A windy Slate essay, in 90 seconds
We glad critic Armond White wrote his essay on the American Eccentrics of film, in Slate today.
Tied to the release of Wes Anderson‘s new short film / commercial for American Express at TriBeCa, it asks the important question,
“Is it the mediated response to such current events as the Middle East (David O. Russell‘s Three Kings), social fragmentation (P.T. Anderson‘s Magnolia), and family chaos (Wes Anderson‘s The Royal Tenenbaums, Sofia Coppola‘s Lost in Translation) that saps their energies? Is there some Generation X malaise that stifles productivity? Or are these guys just being precious?”
(At right, David, will you please put down that spliff, get off the sofa and write something? I’m talking to you Mr.
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