1. Memos to Hollywood // Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott // NYT

    Love the shit out of these two crazy cats.

    “To: Heads of production, Sony, Universal, Paramount, Fox, Disney

    Cc: Joe Swanberg, Andrew Bujalski, Greta Gerwig, Aaron Katz and all their Facebook Friends

    From: A.O.S.

    You all keep trying to make Rock Hudson-Doris Day-style romantic comedies with the golden guys and gals of the moment, and the results are sexless, subtextless, bland career-girl-in-search-of-Mr.-Right retreads. Meanwhile, a bunch of hungry directors with digital cameras, time on their hands and not much money are making free-form studies about tentative hookups and long conversations among actual, overeducated, undermotivated young folks. Hollywood, it’s time to co-opt those dudes! Give them enough money for song credits and some production values and let them reinvent movie romance for this age of diffident couplings and vigorous social networking. And dudes, remember: you’re never too young or too hip to sell out.”

     

    manohla dargis ao scott new york times 

  2. Distributor of Avant-Garde Films Threatened With Eviction // NYT

    What the fuck, P.S. 1?

     

    new york times film-makers coop 

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    In Defense of Teasing // NYT

    Finally, validation!

    (via sades)

     

    new york times teasing 

  4. Coffee // Abstract City // NYT

    An ode to my favorite socially acceptable drug.

    (Thanks Sadie for the link)

     

    coffee new york times drugs 

  5. The Screening of America // NYT

    “Maybe cinema is dead, but it’s a wonderful afterlife.”

    A.O. Scott, you are my favorite.

     

    ao scott new york times movies 

  6. 7.4.2009 // NYT

    Brilliant.

    (via thisiswhy)

     

    new york times obama 

  7. Bean Town // NYT

    Thanks to Sadie for giving me a completely unreasonable number of coffee shops to hit up in my 21-hour return to New York.  Thanks a lot.

    PS - OMG I love New York + Coffee.

     

    new york times coffee new york 

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    A Pundit in the Country // NYT

    “Clothing item a talk-show host needs: For me, it is sneakers, which I can wear 80 percent of the time, secretly behind the desk. That reminds me who I am, even though I am dressed up like an assistant principal in order to meet the minimum dress code for being on television.”

    Rachel Maddow, will you marry me?

     

    Rachel Maddow lesbians new york times sneakers 

  9. Adding to the Mix in Brooklyn // NYT

    I totally lived there before it was cool.

    And now that the NYT has ‘discovered’ the old hood, it’s officially over.  Sorry, almost everyone I know, looks like you’d better up and move to Bed Stuy.

     

    brooklyn new york times prospect heights