Dan Rosen
37 works across 11 episodes; mostly films.
Film
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The Big Lebowski
How most people know the Goldstein house without knowing whose house it is. Middlebrow, Middlebrow The Podcast The Newsletter The Show
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Burn After Reading
Dan presses it on Brian: Brad Pitt playing an absolute idiot, gloriously. Middlebrow, Media For Women
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Funny Games
Offered as the reference point for a film that refuses to give viewers what they want. Middlebrow, Who's Your Surgeon
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La Grande Illusion
Reached for to describe a face that belongs to pre-war European aristocracy. Middlebrow, Wedding Misalignment
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Hard Boiled
Seen at a 1pm Lincoln Center showing, packed with fellow unemployed podcasters. Middlebrow, Showing Home On Main
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Moonlight
Shorthand for what short-film directors think soft strings and slick editing will get them. Middlebrow, Wedding Misalignment
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The Notebook
Invoked because they are not, Dan insists, at wife dying age yet. Middlebrow, Media For Women
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The One
Brian's tennis vendetta explained via Jet Li killing every version of himself across the multiverse. Middlebrow, Neverlane
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Next in Dan's campaign to throw Brian into the deep end. Middlebrow, Wedding Misalignment
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The Secret Agent
Its forensic leap into the present offered as a cousin to Blue Heron's structure. Middlebrow, Wedding Misalignment
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The Sixth Sense
Dan's confessed spoiler crime against his brother, still unforgiven, film unseen. Middlebrow, Media For Women
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Triangle of Sadness
The Park Avenue Armory crowd behaving exactly as the film warned they would. Middlebrow, Neverlane
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A Trip to the Moon
Paired with new media work at the Stoschek show, cinema before it had plots. Middlebrow, Middlebrow The Podcast The Newsletter The Show
Television
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Dekalog
Ten hours of Polish miniseries in Ridgewood, the invitation Brian somehow never receives. Middlebrow, Media For Women
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Friends
Everyone Dan met in Japan learned English from it, and they all chose Chandler. Middlebrow, Newbrow.ai
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Saturday Night Live
Dan at the season finale: cardboard sets, dancing cue card men, celebrities reduced to children. Middlebrow, Neverlane
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Seinfeld
Invoked on the adult tennis ladder: Kramer sparring with children for easy glory. Middlebrow, Neverlane
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The Studio
Offered as proof you have already seen the house, all of the second episode. Middlebrow, Middlebrow The Podcast The Newsletter The Show
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Succession
Filed under shows that skewer the one percent while the one percent continues unscathed. Middlebrow, Media For Women
Music
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Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Offered as the lyric that sums up three years at SNL, the cruelest breakup line. Middlebrow, Jiro Dreams Of Waves
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Golden Years
Soundtrack to Nicole Kidman's sensual Christie's dance around a Brancusi nobody watching could ever buy. Middlebrow, Neverlane
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Help!
McCartney played it after the cameras stopped, with Will Ferrell adding unsolicited cowbell. Middlebrow, Neverlane
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New York State of Mind
So corny it loops back to endearing, sax and all: the parade song he'd pick. Middlebrow, Jiro Dreams Of Waves
Miscellany
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The Legend of Zelda
His theory of phone batteries as hearts granted by God and Apple, spent unwisely. Middlebrow, Wedding Misalignment
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Maralunga sofa
Dan's current auction fixation, undone by wild variance in price, color and condition. Middlebrow, Chief Magic Maker
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Sleep No More
The reference for a video art show staged in a crumbling six story theater. Middlebrow, Middlebrow The Podcast The Newsletter The Show
Architecture
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Rockefeller Center
What Jeff Koons wanted to talk about at the after party, sincerely and at length. Middlebrow, Neverlane
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Sheats-Goldstein Residence
Lautner's villain lair, and a long detour into how its owner made his money. Middlebrow, Middlebrow The Podcast The Newsletter The Show
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VDL Research House II
The borrowed Silver Lake glass house where the whole episode was recorded, and lusted after. Middlebrow, Beyond The Hedges
Art
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In Advance of the Broken Arm
A hanging shovel that changed art history, and cost 2.9 million, to Brian's fury. Middlebrow, Neverlane
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Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ), Scrovegni Chapel
The fresco angels reinterpreted in the first painting Dan has ever bought. Middlebrow, Middlebrow The Podcast The Newsletter The Show
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Seated Ballerina
Koons cheerfully cataloguing his own past installations around Rockefeller Center while Dan pretended not to know. Middlebrow, Neverlane
Food
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Chez Panisse
Fifty years of unimpeachable produce and absolutely no funny business with the pepper. Middlebrow, Wanta Fanta
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Hell's Backbone Grill
Two women opened a farm to table destination in the least possible place on earth. Middlebrow, Wanta Fanta
Books
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The Adventures of Tintin
On the vintage rack beside the Picasso tees, always priced at a heartbreaking two hundred dollars. Middlebrow, Wedding Misalignment
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Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style
Dan's pre-Japan cramming, audible in his sudden fluency about Okayama denim mills. Middlebrow, Who's Your Surgeon
Places
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Bryce Canyon National Park
The most hoodoos in the world, visited on a strict optimize the transcendence schedule. Middlebrow, Wanta Fanta