GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

GIRLS (to the max)

washington commons, check, awkward sex, check, acclaimed hbo series, check

acclaimed cover art for Fever Ray, check

she goes to steampunk bars too??

steampunk cabaret

*shamefacedly hides tickets*

not sure if ya knew you can watch the debut free Monday online

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/04/12/hbo-offers-free-access-to-debut-episodes-of-new-comedy-series-girls-and-veep/128783/?

shock shock, here's Brody: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2012/04/girls-armchair-sociology.html

just saw 'tiny furniture' and was shocked by how much i liked it. i hate this sort of film, as a general rule, but the gradual shift in tone completely won me over. it was scathing and observant without being mean-spirited. in an odd way, it reminded me more of bresson than woody allen. (not that it's really much like either.)

i'm kinda floored that a couple of ppl here found it poorly directed -- i thought it was incredibly well-crafted, every shot beautifully composed. light-years ahead of someone like miranda july.

im actually really tempted to make a lena dunham vs miranda july poll

can we wait til she has more than one film?

she's got a tv series starting Sunday morbs. by the end of it she'll have more output than July.

if you have HBO

i'm going to finally watch Tiny Furniture tonight. Surely it can't be worse than a Miranda July film. Surely.

as opposed to the inescapably huge national roll-outs of Miranda July's work. xpost

plus you can watch the first episode and write it off even without HBO. Perfect!

can we campaign for a GIRLS theatrical run plz shes the next bresson fyi

yeah, there's a cable series debut and a ton of interviews, omg quick quick let's evaluate before she expires!!!

yes plz. i haven't seen this show but it really speaks to me on a personal level. so audacious but...real...y'know?

by the end of it she'll have more output than July.

"OUTPUT"? If all is equal by the clock, more than Jean Vigo too.

I got your output right heah...

"content"

art is now just as series of products morbs. get with the 90s.

i'm kinda floored that a couple of ppl here found it poorly directed -- i thought it was incredibly well-crafted, every shot beautifully composed. light-years ahead of someone like miranda july.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, April 13, 2012 8:45 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

"incredibly well crafted" might be a little over the top

In any case, the creation of artistic products is intrinsically an “elite woe,” regardless of the financial status of the artist; priests and poets and painters are all members of the idle class (see Plato’s “Republic,” Book Two, on the creation of the “luxurious State”). At the same time, form reflects circumstances. I remember the early days of hip-hop—I had the sense that a new form was arising to express experiences that weren’t yet widely depicted, and that its aesthetic characteristics were integral to this communication. And those experiences, in that form, proved to have a worldwide, quasi-universal power

um

Cock

yeah, there's a cable series debut and a ton of interviews, omg quick quick let's evaluate before she expires!!!
--World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius)

Seriously, why don't we hang out, dogg

I'm generally cool with narratives about rich people -- lots of time for urban culture snobs (Woody Allen types) or upwardly mobile suburban professionals (Updike) -- but a big reason Sex and the City makes me uncomfortable (NB: I haven't actually seen it) is that it seems like a show that's not just set in an upper-class milieu but actively fetishizes material objects like designer shoes and fancy cupcakes.

This has nothing to do w/Lena Dunham, whose work I haven't seen, either, but whatever.

Sex and the City 2 was about the most grotesque consumerist thing I've ever seen. And I've seen all three Transformers films.

all the people are dancin and theyre having such funnn i wiiiiish it could happen to me...

a friend of mine's wife insisted on naming their first daughter after her favorite sex and the city character so the daughter would "always have a reminder of who the right rolemodels are" :( :(

ha which one was it

ch4rlotte (she is my goddaughter btw probably shouldn't be shittalking her moms on the Internet)

the mating habits of contemporary 24-year-olds? what could be less relevant to meeee? (straight, M, F, gay, I don't care)

so you're why Hollywood won't cast black actors as leads

terrible non sequitur imho

Sex and the City makes me uncomfortable (NB: I haven't actually seen it)

jeezus man, btwn this and the 3 silent features you've seen, put down the puzzles.

Not sure what you're objecting to there -- that I haven't seen SATC or that I'm biased against something I haven't seen? I'm sure there's plenty of quality TV you've missed, and I *know* you prejudge stuff all the time.

(Also, lol @ "put down the puzzles" as a zing. Pretty much the only time I solve crossword puzzles is on my commute. Would you rather I be watching silent films on my iPod?)

just a joek

*farts*

that good, huh

Yeah, that was rough.

The scene at her internship was what I didn't like about Tiny Furniture, the back and forth is already stilted and it's not helped by the way she shoots.

thought it was p good - i think that it can be so much looser than tiny furniture is a huge virtue

lol that she was interning @ tao lins publisher

I seriously have no idea why anyone would even watch this

Why do you guys even care about this stupid looking show?

lol u like portlandia

TS: "THIS IS THE SHOW THAT FINALLY GETS ME" Vs "LOL THIS SHOW DOESN'T GET ME AT ALL"

Portlandia's a bunch of joeks. This is a bunch of people on the Internet either a) putting all their hopes and fears and desires on hoping we get our new Woody Allen ever since FREAKS AND GEEKS OMG NAILED IT or b) sniffling that its not getting the complexities of Tumblr whiteness right DUDE WHERES MY PANTS MTV(tm)

All on some show that had zero episodes until an hour ago and whoooooo carrrrres

ts watching a show because it "gets you" vs not being motivated by weird stuff like that

http://prodstatics3cdn1.tastingtable.com/images/articles/2010_08/localfolks_sm.jpg

The inflated sense of importance people have around TV shows is so fucking stupid right now