One of comedian Pete Holmes’ best physical bits has him showing the audience how he likes to stand, with his arms at his sides and with his back arched as he juts his stomach out. “Everybody knows that this is the most comfortable way to stand. I want to stand like a pregnant woman stirring […]
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Cultural critic James Wolcott, on the new film critic:
"Film critics today have become these rabid completists... They feel like that with festivals, they have to see everything, no matter how minor. Part of it is bragging rights. The other part is that the only thing that feeds into their movie writing is other movies."
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Thursday, September 20th, 2012
Tags: 70MM, Adam Lippe, Adam Sandler, Amy Adams, Anna Paquin, Boogie Nights, Burt Reynolds, Daniel Day Lewis, David Lean, Edith Ann, epic, Ernie Anderson, film, From Beyond, gay, Ghoulardi, H.P. Lovecraft, Hamlet, Hard Eight, Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood, homoerotic, I'm Still Here, incest, Jason Robards, Jeannie Berlin, Jeffrey Combs, John Travolta, Kenneth Branagh, Kenneth Lonergan, L. Ron Hubbard, Lawrence of Arabia, Magnolia, Margaret, Mark Wahlberg, Maya Rudolph, Maztt Damon, Melora Walters, Melora Waters, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, movie review, nudity, Oil!, Paul Dano, Paul Thomas Anderson, Pete Holmes, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Punch Drunk Love, R rated, RegrettableSincerity.com, Return to Paradise, Scientology, Stuart Gordon, The Master, There Will Be Blood, Thomas Jane, Tom Cruise, Two Lovers, Upton Sinclair
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The Master
Thursday, September 20th, 2012
Tags: 70MM, Adam Lippe, Adam Sandler, Amy Adams, Anna Paquin, Boogie Nights, Burt Reynolds, Daniel Day Lewis, David Lean, Edith Ann, epic, Ernie Anderson, film, From Beyond, gay, Ghoulardi, H.P. Lovecraft, Hamlet, Hard Eight, Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood, homoerotic, I'm Still Here, incest, Jason Robards, Jeannie Berlin, Jeffrey Combs, John Travolta, Kenneth Branagh, Kenneth Lonergan, L. Ron Hubbard, Lawrence of Arabia, Magnolia, Margaret, Mark Wahlberg, Maya Rudolph, Maztt Damon, Melora Walters, Melora Waters, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, movie review, nudity, Oil!, Paul Dano, Paul Thomas Anderson, Pete Holmes, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Punch Drunk Love, R rated, RegrettableSincerity.com, Return to Paradise, Scientology, Stuart Gordon, The Master, There Will Be Blood, Thomas Jane, Tom Cruise, Two Lovers, Upton Sinclair
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On Cold Fish:
Though the 16 year old me described the 1994 weepie Angie, starring Geena Davis as a Brooklyn mother raising her new baby alone, as “maudlin and melodramatic,” Roger Ebert, during his TV review, referring to the multitude of soap-operaish problems piling up on the titular character, suggested that it was only in Hollywood where Angie would get a happy ending. “If they made this movie in France, Angie would have shot herself.”
Well Cold Fish was made in Japan, where Angie would have shot herself and that would have been the happy ending.