The Culturati Caucus
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➽ 2011 SURVEY RESPONDENTS: Waris Ahluwalia, Mike Albo, Jon Robin Baitz, Bob Balaban, Molly Barnett, Felix Barrett, Natasha Bedingfield, Bérénice Bejo, Lake Bell, Andrew Berman, Christopher Bollen, Ashley Bouder, Maureen Bray, Bebe Buell, Tory Burch, Jennifer Carpenter, Cliff Chiang, Bill Clegg, Andy Cohen, Karen Cooper, Sam Corbett, Alan Cumming, Julie Danni, Anthony DeCurtis, Drake Doremus, Maxine Doyle, Paul Feig, Richard Flood, Sasha Frere-Jones, over the past month, we quizzed 97 New York culture mavens (and some visiting luminaries) on the THE CULTURATI best movies, tweets, and other artistic artifacts they’ve encountered this year. The tallies were anything but scientific, but they nonetheless surfaced a few conspicuous crowd- pleasers—plus, as expected, quite a number of ardent CAUCUS endorsements of everything from Ellen Barkin’s Twitter profanity to DIY architecture at Zuccotti Park. STICKIEST POP MUSIC “You want to send No.1 MOVIE THAT ON YOUR IPOD Adele’s album to every guy MADE YOU CRY who screwed you over. So I’ve sent out about 4,700 “I cried because of them, and I’m it’s so rare to see just waiting for responses a movie in which and apologies.” everyone, especially —kathy griffin, men, behave comedienne 78% decently.” —richard peña, program director, of film society of “One of the great respondents lincoln center albums of the decade, were glad if not the century.” 22% when adele’s —adam walker, 21 was on publicist, film repeat. forum needed it to stop. ‘THE DESCENDANTS’ other weepers more sticky songs “It reminded “When I laugh, I me of how cry, because I’m much money I that emotionally “I can’t get Justin Bieber’s Christmas album lost this year.” screwed up.” Elmo’ Call’ out of my head. His rap of ‘Little Drummer —bob balaban, ‘Being —mike albo, ‘Margin Boy’? I’ll be singing it on the subway actor ‘Bridesmaids’ author going home tonight.” —john waters, director “every time i confess this i’m “I think I cried “Four times.” convinced a lightning bolt is going some tears. I —russell was laughing simmons, co- to strike me down, but i adore “Not crying. my arse off.” founder, def Coldplay’s ‘Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall.’ ” Bawling.” —elizabeth jam records —nico muhly, composer —solange olsen, actress With ‘Friends ‘Friends knowles, Help’ ‘The Benefits’ “Adam Levine must be tried at the Hague for musician ‘Moves Like Jagger.’ ” —darrell m. mcneill, assoc. producer, bam Alex Timbers, director martha marcy may marlene “The lessons in MOVIE Colum McCann, author battle for brooklyn Moneyball for film I WISH Penelope Ann Miller, actress the score of contagion producers are very, I’D MADE very interesting. Nico Muhly bill cunningham new york Do you hire the Celine Rattray, film producer weekend expensive person? Or do you make Tod Lippy, editor, Esopus the descendants a bet on someone Massimiliano Gioni, assoc. director, New Museum hanna undervalued?” —rattray Darrell M. McNeill moneyball PHOTOGRAPHS: THIS PAGE. VENTURELLI/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES (MARTIN); PATRICK MCMULLAN (BIEBER, ADELE, LEVINE); COURTESY OF FOX SEARCHLIGHT (CLOONEY) SEARCHLIGHT OF FOX LEVINE); COURTESY MCMULLAN (BIEBER, ADELE, PATRICK (MARTIN); IMAGES VENTURELLI/WIREIMAGE/GETTY THIS PAGE. PHOTOGRAPHS: