Titanic Turns Twenty in a World That Won’t Talk About It
After twenty years and eleven Oscars and eleventy billion dollars, we still don’t really talk about Titanic.
...moreAfter twenty years and eleven Oscars and eleventy billion dollars, we still don’t really talk about Titanic.
...moreActor and painter Burt Young talks filmmaking, art, and the years he spent living on a sixty-three-foot yacht.
...moreSissy Spacek still radiates youth and innocence when she enters a room.
...moreUntil recently, coming out was almost always dangerous—not only to our careers and our relationships but also to our bodies. And so hiding was (and sometimes still is) a necessity.
...moreAware of The Bechdel Test or not, the Belgian brothers keep churning out movies that pass with flying colors.
...moreDiasporic communities live inside a host nation, but they also live with difference.
...moreI didn’t want to criticize her, or demand explanations from her. I just wanted to hear her speak.
...moreBrandon Harris discusses his memoir Making Rent in Bed-Stuy, gentrification in New York City and Brooklyn, the homogenization of American cities by corporate America, and whiteness of film culture.
...moreIt is unlikely I will see the US justice system evolve toward an egalitarian ideal in my lifetime. But Whose Streets? does offer a clearly visible North Star.
...moreJosie Swantek Heitz’s and Dave Adams’s The Wrong Light, theatrically released in NYC through Cinema Guild on July 14, is disturbing on several levels. First, there’s the story itself. The filmmakers set out to create a portrait of the Children’s Organization of Southeast Asia (COSA), a nonprofit boarding school of sorts founded in 2005 by […]
...more“It” does not even “come” in the traditional sense. These primal, atavistic qualities are with us all the time, lying dormant until the right situation coaxes them forth.
...moreAfter Adderall is a feature film by Rumpus founder Stephen Elliott reimagining the absurd experience of having one’s book translated into a film. The movie stars Mickaela Tombrock and Bill Heck and features Lili Taylor, James Urbaniak, Ned Van Zandt, and Michael C. Hall. There are cameos from authors including Susan Orlean, Nick Flynn, Evan […]
...moreCritics have noted how The Keepers is similar to other prestige documentaries but with a significant difference—its focus on the victims and their stories.
...moreIf there was ever a case for women avoiding Botox, Diana’s signature skepticism for the patriarchy is it. She has never encountered womanhood as subordinate, and she’s not about to start.
...moreIn clinging to a set of memories that fade more every day, maybe I’m also clinging to an idyllic version of my own past.
...moreAs a longtime fan, it pains me to say it, but Sarandon is everything that’s wrong with mainstream, non-intersectional white feminism.
...moreIt is an uncomfortable admission, but we hunger for stories that sensationalize the extremes of human behavior. We want to crawl under the police tape and see the outlines of bodies.
...moreIt’s a little extraordinary when you realize that you’re the one getting in your own way.
...moreLion could be a simple homecoming story, the prodigal son returning to the place he was born. Except, the son in question was six when he left. Now, he’s twenty-six and his story is far from simple. Garth Davis’s film, like his TV offering Top of the Lake, is a beautiful, emotional rollercoaster. Lion takes us […]
...moreI met Deborah Kampmeier at a workshop in November. We were two weeks post-election; the room was raw with emotion, and electric with conversations about resistance. This tall, badass woman dressed in all black sauntered into the room, and chose a seat at the table. When she read, my solar plexus exploded, and I couldn’t stop […]
...moreOn the Hollywood stage—amidst gasps, jaw drops, and pearl clutches—we witnessed one final, beautifully coded failure and an over-the-top dethroning of the serious.
...moreThere’s no blueprint for any of this. If there were, I would have read it by now.
...moreLove. Because our collective survival depends on it.
...moreFirst, we must recognize our removal from the machinations of the shadows. The screen stands between us and the internal world depicted on it. There is no communion.
...moreThe tale of the self-made man is as much a myth as that of a cat having nine lives.
...moreThe individuality of body horror is its signature attribute. Nothing is more intimate than one’s own body, and by extension, one’s own physical suffering.
...moreSo, what would populist ideology even look like in Star Wars?
...moreFantasy needs reality “because it’s only with the real backdrop that it works at all,” and reality needs fantasy to challenge its façade
...moreWe are disconnected. Connection fails when we fail to take the time to literally, and therefore metaphorically, see each other.
...moreThe film only grazes the issue, but homophobia is the fuel of the harassment that the targets face.
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