing him? that would make it all very worthwhile.

I don't approve of that last sentence in the Mr. Jealousy review, but I like that review (and I like Baumbach, too).

gd armond is the man

shitty writer, shittier human being

shitty writer, shittier human being

― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:57 PM (53 seconds ago) Bookmark

truthbomb

might suggest retroactive abortion, might suggest!

georgia brown was a mediocre film critic, but not armond white-level awful

hey :/

White's accusations of racism led to a live dustup on Leonard Lopate's radio show in the mid '90s, when Brown challenged White to substantiate his charges and White refused.

this is funny, see, because their names, are also the names of colors, that some peoples skin, is

reverse racism

sorry, donna rouge, is georgia your mom too??

GEORGIA BROWN IS EVERYBODY'S MOM

(note to self: print on t-shirt, wear outside of armond white's apartment building)

would be kind of great actually if baumbach turned out to be love child of georgia brown and armond white. would make a good movie maybe.

nah but i (used to be) armond white btw but yall were hurting my feelings so

would be kind of great actually if baumbach turned out to be love child of georgia brown and armond white. would make a good movie maybe

The Scarlet Stain

that Armond review, ignoring the shitty abortion punchline, actually highlights pretty well what i find intolerable about Baumbach.

This one's a little too insider baseball for me to care about.

it is funny when someone who designs their whole persona on being iconoclastic and fearless gets super butthurt, though.

I don't give much of a fuck about this, but AW was infuriated that the kid in Squid didn't have anyone call him on stealing a Bowie song

fury seems like a pretty appropriate reaction

it was a pink floyd song

you're right! well see, that proves nobody in Park Slope in the '80s was sure.

he also did get busted for it...

EVENTUALLY

I dunno, I bought it. People are dumb.

no one wanted to admit know abt pink floyd

armond and my dad on the same page there

beats the weird old man diatribe i was expecting re: showing a kid jerking off in the library

i'm pretty happy that armond is a 4chan icon btw

what is this thing about pink floyd? can someone break it down for me?

or bowie or whatever. i'm lost.

kid passes off song lyrics as his own original writing, nobody in class notices, end of story