Housekeeping

Anxiety of potential influence, and vice versa

By August 15, 2010No Comments

Via my lovely pal The Self-Styled Siren, I learn that I am, as she puts it, “the only crit­ic named for an indi­vidu­al blog” in a “who’s the most influ­en­tial crit­ic” poll recently put up at Awards Daily. (The Siren then goes on to give her blessed audi­ence advice that I would nev­er be so pre­sump­tu­ous as to offer, myself. Thank you, dearest.) Anyway, it’s true, there I am, and while I’m 100% cer­tain that Ebert’s got the thing wrapped up, I am flattered, it’s an hon­or just to be nom­in­ated, and so on. Thank you, Awards Daily people.

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  • Donald says:
    August 16, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    Congratulations, Glenn (and I did vote for you). Mildly divert­ing, though I was a little put off by some of the names on the bal­lot and votes they received (that is to say, that they received any votes at all… Stephen Holden? Arrgh!)
    Also, I was think­ing of… hm, shall we char­it­ably call your lack of love for Karina Longworth (which I gen­er­ally share). She mod­er­ated a Q&A after a pre­view screen­ing of Animal Kingdom with the writer-director David Michod and one of the act­ors last week in L.A.
    She’s pretty much what I expec­ted (pretty young hip­ster in retro mode, a little off-putting in her man­ner). I’m not sure what she thinks of Animal Kingdom (and of course Q&A’s often aren’t the best place to express opin­ions) – but she seemed rather unen­gaged with the film and film­makers at-hand, sort of uncom­fort­able. I think she asked two quick, pretty quo­tidi­an ques­tions and then handed it over to the audience…
    But I do have to say, she was pretty good at repeating/rephrasing audi­ence ques­tions (they did­n’t pass out mikes in audi­ence so it could­n’t have been easy to hear) in the simplest form.
    Have you seen Animal Kingdom yet? I’d be curi­ous to hear your thoughts. I thought it was pretty strong, if not quite as good as its title or the advance buzz would lead one to expect or hope.
    Oh, on a final note related to the poll, does any­one know if Manohla Dargis just on hiatus from NYT? It’s been a few weeks now since I’ve seen her reviews there… Hopefully that’s just temporary.

  • Kent Jones says:
    August 16, 2010 at 4:48 pm

    Donald, just to let you know that Manohla’s hiatus is indeed temporary.

  • bill says:
    August 16, 2010 at 5:47 pm

    Well, I voted for you. Also: Ann Hornaday??

  • LexG says:
    August 17, 2010 at 4:48 am

    NOBODY knows who any of you fuck­ing nobod­ies are.
    Get a job at Wendy’s. They might have full bennies.
    LOVE how you tools all talk about each oth­er like you’re the most FASCINATING sew­ing circle ever! KARINA! ARMOND! MANHOLA!
    You idi­ots DO know that you are NOBODIES, right? Bunch a wan­nabe film people who could­n’t hack it as screen­writers, act­ors, or dir­ect­ors. ALL OF YOU would sell your fam­ily to a Third World Nation to actu­ally BE A STAR instead of just being a STARFUCKER.
    But you’re SOOOO above it all, all intel­lec­tu­al and removed and EDGY on the fringes, rolling around Silver Lake or Brooklyn or the Village in your pos­eur THRIFT STORE CLOTHES, TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL.
    Trust me, all the OLD FUCK crit­ics like Maltin or Turan? They would’ve been hap­pi­er being Tom Cruise than being some book­ish tweedy movie watcher.
    Maybe you should all try BEING MORE TALENTED.
    BITCHES.
    Oh, and go ahead and BAN ME, Glenn Poseur. I got FIVE com­puters and all kinds of dif­fer­ent emails and iden­tit­ies. You call me a DICK, you unleash a fuck­ing FIRESTORM.
    I’ll be on here every fuck­ing night talk­ing shit about you until you apo­lo­gize. BITCH.

  • LexG says:
    August 17, 2010 at 5:47 am

    “EDGAR WRIGHT IS MY FACEBOOK FRIEND.” “EDGAR WRIGHT IS MY FACEBOOK FRIEND.” “EDGAR WRIGHT IS MY FACEBOOK FRIEND.” “EDGAR WRIGHT IS MY FACEBOOK FRIEND.” “EDGAR WRIGHT IS MY FACEBOOK FRIEND.” “EDGAR WRIGHT IS MY FACEBOOK FRIEND.” “EDGAR WRIGHT IS MY FACEBOOK FRIEND.” “EDGAR WRIGHT IS MY FACEBOOK FRIEND.” “EDGAR WRIGHT IS MY FACEBOOK FRIEND.”“EDGAR WRIGHT IS MY FACEBOOK FRIEND.”“EDGAR WRIGHT IS MY FACEBOOK FRIEND.” “EDGAR WRIGHT IS MY FACEBOOK FRIEND.”
    FAT TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL STARFUCKER ALERT.
    HACK MOTHERFUCKER. I DARE you to say an ill word about Ben Lyons after THAT shit. POSEUR.
    You FUCKED with the WRONG MOTHERFUCKER, hack.

  • Glenn Kenny says:
    August 17, 2010 at 5:50 am

    Wow, man. You really need to go to bed, or something.
    Just stop. I don’t think James Wolcott is gonna endorse this.

  • LexG says:
    August 17, 2010 at 5:57 am

    You go to bed, BITCH.
    You start some­thing, you reap what you sow, MOTHERFUCKER.
    You call me a DICK, I’ll come back and fuck­ing make you RUE THE DAY, you fuck­ing has-been.

  • Glenn Kenny says:
    August 17, 2010 at 6:03 am

    N.b.: These com­ments are stay­ing up because I’m wait­ing for the guy to do some­thing action­able. He’s get­ting kind of close.
    Also, it’s kind of funny, the way he throws around terms such as “BITCH,” “MOTHERFUCKER” and “RUE THE DAY…” from behind A COMPUTER. I’m shaking.
    Seriously, aside from the lame­ness, do you under­stand what a truly sad cliché it is for a grown man to be engaged in what you’re doing, at 3 in the morn­ing, prob­ably bombed out of his skull?