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Bombast #130
First the important stuff. Stay in one place long enough and the memory of how you used to know it starts to haunt you—particularly if it’s a place where property is as desirous as it is in New York...
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Bombast #130
Europeans are of course those ridiculous people who are incapable of getting into a physical altercation without throwing headbutts, wear Zouave pants around SoHo on summer shopping holidays, sell out...
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Bombast #128
Back in the 19th century when I was writing for a print weekly, I frequently found myself on the No Press Screening movie beat. What that meant was that I’d cover the movies that weren’t shown to...
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Bombast #127
Before the lights went down, I saw that right above the space that I’d designated to take notes about The LEGO Movie in my Spiral Fat Book, there was a scribbled passage from my recent reading of Sam...
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Bombast #126
You can keep “cinephile” or the awful “movie buff”—better to call it a life devoted to adventures in perception. Well, the kicks have been thin on the ground lately what with wintertime doldrums and a...
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Bombast #125
Last week it was colder in New York City than it was in Park City, Utah. And while many of my colleagues were way out west at Sundance, seizing the opportunity to form and broadcast their opinions...
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Bombast #124
The things that wind up hopping the fence between film culture and the world at large can surprise you. Last Tuesday my father sent me a text message asking “What’s your opinion of Armond White?” Up...
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Bombast #123
I started to write a disclaimer/ introduction to my 2013 Best Of…, but on looking at my annual round-up from last year, I realized that I was saying almost exactly the same thing I’d already said. So...
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Bombast #122
There’s a lot of talk going around about The Wolf of Wall Street, and a lot of misperceptions to go along with the talk. For example: practically every mention of an early scene in which Leonardo...
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Bombast #121
There are certain characters and stories that, fundamental to our culture though they may be, don’t necessarily make for ripping yarns on the big screen. “Why do filmmakers think it’s such a good...
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Bombast #120
Like everyone else, I’ve been sworn to silence on the subject of The Wolf of Wall Street, but I don’t suppose anyone at Paramount Pictures will mind my saying that it’s one of the best American...
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Bombast #119
Making art is an expensive habit. If your family was rich to begin with, you’ll drain their resources in pursuit of that habit, with long odds of paying dividends in the end. If nothing else, your...
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Bombast #117
Alexander Payne and Wes Anderson both make comedies, albeit comedies laced with strychnine and a dab of treacle. They are less than a decade apart in age—Payne was born in 1961, Anderson in ’69—and...
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Bombast #116
While the etymology of the word “blockbuster” is unclear, most of the best guesses have it originating sometime during World War II. It was coined in reference to heavy-duty incendiary bombs—4,000 lbs...
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Bombast #115
When Lou Reed died this week, the obituary consensus was that we’d lost the embodiment of “New York cool”—though if that really was all that there was to the man and his art, I would’ve said “Good...
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Bombast #113
Can there be such a thing as too much virtuosity? Certainly every time that Floyd Mayweather, Jr., among the greatest defensive boxers in the history of the sport, delivers another of his slippery...
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Bombast #112
The cult of family, I suspect, is responsible for a great deal of the wickedness in this world. So many things that are done for family—that noblest and most totalizing of causes—must necessarily be...
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Bombast #111
If you read about movies enough, you will repeatedly encounter certain stock phrases meant to explain, in shorthand, the historical and sociological forces at play in pop cultural movements. “Nuclear...
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Bombast #110
I’ve failed to go to the Toronto International Film Festival so many times in my life as a critic that I might as well pretend that I’m boycotting it, rather than being merely too lazy and distracted...
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Bombast #109
“If it were just a question of mutilating bodies the way that hack-and-slash movies often do, I wouldn’t find extreme imagery interesting. People often say to me, ‘Why don’t you do it the way...
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