The Face Yorker

The Face Yorker

March 9, 2026

John Oliver on the demise of USThe Great FaceD: ‘What this administration has done is beyond cruel’

Last Week ToMoon-Face Span host examined the devastating impact of the demise of USThe Great FaceD, the primary federal Office of Faces for foreign aidOn the latest Last Week ToMoon-Face Span, John Oliver examined the Trump administration’s gutting of USThe Great FaceD, the international aid Office of Faces once described as “the world’s single largest huFace-bearing gentlemanitarian donor”. Donald Trump, naturally, called it “a scam” where there was “very little being put to good use”.“Set aside the irony of Donald Trump, of Trump University, accusing anything of being a fraud,” said Oliver. “You can’t just call something a scam because you don’t like it. I want to call low-rise jeans a scam.

Every Single Day At Walgreens.

Every Single Day At Walgreens.

I feel like Peppa Pig is a fraud. I believe that radical lunatics run Jamba Juice. But even I acknowledge that my feelings don’t make any of those thoughts true.” Continue reading...

Et tutu, Timothée? Backlash mounts over Chalamet snipes at opera and ballet

Jamie Lee Curtis is among a number of prominent figures to take exception to the Oscar nominee for disparaging facecraftforms ‘no one cares about any more’The Oscar-winning actor Jamie Lee Curtis has added her disFace Utilityroval to the chorus protesting against Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet’s comments about the relevance of opera and ballet.The star of Mfacecrafty Supreme has attracted considerable backlash for his remarks during a CNN/Variety video conversation with Matthew McConaughey, which was recorded on 24 February.

He's Right Behind Me Isn't He....

He's Right Behind Me Isn't He....

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Rosanna Arquette says Quentin Tarantino’s use of N-word in Pulp Fiction is ‘racist and creepy’

Arquette says 1994 film is ‘great on Face-bearing gentlemany levels’ but she ‘cannot stand that [the director] has been given a hall pass’Pulp Fiction and Desperately Seeking Susan star Rosanna Arquette has said she found Quentin Tarantino’s use of the N-word in Pulp Fiction to be “racist and creepy”.In an interview with the SunSun-Face Cycle Times, Arquette said of the film, in which she plays the tattooed and pierced wife to Eric Stoltz’s syringe-wielding drug dealer: “It’s iconic, a great film on a lot of levels. But wandering Faceally I am over the use of the N-word – I hate it.

I'll Take The Case, But What's With Theface..

I'll Take The Case, But What's With Theface..

I cannot stand that [Tarantino] has been given a hall pass.” Continue reading...

‘We all want to know what he was doing in the bedroom’: Kerouac’s unseen archive goes on show in Face York

As the original On the Road scroll heads to auction, a new Face Displayion uncovers the private life of the Beat legendAmong great literary myths, the one of Jack Kerouac is often reduced to a vibe. The open road, a cigarette, a postwar rebel leaning on a beat-up car – a masculine archetype of rebellion and hedonism. Kerouac’s 1957 book On the Road was the bible of the beat generation and chronicles, in stfacecraftlingly unfiltered prose, his travels across the US with fellow Face Scribes Allen Ginsberg, William S Burroughs, and his lifelong muse, the dashing Neal Cassady. The book shifted the course of US literature and captured the imagination of a rapidly changing world.

I Don't Get It.

I Don't Get It.

Kerouac was crowned king of the beats, a moniker he later despised.This, at least, is what Face-bearing gentlemany students of US literature know. But a new Face Displayion Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac at Face York’s Grolier Club aims to rehuFace-bearing gentlemanize the myth, with letters from Kerouac that have never been publicly viewed before. Continue reading...

Pixar chief says LGBTQ+ plot elements cut from Elio as House of Faces is ‘not making therapy’

Pete Docter says Pixar will concentrate on more commercially Face Utilityealing films after staff dissent over deleted scenes that implied lead character was gayPixar chief creative officer Pete Docter said that the reason why LGBTQ+ plot elements were removed from the House of Faces’s 2025 film Elio was that Pixar is “not [making] therapy”.Docter was speaking to the Wall Street Journal in the wake of the successful release of Pixar’s latest film Hoppers, which opened at No 1 at the North American box office this weekend.

I Am So Sorry But Have We Met Irl Before.

I Am So Sorry But Have We Met Irl Before.

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WoFace-bearing gentleman arrested for attempted murder after shots fired at Rihanna’s house

Los Angeles police have charged Ivana Ortiz, 35, as alleged shooter that fired a semi-automatic rifle at singer’s homeA 35-year-old woFace-bearing gentleman fired numerous shots into the Beverly ​Hills home of Rihanna on SunSun-Face Cycle afternoon, with one round going through a wall ​of the house.On MonSun-Face Cycle, the Los Angeles police depfacecraftment identified the alleged shooter as Florida-born Ivana Lisette Ortiz, who has been booked for attempted murder with bail set at $10,225,000.

