Yael Friedman
@idapost.bsky.social
Books • Art•The New York Mets - sometimes I write about all three for places like The Economist, LA Review of Books, The Forward & elsewhere.
Excited to share my first essay for @awfjorg.bsky.social - about one of my favorite films from 2024 - Dahomey, by Mati Diop - and the role of restitution in redressing the wrongs of the past.
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awfj.org/female-gaze/...
January 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Excited to share my first essay for @awfjorg.bsky.social - about one of my favorite films from 2024 - Dahomey, by Mati Diop - and the role of restitution in redressing the wrongs of the past.
awfj.org/female-gaze/...
awfj.org/female-gaze/...
I suspect many of us have “consent” on the brain, esp as some are puzzled by the seeming consent NG’s victims seemed to extend even after he obv dispensed with it as a criteria for anything (that’s misstating it - there was nothing to dispense with - he just took what he wanted).
Far from the Seventies | Elaine Blair
Two memoirs by women remembering their youthful relationships with older men complicate the definition and implications of “consent.”
www.nybooks.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I suspect many of us have “consent” on the brain, esp as some are puzzled by the seeming consent NG’s victims seemed to extend even after he obv dispensed with it as a criteria for anything (that’s misstating it - there was nothing to dispense with - he just took what he wanted).
It’s finally happened - I agree with Richard Brody.
The Empty Ambition of “The Brutalist” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Empty Ambition of “The Brutalist” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Empty Ambition of “The Brutalist”
Brady Corbet’s epic takes on weighty themes, but fails to infuse its characters with the stuff of life.
www.newyorker.com
January 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It’s finally happened - I agree with Richard Brody.
The Empty Ambition of “The Brutalist” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Empty Ambition of “The Brutalist” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Stellar. Tho baffling this book made it into the world (or not - famous dad, low entry fee, but really now).
if you're a connoisseur of book pans: www.the-londoner.co.uk/a-government...
A government advisor wrote a libel against London. Why did we believe it?
A book by the foreign secretary’s aide Ben Judah paints a disturbing picture of the capital, littered with racial stereotypes and falsehoods
www.the-londoner.co.uk
December 13, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Stellar. Tho baffling this book made it into the world (or not - famous dad, low entry fee, but really now).
I think this is real, absolutely do not tell me if it is not.
December 13, 2024 at 6:03 PM
I think this is real, absolutely do not tell me if it is not.
One of unexpected delights of this year - perverse funny sweet
and oh so South Florida - in exactly the way Carl Hiaasen intended, no small feat. Killer cast, stellar writing. Manatees and insurance scams, murder and Vince Vaughan reciting Edith Wharton, it’s all there.
youtu.be/RokJ4M2UjNc
and oh so South Florida - in exactly the way Carl Hiaasen intended, no small feat. Killer cast, stellar writing. Manatees and insurance scams, murder and Vince Vaughan reciting Edith Wharton, it’s all there.
youtu.be/RokJ4M2UjNc
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December 4, 2024 at 1:49 PM
One of unexpected delights of this year - perverse funny sweet
and oh so South Florida - in exactly the way Carl Hiaasen intended, no small feat. Killer cast, stellar writing. Manatees and insurance scams, murder and Vince Vaughan reciting Edith Wharton, it’s all there.
youtu.be/RokJ4M2UjNc
and oh so South Florida - in exactly the way Carl Hiaasen intended, no small feat. Killer cast, stellar writing. Manatees and insurance scams, murder and Vince Vaughan reciting Edith Wharton, it’s all there.
youtu.be/RokJ4M2UjNc
Wrote this a few years ago and actually feels worthy of reprisal every year - Thanksgiving in popular culture provides so much more space to explore a whole host of themes than really any other holiday or other portraits of family & friend reunions.
"It seems odd that the cultural currency of Thanksgiving is underestimated or unrecognized – it has as captive an audience as is still possible and offers a trope that is so universally familiar." In this previously posted story, @idapost.bsky.social examines Thanksgiving's cultural context.
How film and television put last week’s Thanksgiving celebration in cultural context
It’s a tradition as old as Hollywood: every year, Thanksgiving scenes are presented on television and in film as a metaphor and an analysis of our cultural moment.
conversationalist.org
November 28, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Wrote this a few years ago and actually feels worthy of reprisal every year - Thanksgiving in popular culture provides so much more space to explore a whole host of themes than really any other holiday or other portraits of family & friend reunions.
Agreed - I blame the trailer biz for making me think this was going to be cloying “quirky & poignant” Oscar bait but it’s so deftly done and beautifully written and directed. A truly great film.
Blimey, A Real Pain certainly delivers the goods. That final shot of Kieran Culkin's face, the fear just filling his eyes, those hungry little glances seeking human contact - for that alone he should be at the very top of the Supporting actor list. Phenomenal stuff.
November 22, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Agreed - I blame the trailer biz for making me think this was going to be cloying “quirky & poignant” Oscar bait but it’s so deftly done and beautifully written and directed. A truly great film.
Will never not be thrilled by Sargent. He and Odilon Redon make pilgrimages to The Clarke feel essential (and Turner and Homer but the Sargents!)
The Art Dealer Who Wanted to Be Art www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Art Dealer Who Wanted to Be Art www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Art Dealer Who Wanted to Be Art
Asher Wertheimer was a Jewish tycoon who asked John Singer Sargent to paint him. The results are strange, slippery—and some of the artist’s best work.
www.newyorker.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Will never not be thrilled by Sargent. He and Odilon Redon make pilgrimages to The Clarke feel essential (and Turner and Homer but the Sargents!)
The Art Dealer Who Wanted to Be Art www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Art Dealer Who Wanted to Be Art www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The big dig before the big pack. Moving sucks but for a non-hoarder like me this is some solid college aged gold. No idea why I still have it.
November 21, 2024 at 4:23 AM
The big dig before the big pack. Moving sucks but for a non-hoarder like me this is some solid college aged gold. No idea why I still have it.
Post election running into folks and not being able not to answer the question How Are You like a normal person but also trying not to get into it, my stock answer, “I’m good, the world is crazy.”
November 15, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Post election running into folks and not being able not to answer the question How Are You like a normal person but also trying not to get into it, my stock answer, “I’m good, the world is crazy.”