God help me, but critic Armond White’s article about why it takes so long for the “American Eccentrics” — namely, Wes Anderson, Spike Jonze, David O. Russell, Alexander Payne, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sofia Coppola — to churn out their films is really great. White’s metareactionary reviews normally get my dander up, but if I didn’t cop to digging on this piece, I suppose I’d be guilty of the grandstanding I smell in most of his work. Or did I just evidence it now, already? Oy. Meta, meta, meta and not a drop to drink.
Here’s the Amex ad by Wes Anderson he references. Much better than The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.