Film
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My Bad Memory: New York Movies Edition
From Raging Bull to Newsies, Adam Wilson (mis)remembers the NY movies he’s seen.
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An Evening with Richard Linklater
Boyhood (2014), which was filmed over a 12-year period, may be the film that completes [Linklater’s] vision. It is without action, a plot, or any of the elements you’ve come to expect from a movie.
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Women Who Prey
Sex in both endeavors [Nymphomanic and Under the Skin] is a must; an addiction in the former and a tool for sustenance in the latter. But in both cases the women are driven by something beyond their control and as…
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Elliott on Algren
Rumpus founding editor Stephen Elliott on the influence of Nelson Algren. A scene from a new documentary on the great Chicago writer:
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The Rumpus Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel
This may be as close as Wes Anderson gets to making a political film. And he has found a way to make a political statement in his signature style, a style which for years has appeared immune to political statements…
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“Great and shadowy and strange was the world”
Take an awe-inspiring five minute journey through your computer screen into H.G. Wells’s imagination. From filmmaker James W. Griffiths and PBS Digital Studios, A Solitary World pits text adapted from five of the legendary writer’s most celebrated works against stunning landscapes.…
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The Rumpus Interview with Kathleen Hanna
Frontwoman of seminal ’90s punk band Bikini Kill, experimental multimedia group Le Tigre, and now The Julie Ruin, Kathleen Hanna talks about how her music is about herself, now more than ever, and what it’s like to be considered an…
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The Rumpus Review of American Hustle
This is a movie that wants to be about truth and lies, and the nature of both. It wants to be about the ubiquity of the con. And it wants to be about the authenticity that can somehow grow in…
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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Billy Hayes
Billy Hayes, the writer of Midnight Express, candidly discusses his memoir about escaping from a Turkish prison in the 1970s, the pros and cons of having your story adapted by Hollywood, and what the War on Drugs has meant for…
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Homo Homini Lupus Est: The Rumpus Review of The Wolf of Wall Street
This movie is not a critique. It’s an advertisement for capitalism and its salacious, delectable greeds.
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The Rumpus Interview with Ronee Blakley
In 1975, Robert Altman’s Nashville hit the big screen and introduced American audiences to country and folk singer Ronee Blakley. Here, Blakley sits down for a chat about her Academy Award-nominated role, working with Altman, and her current stance as…
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The Rumpus Review of Nebraska
This is a road movie, but it’s about the road Woody’s already traveled more than any destination. It’s about origins.