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Thought that some of you may be interested...Folks,<br /><br />Thought that some of you may be interested in knowing that Armond White is FINALLY making his Michael Jackson Music Video Presentation at The Walter Reade Theater @ Lincoln Center in New York City on Sunday November 22, 2009.<br /><br />Here are two links to a radio interview (on youtube.com) he did on Friday, November 20, 2009 on the subject of Michael Jackson AND his upcoming music video presentation, entitled "KEEP MOVING: Michael Jackson's Music VIdeo Art".<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kM5zkOmQE8<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y76Tzx-rfU4<br /><br />Enjoy and if you are in the New York City area and are interested, hope to see you there. Armond White will also be signing copies of his new book "KEEP MOVING: The Michael Jackson Chronicles"<br /><br />For information on tickets, check out this link:<br /><br />http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/mj2.html<br /><br />Best,<br />WJWow Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15088102384979577803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-40290664176205694632009-09-09T12:13:52.602-04:002009-09-09T12:13:52.602-04:00Ryan,
Not sure about the status of the "What...Ryan,<br /><br />Not sure about the status of the "What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Movies" book. <br /><br />It was my understanding that the book was an expansion of the ideas introduced in the essay of the same title. <br /><br />Haven't heard much since that byline in the NY Times article. I guess the "Keep Moving: The Michael Jackson Chronicles" book will have to do for now.<br /><br />I am familiar with the essays in the book and yes the book is QUITE a read. <br /><br />Those who care about Michael Jackson's art are sure to love it.<br /><br />--WJWow Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15088102384979577803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-36869372082273597252009-08-31T19:35:53.492-04:002009-08-31T19:35:53.492-04:00Thanks for the heads-up, Wow. His appreciations of...Thanks for the heads-up, Wow. His appreciations of Jackson are among the most elouqent essays on the man, and that sounds like it could be a good read.<br /><br />I also heard he was releasing another book of criticism called "What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Movies". White had a review of Molly Haskel's <i>Gone With the Wind</i> book published in the NY Times Book Review, and it mentioned at the end of the article that his new book was expected sometime this year. I would assume that this would be a collection of his Press stuff which, I must be honest, doesn't exactly thrill me. Do you know anything of this?Ryan Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18054550377681273142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-83522624889396846532009-08-31T18:57:55.311-04:002009-08-31T18:57:55.311-04:00Folks,
You might be interested in knowing that c...Folks, <br /><br />You might be interested in knowing that controversial NY Press Film Critic Armond White has released a new book. <br /><br />It is entitled, "KEEP MOVING: The Michael Jackson Chronicles" and the book is a collection of explosive essays on pop star Michael Jackson where he writes on the songs and the music videos produced AFTER the record-breaking commercial success of the Thriller album. <br /><br />Written by Armond White during his 25 year span as a critic, the essays examine Michael Jackson as a cultural phenomenon, musical/aesthetic force and dance icon/show-biz influence. <br /><br />The book is 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches and 117 pages long. <br /><br />If you are interested in learning more about the book, check out this link:<br />http://www.resistanceworks.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Also, the book includes the infamous essay "The Gloved One Is Not A Chump", an essay on the cinematic and musical achievement of the "Black Or White" music video that won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Music Criticism in 1992.Wow Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15088102384979577803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-90521706383495098812009-08-26T17:59:18.972-04:002009-08-26T17:59:18.972-04:00Seriously, I think he could use all the help he ca...Seriously, I think he could use all the help he can get in that department.Ryan Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18054550377681273142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-57407994309062640872009-08-25T13:15:30.832-04:002009-08-25T13:15:30.832-04:00I'm going to write to Ebert and ask him if I c...I'm going to write to Ebert and ask him if I can do freelance research for him. He admired the research work I did on "Sita Sings the Blues" and clearly the man needs some help here.Marilynhttp://www.ferdyonfilms.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-4794557737655867872009-08-24T11:34:28.639-04:002009-08-24T11:34:28.639-04:00Eric, that's dead-on, and that's because W...Eric, that's dead-on, and that's because White isn't generally <i>evaluating</i> per-se... he's using whatever movie he happens to be writing about as a forum for polemics. If it's a negative review, he'll use it to build up something he likes. If it's a positive review, he'll use it to tear down something he doesn't. And of course regardless of the tone of his review he'll attack his peers. The strengths and weaknesses of the films themselves seems to not really be the issue with White.