Film
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Reelings #7: Blue Jasmine
Why is Woody Allen choosing to make a movie about this particular character? Is it to support a modern fable of our economic fall from grace? Or is there something more insidious at play?
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The Rumpus Interview with Brian Lindstrom
We talk to filmmaker Brian Lindstrom about his latest project, Alien Boy, the creative process behind documentary filmmaking, and his personal and artistic relationship with his wife, Cheryl Strayed.
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Reelings #6: Interior. Leather Bar.
Interior. Leather Bar. is actually less a tribute to the lost footage from Cruising, and more of a docufiction about the nature of sexuality, heteronormativity, and the representation of both in mainstream films.
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R.I.P. Richard Matheson: Why Film Adaptations of His Work Have Been So Terrible
Legendary science fiction author and screenwriter Richard Matheson, who unfortunately passed away a little over a month ago, has had his work adapted into a plethora of movies—I Am Legend, The Box, The Shrinking Man, What Dreams Will Come, etc.—which, unfortunately, haven’t all fared…
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Charlie Kaufman to Write Film Adaptation of Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
Guillermo del Toro (director of Pan’s Labyrinth and the upcoming movie Pacific Rim) has recently announced that he has selected Charlie Kaufman as the writer of the screenplay for del Toro’s film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Kaufman, famous for writing the screenplays…
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You Might Never Find Your Way Back: Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman
There are other odd, improbable, tenuous connections, as if Hangsaman had a secret way of speaking to (or through) other artifacts beyond its time.
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The Rumpus Picks for 2013 Frameline Film Festival
It’s that time of year again—SF gets all abuzz as Frameline Film Festival, the oldest film festival dedicated to LGBT programming, crushes it with an amazing roster of films. My picks as a cineaste and devoted SF-resident are below, but again they…
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Public Sex, Private Lives: The Rumpus Interview with Simone Jude
I wanted to present three complicated portraits that raise important questions, not just about what it means to be a porn performer, but what it means to be a sexually open woman
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The Rumpus Review of The Great Gatsby
There has never been a great movie adaptation of a novel. This isn’t to say that there’s never been a good movie that was first a book.
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Talk About “By the Numbers”
Bowling scenes tend to pop up in films that fizzle, Mr. Bruzzese, 39, continued. Therefore it is statistically unwise to include one in your script. “A cursed superhero never sells as well as a guardian superhero,” one like Superman who…
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Let’s Make A Movie
The Rumpus is producing our first movie, Happy Baby. We start shooting May 14, in New York. We need lots of extras. If you’d like to be an extra send an email to april.xiong AT gmail.com.
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Reelings #5: TO THE WONDER
Malick seems to be interested in what is outside and underneath and around the framework of our lives. He’s not interested in the stories we tell as much as the moments that cause us to throw our hands up into…