Film
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The Rumpus Interview with Charles Bowden
Author Charles Bowden discusses Ciudad Juarez, the former cartel hit man known as El Sicario, and the killer latent in all of us.
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“Beasts of the Southern Wild”
Ella Taylor reviews Beasts of the Southern Wild, a film which “racked up a total of four major awards and a storm of press attention” at Sundance and Cannes. It focuses on “Hushpuppy, a motherless bayou waif living on the…
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About Cherry Opens in New York
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott’s About Cherry will make its New York premiere tomorrow! The film is screening in the Northside Festival on Thursday, June 21st, 7pm at Brooklyn’s indieScreen. You can purchase tickets here.
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Jay Gatsby’s Back
Jay McInerney explains why the American classic The Great Gatsby, the last book that Hannah Kingsley-Ma and Kate Geiselman loved, is making a resurgence this year. After all, Jimmy Gatz “invents a hero called Jay Gatsby and then inhabits this creation, just as…
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The Rumpus Review of Excision
Equal parts polished camp and unmanufactured horror, Excision is a film that made me hate both it and myself while huddling low in my seat and, at times, diverting my eyes. And yet I believe it is this generation’s Carrie.
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Jonathan Lethem’s State of Cinema Address
One of the highlights for me of this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival was hearing novelist Jonathan Lethem deliver the festival’s annual State of Cinema Address. Lethem, an exuberant and insatiable cineaste, managed to cram mumblecore, the Occupy movement,…
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I Am Spartacus!
In an interview with Royal Young, Kirk Douglas, iconic screen legend and son of Russian immigrants, tells tales of breaking the blacklist in HUAC-era Hollywood. His memoir, I Am Spartacus!: Making A Film, Breaking The Blacklist, comes out tomorrow. “I…
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Project Dad
Project Dad follows filmmaker Sharon Shattuck’s “quest to understand her LGBT family through a two-way dialogue with her dad,” who is transgender. The film, which is in the production phase, seeks to answer the question, “What is a healthy family?”…
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Turning Points: Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris
Marlon Brando was the greatest film actor of the 20th century, and a failure.
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The Rumpus Review of Punishment Park
In America, good dinner etiquette entails avoiding certain contentious topics, particularly politics. Whether it has more to do with possible digestive disorders developing from unpleasant –isms or a predilection towards harmonious dining, I do not know.
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Empire
There are so many details in the picture, but which ones are important? Neither of them are looking directly at each other.
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The Rumpus Review of The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
A review of The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller — a live documentary by Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green, with performance by Yo La Tengo, Tuesday, May 1, 2012, at SFMOMA.