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I’m conflicted on the Kennedy Center, which is rotten from the top but has a lot of people doing good work in the face of a hostile Board. And I've talked to people who don't have the luxury of picking and choosing their venues if they want to stay in the arts at all.

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Prescient as fuck.

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The French Lieutentant's Woman (1981) joins the short list of Movies Better Than The Book. The film fixes the problems with Fowles' novel (turgid prose, authorial voice that thinks it's more clever than it is) and improves on the conceit with a parallel story about the actors making the movie.

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The 🎉 emoji, except it’s muted www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Always excited for new PTA, but worried that, much like with Inherent Vice, he's interpreted post-GR Pynchon as being explicitly pro-hippie.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Nancy, come to the 21st century! You'd fit right in on Letterboxd.

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BP noms, ranked (pending my viewing of I'm Still Here) Nickel Boys Dune 2 The Brutalist A Complete Unknown Anora Conclave (Big gap) The Substance Emilia Pérez Wicked Not a great year for movies! I have some problems even with the top of my list, and Emilia Pérez and Wicked are both actively bad.

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

Not a single Senator objects to a 2am vote that helps DC? That's a real Christmas miracle. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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We made a mushroom wellington in an attempt to find a substantive meat-free Thanksgiving entrée for my vegetarian father. Mostly successful, although next time we need a thicker crust.

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I have no idea what kids read these days, but I feel like Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain probably deserve more attention. I returned to The High King so many times growing up.

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Glad to see MoMA doing two 24-hour viewings of The Clock, but they should really tack on a Valentine's Day screening. What's more romantic than long-form arthouse cinema? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/a...

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We need to talk about the reappropriation of the Cranberries' "Zombie" as a "Halloween song"

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I have been doing a deep dive on Barth for the last year or so; sometimes I think he's a genius, sometimes I think he's a vestige of 60s countercultural experimentalism best left in the past. But he always makes me think. We've lost a uniquely American voice. RIP www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/b...

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New Nuri Bilge Ceylan is finally coming to DC; excited that this next installment in meditative, psychologically-grounded Turkish cinema is the longest one yet!

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