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

his movies are variable, and guilty of some of the superficial sins armond and others accuse him of, but at he's best he's a good rabblerouser (which includes being a good entertainer). the tendency on the left to disown him seems like a needlessly defensive move. he's not right about everything, but god knows his heart is in the right place. and he's a much better filmmaker than a lot of the diy documentarians who have come after him.

harassing congressmen from an ice cream truck - challenging phil knight to a footrace - paul wolfowitz w/the spit comb

guy is putting full effort into entertaining us and all anyone can do is complain abt how hes not a serious upright truth broker - talk abt missing the boat jeez

and generally hes right abt the big picture stuff in a way most people w/a public voice will not fuck with ever

aye.

really, ppl who passionately voted for a Change Agent bought by Wall Street give MM shit for staying in nice hotels? Sit 'n spin.

― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, September 22, 2009 4:12 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

in my experience there is no overlap between these two groups

G Kenny finds that AW is making sense lately, in praising A Serious Man and panning An Education (scroll to end):

http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/1130

i've found that to be a v distressing turn of events

o shit @ his precious review

lotsa folks saying the same thing really -- my editor: "Stuff White People Like"

did they compare it to birth of a nation

well, AW always takes that extra step. (btw I have no doubt it's nowhere as well made as BoaN)

Excellent recent films with black themes—Next Day Air, Cadillac Records, Meet Dave, Norbit, Little Man, Akeelah and the Bee, First Sunday, The Ladykillers, Marci X, Palindromes, Mr. 3000, even back to the great Beloved (also produced by Oprah)...

I really liked Mr. 3000 but wow

To be fair he is right that most critics would praise a new Birth Of A Nation before they'd rave about Little Man.

Mr. 3000 is great

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/01/white_vs_olberm.php

what

jeezus, who cares

"this is the rudest thing I've ever [dealt with]"

rough life

Keith Olbermann: kind of a prissy bitch

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

Oh thank heavens.

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=awardcentral&jump=news&articleid=VR1118013553&cs=1

armond white is a prissier bitch imo, plus he seems a little unbalanced

About the only person I can think of who could out-fussy Armond White is maybe P. Diddy? Perez Hilton on a good day?

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 :/