RIGHT?! She always looks good but this is another level. I actually looked up her whole dress:

It’s almost like an extremely long ASMR video starring Harrison Ford.

They haven’t seemed to turn on Cate Blanchett and she won the Oscar for that same movie.

So agreed about Michelle Pfeiffer!! And yeah, the marketing sure was deceptive, but I’m not sure I have a better idea for what they could have done. It’s the kind of movie that was never going to be a big hit. It probably shouldn’t have even gotten a wide release opening weekend.

I think both Phantom Thread and mother! are about a muse objecting to being a muse (and protesting the expectation that she be passive/used up). The films may be stylistically very different, but they are both acerbic and satirical and critiquing the typical male-artist/female-muse paradigm.

With her drinking with Colbert earlier this week, after two rums, even Colbert couldn’t keep his hands off her either, and she with him.

Kinda sorta, but “mother!” was really an allegory where Javier Bardem is a vengeful God, Jennifer Lawrence is Mother Earth, Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer are Adam and Eve, everyone else being an asshole is Man, that kind of super fun stuff.

People hated it because it was marketed as a horror film, and Aranofsky wanted people to go in blind. To Lawrence’s credit, she disagreed with him on that. I went in knowing just enough so that I could admire it (also, Michelle Pfeiffer was EVERYTHING).

I mean, there’s so many metaphors you can draw from that movie, and I haven’t even mentioned anything from the Bible yet. I just think it was a brilliant piece of art.

I fucking loved Mother! Of course as a writer I went with the fucking male uses up female muse metaphor first.

We will not turn on Sally Hawkins!!!

Phantom Thread? Old hat. Whereas Female Spy Uses Sex Wiles to Manipulate Men/Woman Is Toughened Up Through Horrific Sexual Abuse movies are always fresh.

Sorry to be writing about Jennifer Lawrence on here again (though I can’t apologize for her being on a publicity tour right now for Red Sparrow)

True, but I wouldn’t call Nicholson lesser known and I doubt there’s any skeleton coming out on him that we aren’t aware of.

I support this compromise. I don’t think it does societal harm to keep a DVD that you’ve already purchased nor do I think you’d be making the world a better place by putting all media you’ve paid for that was made by terrible people in the garbage. It’s not like doing that would repo the money that we all threw at…

Hard. Male privilege is like some kind of oxygen tent.

It’s their funeral, there are plenty of lesser known older actors as well as new actors to discover for example pretty much everyone in the Black Panther movie.

How hard is it to change the ending of that statement to “and I’m so angry that he has sullied that memory. I’m so sad it has taken us to get to this point and I’m greatful to Dylan for speaking out. How brave of her.”

All of this aside Woody Allen is a not particularly good director who has profited off watering down the work of far superior directors for American audiences and calling it homage  

Jeff Daniels, in other words: