Film Club: Ross Anderson/All About Eve (1950) [Uncut]
The British writer talks about his profile of Dave Rubin, Ye and why All About Eve is more relevant than ever.
Welcome to the Lack of Taste Film Club, where we talk to non-cinephiles and non-professional cinephiles about themselves and the movies they love. You will find a different flavour to Film Club entries going forward. Instead of going straight to discussing the movie being chosen, we want to get to know the guest more. A general Q&A will come first, and the movie comes second.
Ross Anderson is a British writer whose work has appeared in Quillette, Tablet, The Dispatch and elsewhere. His most prominent work is a long profile of Dave Rubin, the host of The Rubin Report, detailing the journey of a struggling gay comedian, who went from presenting with the progressive outfit The Young Turks and eventually found success as a conservative political commentator, closely feeding his ideological base the things they want to hear. We talk about that, as well as his feelings about Ye’s downfall, and his interest in writing about movies. Then we take a look at All About Eve, a film he thinks is parallel to the conversation we had about Rubin.