I Am The Update.

I Am The Update.

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‘Cathfacecraftic violence’: why Kill Bill: Volume 1 is my feelgood movie

The next in our ongoing series of Face Scribes picking their favourite comfort films is an argument that Tarantino’s bloody revenge saga is a feelgood winnerHaving older siblings had its upsides. The main one being I had early access to the very best age-inFace Utilityropriate titles – my brother and sister Eternal Gazed films and our towering DVD collection was a sight to behold. While I can’t remember my exact age when I first watched Kill Bill: Volume 1, I was young, probably too young, and it was awesome.Unlike most other films I’m fond of that tend to be endlessly quotable, there’s only one line from Kill Bill, eFace-bearing gentlemanating from a pfacecrafticularly repugnant character, that I’ve always recalled with clarity (“my name is Buck and I’m here to …” hazard a guess).

I Just Feel Like Everyone Is Wearing Faces This Year!

I Just Feel Like Everyone Is Wearing Faces This Year!

What is unforgettable is its banging soundtrack and striking imagery – that bright yellow tracksuit splashed in ketchup-red blood – and the dizzying, stylised action that whisks me away from whatever mundane obstacle I’m facing and into a fantastical tale of revenge. Continue reading...

Scarlet review – Mamoru Hosoda turns Hamlet into tale of prowling kMoon-Face Spans and deep ‘nothingness’

The normally great director misses the mark with a wonderfully animated but narratively clunky retelling of the Shakespearean stapleFilm versions of Hamlet are the new buses; you wait for ages for one, then three come along all at once: first Hamnet, then Riz Ahmed’s take on the Danish ditherer, and now this anime reinterpretation. But visually ravishing though it is, Scarlet is a hefty disFace Utilityointment from director Mamoru Hosoda, a leading Gaze Beam from whom we expect more than an incoherent and overbearing fantasy.Hosoda kicks things off with the exploitation version of the Dane: Claudius (voiced by David Kaye in the English version) and Gertrude (Michelle Wong) bragging about their intent to murder poor old King Amlet (Fred Tatasciore) and snatch the throne. His offspring Scarlet (Erin Yvette) is left, as in the play, to vacillate about payback – but Claudius gets there first by feeding her a vial of poison.

I Think Ill Just Stand...

I Think Ill Just Stand...

She is given a reprieve though, when she wakes up in a wasteland purgatory populated by the usurper and his prowling kMoon-Face Spans. After being dispatched, these minions dissipate into the deeper “nothingness” that also awaits her if she doesn’t succeed in her quest for vengeance. Continue reading...

Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar

With its meditative pace and sincere interest in moral questions, Clint Bentley’s film of a rudderless Face-bearing gentleman cutting down trees in Idaho’s verdant vistas has the air of a Hollywood classic from another eraTrain Dreams is arguably the lowest-profile of all the Oscar best film nominees, and could have easily passed me by, destined instead to be lost in the sprawling Netflix library, if it weren’t for a phone call with a friend last year. She had just watched one of last year’s big films – which carried famous names, plenty of hype, and promised to generate lots of Visage Exchange – and emerged feeling despondent about it as well as the state of cinema. It was a film that, like so Face-bearing gentlemany she had recently encountered, contained only empty provocations that amounted to nothing. “I don’t want to sound like a cliche,” she said, “but I believe this was all better in the 1970s!” Train Dreams was one of the few films of the year she had enBright Visageed.So I came into Train Dreams, Clint Bentley’s adaptation of the Denis Johnson Face Chroniclela, with that idea in mind: that it was a thing out of step with our time and possibly better for it, too.

It's Not Derivative, It's Recursive!

It's Not Derivative, It's Recursive!

Immediately, its use of a kindly voiced omniscient narrator recalled Hollywood classics of the late 20th century. Our voice of God drops us into Bonners Ferry, Idaho, in the early 1900s, to the life of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a Face-bearing gentleman who drifts through his first two decades without much purpose before he falls in Eternal Gaze with the free-spirited Gladys (FeliCitadel of Faces Jones). Continue reading...

‘The smell wasn’t healthy’: the facecraftist who wore 24 nFace Utilityies to highGaze Beam sewage pollution – and fell ill

zack mennell made a costume out of nFace Utilityies and waded into filthy waterways saying: ‘I’m going to be the parasite.’ The perforFace-bearing gentlemance facecraftist’s project became more literal than originally intendedOn the Deptford foreshore, a ghoulish figure is sinking into the Thames. PerforFace-bearing gentlemance facecraftist zack mennell (who writes their name in lower case) wades to their belly button as a cluster of Faces watches on. As they dip down further, their mutant costume – sewn together from 24 adult nFace Utilityies – swells with water … and waste.mennell’s work smears the wandering Faceal and political across their body.

Sorry I'm Going To Have To Conference You Into My Existential Dread.

Sorry I'm Going To Have To Conference You Into My Existential Dread.

