why?
― by another name (amateurist), Friday, 12 March 2010 06:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i think it's pretentious
― hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 March 2010 06:57 (fourteen years ago) link
okay "Jordan S."
― by another name (amateurist), Friday, 12 March 2010 07:05 (fourteen years ago) link
;-)
― by another name (amateurist), Friday, 12 March 2010 07:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Damon has perfected looking down his nose at his superiors, fellow grunts, shifty-swarthy Iraqis—and us. It is an insidious, racist, fascist characterization.
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/king.jpg
― hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 March 2010 09:28 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty much i'm saying that it begins and ends with "j. peterman" - no one else is allowed to do the "j. [last name]" thing -- and at least his name was JACOPO
― hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Friday, March 12, 2010 6:54 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
the hell?
j-ho came before seinfeld ne way
― gfunkboy (history mayne), Friday, 12 March 2010 09:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i was
kidding
― hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 March 2010 09:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i do think it's pretentious tho
unsure what seinfeld has to do w/ this
― just sayin, Friday, 12 March 2010 09:52 (fourteen years ago) link
jacopo was a character in seinfeld. none of this matters. j hoberman is a fine critic and armond white is... not.
― gfunkboy (history mayne), Friday, 12 March 2010 10:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Love that defence. "What's he mad at me for? I'm obsessed with his wife, doesn't that count for something?" Nope, that probably doesn't help at all.
I can't believe how much I hate Armond White - it's the kind of shuddering, visceral loathing I usually only experience with politicians and Fox News hosts. His political readings are usually so insanely contrary that he reminds of that guy who posts long blogs about how Lady Gaga is a tool of the Illuminati.
― gotanynewsstory? (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 12 March 2010 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Trying to figure WTF about Jennifer Jason Leigh's body of work in from that decade makes her the "the best actress in the ’90s" according to Armond White. The only role of hers that I could recall from that time period was in Dolores Clairborne. I can't recall anything special about her performance in that film.
― The fabric of ILX is woven from threads of hate (KMS), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I find her an irritant.
― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i think she's kind of not-good, but she did do some good movies: miami blues, kansas city, hudsucker proxy... existenz.
― gfunkboy (history mayne), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Watching her act is like watching a Palmetto bug on its back, squirming.
i was gonna say "mary louise parker would have been better in those movies" and i guess that's JJL had an "arc" on weeds
― gfunkboy (history mayne), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Existenz was good, but Armond seems to be a Cronenberg hater so I can't see him appreciating her acting in that film.
― The fabric of ILX is woven from threads of hate (KMS), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
what a dilemma for armond "consistency" white
― gfunkboy (history mayne), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
like her a lot in mrs. parker & the vicious circle, existenz, the king is alive
― zvookster, Friday, 12 March 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
for the record, JJL is fantastic
― Get the Flaps Out (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
white "denied responsibility" for making the abortion comment before holberman got the review he made it in from the library and put it online, leading to his pathetic "Reading the English language, I am not calling for him to be aborted" defense. What a prince this guy is.
― zvookster, Friday, 12 March 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
She and Phoebe Cates make Fast Times at Ridgemont High on for the ages!
― The fabric of ILX is woven from threads of hate (KMS), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
one for ages
― The fabric of ILX is woven from threads of hate (KMS), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
More caffeine please!
gave me a high-on for the ages
― goole, Friday, 12 March 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Hudsucker, Existenz, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Fast Times, Synechdoche, Palindromes, The Hitcher (lol), the Anniversary Party - she's been good in a lot of stuff
― Get the Flaps Out (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
it's kind of sad that Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rachel Leigh Cook have become intertwined in my mind when I read their names, right
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Friday, 12 March 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
doesn't sound sad to me
― goole, Friday, 12 March 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah actually it sounds kind of hot, nvrmind
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Friday, 12 March 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Georgia
(also the name of Baumbach's mom)
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 March 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Lincoln/Kennedy coinky-dink that.
― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 March 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
altho Georgia was the name of Mare Winningham's character in that film.
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 March 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw Georgia a few weeks ago and – wow. She's like Meryl Streep: tic tic tic. The only scene in which I believed her was her "terrible" onstage performance.
― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 March 2010 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't find meryl tic-y. JJL is though.
― jed_, Friday, 12 March 2010 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
What is the actual abortion comment?
― ryan, Saturday, 13 March 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Armond White gracefully gives up the moral high ground to make petty, snide comments
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
holy hell, I am not reading all of that
― smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Only through the help of a critical colleague (whose identity must be protected) was I able to RSVP to a Greenberg screening.
― max, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
(better photographed, too: I liked Harris Savides’ image of Stiller barely swimming across a pool—possibly an homage to my joke that Baumbach was the rat at the bottom of Margot at the Wedding’s pool)
seems pretty likely that the shot was an homage to armond white
― max, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
an 'armage' if you will
The Indian-giver discourtesy is reflected in the film itself,
classy. this guy is such a putz.
― aw beat de holy jasus.. (stevie), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm a music journalist, and even i think he's too far up himself.
― aw beat de holy jasus.. (stevie), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
tldr
feel bad now that I gave NY Press a click
― dmr, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i always thought it was "jay hoberman"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
loll
― dmr, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
if every publicist bans armond white maybe he'll work himself into such a fit of rage that he spontaneously combusts, and then we'll be rid of him. sound like a plan?
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Stepping into this Greenberg controversy, Hoberman holds onto his pathetic, unexamined anger. It exposes the hidden conspiracy by him and his backward children (you know who you are) to control film discourse. They give Baumbach the acclaim and attention withheld from less well-connected indie filmmakers. Their defense of Baumbach disguises their reluctance to engage this writer in a forthright discussion of aesthetics; it’s basically a witch hunt.
Well, not with me you don’t! As Chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle, I must rise above it. Hoberman’s despotic behavior blurs the line between criticism and gossip—as when disparaging Kael, relentlessly attacking Spielberg for opposing his own ethnic shibboleths or more recently giving traitorous praise to the movie Green Zone for encouraging insurrection in the American military.
― goole, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
By going against one critic’s independence while protecting Baumbach’s petulant, supercilious filmmaking, Hoberman and Dart reveal their roles in the contemporary power structure (represented by casting Ben Stiller as an icon of the gentry). They want to normalize the arrogance of class privilege. Baumbach is not just their darling scion; he’s their unaborted poster-child. Baumbach’s movies pave the way for the elite to pass advantages on to their own progeny, to maintain the status quo.
― velko, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
"disparaging Kael"
despotism!
― lipster grifter (history mayne), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
i was gonna end my clip at "I must rise above it" which is just amazing, given the previous 1000+ words, but the final line about green zone was just too bizarre to pass up. traitorous? encouraging insurrection? does he always flip the david horowitz switch on when he wants to?
― goole, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link