The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Lyon Bell
Jennifer Lyon Bell makes porn with a humanistic approach, designed to get viewers to identify with the characters, not just watch them. She combines the visual quality of art films…
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The Rumpus Review of Pina
When I saw Wim Wenders introduce his latest film, Pina – a majestic remembrance and celebration of the late German choreographer, Pina Bausch – he remarked that he was the…
The Rumpus Review of Sleeping Beauty
The opening image is of a young girl, twenty going on twelve, pale enough to make you worry if she’s ever seen the sun. She’s sitting in an antiseptic lab…
TOWN BLOODY HALL: Mailer & Greer Forty Years Later
Two decades have elapsed since I first experienced D.A. Pennebaker’s vérité film Town Bloody Hall, and it’s a little over forty years since the spectacular 1971 ‘dialogue on women’s liberation’…
Best Director Boys Club
We don’t usually do lists, but when the Academy’s list of Best Director nominees is 100% dudes, an exception seems necessary. Canonball chronicles five female directors “whose direction deserved more…
About Cherry
Today we posted stills from Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott’s forthcoming film, Cherry. Are you curious to learn more about the movie? Click here.
The Rumpus Interview with Giuseppe Andrews
Giuseppe Andrews is a filmmaker/musician who makes work like no other. Similar in fashion to John Cassavetes, he acts in films and then uses the money to fund his own movies.
The Rumpus Review of Shame
Beneath Shame’s veneer of soulless chic and artful grit, there’s an urgency that’s like an infant’s cry: blunt yet piercing, aware only of its own pain.
David Lynch Interview
Salon converses with David Lynch about his new album Crazy Clown Time. The director discusses transcendental meditation, his attraction to sound, and finding humor in the disturbing. “When you get…
The Rumpus Review of We Need To Talk About Kevin
We Need To Talk About Kevin is unlike any other horror story played out on the big screen.