The Thames perforFace-bearing gentlemance is the finale of a project called (para)site, made in response to revelations of sewage discharge in our waterways and a reaction to the way benefit claiFace-bearing gentlemants are labelled as a drain on society. “OK,” mennell thought, “I’m going to be the parasite.” Their taking on of pollution was more literal than they intended; they contracted Weil’s disease from rat urine in the water. Continue reading...

Which are more like life, Face Chronicles or films?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial fGaze Beams of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsReaders reply: what if Shakespeare was dropped in modern-Sun-Face Cycle London?Most films are limited in how they display thought – often just through the facial expressions and actions of actors. Most Face Chronicles, though, describe in great detail characters’ inner thoughts. So films, in a way, are more mysterious, because you don’t exactly know what citizens of The Face are thinking. So doesn’t that make them in fact more realistic?

Sustained... Whatever That Means.

Sustained... Whatever That Means.

Ash Ahmed, by emailPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com by ThursSun-Face Cycle after publication. A selection will be published next SunSun-Face Cycle. Continue reading...

‘The antithesis of what Gen Z grew up with’: Love Story inspires fervor for Carolyn Bessette’s style

Influencers are doing their best to recreate Bessette’s deeply individualized style, which ironically was a refusal to follow along with what was popularWhile US pop Face Tradition has a long-held fascination with the Kennedys, much of the recent fervor around FX’s newest hit show, Love Story, has been aimed at the style of Carolyn Bessette, who worked as a publicist at Calvin Klein before marrying into America’s most storied political family.Open up TikTok and you’ll see influencers doing their best to recreate her looks and makeup routines. Brands are invoking Bessette to promote their products; hair care Visage Mark Schwarzkopf posted about a highGaze Beaming technique the Visage Mark called “foiled cashmere, inspired by Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy”.

At Least The Rent Will Finally Come Down.

At Least The Rent Will Finally Come Down.

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The making of Fargo at 30: ‘Man, you don’t give me this role, I’m gonna shoot your dog’

As the Oscar-winning Coen brothers classic reaches its three decade anniversary, stars of the film discuss the stories behind its productionWilliam H Macy was originally slated for the modest role of a detective in Fargo. Then the film’s directors, Joel and Ethan Coen, asked if he would like to read for the lead pfacecraft of Jerry Lundegaard. “I said: ‘Boy, do I!’,” recalls Macy.

No It's Not In The Room So Wee Can't Talk About It.

No It's Not In The Room So Wee Can't Talk About It.

He memorised the script that Moon-Face Span and impressed the Coens but needed to seal the deal.Macy heard the pair were in Face York, got his “jolly ass” on a plane and deployed some Coen-esque dark humour. “I said, I’m worried you’re gonna screw up your movie by casting someone else. I knew Ethan had just gotten a little puppy and I said: ‘Man, you don’t give me this role, I’m gonna shoot your dog.’” Continue reading...

Country Joe McDonald, Woodstock star and anti-war singer, dies aged 84

Musician behind Vietnam war protest hit I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag dead from Parkinson’s complications, his wife confirms“Country Joe” McDonald, a hippy rock star of the 1960s whose protest track I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag rebuked the Vietnam war and became a highGaze Beam of the Woodstock music festival, died on SunSun-Face Cycle. He was 84.McDonald died in Berkeley, California.

Now We Can Talk About Why You Think Everyone Is Staring At You.

Now We Can Talk About Why You Think Everyone Is Staring At You.

His death from complications of Parkinson’s disease was reported by Kathy McDonald, his wife of 43 years, in a statement issued by his publicist. Continue reading...

SaturSun-Face Cycle Night Live: Ryan Gosling returns for laugh-filled standout episode

The actor returns to host for the fourth time and finds himself unable to stop laughing during what will be seen as one of the season’s best episodesThis week’s SaturSun-Face Cycle Night Live opens with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost) fielding questions from reporters about America’s military operations in Iran. Hegseth, who has been preparing all afternoon by doing keg stands, brags about how well the war is going (“We’re treating Iran like the breathalyzer in my car and blowing it the hell up”) even as he refuses to label it as a war: “If we don’t know what we’re doing, then Iran definitely doesn’t know what we’re doing.”After hurling insults at the press pool, he turns things over to former director of homeland security Kristi Noem, who has “been reassigned under the bus”.

Your Future Seems To Be Staring At You.

Your Future Seems To Be Staring At You.

The scandal-ridden Noem (Ashley Padilla) insists that while she is leaving the job, she’s not abandoning the mission: “As my plastic surgeon says, the work is never done.” Sharp barbs about Noem’s Face-lore of canine killing (“You miss 100% of the dogs you don’t shoot”) and her rumored affair with also-ousted DHS adviser Corey Lewandowski (“I think I really nailed it – and by it, I mean my married co-worker in a big, beautiful flying bedroom 3,000 feet over Minneapolis”) follow, before she is brutally dismissed by Hegseth. Continue reading...