I wasn’t ranting. I love Ford, as Welles did, and I will always take an opportunity to advance How Green because it’s unjustly forgotten. Have you seen it? The production design alone is amazing.

Crash is a terrible film; I’m not defending Crash. I’m as frustrated with the Oscars too, but there’s something compelling…

? — Welles and Mankiewicz won Best Screenplay, and Kane was nominated for nine Oscars. How Green Was My Valley won Best Picture and is an astounding film by Welles’s own great hero, John Ford. (He thought Ford was the most gifted American director, and Renoir the greatest director in the world.)

1941 was one of the…

? — Welles and Mankiewicz won Best Screenplay, and Kane was nominated for nine Oscars. How Green Was My Valley won Best Picture and is an astounding film by Welles’s own great hero, John Ford. (He thought Ford was the most gifted American director, and Renoir the greatest director in the world.)

1941 was one of the…

a ruthless, cold-hearted efficiency

Penisfaith is one of the least defensible (and most incorrigible) faiths.

Wow, I wasn’t sure you’d get that. (Apologies if necessary — it’s online so you never know)

The Wanger’s a wannabe Lang. Whatever talent there is (and honestly there is/was something there, although let’s call it what it is: a chef’s challenge at H&M) was burnt out by social media; I think he’s one of the first and…

For me, he’s always been the awesome basic layering pieces guy pretending to be the downtown art girls designer speaking as a downtown art girls designer’s idea of an awesome, basic layering pieces guy.

I thought the third one was okay

That’s right. Trump was the choice of uneducated men and white women.

1558.

And their favorite Stones album is Exile

I admire her work too. In truth, as a person, in real life, it’s hard to find somebody worse. She’s brutally ruthless. I’ve seen her take it out on a personal assistant, at a teller at the airport, and she’s got a terrible reputation in the industry. Nothing against her work, but it goes to show how tricky…

Those are amazing films. My favorite is Le Rayon vert.

Because it’s too destructive. I figured they’re like nukes: in the fictional galaxy, it’s so obvious a choice and so calamitous a weapon it would have incurred a tacit ban.

Holdo’s employment thereby aligns with what nobody wants to talk about, the film’s profoundly reactionary worldview. The hegemonic status quo is so…

Prachi’s is terrific! I’m still impressed by Trump’s, considering what a moron he is.

I keep thinking about the story: it’s a great illustration of the phenomenon. When I was very young, my parents would put me to bed early, and I would stare at the alphabet banner running under the ceiling as the sun set until, as I put it to my mom’s alarm, “the letters start to move.” I’ve also learned to lucid…

One of the more depressing aspects here is Rapp’s stated motive. He didn’t indict Spacey because the encounter was traumatizing (indeed, he says he knew Spacey was gay, that the invitation from Spacey at the gay club was nonthreatening — no alcohol, “just a fun night just talking and hanging out,” that Spacey didn’t…

The detail is really incredible. The thing I will say is that they’re not as frightening as they might sound because the dreaming self is unable to experience surprise.

The great thing (maybe the only thing) about studying art history is learning how unimportant consumer reaction is. What are your thoughts on Halévy’s La Juive? Huh, that’s interesting you’ve never heard of it. It was the most popular opera of the 19th century, a time when the greatest possible thing in the world was…

It’s going to depict a pretty radical (read Nietzschean) moral relativism alongside a condemnation of money-as-power (the casino scenes).