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Dennis Lim is a man of wealth and taste. —Alex Pappademas, culture editor |
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| It’s October 10th—only 21 days left to try to come up with a super-creative and highly craft-based Halloween costume before you give up, buy a pair of drugstore wraparounds and a plaid bathrobe, and go as Bob Ferguson like every other dude in America. It’ll be an “Oops! All Ghetto Pats!” Halloween this year, and that’s fine.
Still thinking about One Battle After Another, like we apparently still are? Thinking, specifically, about how Sean Penn enters and exits every scene like his skeleton is a sculpture made of repurposed broom handles? So is Jack King, who wrote this week about Penn’s weird Steven J. Lockjaw walk and what it says about trad masculinity as a tragicomic affliction. And speaking of Christmas Adventurers, Esther Zuckerman tracks down Jim Downey, whose appearance in OBAA as a member of the secret white-supremacist society Penn’s Lockjaw longs to join is his second time in front of the camera for Paul Thomas Anderson, who also cast him in There Will Be Blood. You may also remember Downey from this meme, or from Saturday Night Live, where he was head writer for decades, penned some of the show’s most legendary political sketches, and coined the faux-Bushism “strategery.” He retired some years ago but apparently it didn’t take; after the new PTA he’ll also be seen in cringelord genius Tim Robinson’s new HBO show The Chair Company, a hotly anticipated project among Tim Robinson boyfriends nationwide.
We’re getting these OBAA takes off while we can, because even if PTA seems right now like he’s got the Oscar race on lock, we saw Marty Supreme this week and walked out ready to name our hypothetical baby “Josh Safdie,” it don’t matter the sex. Embargo is still in full effect on this one but: Josh really did it, Timmy really, really did it, Daniel Lopatin did it ‘80s-’50s style, and even Mr. Wonderful kind of crushed it, honestly. Can’t tell you much more than that right now, but Abe Beame has all the inside intel on the surprise Marty screening that closed out this year’s New York Film Festival, as well as the party afterwards, where everyone from Ari Aster to Chris Rock to Tyler, the Creator ping-ponged around the Waverly Inn late into the night.
Speaking of the New York Film Festival, Raymond Ang talked to critic, Film Society of Lincoln Center head programmer and low-key fit god Dennis Lim, who worked the Lincoln Center screenings and red carpets in Visvim, Evan Kinori and Dries Van Noten, not one Roger Ebert sweater-vest in sight. Ang also talked this week with Luca Guadagnino about his cancel-culture drama After the Hunt, slow cinema from the Philippines, and his love of Showgirls.
Speed round: A list of the best final albums ever made. James Gunn talked about the Peacemaker finale and William Goodman speculates on how Chris Smith’s latest interdimensional predicament will set the stage for the Superman sequel. Tres Dean takes note of the seemingly-imminent 24 revival and assesses the original as a disquieting character study of a man hollowed out by his own brutality. Frazier Tharpe talks to the writer/director of Good Boy, a horror movie whose lead actor is the writer/director’s dog. Drake has lost the “Not Like Us” lawsuit. AppleTV+’s Pluribus—Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan’s new sci-fi show featuring Better Call Saul’s Rhea Seehorn—looks pretty crazy. And in the first installment of his monthly top-five list, GQ Pulling Weeds columnist Chris Black reveals that he’s changed his mind about Evan Dando. Thanks for reading, and we’ll see you back here in your inbox next week.—AP |
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