Surprised at how (relatively) subdued his pan of Boyhood was, with exactly zero shit-throwing over the Obama stuff or the (largely misunderstood, I think) representations of Red State America.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
i hope his book fills in the gaps between nanook of the north and pulp fiction, maybe a bit about how in 1984 Beverly Hills Cop, Ghostbusters and Police Academy reflected a sense that hipsters and authority structures were learning to co-exist under reagan, smoothing the ruptures of the 60s
ha – isn't this what J. Hoberman's book is about?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
not in a rush to find out but it wouldn't surprise me
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
In what the New York Times’s A.O. Scott called a “suave, scholarly tour de force,” J. Hoberman delivers a brilliant and witty look at the decade when politics and pop culture became one.
This was the era of the Missile Gap and the Space Race, the Black and Sexual Revolutions, the Vietnam War and Watergate—as well as the tele-saturation of the American market and the advent of Pop art. In “elegant, epigrammatic prose,” as Scott put it, Hoberman moves from the political histories of movies to the theater of wars, national political campaigns, and pop culture events.
With entertaining reinterpretations of key Hollywood movies (such as Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, and Shampoo), and meditations on personages from Che Guevara, John Wayne, and Patty Hearst to Jane Fonda, Ronald Reagan, and Dirty Harry, Hoberman reconstructs the hidden political history of 1960s cinema and the formation of America’s mass-mediated politics.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
capital letters, so it's important
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
Armond misses 2004, and this is all straight up nostalgia.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
You'll Never Believe Which Of Your Favorite Movies Ruined Our Country
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
That said, I'll probably get What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about the Movies from the library when it comes out.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
Armond misses 2004, and this is all a suave, scholarly tour de force.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
I just hope Mel Gibson reads it and gives Armond a "you get me" bouquet
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
saw this pop up on twitter and i knew this thread would be all a-light
― goole, Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
these sentences, my god
― goole, Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
SARCASTIC VIOLENCE IS THE NEW MARRIAGE EQUALITY
― goole, Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
i feel like i'm reading dayo's hong kong tshirt thread
Armond misses 2004, and the toilet.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
Armond gets slack from me these days for saying that Michael Cera is a "modern Sterling Holloway."
http://www.studiosystemnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Michael-Cera.jpg http://poorwilliam.net/pix/holloway-sterling2.jpg
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
David Fincher’s new Horatio Alger tale glorified technocrat Mark Zuckerberg with chic, digital-era arrogance.
"Glorified." You know, the guy who ends the movie alone and debating whether or not to send a friend request to the girl who dumped him at the beginning of the movie, showing he had grown not a bit.
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
Armond gets slack from me these days for being the most interesting part of the NYFCC banquet.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
well arguably any movie about a person is "glorification" in the sense that you're suggesting they're worthy of getting a movie about them. though the fact that he calls it a "new horatio alger tale" does undermine his thesis that these movies were unprecedented blows to our collective morality from the liberal left
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
that's why Armond's a perfect fit for NRO. "Glorify" is one of their favorite verbs.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
i still think he's gonna get too real for them eventually
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
He's splitting the suicidal conservatives who won't watch Hollyporn from the ones who go, "Well, wait a minute, I can like The Dark Knight and vote for Romney" more than anything I've seen on the regular site.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
yeah i assume one day he's going to piss off bruce willis or somebody and then he'll be quietly dispatched from the site
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
Just now on Twitter:
Glenn Kenny @Glenn__Kenny 13sShorter Armond White: God how I hate attractive, socially adept people
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
oh come on jesus was clearly attractive and socially adept
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
ok we can debate "socially adept" considering his fate but dude obv had a pull
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
There you go, glorifying Jesus again.
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylYzbB-tLcs
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
for all his manias and delusions, i suspect AW can still distinguish what constitutes a romantic comedy.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
Michael Cera is a "modern Sterling Holloway."
omg how could I not have noticed this before
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius),
whew! it saves you the trouble
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
c'mon man this is the armond white thread, if you're gonna troll show some teeth
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
"meh meh lest you forget i'm uptight about people liking judd apatow movies" armond white has declared judd apatow movies in part responsible for the fall of man try harder
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
Armond said liberal media disparaging the passion of the Christ was worse than 9/11. That's a pretty high bar for any troll to match.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
I don't wanna derail this thread, but Jesus kinda strikes me as one of the least socially adept people ever... Like, the guy attacked the freaking temple in Jerusalem, that was quite clearly a social no-go...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
accuses Variety of sedition!
Citizenfour is not about Snowden’s change of heart (if such ever occurred) and not an examination of his untroubled disloyalty. Poitras’s stylized presentation makes Snowden’s covert activities accord with the atmosphere of annoyance and resentment — the same liberal smugness that ruined Brian De Palma’s Redacted.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/391061/paranoid-and-visionary-armond-white
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 October 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
wow...snowden checks his hair before being interviewed...that IS damning
― da croupier, Friday, 24 October 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
the George Clooney anti-capitalist Ocean’s Eleven franchise films
― da croupier, Friday, 24 October 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
the fun clarity of the military testimonies in Costa Gavras’s Z
alright it's been a while since i saw Z, but...
― da croupier, Friday, 24 October 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
fun?
Clarity!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 October 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
i'm pretty bummed he was forced to go to actual acclaimed "classics" from the past, and couldn't make negative comparisons to Son Of God or a D'Souza doc.
― da croupier, Friday, 24 October 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
no "if you want to see someone truly stand up for an idea from a place of righteousness, consider God's Not Dead"
― da croupier, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
"Robert Downey Jr in The Judge, now there's a man who can navigate a moral dilemma without abandoning our national code"
― da croupier, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
The cat and mouse games of costa gravas's breezy caper 'missing'
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 24 October 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
xpost "not to mention a movie that realizes the inferences one can make from hair products"
― da croupier, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
then in the second review he goes on to say that ppl who were "fooled" by Grand Budapest will be "astounded" by Alain Resnais' swan song. Wouldn't they be too dumb for that?
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 October 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
Snowden says “in the history of man” a lot — to measure his alarm and his audacity; the phrase is his password to Benedict Arnold, the Rosenbergs, and Daniel Ellsberg‘s martyrdom.
wtf?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 24 October 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
that nimble trickster Wes Anderson~~!
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 24 October 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
had no idea AW was pro-Benedict Arnold
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 October 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link