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How can you find something that doesn't exist? Am I right? AMIRITE?!
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Design: It's not just for people living in ugly condos.
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Parisian designer helps nerds stay dry and nerdy.
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Wow, I wish the "General Electric Fantasy Hour" still existed. Shit.
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The young U2 really were pretty fucking rad.
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The establishment of words loses one of its greatest providers of pictures.
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Or, the epic movie mashup to remind you of the many mediocre films that came out this year.
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How dare you spend our taxes on something kind of funny and mean?
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Finally! Pants and footwear no longer have to be separate items of clothing.
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Go on, show her where your dick is at.
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A modest proposal for a 10-year moratorium on all new works of art.
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Memory, nostalgia, and the past decade's two greatest cinematic considerations of same.
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You have three guesses and the first two don't count.
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Now you can watch your bread slowly wither into a charred skeleton.
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Its imagery is subdued, but it tests the boundaries of conventional stained glass window design.
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You should definitely check these guys out.
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Yeah, we should probably do that. And nothing else.
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Well, it depends whether they're from Milan or Genoa, but, on average, 226.5.
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Happy escape from your house, from Terry Gilliam and Alec Baldwin's middle-aged girth.
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , Secular Christmas Traditions , Sherlock Holmes , Guy Ritchie , It's Complicated , Nancy Meyers , The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus , Terry Gilliam , Alvin at the Chipmuks , Squeakuels
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Presenting the first in a series of thumbnail laurels from our senior film writers.
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You laughed then, but who's laughing now, from their bunker surrounded by hundreds of bottles of water and Ragu marinara sauce?
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I am Jack Bauer. I am Jack Bauer. I am Jack Bauer. I am Jack Bauer. I am Jack Bauer .
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I'm going to listen so you don't have to.
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Yeah I don't know about some of these.
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Yeah, we could do that, too.
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I'm going home now.
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Sutton digs Jeff Bridges' travelin' country-bluesman, but Stewart's singing a different tune.
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The circulation of rumor, cyber escapism, office politics, torture and rendition—surely the film the aughts deserved.
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Two more lush musical revivals can't find an audience.
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Animal Collective! Grizzly Bear! Dirty Projectors! Wavves! The xx!
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Ke$ha is apparently less offensive than Taylor Swift.
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As Christmas approaches, I feel like Larry Gopnik. Eli! Eli! Lema sabachthani?
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Those clothes are ours , real talk.
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The infinitely rewatched DVD collection staples of tomorrow, in descending order.
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Oh dear. Our music editor just said "felt up" on the radio.
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The scandalous Katherine Paterson to assume a non-scandalous national post. And we're just waiting for someone to yell really loudly about it. (Or post something in ALLCAPS.)
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And this is funny because you totally don't think of Michael Cera as the type of person to use drugs.
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The only reason I'm still here is that I'm waiting for an Amazon delivery of a gift for my dad.
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Does this random video aestheticize the horrors of war?
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Working our way to the pinnacle of the decade, with detours into trends, misfires, politics and remembrances.
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Flaming basketballs and defaced Damien Hirsts: What will Jigga think up next?
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Music , Jay-Z , On to the Next One , Swizz Beatz , new video , music video , rap , hip-hop , Damien Hirst , art criticism , Video
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As of today, one of our most unforgivable immigration policies is no more.
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But we already want to change it to include "Flux=Rad."
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Twenty-five years later and not much has been done for the victims of Bhopal.
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The singer performed live in the NPR studios just over two years ago, and it was beautiful.
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Music editor Mike Conklin is currently at 5-3 odds to say "shit" on the air.
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Some times it's hard to be separated from the ones we love.
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During today's opening ceremony, the completed Burj Khalifa shot shiny white fireworks all over the desert.
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Another Pyrrhic victory for pragmatic progressivism.
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Sort of a bargain, no?
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Also, if you drink through the holidays you will eventually find yourself sad and puffy (just saying).
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Today's rep film pick makes a point about communication by slowing down the genre's rhythmic dialogue.
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Namely that every movie, TV show, news program and music video should star Nic Cage.
Features
This is it, the definitive list... There really isn't much point in talking about any other albums besides these. The end.
Features
Haha.. we were kidding about all those other ones. This is obviously, objectively, the best record ever of the decade.
Features
Breakup records should not be this good.
Features
The results of the first annual L film critics poll.
Film Reviews
Police surveillance and perniciously rigorous language in Romania's Police, Adjective .
Film Reviews
With Sherlock Holmes , Guy Ritchie somehow saps the life out of Robert Downey, Jr.
Film Reviews
Terry Gilliam makes it through the looking glass in time to save The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus .
Film Reviews
A loosened-up Meryl Streep redeems another offensive “woman-targeted” Nancy Meyers rom-com.
Film Reviews
In 1940, Charlie Chaplin took on the world’s other most famous toothbrush mustache with The Great Dictator .
Features
Senior L writers present their year in film.
by Benjamin Strong, Jesse Hassenger, Henry Stewart, Nicolas Rapold and Michael Joshua Rowin
Tags: Features , Film
Video Essays
In the first half of a two-part video essay on the decade at the movies, we return to the not-so-halcyon years 2000-2004. Plus, year-in-review snapshots from our senior film writers.
Film Reviews
Excavated Tennessee Williams screenplay The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond should have stayed buried.
Film Reviews
With portentous misfire The White Ribbon , Michael Haneke traces the Third Reich back to its rural childhood.
Features
Our senior film writers offer their thoughts on the decade at the movies, one year at a time.
by Benjamin Strong, Michael Joshua Rowin, Mark Asch and Matt Zoller Seitz
Tags: Features , Film
Video Essays
The second half of a two-part video essay on the decade at the movies covers the best of 2005-2009. Plus, year-in-review snapshots from our senior film writers.
Features
Our senior film writers offer more thoughts on the decade at the movies, one year at a time.
by Michael Joshua Rowin, Michael Atkinson and Nicolas Rapold
Tags: Features , Film
Film Reviews
South Korean thriller The Chaser offers much literal and cinematic bludgeoning, and little else.
This year we finally got why Francis Bacon is important and bought into a shantytown time-share.
How Eyebeam's reblog changed the way we experience visual culture.
by Paddy Johnson
Tags: General , Art , Eyebeam , reblog , BuzzFeed , Jonah Peretti , New Museum , art curation , internet curation , visual culture , Tumblr , Facebook
Theater Reviews
Kneehigh Theatre's Brief Encounter doesn't adapt the Noel Coward original so much as expand it.
Theater Reviews
From Broadway to BAM and points in between, our favorite theater of 2009.
The L Magazine Online Questionnaire for Writer Types
This week, The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types inquires into the darker side of fame.
What a shitty century. Except for books, and the diminishing ranks of people who read them.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
People, please, how many times do I have to say it... SIZE SHOULDN'T MATTER.
The Conscientious Objector
Lose weight, save money, be happy... all while helping the planet.
Fashionville
So, fashion people seemed to pretty much ignore the fact we're in a global recession.
General
Obviously, the next decade will be the last one for books. SAY GOODBYE TO BOOKS.
General
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