Devin faraci accused of sexual assult

[Flint Marko]

He founded the site, I believe.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I thought he owned the site as well, but others would definitely know better then me.

 

[Boom]

I believe Tim League (owner of the Alamo Drafthouse) provides the financial backing for the Birth.Movies.Death website and the Birth.Movies.Death Magazine.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I believe Tim League (owner of the Alamo Drafthouse) provides the financial backing for the Birth.Movies.Death website and the Birth.Movies.Death Magazine.

Considering all the talk about how Alamo Drafthouse would respond to this, this makes perfect sense.

This is like Bill Simmons and Grantland. He was the founder, the editor-in-chief, but the sit belonged to Disney.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Tim League at the very least, has been reaching out to the woman and talking about what can be done. I don't closesly follow BMD, but at least someone involved with it isn't a piece of trash like Faraci.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Tim League at the very least, has been reaching out to the woman and talking about what can be done. I don't closesly follow BMD, but at least someone involved with it isn't a piece of trash like Faraci.

The last thing I want to hear is how much a sexual predator taught you or all the good things they have done. And I have heard that at least once.

 

[Zero_Effect]

Awards Daily put up an article basically saying how Devin was a great advocate for woman online and the internet is a worse place without him. WHAT

Better comment section on that site then Movies.Birth.Death. Still a lot of people sympathetic to Faraci though.

 

[Roose Bolton]

The last thing I want to hear is how much a sexual predator taught you or all the good things they have done. And I have heard that at least once.

I'd have to imagine that there was a lot of enabling going on there for Faraci to be getting away with the sort of dirtbag behaviour he exhibited online. I mean the whole thing where he told that person to kill themself on Twitter was completely out of line and that alone should have warranted some kind of response.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I'd have to imagine that there was a lot of enabling going on there for Faraci to be getting away with the sort of dirtbag behaviour he exhibited online. I mean the whole thing where he told that person to kill themself on Twitter was completely out of line and that alone should have warranted some kind of response.

I completely agree. There is no chance everyone over there doesn't know how he is.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

It's not like Faraci is a nice guy or anything, outside of his sexual assaults. He is a Grade-A A-hole and always has been. And he's not the kind of A-hole that I am. I mean I talk a good game but really I'm a softy with an attitude problem. Nobody needs to be defending him!

 

[DarthSkywalker]

It's not like Faraci is a nice guy or anything, outside of his sexual assaults. He is a Grade-A A-hole and always has been. And he's not the kind of A-hole that I am. I mean I talk a good game but really I'm a softy with an attitude problem. Nobody needs to be defending him!

He is clearly a piece of **** in general. That is clearly not news. And yes people, Twitter counts. Crappy human beings are internet trolls and he clearly is one.

 

[Man in the Suit]

I'm pretty sure he started out as a message board troll until somebody from CHUD gave him a shot.

 

[Teelie]

Appropriate that he originated at CHUD, as he seemingly is one.

 

[Serpico Jones]

Nick Nunziata, the founder of CHUD, promoted him from the message boards to an editor around ten years ago only to get stabbed in the back and called a deadbeat by Faraci. Devin was a well known troll on the Chud forums before The Nunz gave him his break.

 

[DA_Champion]

The last thing I want to hear is how much a sexual predator taught you or all the good things they have done. And I have heard that at least once.

Are you referring to Siddhant Adlakha's comments?

 

[Serpico Jones]

Are you referring to Siddhant Adlakha's comments?

DS is probably talking about the dumb Sasha Stone article. I'm not going to link to it because I think it goes into victim blaming and I was completely disgusted reading it.

 

[dark_b]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/feared-film-blogger-devin-faraci-937320

Lindelof, one of Hollywood's most successful film and television writer-producers, admitted in a 2015 podcast that Faraci, a 42-year-old film blogger, "has been trolling me incessantly for the majority of my career. This guy owes me, like, $40,000 in therapy bills."

 

[Greens]

Damn, that article lays out a lot of details about the story.

"We were dancing and he stuck his hands down my pants, very blatantly on the dance floor. I said stop. He did it again. I kind of didn’t know what to do. I stopped him again and pushed him away," she says. "There was no penetration. He just kept sticking his hands down my pants and into my crotch. Then he came in to do it again."

"I think I moved away from the dance floor at that point," she continues. "I had to get away from him. I was just so shocked that it had happened and kind of grossed out. I felt mortified for him. That was the palpable memory I had. I felt sad for him."

While Faraci never apologized or even acknowledged the alleged incident, the group dynamic was forever altered that night. Caroline, who never spoke of the incident to the others, began to withdraw from the group. Faraci, meanwhile, "would get in fights and have fallings-out" with the other friends, she says.

Two years later, in 2006, Caroline confronted Faraci about the assault on an internet message board. Just as in this week's Twitter exchange, Faraci claimed not to recall the incident. "He kind of disappeared after that," she says.

But one of the friends at the bar that night saw the message-board exchange and later confided in Caroline that it was highly unlikely that Faraci would have had no memory of what happened, as he had bragged to her about the incident at the time, encouraging the group to "smell his fingers."

"That was not something I knew about at the time," Caroline says. "And it made me really angry."

Caroline did her best to avoid Faraci in the ensuing years — but as his profile and audience grew, that became increasingly difficult.

"There was the Jodorowsky’s Dune documentary that I was really excited about seeing — and then I saw he [appears in it as an expert], and I was like, 'Well, f—, I can’t see it.' Or he’d be in a trailer giving a blurb for some horror movie. I would get so angry every time. It kept coming back that he’s an influential person in leftist film criticism or whatever."

 

[I Am The Knight]

Yikes.

 

[moviefreak]

I read about that same incident description a couple of days ago --took me a while to locate the article that also goes in dept about the victim:

http://theothermccain.com/2016/10/11/meet-caroline-contillo-spacecrone-the-buddhist-witch-who-destroyed-devincf/

 

[Serpico Jones]

I read about that same incident description a couple of days ago --took me a while to locate the article that also goes in dept about the victim:

http://theothermccain.com/2016/10/11/meet-caroline-contillo-spacecrone-the-buddhist-witch-who-destroyed-devincf/

The comments on that article are disturbing.

 

[moviefreak]

The comments on that article are disturbing.

I rarely read any comments in online publications apart from some major newspaper's online editions and some academia magazines. In any case, the comment section is not visible to me as it is (js) script blocked. lol

 

[BeserkerHilf]

I, for one, am loving the efforts of those dredging up his old tweets and scouring his articles for a new found context.

His very first tweet:

And I'm 100% positive he doesn't remember the incident, just take a look at his review of The Impossible from 2012:

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Skimming this thread I'm glad I don't know who this guy is.

 

[Flint Marko]

Moviebob just tweeted out a pretty heartfelt apology saying that a year ago someone tried to tell him what they heard about Faraci and he didn't listen. Either this particular incident was fairly well known in certain circles, or Faraci has done more things like this.