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

State of Play?

right

Armond on the 12 best gay flicks of 2015

I've seen Eastern Boys and Girlhood. Have Tangerine on hold at the library. Anyone care to endorse or warn me away from any of the others?

Love at First Fight is pretty good, but funny to see it on this list. Adele Hanael is very good in it, but I thought a big problem was that she wasn't allowed to be 'queer' enough. It became more gender-stereotypical as it went along for me.
The New Girlfriend is pretty good Ozon, much better than Young & Beautiful, but not the campy awesomeness of Potiche.
Tangerine is the best American film of the year.
Duke of Burgundy I like less than most people, apparently, but I don't think it's as weird as it should be, not as good as Berberian Sound Studio, and while I think Sidste Babett Knudsen's accent is meant to signify continental decadent coolness, it sounds too familiarly Danish to me. But that's my problem.

Appropriate Behavior is very funny. Gerontophilia mostly isn't. I don't remember anything gay about the Techine film, but it's a weak one.

Love at First Fight and Appropriate Behaviour both added to my watchlist. Thanks, guys!

Appropriate Behaviour will be on my list of the year's best.

do not spell britishly

i need to go to the brix & mortar store and rent Duke of Burgundy

anyway, Armond was on target recently about Creed and Carol.

this is his most decent list since whenever

I didn't care much for Duke of Burgundy: a movie with butterflies, cabinets, and scrub brushes should have put them to more creative use.

Anyone care to endorse or warn me away from any of the others?

― Bitch I'm in the 2112 (cryptosicko),

fully endorse The New Girlfriend – about time a gender comedy had a funny bone.

On the watchlist it goes! I was hesitant after Young and Beautiful did nothing for me, but your endorsement sounds promising.

Think you really do have to have some kind of sympathy or taste for Rollin, Franco etc to get the most out of Duke of Burgundy, but I found it to be a much funnier film than The New Girlfriend, which for me sat rather uneasily between being a comedy of manners and something a little darker (ie like Almodovar's superior The Skin I Live In).

you've been waiting...

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429435/movies-2015-best-and-worst

The Green Inferno and Knock Knock > Mad Max: Fury Road Eli Roth’s two-fer made him the year’s wittiest political filmmaker, reviving low-grade genres as social satire — the opposite of George Miller’s craven, violent, utterly mindless spectacular.

sure, guy

lol @ implying that eli roth is not craven or violent

What a tragedy it is that Armond has lost Spielberg.

also smdh at the idea of horror as a "lower-grade" genre than the action film

Ok, Armond (and Morbs, and Alfred) totally OTM re: Appropriate Behavior. Desiree Akhaven would be my pick for the Performance of the Year if I saw enough new movies for that to mean anything.

it had been so long since i saw a comedy where i was laughing once a minute, which is true for most of AB.

huh hadn't heard of it before, sounds promising

Armond gets a boner from Michael Bay's Benghazi flick

In 13 Hours, these living breathing G.I. Joes are more than just politically correct, they’re also anatomically correct dolls.

that might be my favorite Armond review yet

"government-issued sexiness"

if that ran on national review's site the response would be "interesting"

Zac Efron gives Armond a boner

The fun of sex is the entire point of the raunchy, goofy Dirty Grandpa. You have to be humorless (and sex-averse) to be offended by its deliberate naughtiness as so many critics have demonstrated. Director Dan Mazer and screenwriter John Phillips are in the long, if disreputable, tradition of porn meisters whose vulgarity opens the way for gay identification and solidarity. Dermot Mulroney, in a small role as Zac’s father, acknowledges fans of his sensual profile (that phallic proboscis) in a skit where he is tattooed with penis graffito. His punchline: “Let me get these cocks off my face.”

oh man, Dermot and Zac as dad/son, impure as it gets.

AW has p unimpeachable taste in film beefcake.

that phallic proboscis.

Channing Tatum's Gene Kelly act gives Armond a boner

I won't click on it yet but, yeah, that sequence was sexy.

as good as anything I saw in the Magic Mikes

(Too bad the song itself lacks the naughtiness of Seth MacFarlane’s gay jokes on Family Guy.)

the line must be drawn here

Fetish geared superheroes give Armond a boner

he probably really wanted to fuck the CGI monster

Armond defends Last Tango in Paris as only Armond can

In 2016, Jeanne’s privilege has become an onerous political tool, favored by the new cultural fascists. Accusations of rape and male aggression have become routine in attacks on masculinity and patriarchy that criminalize everyone from Thomas Jefferson to Bill Cosby and now Bertolucci and Brando.

Creep.

It's predictable that this is where his escalating insanity would lead.

God forbid we criminalize rapists.

"that die-hard hetero pimp Ingmar Bergman"

few things make me more angry than the first paragraph of this piece.

one paragraph after calling people idiots, he makes the inductive leap that because Schneider agreed to be in the film, she agreed to the improvised sex act in question and hey what's a little sexual assault when it led to a movie that's so important, guys!

"it was simulated, therefore it can't be sexual assault!", thanks for clearing that up dude.

(Hollywood’s casting couch continues to exploit men, women, and children.)

Disappointed this sentence doesn't continue with the words, "as explored on Jason Reitman's masterpiece of the same name."

The film was rated X for a reason now lost to our craven film culture—Last Tango is cautionary, not a movie for children or for childish adults.

It was rated X for the same reason a lot of films got that rating--because there's a lot of graphic nudity and sex (and a rape scene) in it.

naw man, it was the scary, alternative ideas!

In fairness, I'm with him on the infantalization of film culture, by as usual, any time Armand seems to be headed somewhere thoughtful or reasonable, he blows it. Citing a serial rapist as a victim of PC thuggery is just the most extreme possible example.

if someone makes a movie about Patty Hearst, we can look forward to "Patty wasn't abducted by the Symbionese Liberation Army. She was freed."

"She was freed; it is the hateful weaponization of politics, epitomized by today's so-called 'feminists,' that have turned a story off personal liberty that Jefferson would have recognized into a symbol of liberal servitude."

omg

Now I'm curious if he reviewed Paul Schrader's Patty Hearst (which I haven't seen, but which feels like a potentially interesting combination of director and subject).

he made this mention of it...

"he method resembles Paul Schrader's tabloid spiritualism in Hardcore, American Gigolo and especially Patty Hearst, which veered off into lonely psychosis (and some critics prefer that detachment from realities of class and sex competition)."