Media Is Stephen Holden Off His Rocker?
posted by October 11 at 18:25 PM
onWith supergenius Manohla Dargis in its ranks, the New York Times film section isn’t in any kind of crisis. But perhaps somebody ought to put the editing reins on Mr. Holden, whose piece about the New York Film Festival contains each of the following phrases:
my longstanding resistance to animation
What? I mean, that phrase would be lame if it ended in “graphic novels,” but in film, where animation practically preceded live action (if you count early trompe l’oeil technologies), began in earnest in the ’00s, and is well represented in avant garde movements…. I don’t know how to respond.
Both films [Pan’s Labyrinth and Persepolis] are immeasurably enriched by examining war and social upheaval through innocent female eyes.
Please note the protagonist is probably 30 by the end of Persepolis, which encompasses much of the plot of the book Persepolis 2. So much for the film’s “tacit” feminism.
And, um,
Laugh-out-loud humor is a scarce commodity at any film festival, but there are yucks galore in…
Wow.
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"I don’t know how to respond."
Good. Because you'd sound like a know-it-all typical Freshmen film major if you did. This is considering your response would be as boring and empty as your movies reviews are.
Please note the protagonist is probably 30 by the end of Persepolis, which encompasses much of the plot of the book Persepolis 2. So much for the film’s “tacit” feminism.
...okay. Burn?
[Quoted] Laugh-out-loud humor is a scarce commodity at any film festival, but there are yucks galore in…
Wow. You fuckin' know you're a professional journalist when you make posts analyzing torn-up fragments of someone else's article.
*movie. Fuck.
God, it's like a total dick parade in Slog comments today.
Yeah. How dare someone comment with attitude on a post with attitude. The nerve.
Oh, I can tell already - tomorrow is going to be a verrrrry long day...
@5
Why? Everything you post is perfectly fine. Annie Wagner is aimless and coma-inducing. After 200 words of links/unnecessary profound words/opinionated non-opinions, you stop and wonder if she actually said anything at all.
OHHH! I get it. Mr. Poe is an alias of Annie's. Too me a long time to get that.
I stopped taking the post seriously after reading "supergenius Manohla Dargis." Dargis is unreadable and it is not always clear that she's actually seen the movie she's reviewing.
The whole post must be some kind of joke and she actually loves Holden but has a funny way of showing it.
Ah sure, you say that NOW, Mr. Poe.
But wait until tomorrow, when I'm on the other side of the commentor/commentee dialectic.
Then you merciless barbarians will be all over me like a starving wolverine on a creamy peanut-butter covered relapsed David Hasselhoff.
Persopolis is french right? Not exactly a nation where feminism has gotten very far.
@10,
France? What are you talking about? Were you perhaps thinking of Iran?
@10
It's a French film, yes. And yes, it isn't a nation where feminism has gotten very far. Nor is it a nation where reason has gotten very far. Or riots. Especially riots.
This must be a record-breaking comment count for Annie. (Excluding her idiotic Iraq posts, of course.)
Go Annie!
I like late night posts. Far and few between, however. Omg! I was always hoping I'd get to use that phrase!
wow, I really don't have the time to keep up with all this blog drama. Poe, you really do seem like an A.W. puppet. why the hell else would you comment constantly for 6 hours on a post you didn't like?
If you aren't Annie, quit acting like you *are* her drumming up interest in her posts. If you are Annie, quit duping us all and drumming up interest in your posts. Either way it comes off as desperate and attention-whore-y.
I am Annie. Sigh. You got me.
P.S.
You need to learn addition. I know, it's tough. I think my sister's 3 year-old baby is learning it right now. I hear it's a bitch.
@16
Be careful. Keshmeshi is a raging feminazi. Anything involving women being victims, women who aren't victims--but they're women so they are, women in general, women in a car, women in a bar, women in a house on the farm; she'll comment. And kill you. If you say anything negative.
Here is Annie's amazing take on Outsourced:
The majority of pilots never make it to screen, but Outsourced’s heartwarming ethnic hee-haws might be just the ticket.
I see what you did there, Mr. Poe. Well done indeed.
Descriptions such as "supergenius Manohla Dargis" make me think that Strangeroos don't have quite high enough standards. I'll file this next to Feit's description of his friends as "like, GRE smart."
I just wanted to jump in and say that I, too, am not terribly enamored by Ms. Dargis. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
I don't dislike Dargis, I just would never call her a "supergenius."
You west coasters are behind the times!! Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize! Get on it Slog!
@24 I posted the Nobel result a few hours ago in the post below.
Rally Rally Rally!!
Who wants to hold a Rally Saturday to Draft Al Gore? We could meet at Westlake Center!!
Anyone or will it just be me?
With her last quote from the article, Annie was trying to say that the editors should have changed "yucks" to "yuks" (I think).
i don't want to read the work yuk -- regardless of how it's spelled -- in a moive review. but i feel same way about the expression hee-haws.
@16,
Right, and the French beat us to the punch in offering up a female candidate for president -- who came very close to winning.
@18,
Poe, give me one example of your comments on Slog when you have demonstrated nothing but contempt for women.
Why would I give you an example where I have demonstrated nothing but contempt for women? That doesn't help me, that helps you.
Any post where I do not speak of women, or to women, would be a demonstration where I'm not showing contempt for women.
And here's the latest compliment I have sent. Please turn your sarcasm radar off before you click this.
I make one crack about Phil Hartman's wife, what, 8 months ago, and now you sniff out every crack I make about women in general, because you think I'm a misogynist. Which is okay, think what you want. It won't change the fact that you're a bitch, and I could care less.
Now go ahead and quote my mockery of McIv's wife and the frying pan. I know you're simply dying to do so.
Toodles!
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