Maria Schneider never said she was *actually* raped in the butter scene; she said she stayed friends with Brando, and that all the sex was simulated.
That's not the whole issue, though. The sex was simulated, but she clearly felt coerced and humiliated in doing the scene. She says she "felt a little raped." I get why a joke that takes that cavalierly wouldn't go over well.
― jmm, Thursday, 29 November 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
Kinda surprised that Martha Plimpton never said Schneider was raped, but that she was sexually assaulted, which she definitely was? It's ironic that it's the commenters angry at 'rape' being brought into this, who are in fact the ones who brought 'rape' into this.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 29 November 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
Oh wait, Salon didn't have all of her tweet. Ok, everyone is bad, sigh.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 29 November 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
but that she was sexually assaulted, which she definitely was?
not touching this
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 November 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
http://www.startribune.com/star-tribune-film-critic-resigns-after-ethics-breach/502410192/
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 05:06 (five years ago) link
If you're gonna plagiarize, don't choose Kael, for chrissake.
seems like a weird kind of plagiarism
― j., Tuesday, 11 December 2018 06:00 (five years ago) link
Trying to figure out what Kael called "self-glorifying masochistic mush" in 1974.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
Plagiarisers are idiots but they're the creation of a maniacal industry that gives its staff constant & un-meetable deadlines, little job security, shitty wages and zero though to work-life balance. By all means blame this idiot writer, but the structures of newspaper and digital journalism are built for plagiarism.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 13:13 (five years ago) link
The Little PrinceUK (1974): Musical/Dance The Saint-Exupéry book, the first of the modern mystic-quest books to become a pop hit, is a distillation of melancholy, and it comes close to being self-glorifying, masochistic mush. Possibly something might have been made of the material if Alan Jay Lerner, who wrote the movie script, along with the lyrics for Frederick Loewe's music, had a more delicate feeling for spiritual yearning. The director, Stanley Donen, is handicapped by the intractably graceless writing and by the Big Broadway sound of the Lerner-Loewe score. Bob Fosse's snake-in-the-grass dance number is the film's high spot, and Gene Wilder, as a red fox, triumphs over some of his material. As the child Prince, Steven Warner holds the screen affectingly; as the author-aviator, Richard Kiley is pleasant enough but colorless.
The Saint-Exupéry book, the first of the modern mystic-quest books to become a pop hit, is a distillation of melancholy, and it comes close to being self-glorifying, masochistic mush. Possibly something might have been made of the material if Alan Jay Lerner, who wrote the movie script, along with the lyrics for Frederick Loewe's music, had a more delicate feeling for spiritual yearning. The director, Stanley Donen, is handicapped by the intractably graceless writing and by the Big Broadway sound of the Lerner-Loewe score. Bob Fosse's snake-in-the-grass dance number is the film's high spot, and Gene Wilder, as a red fox, triumphs over some of his material. As the child Prince, Steven Warner holds the screen affectingly; as the author-aviator, Richard Kiley is pleasant enough but colorless.
― Number None, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
“Just like real soldiers who are numb to war” Reading these tweets one can imagine how it must have felt to be a tea boy in the offices of Cahiers du Cinéma circa 1954 overhearing a conversation between André Bazin and Éric Rohmer. pic.twitter.com/RcJgGE4fQc— David Franklin (@davefranklin) December 16, 2019
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 16 December 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
David Edelstein is now behind a pay wall--only critic I checked regularly.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
richard brody used the word "dinosaurically" in his latest column. i trust him to write things that are readable.
― treeship., Tuesday, 21 January 2020 02:47 (four years ago) link
i often do not agree with him, but he's more interesting than more "measured" critics. in my view.
It's not really part of my criteria for judging a critic, but I do find myself in sync with Edelstein more often than not. But not always--he put Uncut Gems in his Top 10, as a recent example.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 02:53 (four years ago) link
did u not like it? i'm interested in seeing it
― treeship., Tuesday, 21 January 2020 02:56 (four years ago) link
See it. I'm a dissenting minority of one.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 02:58 (four years ago) link
Vulture seems to waft back and forth with their paywall / article limit, but private browsing is all it takes to get around it.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 03:06 (four years ago) link
Hey thanks--works!
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 03:10 (four years ago) link
Kenneth Turan stepping down as LA Times film critic after 30 yrs
― Josefa, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
no films to critique
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link
it's hard out here for a critic
― Josefa, Thursday, 26 March 2020 00:06 (four years ago) link
James Cameron won.
― coronoshebettadontvirus (Eric H.), Thursday, 26 March 2020 12:56 (four years ago) link
Not sure if this was posted elsewhere but Film Comment being mothballed after next issue. https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/covid-19-update-from-film-at-lincoln-center/
― Alba, Friday, 27 March 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
Last issue: First Cow
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 March 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link
I actually came on here to see if Peter Bradshaw was any good (there's a discounted collection on the book-clearance site I buy from)--the very first post tells me no.
