Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

I'm completely unfamiliar with this person but the juxtaposition of "magnificently concupiscent" and "She offered to do me" tells me all I need to know

i'm not surprised CB wrote it, just surprised that anyone, including the paper he founded, would think it worth publishing

Conrad Black is our nation's finest public intellectual

I don't think the National Post is allowed to refuse, or to edit, his pieces

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/09/politics/trump-rob-porter/index.html

""I found out about it recently and I was surprised by it," Trump said. "We certainly wish him well. It's obviously a very tough time for him. He did a very good job while he was in the White House."
"We hope that he will have a wonderful career," Trump added"

man.

We finally found out what @ConradMBlack has to say before the @nationalpost actually dares to edit one of his lunatic columns. Political correctness run amok, I guess! pic.twitter.com/WEnMaai5Qi

— Jesse Brown (@JesseBrown) February 9, 2018

Michael Haneke: #MeToo has led to a witch hunt coloured by a hatred of men

oh ffs you cretin

he loves women though

lol

shouldn't it be a "warlock hunt" then?

just sayin.

#MeToo has led to a witch hunt coloured by a hatred of men

― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, February 12, 2018

said in the voice of Herzog

“what about the men” is maybe the 35073rd question anyone should ask, and yet because it’s provocative in that holding up the status quo while being a dick about it way (and also because of who’s still running the show in media) it’s right up top. amazing how hegemony asserts itself

maura otm; I'm sure he thinks he's being daring, and bravely speaking out, but the attitude is one that's ruled the world for centuries.

hot takes from white men

white men takes back

yes, septuagenarian white men sure do spend a lot of their scarce time left reminding the rest of us to put them on mute

when women speak out about being abused by powerful men it's like a "witch hunt" - those times when powerful men rounded up women whose behaviour they disapproved of and ritually killed them. it's just like that! same thing, basically!

Any pushback feels like oppression to the oppressor.

I mean “outspoken white guy” + “over 69” = guess what, more of them are Hanekes and Trumps than Bernies or Bidens

as in most of this entire saga you can usually tell the retrograde silverback wannabes by the fact that they are talking

open question to thread: what pop websites online are good for news with female perspective? thinking about jezebel, bust, mary sue variety; curious to see what other media is out there.

My first thought: who the hell is Michael Haneke?
My second thought: that question's not worth answering.

the 45th greatest director of all time

45th, eh. so, where did Woody Allen place?

97th

then he and woody belong to a highly distinguished group, no doubt.

Well, Hitchcock won, so...

I would love to hear Hitchcock's views on the respect that should be accorded to actresses, too. We could poll his, Woody's and Mr. Haneke's views on the subject.

Don't leave out Von Trier, I hear he has some ideas too.

Bresson too

korean director kim ki-duk's turn

Famed SKorean director #KimKiDuk was convicted of physically abusing an actress. Yet he has been invited to @berlinale film fest that publicly supported #MeToo campaign against abuse of women. I asked Kim's victim how she feels about it @AFP https://t.co/NaWp8dtYga #berlinale2018

— Hawon Jung (@allyjung) February 11, 2018

seems like korea has the most support for having an open conversation on men's sexual misconduct and women's rights issues, while in japan and china it's basically non-existent

cluck-clucking over every male filmmaker in history, goddamn i love atheist moral scolds

are you really saying every male filmmaker in history abuses or disrespects actresses?

no, you checklisters are coming close enough

so, it's only the great preponderance of them?

or maybe you'd agree that male filmmakers differ in this regard and by examining their words and actions those differences become apparent so that their views on the matter are open to judgment, including negative judgment?

strange, some posts on this board read as total gibberish to me. must be my eyes.

what exactly was bresson accused of?

I think reading has more to do with brains than eyes, tbh.

filmmakers have historically been mostly men. it's a job the combines artistic privilege with an even more massive power imbalance and (often) a whole lot of people beneath you. the fact that this combination has so often resulted in abuses is not surprising.

teasing out individual dead abusers and dragging them for their crimes is not that interesting to me unless there are living victims there to benefit from it. it's a systemic issue.

won't someone PLEASE think of the male filmmakers?

strange, some posts on this board read as total gibberish to me. must be my eyes.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, February 12, 2018 1:54 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nah, think it's just your keyboard.

http://blog.edtechie.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/kingofcomedy.jpg

anyhoo Simon otm

It's historically important because it highlights how omnipresent that shit has always been (and especially necessary in cinema because there's a whole mystique around directors having to be tyrants/assholes/abusers in the name of their art, which I don't think applies as much to other arts).

I'm fine with accepting Hitch was both one of the greatest directors of all time and an abuser, don't really think pointing the latter out is in and of itself denying the former.

xposts

a whole mystique around directors having to be tyrants/assholes/abusers in the name of their art, which I don't think applies as much to other arts

hmmm, some off-Broadway play about Diaghilev and Nijinsky just opened. And y'know, The Red Shoes and its real-life analogues?

teasing out individual dead abusers

Dead in the way that michael haneke, lars von trier, woody allen and kim ki duk are dead?

it's a systemic issue.

and yet somehow it is personal, too

hmmm, some off-Broadway play about Diaghilev and Nijinsky just opened. And y'know, The Red Shoes and its real-life analogues?

This is correct, I think this applies to the director role in both theatre and cinema.

yes.

I was referring to Bresson and hitch fwiw xp

I think given the significant mental health issues D’arcy has been dealing with for nearly two decades, it would be more gross

what exactly was bresson accused of?