“The interview request, sent with the calmness of the underdog, was not answered with the usual refusal (“thank you very much, but due to our client’s busy schedule, he has to say no”), but an invitation for a 15-minute phone interview.” 3/3

“This is also important for our story because the previously inaccessible figure suddenly became accessible. Even for a market as small as Hungary. Something completely unexpected happened.” 2/3

Choice quotes: “At the time of the release of 2017's Wonder Wheel, Allen was still considered a respectable director by the moral standards of American showbiz, but by the time he finished his next film, A Rainy Day in New York, he had been swept away by #metoo.” 1/2

Didn’t mean for us to be THIS Cassandraesque but there we go: Hungarian news site HVG published a series of interviews with WA today, with the fan/journalist marvelling at his luck of getting to interview him four times,*thanks* to WA being “swept away” by MeToo (offering no context or explanation).

In the hope this helps you get out of bed: I set your Mabel Normand chapter as essential reading on my undergrad “Feminism on the Screen” module at the Uni of York. Students love your argument about the Chaplin anecdote & how it points to film authorship as a set of gendered/patriarchal practices.

Paging Tár

To quote from Kimmy Schmidt: I understood all those words separately.

Right. And this fixing by the AI is reproduced in the way American gatekeepers adjudicate the authenticity and ethics of the mechanically produced sonic foreignness. So in a sense, the from-here critics and the AI perform similar acts of control over the foreign voice.