― clemenza, Monday, 10 August 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
I've been listening to the Unspooled podcast, and it's odd, I really enjoy it and their perspectives but I don't trust *either* of them. Not their opinions, not their tastes, not much of anything. But I do like their general positivity and respect for one another even when they clearly disagree, and perhaps because of that I've learned a few things and learned to reassess a few things despite how often my own preferences and opinions diverge.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 August 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
very first post otm
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Monday, 10 August 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
I like Peter Bradshaw. I would take his reviews over most other newspaper critics. He often likes what I would like, and the other way round, and that is enough for me.
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 06:39 (three years ago) link
Has David Edelstein left New York? I was hoping to find a Mank review from him, but he hasn't reviewed anything since September (many reviews since by other writiers). His Wikipedia page doesn't mention him leaving.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 00:13 (three years ago) link
(Writiers are like writers, but much more refined.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
This is a useful site that I periodically think has gone down because I can't remember how to locate it:
https://www.mistdriven.com/
The "Critics' Top Ten" section has an index of year-end lists from a whole bunch of critics: Sarris, Hoberman, Rosenbaum, Amy Taubin, even Godard (and Armond White!). Godard's seventh favourite film of 1964 was Love with a Proper Stranger; Hoberman's fifth favourite for 1986 (I still remember this) was Game 6 of the World Series.
― clemenza, Saturday, 23 January 2021 05:30 (three years ago) link
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/race/critics-choice-association-expels-jeffrey-wells-following-posts-about-atlanta-shootings-exclusive“Trust” as in “trust to always be a total asshole,” that is.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 March 2021 15:01 (three years ago) link
Sorry wrong thread. For all Arm0nd’s outrages, he is still at the end of the day a critic.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 March 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link
good riddance
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Saturday, 20 March 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link
This 2004 interview with Owen Gleiberman, freshly reposted to rockcritics.com, is a great read: https://rockcritics.com/2021/03/29/from-the-archives-interview-with-owen-gleiberman-2004/
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link
Wells attributed those views to unnamed "friendos" with whom he says he conversed.
grounds for expulsion on its own imo
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 23:33 (three years ago) link
Danny Slaski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWxrHz-JORE
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Friday, 11 March 2022 16:53 (two years ago) link
Oh man, I don't know which one comes out worse in this one ...
Without a doubt, the words of a lunatic. Only a mentally deranged person would use the phrase “quotidian sads” pic.twitter.com/YoUYq6yxjY— John Magary (@JohnMagary) January 27, 2023
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Friday, 27 January 2023 11:42 (one year ago) link
A.O. Scott signs off as NYT film critic:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/17/movies/film-critic-ao-scott.html
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Friday, 17 March 2023 10:48 (one year ago) link
Hmm I see..
AO Scott on leaving his post at NYT as film critic pic.twitter.com/u8kk6ZZKL5— @gdess (@GDess) March 17, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 March 2023 11:47 (one year ago) link
Rereading passages of The Press Gang and realizing that Cheshire and White, in particular, were probably my biggest formative-years guiding lights, alongside Rosenbaum
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Sunday, 11 June 2023 18:37 (eleven months ago) link
I had to look up Cheshire, don't know him at all. (Also googled "film critic named White"--duh.) Cheshire's Wikipedia entry says GF II was on his 2012 S&S ballot. Condolences.
― clemenza, Sunday, 11 June 2023 20:03 (eleven months ago) link
Both his and (especially) White’s S&S lists are almost reactionarily conservative, compared to their critical stances in the 90s, but at least Close-Up is on Cheshire’s list too
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Sunday, 11 June 2023 23:02 (eleven months ago) link
Tarantino:
Today, I don't know anyone. Is it my fault? Theirs? What remains are website names: CinemaBlend, Deadline. I am told: “There are still good critics.” And I always answer: who? I say this without sarcasm. I'm told, "Manohla Dargis [of the New York Times], she's excellent." But when I ask what are the three movies she loved and the three she hated in the last few years, no one can answer me. Because they don't care! OK, if The New York Times is at my disposal then I’ll open it, read it, but that's it. I used to know a critics style of writing, their tastes, intimately! The sad reality is that today, the voice of Manohla Dargis – and it's nothing against her – doesn't matter enough for me to read her opinion on “Notes on a Scandal” or the fourth Transformers.
I get his point, in that no single critic now has the cultural presence and reputation as someone like Pauline Kael or Roger Ebert did at one time. And part of this probably has to do with the rise of aggregation platforms like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic and the diminishing valuation of criticism and arts journalism generally. But also? There are absolutely critics whose tastes I know through Film Twitter and Letterboxd and Blank Check, and I'd guess that QT just isn't tapped into those kinds of spaces.
― jaymc, Thursday, 22 June 2023 17:28 (eleven months ago) link
I've wondered whether I should pack it in and move my pots and pans to Letterboxd just for exposure.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 June 2023 17:36 (eleven months ago) link
Would follow, obv
― jaymc, Thursday, 22 June 2023 17:39 (eleven months ago) link
Tarantino’s point is very good.
― Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 June 2023 17:41 (eleven months ago) link
Looked into ordering a copy of The Press Gang (above), but--surprise--not cheap.
― clemenza, Thursday, 22 June 2023 17:47 (eleven months ago) link
Needless to say--and cognizant of my own laziness on the matter--Tarantino and I are in sync there.
― clemenza, Thursday, 22 June 2023 17:48 (eleven months ago) link