<br /><br />Yeah, I'm glad Ebert recanted, but I also think it's a little dishonest of him to go back and change his initial blog post. He should have just done a new one instead of doing a bit of revisionist history. And I'm really surprised Ebert had never heard of White before, the man's been writing for 25 years! And I'm equally surprised that he didn't do a little more research on the man before singing his praises as he did.Ryan Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18054550377681273142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-62371387605187998702009-08-23T19:16:34.259-04:002009-08-23T19:16:34.259-04:00One thing that I've noticed about White is tha...One thing that I've noticed about White is that his reviews are always either all negative or all positive. He never seems to discuss a specific element in a movie that he liked even if he thought it was an overall failure. The same goes for movies that he's admired. <br /><br />I can see what Ryan means about his writing. White writes with a certain agenda to not only act as a dictator on taste but also uses his reviews as a system of attack. The truly depressing fact of it all is that White's gotten so much recognition in the world of film criticism. At least Ebert took back his defense of White.Eric R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-48894428447663523322009-08-22T13:34:17.303-04:002009-08-22T13:34:17.303-04:00I may agree with you on that, MovieMan --- there i...I may agree with you on that, MovieMan --- there is an every so slight undercurrent of smugness in <i>The Life Aquatic</i>, but I think Anderson's humanist sensibility is able to override it. But there are traces of it. I do love the screenplay the two of them wrote for <i>Rushmore</i>, because it does feel like two friends making a celluloid version of their inside jokes as youngsters. There's something refreshing about its honesty with respect to that time.<br /><br />But I really think <i>The Darjeeling Limited</i> has the best --- as in funniest, most humane, and most economic --- script of his films so far. Though Baumbach helped write the script for <i>Fantastic Mr. Fox</i>, so I guess we shall see...<br /><br />But I guess Owen's too busy making lousy movies and hating himself to be bothered writing. Which is a shame, as there's something beautiful and extremely revealing in his performance in <i>The Darjeeling Limited</i>.Ryan Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18054550377681273142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-24837546674654759952009-08-22T02:43:40.201-04:002009-08-22T02:43:40.201-04:00A bit of a non sequitur, but I much prefer Owen Wi...A bit of a non sequitur, but I much prefer Owen Wilson to Noah Baumbach as a Wes Andrson co-writre. Baumbach is a snob and possibly kind of a prick (at least he appeared to be so in the Q&A I saw him in a few years ago). He makes some good movies but his particular gifts do not really complement Anderson's. The movies written with Wilson, particularly Rushmore and (to a limited extent, as Wilson was somewhat MIA in the collaboration) Royal Tenenbaums, have real heart, a melancholy spirit loosely situated in the real world. The other Anderson films lose their moorings and become mildly interesting mood and style piece while losing the powerful resonance of his earlier works.<br /><br />Get back with Owen, Wes. He's good for you. End of message.Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-41478372658470933482009-08-21T16:09:53.252-04:002009-08-21T16:09:53.252-04:00Yeah, he skirts around the issue that someone he d...Yeah, he skirts around the issue that someone he doesn't like was involved in a film he does, and that this individual he claims should have been aborted helped write <i>The Life Aquatic</i>'s wonderful screenplay.<br /><br />I stumbled on White the same way, I was with a bunch of people who talked about how White sucked as a critic and what an asshole he was. Like you, I want to like him, but he makes it extremely difficult. I'd still defend him to an extent, and do take exception to a lot of the criticisms lobbed at him, but at the same time you simply can't defend a lot of the guys rhetoric. In spit of his incredibly thoughtful word about <i>A.I.</i>, I agree, it's just impossible to ignore the nastiness --- and I've tried.<br /><br />And you're welcome on the quote --- I think you encapsulated in one sentence what I was getting at in 1500 or so words. You're good like that.Ryan Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18054550377681273142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-12682102416908291732009-08-21T12:37:02.999-04:002009-08-21T12:37:02.999-04:00... I know he's suggested that Noah Baumbach s...<i>... I know he's suggested that Noah Baumbach should have been aborted</i>...<br /><br />That's insane. I'd never heard that before, though I know White despises Baumbach. Which is sorta funny, given how much he loves Wes Anderson. I seem to remember White having to twist himself into a pretzel in order to remove Baumbach from the equation while praising <b>The Life Aquatic</b>.