Jon Lisi

I agree with you but I don’t think it will have a real impact. It provided people with gossip to fill their days but if it didn’t hurt his career initially I doubt it will do the same now. Most people don’t care.

Interesting, in-depth article. I think this is Miyazaki’s best film. It’s so simple yet beautifully done, and I think the character Jiro is unlike anything we’ve seen on screen in a long time. I also appreciate its quiet, contemplative tone. The fact that ‘Frozen’ won Best Animated Feature over this shows how backward the Academy is.

Glad you share my admiration for Blue is the Warmest Color.

I think it has more to do with the fact that most foreign language movies in the United States don’t reach a wide audience. Despite getting great reviews and being on many top 10 lists, many American audiences won’t bother to watch a film with subtitles.

This article gives me hope that other people are interested in the same movies as me. I recently watched ‘Syndromes and a Century’ with a friend and she was bored out of her mind but I was enthralled and enraptured. Perhaps this is because I’ve seen all of the great narrative films I’m supposed to have seen and catch the well-reviewed, Oscar-bait films in theaters, but I’ve simply become bored with narrative cinema. Maybe I’ve just run out of narrative films to watch. In any event, this article is a reminder that there is indeed more out there. One of the things I find comforting, in particular, is that after all I’ve seen, I still have so much more to watch and look forward to. In short, for as long as I get to live, I’ll never watch it all.

You should listen to the music. While some songs don’t push the boundary in the way ‘Yeezus’ does, it is quite an ambitious project for a mainstream pop artist.

I love this new visual album by Beyonce, so I am of course biased, but I don’t really think she owes anybody anything in regards to controversy. In many ways, the controversy is created after the fact by people who need to be offended by things all of the time. After all, people make the choice whether or not they’re going to be offended or outraged. They can choose to let it go and pick another, more meaningful battle.

“21st century society strives for political correctness and correctives.” I would argue that most people probably don’t want that and think it’s gone too far.

In any event, you clearly have a lot of people talking so that’s the sign of a thought-provoking article, but this seems to me more of a cheap attack on Beyonce than anything else.

Hey thanks man. You nailed it with the Pamela/Subway episode. And of course what I love is that his fantasy of wiping the subway seat ends with him actually not doing anything. This reminds me of a bit in his stand-up where he talks about giving up his seat in first class to a soldier because it would be the right thing to do, and then goes on to say that he would never actually do it because for him the thought is enough.

That can go either way. I think it just expresses his disappointment with women. I don’t think he’s speaking for the entire gender–just the women he’s encountered in his life.