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Thursday, December 15, 2005

Dave Kehr Apologizes!

Posted by on December 15 at 16:10 PM

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.]


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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.

Yeah, it's Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody, which is actually directed by Miguel Arteta (MJ wrote the screenplay and appears briefly, if I remember correctly). I saw it at SIFF, and I think it's okay, but probably not solely worth buying the magazine for.

Definitely not worth buying the magazine for: the elegant male-gaze cliche The Specialist, starring Selma Blair. Blechh.

I didn't take my Anthony Lane post down. Typepad (my unreliable blog provider) crashed for a day. The post should be back up now. Cheers.

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