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eXistenZ rules, and I’ll not hear otherwise. Jude Law makes a tooth gun out of gross made-up Chinese food!
Best Picture
The Artist
Best Actor
George Clooney, The Descendants
Best Actress
Viola Davis, The Help
Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Best Supporting Actress
Octavia Spencer, The Help
Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Best Original Screenplay
Midnight In Paris
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants
Best Foreign Film
A Separation
Best Animated Film
Rango
Art Direction
Hugo
Cinematography
The Tree of Life, Emmanuel Lubezki
Costume Design
The Artist, Mark Bridges
Documentary (Feature)
Hell and Back Again
Documentary (Short Subject)
Saving Face
Film Editing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Makeup
The Iron Lady
Music (Original Score)
The Artist
Music (Original Song)
“Man or Muppet” from The Muppets, Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
Short Film (Animated)
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Short Film (Live Action)
Time Freak
Sound Editing
Hugo
Sound Mixing
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Visual Effects
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
I think you have to consider the source – are we supposed to agree with these judgments of Dunham’s character or is the point that the people calling her out on this are just as self-absorbed, self-pitying, etc?
Also, I wouldn’t go so far as to say that assholes are “all the stories now”, but I do think there’s a major difference between depictions of female assholes and male assholes (gross, but that’s the term we’ve chosen here). Male asshole stories, of which there are many (obviously), are often wish-fulfillment fantasies that let the assholes be the heroes, or at the very least experience few repercussions for their asshole behavior. The female asshole, on the other hand (archetypally, not anatomically) is almost always berated, humiliated, and punished for her self-absorbed behavior, often by her own self. Why the lack of redemption for these characters, even in stories written by women? I think it has something to do with that emphasis on the female asshole’s need to punish herself and be punished for being such an asshole, whereas that impulse is very rarely seen in analogous (jeez) male asshole characters, who are often given narrative arcs focused on growth and redemption.
I’m optimistic about GIRLS, because it doesn’t look like it’s going to spare anyone. But Dunham’s definitely one of the self-flagellatory female assholes, if TINY FURNITURE is any indication, and while that may be a necessary step in the evolution of female archetypes it also seems in danger of becoming a stagnant cliche.
I actually saw this at the London Film Festival this year, and I thought it was Solondz’s best in years, though extremely low-key and not as broad as the trailer makes it seem. It helps if you refresh your memory of the events of Happiness first, as this film picks up a few years from where that one left off. Also, some of the casting choices are so bizarre they’re almost brilliant (namely, Jon Lovitz replaced by Omar-from-The-Wire).
dont get me wrong we are all gonna die someday and that is a beautiful message
but I gotta masturbate at least once DAMN!
Can we at least all agree that this was the only thing that made seeing Alice in Wonderland worthwhile? How can a movie featuring Johnny Depp and Crispin Glover dueling with swords be so soul-crushingly dull?
Stillman asked Eigeman to make a cameo in DAMSELS. Eigeman turned it down to shoot a brief role in Lena Dunham’s GIRLS pilot. If the Q&A I saw is any indication, Stillman likes to hold a grudge.