Dave Kehr Apologizes!
Dave Kehr recently took two gratuitous swipes at Miranda July in his DVD column for the New York Times. It pissed me off, because, as everyone knows, I really really love Me and You and Everyone We Know. But I had no real reason to complain. (He didn’t like the movie, what can I do about it?) But Mr. Kehr has just given me an excuse to bring everyone’s attention to the offending comment (he called MAYAEWK a “studied triviality”). On his blog, he has apologized for his non sequitur and called the movie “sweet.” Aw. You haven’t admitted you’re wrong, Mr. Kehr, but it’s a nice start.
In other Miranda July news, the newest Punk Planet has a mostly boring interview with her in which she disowns any and everything to do with the Me and You and Everyone We Know DVD.
In other blog-on-critic drama, here’s a mean post about Anthony Lane. [Note: Hmmm. Looks like Looker took the Anthony Lane entry down. Here’s Google’s cached version if you want to see it.]
Although I haven't watched it yet, this month's the Believer is packaged with a DVD (the first "issue" of the new McSweeney's quarterly, Wholphin) that features a film from Miranda July.