Film
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Happy Baby!
The Rumpus is producing our first movie, based on the novel Happy Baby, by Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott, and we could really use your help!
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Sympathy for the Devils: Review of Crossfire Hurricane
The Rolling Stones, who as a band turned fifty in 2012, have survived almost everybody.
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The Other Argo
In 2007 Rumpus pal Joshuah Bearman wrote a Wired article that became the movie Argo. Originally there was a different opening to this article, called The Bond Opening.
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How a Wound Heals
Last night’s Oscar ceremony and some of the commentary around the ceremony make the best possible case for why diversity matters.
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The Rumpus Review of Amour
Thankfully, this film really is a love story. Yet it’s such a ruthlessly unsentimental one that the title still feels like a provocation.
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The Rumpus Review of Afternoon Delight
Afternoon Delight is about so many things, but the opening gambit: wanting to bone the same person you’ve been boning for years is a struggle.
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The Rumpus Review of Zero Dark Thirty
A dizzying blitz of descriptors surrounds Katheryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty: pro-torture, anti-torture; anti-Bush, pro-Obama; mindlessly jingoistic, nuanced in its critique of American exceptionalism.
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Django Take #1: Good is the Enemy of Great
Look, we’re going to have to make a decision about Quentin Tarantino.
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Django Take #2: We Have Arrived
L.S.B. That’s what my crew called themselves. Light Skinned Bitches. I refused to say it. The light-skinned part.
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Django Take #3: (Re)chained
Django is not a movie with “villains.” Instead, the movie itself is villainous.
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Django Take #4: Substance Amidst Spectacle
There is an unpleasant moment about halfway through Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Django Unchained.