The Rumpus Review of Haywire
The finest moment in Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire isn’t one of its pyrotechnic fight scenes; it’s a facial expression. Shock hopscotches into fear before easing into awe as John Kane (Bill…
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The Rumpus Review of Being Flynn
Nick Flynn’s words sucker-punch me and drag me through Boston’s back-alley construction zones, skimming eruptions of broken glass. Across crumbling and unforgiving asphalt I arrive battered, gutted, laughing, astonished. What…
A Wild Adaptation
Have you heard? A film adaptation of Sugar/Cheryl Strayed’s Wild is in the works! Pacific Standard, a new production banner from actress Reese Witherspoon and producer Bruna Papandrea has bought…
Being Flynn Screening
Our AWP screening of Being Flynn was documented by Ed Negron, a photographer for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. Click here to peruse his photos. The film is based on…
In Defense of the Cheap Seats
It works like this. You tell the kid at the ticket counter you want to see J. Edgar at 7:30. He asks if you’d like regular or VIP seating.
The Rumpus Interview with Cassie Jaye
Documentary filmmaker Cassie Jaye landed the Best Documentary Award at Cannes Film Festival for her film, Daddy I Do in 2010 — about the controversial religious ceremony Purity Balls, where…
The Rumpus Review of Rampart
If we can take away one thing from history it’s that it often repeats itself. The Kent State massacre in 1970 was one of the first instances where the media…
The Rumpus Conversation between Jill Soloway and Elana Mann
I always tell people I met Elana Mann by stalking her. Monkey-swinging from link to link to link one day, I encountered her website and developed a hardcore girlcrush.
Catharsis Through Netflix – Watching Atonement
On the first day of June, I found myself crying over my dinner while watching Atonement. It was thunderstorming outside, and the rain roared as it pounded on the pavement.…
Stephen Elliott in Berlin
Director and Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott has been spotted (proudly sporting his Rumpus tattoo) alongside actress Ashley Hinshaw in Berlin. Elliott and Hinshaw are both in Germany for the international premier…
Total War: A Film Reminiscence
In those days, the only way to see David Lynch’s early, short films was to start or join a film club, pool resources, and rent them from some place like…
The Rumpus Review of The Artist
Silent films, like theater, require their audience members to suspend a sense of reality, investing instead in wonder, imagination, and sensory titillation. The greatest films of the silent era were…