@vcunningham

author of GREAT EXPECTATIONS, a debut novel now in paperback. staff writer and critic, @newyorker. co-host, Critics at Large.

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Joined May 2010
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i am starting a very modest newsletter concern. it's free and will be no great chore to consume. just a playlist culled from my listening and a quotation culled from my reading, every Friday. first edition arrives tomorrow. link below and in my bio. INDULGE
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Madisyn Cunningham
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Oh Ballhalla is LOUDDD tonight
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Max Read@readmaxread11h
i don't agree with vinson about the movie (i liked it) but i agree that "it's actually about 'truth' and documentaries" is a pretty weak defense, and not really even very accurate
Vinson Cunningham@vcunningham13h
why do people think this is hard to understand? it's not sufficient as a defense for a film to point out its obvious theme. which dimension of this very old and often explored question did the actual filmmaking, choice of subject, etc, help illuminate or deepen for you?
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very frustrating. it seems to me that i—the person having the point of a movie explained to me—am the one being condescended to. a mystery that perhaps only Nathan Fielder can help unfold.
Daniel D'Addario@DPD_12h
The classic opening line that is custom-designed to win over the people to whom you are, of course, not condescending: “why do people think this is hard to understand?”
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this is a perfectly admirable thing to say about the movie—i laughed at parts. i think it's a pretty naked spectacle masquerading as philosophy—and much of the conversation about it is devoted to insisting that the spectacle isn't there, or really the point.
Sad Liberal@Sad_Liberal12h
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Mostly, I think it was fun—esp once Amanda arrived. As for Holmes, well, it is useful to show psychopathic lying for what it is.
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seems to me that much comes down to how entertained, shocked, galled, etc, the viewer is by Holmes, Evans, and Fielder. which is fine!
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i tire of the apophatic defense of artworks that goes "so...it's NOT actually about this and NOT about that either...." not so craftily shrinking and shrinking the surface area of possible critique. show me on the doll what's supposed to matter!
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often this maneuver doesn't even make sense. for instance: if a film DOESN'T care about ANY given truth claim, how can it at the same time be an exploration of the nature of truth?
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why do people think this is hard to understand? it's not sufficient as a defense for a film to point out its obvious theme. which dimension of this very old and often explored question did the actual filmmaking, choice of subject, etc, help illuminate or deepen for you?
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is Holmes really such a "complicated medium"???
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Madisyn Cunningham
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12:30 PM on a Thursday with the possibility of the newly crowned champs being rushed off for a Hawks game... nasty work
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ok now it's time to cut it out
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Boots Riley
@BootsRileyOct 26
Amazing to be in São Paulo on such a historic night.
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don't go looking for that Jalen Williams video
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thought the chip would make me complacent but somehow I am already pissed at the knicks
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Madisyn Cunningham
@MadisynCunnOct 24
Reese: “I think I rushed a lot of my shots…I’ll be better.” @Winsidr
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Zak Jason@zakjasonOct 24
The Billy Evans dick-measuring contest is over. @vcunningham won. “California brown homesteader dick, horse & buggy dick. A dick that says I live in the house I built. Joan Didion dick. Santa Ana Winds dick. Donner Party dick. Tan speckled kettlebell ass.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

“You Can See Everything” and the Nathan Fielder Effect

Podcast Episode · Critics at Large | The New Yorker · October 22 · 49m

podcasts.apple.com
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John Ganz@lionel_trollingOct 23
My gripes with Matt Yglesias. unpopularfront.news/p/throug…

Through a Glass, Smugly

A Critique of Pure Yglesias

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Vinson Cunningham@vcunninghamOct 22
in which i express my dissent re: "You Can See Everything"
The New Yorker
@NewYorkerOct 22
“It’s technically a documentary,” Naomi Fry says of Fielder’s new film about Elizabeth Holmes, “but it seems at times more like a philosophical treatise on the knowability of other people.” newyorker.com/podcast/critic…

“You Can See Everything” and the Nathan Fielder Effect

“It’s technically a documentary,” Naomi Fry says of Fielder’s new film about Elizabeth Holmes, “but it seems at times more like a philosophical treatise on the knowability of other people.”

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Lydia Polgreen@lpolgreenOct 22
Vinson's extended riff on Billy's junk here.... phew.
Vinson Cunningham@vcunninghamOct 22
in which i express my dissent re: "You Can See Everything"
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