by Alex Weisler While Lena Dunham has always insisted that she is not Hannah Horvath, her fictional alter ego on GIRLS, she has never publicly distanced herself from Aura, the protagonist of her Criterion-approved debut film […]
Lena Dunham’s Gentrification of the Mind
If gentrification is nothing more than white supremacy for liberals, then Lena Dunham’s HBO series, GIRLS, may be the phenomenon’s urtext. Set primarily in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the show follows four twenty-something female protagonists–Hannah, Jessa, Marnie, and Shoshanna–as they […]
My 2017 Oscars Ballot
This Sunday, the 89th Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Here are my predictions for some of the categories. Best Picture What Will Win: La La Land What Should Win: Moonlight […]
Maher Meets Milo
Last week, in response to the booking of Milo Yiannopoulos on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Jeremy Scahill, one of the founders of The Intercept, cancelled his scheduled appearance on the show. A regular guest since 2007, Scahill […]
BPOFD PODCAST EPISODE #22: OSCARS 2016 WITH WILLIAM GLICK
In Episode #22 of the BPoFD podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio sits down with playwright and Oscars historian William Glick to discuss the 2017 Academy Awards. Highlights include predictions for all the major categories, another round of impossible […]
A Review of Lincoln in the Bardo, In The Style of Lincoln in the Bardo
Lovers of George Saunders, your long national nightmare is finally over. After 25 years of publishing his signature brand of off-the-wall short fiction, this master of the short story has delivered unto his fans “Lincoln in the Bardo,” […]
Bannon Fest Teaser
Over the coming weeks, I’ll be organizing a series of screenings and discussions on the films of Steve Bannon, the scabies-infested Jimmy Buffet roadie who currently serves as the White House Chief of Staff. If […]
Sardoni Selects 2: An Exhaustive Email Exchange: Part 3
(Editor’s Note: Three years ago, Carmen Petaccio and Taylor Sardoni exchanged 15,000 words of email correspondence about the ten most notable films of 2013. No one was ever able to determine why, and now they’re […]
LEAKED: PERFORMANCE LINEUP FOR HILLARY’S INAUGURATION
(A Note from the Editors: Late last night, the investigatory team at BPoFD received what appears to be a leaked copy of the official itinerary for Hillary Clinton’s presidential inauguration ceremony. The encrypted document was pasted into an […]
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