Chris Stanton
@chrisstanton27
Original Armchair Critic. Copy Editor/Approval Matrix @nymag. Bylines: @vulture, @intelligencer, @curbed, @thecut, @theatlantic, etc.
Wrote about my two primary interests (Jack Nicholson and California) for @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…
Frame of the year
Watched Pipe Rock Theory instead
Bob Dylan wants to be buried in an unmarked grave. Of course. That's why he's made a four-hour movie about himself and his pilgrimage. (1978)
Altman, for example, has raised the sound track to a whole new level. He hears more perceptively, than other directors. He hears Americans talking, and we talk more than any other nation in the world. When you come out of an Altman movie, you hear your environment in a new way.
"I’ll assure you ... that the least important stakeholders are the people who are enrolled in their health plans. They’re at the bottom of the pile." - @wendellpotter @chrisstanton27 nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Global economy saved
NEW PYNCHON NOVEL?????? penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427/u…
Great piece from @chrisstanton27: ""The financial incentive to deny care is at the core of the industry’s rot, all four former executives argue, and it only seems to be getting worse" nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Great piece from my colleague @chrisstanton27 on insurance executives turned whistleblowers nymag.com/intelligencer/…
two key grafs in this excellent @chrisstanton27 piece nymag.com/intelligencer/…
The part where Leo’s poorly disguised as a normie is giving
From Writer/Director Paul Thomas Anderson, #OneBattleAfterAnother. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti. Only in theaters September 26.
Talked to Tobias Jesso Jr. about Goon ten years later and walking away from his solo career, and unexpectedly got the scoop that he’s working on Goon 2 with his former gardener, a man named Martin Martini vulture.com/article/tobias…
“For once”
An invitation to a Lorne Michaels book event turned into an amazing reply-all disaster, featuring boomer journalists, Tina Fey, Jon Hamm, and Aaron Sorkin: nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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This also isolates what’s imo the least compelling lens to analyze the movie through (as an allegory for filmmaking), which is funny bc it’s one that Corbet keeps insisting on
I think Adam Nayman does a great job discussing the challenges of actually trying to talk about The Brutalist here