Film
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SF International Film Festival
Today is the first day of the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival. Some highlights: tUnE-yArDs will compose a live score for four Buster Keaton short films, and Yo La Tengo will perform their score for Sam Green’s “live documentary” The…
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The Rumpus Interview with Mehreen Jabbar
Mehreen Jabbar is a young South Asian filmmaker, whose debut feature film Ramchand Pakistani has impressed audiences and juries around the world, receiving the FIPRESCI prize among others. Understated yet emotionally powerful, it’s an essential film about the region,
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What We Hunger For
I am always interested in the representations of strength in women, where that strength comes from, how it is called upon when it is needed most, and what it costs for a woman to be strong.
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The Rumpus Interview with Travis Mathews
Travis Mathews is a San Francisco based filmmaker whose movies focus on the emotional and intimate lives of gay men. With both a masters in Counseling Psychology and a background in documentary film work, his films take a humanistic and…
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Public Sex, Private Lives Kickstarter
The upcoming documentary Public Sex, Private Lives has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for post-production costs. To learn more about the film, and contribute to its completion, click here. Focusing on the lives of porn performers Lorelei Lee, Princess…
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The Rumpus Review of Jiro Dreams of Sushi
>Husband-wife team, Tim and Erin Archuleta of ICHI Sushi, a tiny sushi bar in San Francisco, review a film about sushi legend Jiro Ono.
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The Wolf Knife
The Believer will present Laurel Nakadate’s The Wolf Knife at the IFC Center on Monday, April 9th at 8pm. The screening, which celebrates the release of The Believer’s new film issue, will be followed by a conversation between Nakadate and…
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Hollywood, Writer: The Rumpus Interview with Brian McGreevy
Brian McGreevy has had the kind of dizzying career assent you usually only see, well, in the movies. At 28, he’s already been a working screenwriter for years and had two scripts* on Hollywood’s coveted Black List. This month his…
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You’re Looking At Me Like I Live Here And I Don’t: Making a Film in an Alzheimer’s Unit
In the fall of 2008, I wrote a screenplay I intended to film entirely in an Alzheimer’s Unit. After many weeks of rehearsals, I arrived at a troubling realization: I was not just making a challenging film—I was making the…
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Tonino Guerra
“My poems were an essence of images. They had the cinema inside them before I started working for it.” A quote from Tonino Guerra, in a New York Times obituary about an extraordinary life. Guerra, the prolific screenwriter, poet, novelist…
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Hong Sang-soo Interview
The Museum of the Moving Image will be opening a “mini-retrospective” of Hong Sang-soo’s films on March 17th. BOMBlog interviews the director about “process, collaboration, and drinking.” His answers also provide a lesson in brevity. Sang-soo on why he often…
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The Rumpus Interview with Philipp Wolter and Michelle Glick
Meet Philipp Wolter and Michelle Glick, the husband and wife team behind the Brooklyn-born FilmGym Productions. Wanting to merge their love of acting with their dreams of creating introspective films for the masses, the pair decided to create independent production…