About Author: Armond White
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Armond White’s Better-Than List for CityArts
Posted on January 9, 2014 | No CommentsBy Armond White The false politics of film culture 2013 (films exploiting race, class, sexual politics) paralleled the continued diminishment of cinephilia that has subordinated movies to TV, shifting cinema […] -
Best DVDs of 2013 spun by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on January 4, 2014 | No CommentsBy Armond White It was a rich year for new theatrical releases but the DVD releases have also been extraordinary. Film History lessons begin here: Nashville (Criterion) Following Disney’s years-ahead […] -
Grudge Match crowned by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on January 3, 2014 | No CommentsBy Armond White DeNiro and Stallone’s first face-off was at the Oscars 36 years ago when Rocky won the Best Picture Academy Award over Taxi Driver. Turns out that was […] -
Wolf of Wall Street and Secret Life of Walter Mitty mashup dj’d by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on December 21, 2013 | No CommentsBy Armond White The Wolf of Wall Street and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty share the same misfortune. Both films deal with the ambition of working-class protagonists: Scorsese’s three-hour […] -
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom vetted by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on December 20, 2013 | No CommentsBy Armond White Idris Elba is such a fine figure of a movie star that only racism (its practice and its expectations) can explain why his Black British suave masculinity […] -
What’s In a Name? and The Past reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on December 19, 2013 | No CommentsBy Armond White Two Parisian domestic tales take different approaches to modern morality. In the comedy What’s In a Name? several couples clash over dinner about the connotations behind the […] -
“BEST FILM OF THE YEAR:” American Hustle reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on December 18, 2013 | No CommentsBy Armond White David O. Russell goes to the 1970s to satirize contemporary Americana in American Hustle. If the title sounds both plain and pretentious, it takes a sense of […] -
Inside Llewyn Davis reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on December 13, 2013 | No CommentsBy Armond White When an apparition of Bob Dylan appears in Inside Llewyn Davis, it underscores the Coen Brothers’ abiding ambivalence about their Jewishness. Dylan, the oracular pop-star-prophet -outsider from […] -
Nebraska redistricted by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on December 11, 2013 | No CommentsBy Armond White By shooting his new film Nebraska in black and white, writer-director Alexander Payne reveals his phoniness. The contemporary-set story about an old man, Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) […] -
Oldboy schooled by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on December 6, 2013 | No CommentsBy Armond White As a filmmaker, professor and community leader, Spike Lee sends a rotten message to audiences, students, parents, etc. in Oldboy, his remake of Park Chan Wook’s 2003 […]