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dandaddario:

Everything about this photo sums up the flaws of The Artist—straining as hard as it can to make you love it, pathetic in all senses of the term. They’re not reaching out; they’re grasping.

The Artist is Singing’ in the Rain for people who hate musicals.

… I thought that it was supposed to be A Star Is Born for people who hate talkies?

I so very badly want to know the distribution of vote totals for today’s Oscar nominations just to see how the instant runoff voting and 5% rule worked. Like, just how hard would it have been for Scott Rudin to get 300 people to cast a first preference ballot for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close? 

And further down the list, what happened in the Original Song category? Only two (or maybe just one?) song of the 39 shortlisted got the required 8.25 to qualify. Yay for Flight of the Concords, but too bad for the National, Jonsi, and Elton John, I guess.

The Awl: You aren’t snotty about keeping books in good condition, you acknowledge that dogears and scribbled notes are healthy, but you have a few special editions you’d only lend out to a very close friend.
— “What Your Favorite Blog Says About You” [Slacktory]

Illustrated check at Bathtub Gin. My drink was called the falcon & snowman. How could I resist?

After seeing Haywire tonight, I think we found excuses for most the plot convolutions and acting flaws, but even when they don’t add up to all that much, Steven Soderberg has a way of making solidly entertaining movies. 

(via Movie Poster Awards Gallery)

arresteddownton:

(thanks to youaremystick!)

so many aLOLs.

Happy to see that my other top Arrested Development quotes are well represented. Including such hits as: ”Marry Me”, “Her?”, “I don’t understand the question and I won’t respond to it”, “Everything they do is so dramatic and flamboyant…”.

For a movie starring Sylar and Dan Humphrey as investment analysts, Margin Call was surprisingly good airplane viewing. (via Internet Movie Poster Awards Gallery)

After brunch Apple accessorizing at Grand Central before leaving New York.

Fancy ice and spoon at Little Branch.

richardrushfield:

Reality Bites and the Coming of Age of the Deadbeat Hipster Boyfriend

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Q: At the end of the movie, Winona’s character ends up with Troy after a tortured courtship. If the movie was made today, would that still happen? Or would she end up with Ben Stiller’s ambitious TV executive?

A: You just hit the nail on the head. That movie was probably one of the last moments when the girl makes the decision to go with the poor, self-serious dude. A theme of the movie is how money and corporate thinking was taking over everything.  Today, I don’t think there’s a chance in hell they would end that movie with her and Troy together. The definition of integrity has changed. Now, if a person — or a movie — makes a lot of money, then it’s got integrity.

What Hawke misses is how much this choice has flipped in the past decade and a half. The dichotomy between slacker at the margins of society and soulless executive has completely evaporated.  The slacker’s descendent  (now termed “hipster”) is not a terrifying creature barely tolerated at the margins of society, he has become the arbiter of American culture and feels himself vastly entitled to all its wealth and rewards.  

If there was anything noble about my generation, it was the invention of slacking - captured in Reality Bites “Den of Slack.”  To the extent we made a statement in that era, it was a conscientious objection to enthusiasm about anything.  The most uncool thing you could be was excited - about success, career, relationships, friends, dinner.   We were not a generation waiting to be handed giant recording contracts and street marketing campaigns; we saying leave us alone, we’re trying to sleep. …

generational pride.

Sled army in Central Park.

Maurizio Cattelan: All.