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Nicholas Rombes

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Spooky Action at a Distance: David Lynch, Split Edit Realism, and Other Mysteries

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • June 28, 2011
There is a moment in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart (1990) that cuts from Lula’s (Laura Dern’s) feet stomping in excitement on a bed to those same feet stomping in…
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Julia Kristeva’s Face

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • June 14, 2011
In the winter of 1989 I had finished my first semester of graduate studies in English at Penn State University and received, in my campus mailbox, the comments from my…
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There Is a Head Rolling Over the Platform: The Strange Case of George Lippard’s The Quaker City

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • June 1, 2011
On July 12, 1849, a man appeared at the offices, in Philadelphia, of the Quaker City, a newspaper. He was despondent and wearing only one shoe, and was seeking the…
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The Dark Mystery of Emily Dickinson’s “Master” Letters

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • May 18, 2011
One of the enduring mysteries of American literature is a series of three letters drafted by Emily Dickinson to someone she called “Master.” There is no evidence that he letters—written…
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Nicholas Rombes’s Art Film Roundup #6

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • May 4, 2011
Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2011) has the feel of a slow march through a black swamp. There is a majesty and a tar-pit trap power in the wordless…
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10/40/70 #36: I Shot Andy Warhol

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • April 13, 2011
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine…
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10/40/70 Contest

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • March 25, 2011
This coming Wednesday, March 30, a new 10/40/70 experimental film column will be published here at The Rumpus. In the spirit of the absurd beauty of spring, if you can…
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Nicholas Rombes’s Art Film Roundup #5

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • March 17, 2011
Not usually a fan of these mash-ups, but this one—the great museum sequence from Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill (1980) set to Brian Eno’s song “Third Uncle”—works just fine.…
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10/40/70 #34: Alien

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • February 23, 2011
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine…
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Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • February 17, 2011
In at least two of his novels, Thomas Pynchon mentions a Porky Pig cartoon from the 1930s. Here is the reference from The Crying of Lot 49 (1965), as Oedipa…
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Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • February 10, 2011
Before the fiasco of the “rock musical” Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Julie Taymor worked in smaller savageries, especially Titus (1999), her adaptation of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. The movie was…
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Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • February 7, 2011
Speaking of Egypt. The Yacobean Building (2006), directed by Marwan Hamed. The film shifts stunningly and beautifully between hard-core melodrama, sadness, and comedy. There are, eerily, some scenes that seem…
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