<br /><br />I can't remember quite how I found White, but I suspect it was in a roundabout way. Someone was trashing him and calling him a lunatic, so I became curious and started reading some of his reviews. And I wanted SO BADLY to like him, because politically he's so much harder to pin down than most critics, and because of his love of <b>A.I.</b> (isn't it interesting that so many of us seem to want, but are unable, to forgive White because of his praise of that film?) and Wes Anderson, but the man is absolutely impossible.<br /><br />If he's not actually mentally deranged, then he is, as you say Ryan, a total fraud. The intellectual and moral inconsistency is impossible to ignore, and can only be evidence of one thing or the other. Just today Glenn Kenny pointed out that in White's negative review of <b>The Headless Woman</b>, White sniffs at critics who praised the film's "exacting formalism and beauty". Kenny reminds everyone that White took that quote from A NEGATIVE REVIEW OF THE FILM by Manohla Dargis (or if not outright negative, than at least mildly dismissive of everything but the first 20 minutes)<br /><br />And I have to say to Sam, in regards to his criticism of John Simon for his personal attacks, while lifting up Stanley Kaufman: Kaufman wrote a review of Altman's <b>Thieves Like Us</b> in which he referred to Shelley Duvall as a "buck-toothed bean-pole". Kaufman did that shit a lot, too.<br /><br />Anyway, sorry I'm lat to this discussion. Great piece, Ryan, and thanks for quoting me!bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-85591173952422867932009-08-20T23:43:06.448-04:002009-08-20T23:43:06.448-04:00Well, MovieMan, I think we all make grammatical/ty...Well, MovieMan, I think we all make grammatical/typographical mistakes. I try to my best to proof read as carefully as possible, and I have my lovely girlfriend do the same, but they're impossible to avoid altogether. Being bloggers and editing ourselves makes us all the more susceptible to such errors, and I think we can let them slide. I understand occasional mistakes --- but it's a consistent thing in the Press; from formatting errors to typos to bad grammar. Those editors are really asleep at the wheel, and their lack of care for the publication they put out is pretty clear.Ryan Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18054550377681273142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-73602616253874295502009-08-20T12:06:02.261-04:002009-08-20T12:06:02.261-04:00Yes, Adam, he said that Baumbach's mother, Geo...Yes, Adam, he said that Baumbach's mother, Georgia Brown (who wrote for the Village Voice, and whom White has exchanged some harsh tones with both in print and in person) should have had an abortion. I mean, not liking a guy's movies is one thing, saying they shouldn't even be walking the earth is something else.Ryan Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18054550377681273142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-3374938022651352902009-08-20T09:01:41.667-04:002009-08-20T09:01:41.667-04:00That's a fair enough distinction regarding the...That's a fair enough distinction regarding the Press ... though it may not have caused his "development" you are quite right that he's hardly unaware of it and runs with the notoriety it gives him, which is unfortunate.<br /><br />Can't attack their grammar, though, as I've had my own scrapes with that in the past (ha, ha) though I guess they're supposed to have editors for that very purpose...Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-66890015594657967292009-08-20T01:45:00.211-04:002009-08-20T01:45:00.211-04:00Wait a minute! Armond White said that he thought N...Wait a minute! Armond White said that he thought Noah Baumbausch "should have been aborted"? Why such harsh words? I loved "The Squid and the Whale". Maybe White was offended because the film is anti-family values?Adam Zanziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14524618281515322239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-48028281427832100432009-08-19T19:58:46.768-04:002009-08-19T19:58:46.768-04:00Marilyn, such praise from you is, as they say, wor...Marilyn, such praise from you is, as they say, worth it's weight in gold. As always, it's a pleasure having you here.<br /><br />If I like a critic, I'll read books of theirs from cover to cover--- even the critic in question. I read criticism on a weekly basis less and less lately, because if I'm looking to review something it's hard going into something as a member of the public and not being influenced at least in one way or another. <br /><br />Well, if you're saying you read people who are your friends, then that is a real compliment. I agree, one of the advantages of blogging is the ability to engage directly with the person and get a give-and-take of ideas. And yes, you wouldn't want to be friends with White --- because he's known to be kind to people in person, yet turn around and write vile, nasty things about them. Talk about bi-polar.Ryan Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18054550377681273142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-33508925482140353662009-08-19T19:39:58.236-04:002009-08-19T19:39:58.236-04:00Hi Movieman! Always nice to have you stop by.
