Film
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Don’t be a stranger, Stranger
A sweet Happy Baby push over at SLOG, the popular blog of the Stranger. Thanks Stranger! We love you back!
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The History of Black Lesbian Cinema
It’s about a year old now, but whatever: this primer on black lesbian cinema is too good not to read. Salamishah Tillet walks us through twenty years of movies by and about queer women of color, from Watermelon Woman, a mockumentary…
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Turning Points #2: Cary Grant in Father Goose
To be accepted, to be relevant, he would need to become someone else. He would spend the next half-century creating that person and then, at age 60, decide that it was time to reveal his true self, in Father Goose.
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The Rumpus Review of El Médico: The Cubatón Story
To be a doctor in Cuba is to live inside the swirl of history and politics that whooshes around the small Communist island at all times.
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Happy Baby, Buy the Book
A new reward has been added for the Happy Baby movie kickstarter. A first edition hardcover personalized and autographed by Dave Eggers and Stephen Elliott.
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Happy Baby Update
From the comfort of his own home, Stephen Elliott gives an update on the newly launched Happy Baby Movie Kickstarter Campaign. “We raised over $8,000 in our first 24 hours. The question we’re facing now is, Where will the next $8,000 come…
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A Meaningful Light: Open Letter to Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times
I’m writing to you, Kenneth, because your review and my behavior at the Rialto Cinema are integral parts of the problem in Israel/Palestine. It’s why we both felt so scared and embarrassed: Tears of Gaza implicates us.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jake Adelstein
Jake Adelstein possesses an obsessive, infectious energy, coupled with an immense generosity and an ability to be, when necessary, stringently ruthless. This combination serves him well in the line of work that he half-chose, half-stumbled into: Adelstein is the guy…
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Funny Women’s Elissa Bassist at The Paris Review Daily
At The Paris Review, Rumpus Funny Women editor, Elissa Bassist recounts how watching every horror movie on Netflix and Dear Sugar saved her from Brooklyn-induced depression. “‘How do I reach the page when I can’t lift my face off the…
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Short and Sound
Short film has traditionally never had the gift of longevity. Cinema gave short film a mosquito-span life and while DVD gave them an extension, they were ultimately relegated to wallow alongside commentary, storyboards and outtakes.
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Secret Cinema in Saudi Arabia
Though cinemas and movie-making were made illegal in the 1970s after religious conservatives declared many cultural activities sinful, it has not stopped Saudi Arabians from making and showing films that undermine SA’s puritanism today. A few renegade film makers in…
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Fundraising Campaign Internship
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott is raising funds for his next feature film, based on his acclaimed novel Happy Baby, and he needs your help! The Rumpus is seeking applications for a dedicated internship position to assist Stephen and the movie’s producers…