ben schwartz
Writer: 84th Oscars, Letterman, The Nation, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Baffler, The New Republic, Emmy nominee, NEH Public Scholar, and author of way too many posts. rep: Dara Kaye/WME #WGAW letterboxd: boxd.it/1lq09
- "When Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows was vilified by leftist French critics, it’s because it was seen to be mythologizing the Gaullists, rewriting the history of the French Resistance in the form of a cracker jack thriller." i wrote about Andor, and Star Wars as mythology
- My favorite Melville, by far. I wish he'd made more espionage movies, this one is brutal.
- Qatar Airways signs a deal for up to 210 Boeing jets during Trump visit. The deal includes Boeing 777X and 787 jets worth $96 billion and GE Aerospace engines chosen over Rolls-Royce for 787s. Seems like we just created a huge trade deficit for Qatar. There is a Quid Pro Quo in here somewhere.
- yeah, those planes won't be crashing on us anymore, they'll be crashing over there. i don't hand it too him often, but
- Superman is at his best and most interesting not when he's represented as a power fantasy, but rather when he's challenged with the burden of responsibility. It isn't COOL he's the only person who can save the world; it sucks, it's a huge burden. Looks like Gunn dialed in with a laser focus on that.
- yup – the knowledge that just sneezing too hard could knock over a bridge, that's on his shoulders every second of his life.
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View full threadThat doesn't prove anything. The courts side with rich white men all the time.
- sure, ignore the woman at the center of it saying it didn’t happen.
- reminder: no he did not. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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- Assholes stick together. Next, Russell Brand will be stanning for Allen.
- he will for weinstein. not sure what woody support gets you in magaworld.
- I’d be genuinely curious in a poll of US adults that asked “Who was president in March of 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic began?”
- Obama, obviously.
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- Ugh. Richard Kind publicly called Dylan Farrow a liar and said people only accused Woody Allen bc of antisemitism and a bunch of other related terrible shit.
- where?
- Another Navy jet falls into sea, marking fourth major mishap in months wapo.st/4dlyTda
- dude, they're all getting pardons, every one of them.