Russell Simmons, Alex Smith, Gavin Smith, Scott Snyder, Olivier Staphylas, Amanda Stern, Darin Strauss, Sarah Suzuki, Tilda Swinton, Marlo Thomas, Uma Thurman, Alex Timbers, Adam Walker, John Waters, Randy Weiner, Celia Weston, Olivia Wilde, Max Winkler, Susan Yung Tod Lippy, Natasha Lyonne, Colum McCann, Ryan McGinley, Darrell M. McNeill, Aaron Meier, Kenny Mellman, Laura Miller, Penelope Ann Miller, Jennifer Missoni, Honor Moore, Nico Muhly, Kirsten Munro, Gary Oldman, Elizabeth Olsen, Patton Oswalt, Richard Peña, Renée Price, Celine Rattray, Jacques Renault, Nathaniel Rich, Elisabeth Robinson, Melissa Rosenberg, Jane Rosenthal, Tom Rothman, Rajendra Roy, Andrew Saffir, Brian Selznick, David Shields, David Selznick, Brian Saffir, Andrew Roy, Rajendra Rothman, Tom Rosenthal, Jane Rosenberg, Melissa Robinson, Elisabeth Rich, Nathaniel Renault, Jacques Rattray, Celine Price, Renée Peña, Richard Oswalt, Patton Olsen, Elizabeth Oldman, Gary Munro, Kirsten Muhly, Nico Moore, Honor Missoni, Jennifer Miller, Ann Penelope Miller, Laura Mellman, Kenny Meier, Aaron McNeill, M. Darrell McGinley, Ryan McCann, Colum Lyonne, Natasha Lippy, Tod J. 2011 SURVEY RESPONDENTS: Waris Ahluwalia, Mike Albo, Jon Robin Baitz, Bob Balaban, Molly Barnett, Felix Barrett, Natasha Bedingfield, Bérénice Bejo, Lake Bell, Andrew Berman, Christopher Bollen, Ashley Bouder, Maureen Bray, Bebe Buell, Tory Burch, Jennifer Carpenter, Cliff Chiang, Bill Clegg, Andy Cohen, Karen Cooper, Sam Corbett, Alan Cumming, Julie Danni, Anthony DeCurtis, Drake Doremus, Maxine Doyle, Paul Feig, Richard Flood, Sasha Frere-Jones, Michael Friedman, Cary Fukunaga, Vikram Gandhi, Alex Gansa, Massimiliano Gioni, Rebecca Gold,Felicity Jarmusch, Kathy Jones, Griffin,Jim Geoff Jacobs, Gillian Kloske, Jackson, AlyssaSolange Paul Hart,Hochwald, Knowles, MichelJonathan Karl Hazanavicius, Lagerfeld, Matt Lauer, Ang Lee, Melissa Leo, BEST BEST FILM BEST PLAY TWITTER “The Book of Mormon PERFORMANCE OR MUSICAL FEEDS is the musical that every one of us in the @BretEastonEllis comedy industry Nominated by Christopher wishes we had made.” Bollen, author. —paul feig, actor-director ➽On Melancholia: Lars von Trier is that weird rarity: one of the world’s greatest filmmakers who has never TIE! made a great film. ➽Legitimate question: just walked out on L.A. screening “The theatrical part of The Artist and wondered: am I a Grinch or is it just an of Sleep No More was unbearably cute flyspeck? a little forced, but KRISTEN WIIG ➽The Skin I Live In is oh, man—the details basically Pedro Almodóvar’s were fantastic.” chic version of The Human —jim jarmusch, director ‘BRIDESMAIDS’ Centipede. But I prefer Dieter Laser over Antonio Banderas … BEST NEW ➽Steve McQueen’s Shame BUILDING would have been so much “Tent City was more disturbing if Brandon had actually enjoyed the sex. like performance art, placing the Third World in the middle of “She’s not only @ColsonWhitehead the financial district. an incredible Nominated by Amanda comedic Stern, reading-series It was a DIY actress, but she curator, Joe’s Pub. ➽ can play Wait—“Twilight” is about monument to our tragedy. I think vampires? ➽ she will win an I only wrote a “genre novel” so you’d have another communal angst.” Oscar, and I —vikram gandhi, documentary filmmaker bet you it will example for your trend piece. ➽ be for “Empire State of Mind” is a something great song! Is there a serious.” version available without the —andy cohen, Jay-Z parts? ➽ v.p. and host, Will I be able to follow the bravo plot if I see The Help before I see Bagger Vance, Driving Miss Daisy & The Blind Side? THE MOST OVERHYPED (A PARTIAL LIST) other great performances @EllenBarkin Nominated by Adam Walker. “I could watch Ryan Gosling in anything. ➽This twitter shit is the He’s got a real mix of vulnerability and greatest thing that ever menace.” —gary oldman, actor happened to me. Never had so many friends in my life. I’m never leaving my house. “Michael Shannon is a knockout. He Ashton Kim Hurricane Will and ➽Uh oh PR intervention!! My Kutcher Kardashian Irene Kate bust me out in tears and applause, alone peeps just told me 2 limit my in my living room.” —melissa leo, actress fuks to 1 fuk a day. What da fuk shud I do? What da fuk “Joseph Gordon-Levitt was beeeaauuutiful wud I say? help me my frenz! ➽O no,now these in 50/50. He’s just really open and really muthafuckin assholes relaxed.” —tilda swinton, actress r hijacking my fuckin T-fuckin-V. These debates “Jessica Chastain has 34 films out this r a full season of a mediocre reality show w vampires! LMFAO Charlie Sheen OWN James year. Not quite that many, but seems in ➽OMFG…I just realized #winning Franco the double digits. Could they create an Callista Gingrich has my Oscar for Most Valuable Player?” exact fuckin haircut. Fuck. 1st —celia weston, actress thing tmrw, shave it all off or head full of extensions. Fuck “Bill Cunningham owned 2011. Softer than ➽Fuck u all, I like my real frenz better. Bunch of fuckin soft, harder than hard, Bill is the realest celebrity snobs… You all New Yorker alive. And Occupy? Bill had know who you are … it down in 1988: ‘Money is cheap. Freedom is expensive.’ Never take the money.” Whitney Glee The Siri —sasha frere-jones, critic Cummings Supercommittee PHOTOGRAPHS: THIS PAGE, RON SMITS/LONDON ENTERTAINMENT/SPLASH NEWS (WIIG); DANIELLE LEVITT/COURTESY OF FOX (MICHELE); JOAN MARCUS (BOOK OF MORMON); ALICK CROSSLEY (SLEEP NO MORE); DANNY KIM/NEW YORK MAGAZINE (SIRI); (SIRI); MAGAZINE KIM/NEW YORK (SLEEP NO MORE); DANNY (BOOK OF MORMON); ALICK CROSSLEY MARCUS (MICHELE); JOAN OF FOX NEWS (WIIG);LEVITT/COURTESY DANIELLE ENTERTAINMENT/SPLASH SMITS/LONDON RON THIS PAGE, PHOTOGRAPHS: MCMULLAN (REMAINING) WEDDING); PATRICK (ROYAL (HURRICANE); IAN LANGSDON/EPA/CORBIS IMAGES A. CLARY/AFP/GETTY TIMOTHY Tod Lippy, Natasha Lyonne, Colum McCann, Ryan McGinley, Darrell M. McNeill, Aaron Meier, Kenny Mellman, Laura Miller, Penelope Ann Miller, Jennifer Missoni, Honor Moore, Nico Muhly, Kirsten Munro, Gary Oldman, Elizabeth Olsen, Patton Oswalt, Richard Peña, Renée Price, Celine Rattray, Jacques Renault, Nathaniel Rich, Elisabeth Robinson, Melissa Rosenberg, Jane Rosenthal, Tom Rothman, Rajendra Roy, Andrew Saffir, Brian Selznick, David Shields, David Selznick, Brian Saffir, Andrew Roy, Rajendra Rothman, Tom Rosenthal, Jane Rosenberg, Melissa Robinson, Elisabeth Rich, Nathaniel Renault, Jacques Rattray, Celine Price, Renée Peña, Richard Oswalt, Patton Olsen, Elizabeth Oldman, Gary Munro, Kirsten Muhly, Nico Moore, Honor Missoni, Jennifer Miller, Ann Penelope Miller, Laura Mellman, Kenny Meier, Aaron McNeill, M. Darrell McGinley, Ryan McCann, Colum Lyonne, Natasha Lippy, Tod.