Film
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The Elusive Shining
The first time The Shining was screened on national television, viewers were informed that the “film deals with the supernatural, as a possessed man attempts to destroy his family.” Is that a presumptuous interpretation of what happened in The Shining?…
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The Eyeball #41: Talking with Aimee Bender About The 400 Blows
I’ve been writing this column off and on for a few years now and I thought I’d shake it up a bit by turning it into a dialogue.
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Patti Smith’s Movie Deal
After winning the National Book Award for her memoir, Just Kids, Patti Smith is venturing into new artistic territory. She is set to work with Tony award-winning playwright, John Logan, to adapt her memoir into a film. As per her…
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Everybody Dies But Me
Everybody Dies But Me is a Russian film documenting the harsh realities of adolescent life in a suburb of Moscow. The film is fortunately available in its entirety right here on Youtube. This is the perfect opportunity to dabble in…
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The Rumpus Interview with Robert Ingersoll, the Hero of PROJECT NIM
In 1973, a psychology professor at Columbia University named Herb Terrace launched a study to see if a chimpanzee raised as a human could learn sign language.
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3-D Movies Here Forever?
Veteran directors Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg are jumping on the 3-D movie bandwagon, though this cinematic trend’s sustainability is currently being questioned. With movie studios and DVD sales in financially tenuous situations, 3-D movies could be…
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Gatsby Forever American
There another Gatsby adaptation in the works. F Scott Fitzgerald’s American masterpiece has resurfaced over and over again—as a couple films, as an orchestral production by the Madison Symphony, a theater piece, a spin-off novel and an opera. The desire…
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Lucy’s Profound Restoration: The Trailer for Sleeping Beauty
The trailer for Sleeping Beauty (directed by Julia Leigh, 2011) clocking in at just over one minute and 30 seconds,
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/8-8/14
This week in San Francisco… Monday, August 8: Wake up! Resist the urge to go home and sleep off the day by starting the week off strong, preferably by cracking up, headbanging, or baskin’ in lit’rary brilliance. Don’t miss “We…
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Rombes’ Blogs for Filmmaker Magazine
Rumpus columnist Nick Rombes’ shot-by-shot breakdown of Blue Velvet has officially begun. The breakdown is happening in a trifecta of weekly blog posts for Filmmaker Magazine, 47-second increments of the film detailed in cinematic analysis. Scott Macaulay introduces the project,…
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Plotlines in the Digital Age
Nowadays technology is not just changing how we interact with books and movies, but it has changed the plotlines themselves. It has changed the way fictional characters interact with each other, the believability of the plot—it’s destabilizing the fictional landscape.…
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Hitchcock Film Discovered
The White Shadow, Alfred Hitchcock’s long lost film from the 1920’s, has been found (in part), buried in the New Zealand Film Archive. One of four reels of nitrate film prints were uncovered—the “missing link” in studying the cinematic trajectory…