Yes...Hi Movieman! Always nice to have you stop by.<br /><br />Yes, White has his virtues, which I tried my best to address. He's certainly a unique character in the criticism world. But I fear he's just become more and more of a bully, and tries to be a dictator of taste. Admittedly, I think there are many critics who like to play 'my-taste-is-better-than-yours', but White takes it to a bit of an extreme. <br /><br />Well, I don't think the Press is necessary the cause of this, er, progression of White's, but the way he allows himself to be subjugated by them exposes him as something of a self-promoter and sensationalist. I'd say it's just his getting older but when he does things that aren't NY Press relate : essays for DVD releases, and he also does music video presentations through out the year in New York, and he is eloquent, insightful and, when he speaks in person, soft spoken. Yet when he rights for the Press, he's incredibly mean-spirited. His writing for the NY Press bascially falls in line with the rest of the paper; sensationalist, trashy, and lacking in good grammar. And he uses it as a forum for the most vitriolic of attacks on the critical community (not entirely unfounded, but he's so nasty he undermines any substance to his views). Yes, he did always play the role of the lone voice of reason in a world gone mad, but in many ways the writer he is now doesn't have much in common with the writer he was.<br /><br />And I'll agree that the Voice and the Press are about equal in terms of quality.Ryan Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18054550377681273142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-9122668929077058222009-08-19T16:18:24.924-04:002009-08-19T16:18:24.924-04:00Great essay, Ryan, as usual. Your probing mind is ...Great essay, Ryan, as usual. Your probing mind is worth any 20 newspaper critics you want to name.<br /><br />You know, I don't read any of the established critics with any regularity anymore, not even Ebert, who was my earliest influence and is still the biggest sweetheart out there if not the best critic anymore. He worked prolificly under deadlines that would have made Rosenbaum (who I also grew up with) would have screamed "mercy".<br /><br />I don't come by my film habit or criticism the way others do - I don't know Kael or Sarris or even White and Hoberman except where I've been looking for a specific review. <br /><br />I read my fellow bloggers for advice because they are my friends. I know them and what they stand for and how that gibes with what I like and stand for. I could never be friends with a psycho like White; heck, I can't even understand his point half the time when he runs off on a tirade (I've only read a couple of his essays, btw). How, therefore, could I trust his opinion?Marilynhttp://www.ferdyonfilms.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-63644980302111003692009-08-19T12:57:52.205-04:002009-08-19T12:57:52.205-04:00I discovered White about 6 years ago, when I was l...I discovered White about 6 years ago, when I was living in New York and was thrilled by his broadsides against sanctimonious films like Mystic River. Within a couple years, his predictable contrariness had become tiresome and eventually I gave up on him. He remains a cartoon version of something I'd like to sympathize with (except for the constant veneration of blockbusters), but he seems to have ossified into a hipster-baiting, ranting and raving, conservatism-defending, always-bring-up Spielberg stick figure. I still like the fact that his quirks and eccentricities are quite unique: who else combines those particular attributes into one cantenkerous personality? But his very un-predictability has become predictable, so that he's still entertaining, but one can't take him seriously.<br /><br />That said, I think your attack is unfair insofar as it does not explain what the Press has to do with White's "development" as a critic. Yes, of course they're exploiting the wild controversy he evokes but that's not evidence that he holds his opinions and voices them in the manner he does merely to push papers. After all, he was striking these poses years ago long before he had become such a cult figure.<br /><br />Also, the Press isn't much worse than the Voice these days, whose current management is in the process of systematically dismantling every single unique aspect of the venerated publication. I'm surprised J. Hoberman still has his job what with all the other heads who have fallen (I mean, Nat fucking Hentoff? REALLY?!?). He can't have much longer...and then who will be left?Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-53334657094016813072009-08-19T01:27:11.405-04:002009-08-19T01:27:11.405-04:00UPDATE:
It is now possible for anybody to post on...UPDATE:<br /><br />It is now possible for anybody to post on my blog.Adam Zanziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14524618281515322239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569705696893575981.post-70103768502475747622009-08-19T01:20:29.365-04:002009-08-19T01:20:29.365-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Adam Zanziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14524618281515322239noreply@blogger.com