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Jeremy Hatch
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SFIFF53: Dispatch #5, Don Hertzfeldt
Coverage of the San Francisco International Film Festival by Rumpus Film editor Jeremy Hatch. When programming director Rachel Rosen took the stage at the Kabuki last Friday night to present the Persistence of Vision Award to Don Hertzfeldt, she said,…
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SFIFF53: Dispatch #4, Opening Night, Micmacs
Coverage of the San Francisco International Film Festival by Rumpus Film editor Jeremy Hatch. This is my third year covering film in San Francisco, but this opening night, which took place last Thursday, was the first I’ve ever attended, for…
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SFIFF53: Dispatch #3, Picks Through Wednesday
Coverage of the San Francisco International Film Festival by Rumpus Film editor Jeremy Hatch. Today and over the next few days, I’ll be filing reports on the festival events and one-time screenings I attended over the weekend — opening night,…
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SFIFF53: Dispatch #2, Top Films to See
Coverage of the San Francisco International Film Festival by Rumpus Film editor Jeremy Hatch. At the press conference for the festival given a few weeks ago, programming director Rachel Rosen characterized the selections as, overall, showing a return to basics…
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SFIFF53: Dispatch #1, Events Preview
The largest and, arguably, the most glamorous film festival in San Francisco is about to get underway for the 53rd year in a row, and the Rumpus has been watching selected films and listening to buzz for the past two…
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PEN World Voices Event in Berkeley
Just a small addendum to Notable San Francisco this week: there’s an interesting event in Berkeley on Wednesday night at 7:30. PEN World Voices, with the assistance of Berkeley Arts & Letters, The Believer, and the Center for the Art…
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The Rumpus Original Combo: Chloe
The recent film Chloe gets the Rumpus Original Combo treatment today, with a review and an interview from two different contributors. Details after the jump.
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Baseball Has-Beens Looking to Become Be-Agains
The Christian Science Monitor just printed a great story by Jordan Heller that opened my eyes to a whole world I didn’t even know existed: baseball players who have dropped out of the major leagues for one reason or another,…
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How Market Forces Affect Novel Length
A writer named Charlie Stross just posted a fascinating article on his blog about why novels are the length they are. The reasons have to do with market dynamics — costs faced by publishers and bookstores. In the Victorian era,…
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Sensible Worries About the Internet
“These new books share a concern with how digital media are reshaping our political and social landscape, molding art and entertainment, even affecting the methodology of scholarship and research. They examine the consequences of the fragmentation of data that the…
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Jason Epstein on Publishing’s Future
Jason Epstein started out as an editor and publisher in a now-vanished era — his first editorial job was at Random House in 1949 — and he was a co-founder of the New York Review itself and also the Library…
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The Rumpus Review of The Most Dangerous Man in America
On June 13th, 1971, in the midst of the Vietnam War, the New York Times began to publish excerpts of an internal Pentagon document that detailed the top-secret history of US-Vietnam relations from 1945 to 1967.