"There is something very odd going on here. I’m not ready, or even willing, to say much about it right now, but I want to hear what you think. Why aren’t women in film criticism, really? Why is Sex and the City a 'rah rah' movie for women but nothing else apparently fits in that category? What does that even mean?
How could two intellectuals as eminent as Mary McCarthy and Hannah Arendt end up in a movie where their celebrated, well-documented friendship is basically reduced to giggly girl talk about boys?"
"You know, it’s a really weird thing to think about famous comedians being mad at you. I mean, Patton Oswalt is an extremely successful comedian with 1.3 million Twitter followers. I have around 130,000 and have made $0 off of my Twitter account. For him to tweet angry words about me is like Michael Jordan driving by an elementary school and deciding to go dunk on some sixth graders. It’s a completely bizarre experience. The Internet offers the unique opportunity to hate people you’ve never met."
"Before he became a working actor, Vaughn's first job was as a telemarketer.
Even after Vaughn got out of the family business and into acting, he kept in touch with his roots -- and slowly brought more of the family business into his acting. The Internship may look like some kind of new low point for movies and product placement -- and it probably is -- but a careful consideration of Vaughn's movies reveals that in the last decade he's become more interested in the art of the pitch onscreen, playing one salesman after another, and including increasingly unsubtle product placement and endorsements in his scripts. As crass and mercenary as The Internship might be, Vaughn fully admits how fascinated he is by the world of sales. Which means The Internship may be Vaughn's most personal cinematic expression to date. Like he says in the movie, he's a salesman. He sells things."
"Forget the water cooler — or any other public space like social media or the Internet. When a TV show strikes the kind of psychic chords that HBO’s Game of Thrones did last week with its blood-drenched Red Wedding sequence, the morning-after conversation is just as likely to find its way into the very private realm of a therapist’s office. That’s what happened at the Potomac practice of psychiatrist Dr. Michael Brody, anyway. ... 'The feelings of the patients were darker,' he says. 'It was, ‘How could this happen? This is wrong.’ The general themes of what they were feeling were injustice and the randomness of death. It reminded me of some of the reactions patients shared to the deaths of certain characters on ‘The Wire.’ Killing off characters this time of year isn’t new. But this one was really something.'"
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"Paper City," an astounding animated short by Maciek Janicki.
Paper City from Maciek Janicki on Vimeo.