James Franco and his LIPS !!!

Teehee....

Now I am wondering when will he discover Kenneth Anger?

i think he has already... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2352488/

ha, franco's imdb page reveals that he will. not. be. stopped. -- he's filming yet another faulkner adaptation, "the sound and the fury." because if there's one man who is capable of adapting the unadaptable, it's james franco.

oh, and he's making a bukowski biopic, too.

https://twitter.com/fart/status/458305516309983232

I like the Modest Mouse song "Bukowski."

Franco just turned 36, it just seems like he's been plaguing us forever.

it's possible he's just learning about all this stuff in the last few years from his 17-year-old girlfriends.

hi5

The Cindy Sherman sub-Shia bullshit Franco's doing now is similar to his movie on Hart Crane. Both times he completely missed the point of his source material. Crane was a lot of things Franco depicted him as -- obscure, self-important, depressed -- but his poetry has a mysterious urgency that makes it compelling even at its most unclear. He really did want to do something important in his work, and poetry was more important to him than being a poet was, if that makes sense. This isn't apparent in Franco's lifeless film at all; 1/2 the time Crane just seems like a bored sophisticate. It's not surprising to me he totally failed to grasp the feminist dimensions of Sherman's work.

is that an ironic hi5 or a sincere one?

oh you

He reminds me too much of an "actor" I dated once. He totally misconstrued Meisner and we had a huge, heated argument over Meg Ryan vs Gena Rowlands, not my comparison and blah blah blehk!

Okay, I perused this thread today for the first time for all of three minutes.

I've known of Franco and have seen him in stuff for a really, really long time. But one day I woke up and everybody loved him; meaning, every arty and pseudo-intellectual/dilettante I knew or had met loved him. (I thought he was good in Freaks and Geeks. I've never liked soaps, so I never saw him in General Hospital.)

I am honestly curious as to why this is.

No, I don't hate him. No, I don't love him. I am just completely clueless. I've watched stuff he's in, and some of it is kind of cool. But what are some things that have made him so great? Are they his movies? Because if they are, I am missing something, because, yes, I don't get it. Is it because he acts more knowledgeable or cultured than his other Hollywood counterparts? Do I have a misconstrued image of him or what he represents?

My friends and I are into hiking and the outdoors, but the ones who saw 127 Hours didn't sound like he was so amazing; they just thought it was a good story. But because of the vibe I got, I never really bothered to watch it.

it was this one weird trick he pulled in spiderman

youtube bro

he's best loved around these parts for letting people know when to step back and gain perspective on the things they're ranting about. he's a responsible ilxor first, an actor second, and a bunch of other things too.

a responsible ilxor? #oxymoron

i never said he wasn't a moron.

sweet

to really answer your question though, have you seen spring breakers?

nope. is it on netflix?

i'm not sure but you should see spring breakers asap. it's an incredible film.

PS No it isn't

Dodie Kazanjian, a contributing editor at Vogue and Mr. Tomkins’s wife, mentioned Mr. Franco’s send-up of Kanye West’s “Bound 2” music video, in which Mr. Franco plays Yeezy to Seth Rogen’s sultry Kim Kardashian.

“That was hysterical,” said Ms. Sherman of the spoof.

“Maybe,” said Ms. Kazanjian, “he was working his way up.”

ew

maybe people have really shitty senses of humor, including franco

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/arts/design/james-franco-new-film-stills-arrives-at-pace-gallery.html?_r=0

Maybe Franco's just so goodlooking its influence just destroyed any talent he had

http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/jerry-saltz-on-james-francos-new-film-stills.html?mid=facebook_vulture

sick takedown

I think the Times is much more brutal but I need to look at the NY Mag one again

When asked by Gallerist what she made of Franco's act she simply said, “I can only be flattered. I don’t know that I can say it’s art, but I think it’s weirder that Pace would show them than that he would make them.”

Cindy Sherman, perfectly phrased answer

By now hundreds of young artists have riffed on the "Film Stills." It's almost required in art schools. I've seen painted versions of them, filmed ones, slideshows, a woman dressed as other famous women artists doing them, and a guy who posed his dogs as Sherman in the film stills. It's a lark meant to slip-stream into art history, comment about feminism or art, and bide time until an artist can actually figure out his or her own work. It's one of the most predictable holding patterns in all of art. I always tell students who do Sherman remakes, "Cool. Get them out of your system, then get back to work, and don't show these to anyone. It's just you masturbating and may mean you're not meant to be an artist."

at this point George W. Bush is actually a better artist than James Franco.

Everyone more or less otm re: Franco. This is all first-year art school stuff, and has not just been done before, but has been done before that and before that and before that.

smdh http://gawker.com/heres-what-seth-rogen-looks-like-nude-1567246527

fun fact: i used to be roommates w/ the artist he stole from

Is market saturation just a completely outdated concept now?

http://gawker.com/james-franco-explains-why-he-ripped-off-those-nudes-of-1576202575

http://dlisted.com/2014/05/14/james-franco-knows-and-doesnt-care-that-he-plagiarized-paintings-of-his-naked-brofriend-seth-rogen/

No stopping him...ha!

never realised how insufferable this guy is

the tiny gap between franco and shia labeouf has closed

labeouf seems like a genuinely confused kid (who happens to probably be an asshole)

franco seems confused, but mostly just cynical and smarmy

http://cdn03.cdnwp.celebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/18/jamnes-franco-gif-11.gif

also no longer hot

this fucken guy

so over his boring cute face now

NEXT

OTM!

and..." also no longer hot" is right.

Pot's a helluva drug.

http://jamesfrancowithdicks.tumblr.com/

nope

i get the idea he genuinely thinks he is better than everyone else

ages ago i noticed this crazy kid on franco's instagram (before i stopped followinh him bcz ughhhhh)

kid lposts up at every signing/art show/reading/performance/morning walk & gets photos with him ALL the time & makes paintings of him (also does the same for lady gaga & reality tv show randoms)

lhe legit camped outside the theater to see franco in mice & men

total ny artschool kid, gets around in giant platform boots & leggings & capes & shit

there must be thousands of them around the country by now & it's like WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING ANYMORE