“we risk collapsing all kinds of sexuality into abuse or criminality”

Looks like a lot of words that have nothing to do with whether Polanski is guilty of raping a child.

Robert Eggers makes better cinema than old man Aster.

At this point, the only thing worth doing with a Barsanti article is finding the link in it to the original source (or Googling it if it’s not included) to go read what was really said/written by the famous person. There’s no need to try to sort through or react to a recap written by someone with shit-tinted glasses.

I can rephrase this for you if you think it sounds somehow less lame.

I just watched it. The real problem: those are some weak-ass swings. Why is she holding it at the bottom of the neck?

In fairness Bon Iver is objectively bad

It was a perfectly fine performance, but smashing a guitar was trite 40 years ago. And giving the guitar company a heads up beforehand, and having a special fake monitor made to spark and smoke for maximum effect kind of misses the point of “spontaneous act of anarchy.” Still, for ANYONE to have a strong opinion about…

Nice pull of a deep cut from Mad Magazine. 

(Meaning, it’s not that it didn’t age well, but that it was ALWAYS known to be problematic).

Uhhh... arent the dudes supposed to be scumbags? Like they are the “cool” guys but they are all pieces of shit and as mentioned its a 70's movie about pieces of shit in the 50's. Problematic guys doing problematic things does not make a movie problematic.

There’s the Canadian Cut. It’s like the American one but really apologetic about it.

I think this interpretation lets 1982 off too easily. The theatrical release is inferior to the director’s cut, of course, but it is still an excellent movie. I don’t know what Siskel and Ebert were thinking.

I think they should do a Theatrical Cut of BR:2049, with a saccharine happy ending where Gosling wakes up off the steps, shakes off the snow, and goes in and lays a big long Clark Gable kiss on the memory gal, as Ford gives a big thumbs-up in the background. Freeze frame, then some fun credit-roll scenes a la Animal…

Some scenes were extended to fit the narration, and the original “Directors Cut” didn’t have time to cut these back down, so it can be a bit awkwardly paced at places. The Final Cut fixed many of these.

I don’t think the movie is boring without it, but I didn’t hate it. After all, the movie is supposed to be an homage to film noir detective movies that usually had such voice overs.

The weird “happy” ending is trash, but i still dig Ford’s VO and find the movie pretty boring w/out it

I agree Teese’s statement didn’t feel strong enough. Especially compared to the condemnation of Manson that Rose McGowan wrote.

I think it’s more that there are certain “trope phrases” in our culture when talking about abuse, and it’s hard not to talk about abuse without somehow using them or seeming like you are going out of your way to avoid them - Think “victim”, “survivor” etc. I think her rhetoric is along the lines of trying to speak to…

Ok, I appreciate that words can be misconstrued, but given that this wasn’t an off the cuff remark by Dita von Teese (it’s clearly a well-crafted statement) I have to say that I personally loathed her choice of words in her statement,