Interim


Happy Happy director Anne Sewitsky (l.), star Agnes Kittelsen (r.) at Sundance party for Norweigan entries the night before last.

Flip-flops, shorts, baseball caps and pork-pie hats, etc. Basic, fundamental components of a generic 20something

pseudo-hip dork wardrobe.


Eugene Jarecki following Park City debut of Reagan, a doc that turned out to be, for my taste, a little too fair and balanced. You could even call it soft-pedally. The reputation of the man who did next to nothing for the middle class and who brought us the deregulation that led to the 2008 economic collapse needs to be ripped to shreds. Jarecki’s doc is very scrupulous and thorough and exacting — all the facts are there — but it feels altogether too mild.

9 thoughts on “Interim

  1. When is this FLAT-BRIM craze gonna go out of style? I’ll gladly take back the smash-curled brim, the Target novelty beer hats, the SIDEWAYS TRUCKER HAT… even the 1992 style Floating Wegro Cap that’s barely touching the head… fuck, even the frat guy U-MASS/U-ASS hat, over this oversized flat bill bullshit, every Mexican emo kid going around in some sparkly high hat or every dude-bro or wannabe rapper sporting it TJ Lavin style.

  2. Last week, the United States Presidency Center released the results of their survey ranking the U.S.’s presidents:

    1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945)

    2. Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)

    3. George Washington (1789-1797)

    4. Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)

    5. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)

    6. Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)

    7. Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)

    8. Ronald Wilson Reagan (1981-1989)

    9. Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)

    10. Dwight David Eisenhower (1953-1961)

    Reagan consistently ranks in the top 10 in all of these surveys. There must be a reason for that.

  3. God forbid we have thoughtful documentary filmmakers who don’t simply regurgitate simplistic partisan narratives for the sake of cultural acceptance. Where’s the political currency in that?

  4. “Reagan consistently ranks in the top 10 in all of these surveys. There must be a reason for that.”

    The reason is that he was one of the only ones in American history that most of those surveyed were actually alive during his presidency.

  5. Those are board shorts for surfing… nothing pseudo hip / dork about them if you actually surf. I own those flip-fops and shorts like that, doesn’t mean I normally dress that way.

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