Friday
Feb022018
Quick Links: Jordan Peele, Italy Dance Party, Nipplegate
Friday, February 2, 2018 at 4:45PM 
• Collider why you should keep buying movies on DVD/Blu-Ray
• Vanity Fair wonderful account of Jordan Peele's visit to a UCLA class studying Get Out and how Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost inspired his career
• E! on the rise of RuPaul's Drag Race. Is it mainstream now despite RuPaul's protestations?
• select/all a terrific piece on "Nipplegate" at the Superbowl (since Justin Timberlake is headed there again) and on viral content before YouTube
• EW pandeomonium in Italy when Armie Hammer, Luca Guadagnino and Timothée Chalamet arrive. Dancing with fans, etcetera
Reader Comments (9)
Physical products of films/music>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>digital formats.
I love owning a physical copy of my favorite films. My only frustration is a format like DVD perhaps being obsolete in a few years rendering them unwatchable. On a related note, I pre-ordered my Blu-Ray of "Call Me by Your Name" already. =)
*slight plug*
I'm doing a World Cup of the Best Films of 2017. Anyone with a Twitter account can vote and I want it to reach as wide an audience as possible, so if you have a Twitter account, vote for your film!
https://twitter.com/emmabung/status/959400954297769984
Any time a friend or coworker learns that I bought a DVD or Bluray they give me this shocked, confused, and somewhat horrified look. Whatever! I love collecting movies and I'm happy to see I'm not the only one.
I love buying Blu-rays and DVDs too. Streaming and downloading are convenient if you just want to watch a film without owning it physically, and if you need to see something urgently e.g. for college, but it's much better for recent films. Older and deep-catalogue titles are so much more available in physical. It's great to have the options.
Plus I love having them on the shelf, love the packaging sleeves (Blu-ray sleeves have really improved in the past few years, with more use of original posters or special artwork) and often the extras are fascinating too.
Wow, I just read that Uma Thurman interview with Maureen Dowd, and now I feel sick.
I don't buy DVDs or Blu-rays often. Living in NYC, space is at a premium. I recently moved, though, and thought of getting rid of my DVDs and Blu-rays but decided not to for the reasons cited in that article--we kind of assume that every movie is available via some streaming format at any point, but that is just not true. And films can be removed from those streaming formats at any point. That said, it's not often that I re-watch films, so there aren't many films I actually want to own. I can't remember the last time I bought a DVD or Blu-ray, to be honest. And I have a nice little record collection, which I think is more visually appealing than DVD cases, and I actually listen to them. So I keep the DVDs in a storage space downstairs.
Re: Nipplegate ... God, Janet was really done a disservice. It's really irksome that Justin Timberlake's career SKYROCKETED after that incident and she took literally ALL of the blame. People don't seem to remember this, but every song Janet released was a hit, album after album. She was really kind of unstoppable. To go from such a flawless track record to suddenly not having ANY hit songs--her career came to a crashing halt right after that Super Bowl. It didn't help that the quality of her work dipped for several albums, but I thought the record she was promoting around the time of Nipplegate (Damita Jo) was actually much better than the one that came before it (All for You). I think it's really gross that she's been banned from the Super Bowl and he's allowed back.
I just saw "Call Me By Your Name" and yes it does live up to all the hype. I have a few minor problems - but this is the best big screen gay movie since "Brokeback Mountain"