Film
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Calling All Steinbecks
“Three years into the Great Depression Steinbeck had already written Of Mice and Men, a tale of migrant farm workers, and had started on The Grapes of Wrath.” In these harsh economic times Michael Goldfarb asks, “Where are today’s Steinbecks?”…
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Nicholas Rombes’s Art Film Roundup #6
Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2011) has the feel of a slow march through a black swamp. There is a majesty and a tar-pit trap power in the wordless matching of moving images and music. I am obliged to…
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An Interview with Jon Raymond
Oregonian Jon Raymond stays true to his roots. He has written three films to date (Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, and his latest, Meek’s Cutoff) all of which are set and filmed in his home state of Oregon. In addition,…
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To Absorb the Appendages of Time
Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams opens in theaters today. You walk out of Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams overcome by the power of time. Personally, I find it almost impossible to conceptualize life in terms of time…
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“Tim, Man, What Can I Say?”
Restrepo co-director Sebastian Junger remembers Restrepo co-director Tim Hetherington, “an incomparable photojournalist” who was killed in Libya on April 20th.
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Bill Cunningham
Bill Cunningham, longtime fashion photographer at The New York Times, is the subject of a new documentary, Bill Cunningham New York, and what an enchanting film it is.
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‘Nuff Said
“Werner Herzog and Cormac McCarthy talk science and culture.” There’s really nothing else to say. Go here to listen. (via @jamesyeh)
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You’re Missing Out
“The vast majority of the world’s books, music, films, television and art, you will never see. It’s just numbers.” Linda Holmes muses on “the sad, beautiful fact that we’re all going to miss almost everything.”
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Do you Treme?
We do our best to stay away from pop-culture here at The Rumpus, but book club member and contributor Ray Shea writes for a pretty rad Treme-focused blog, Back of Town. Season two starts this Sunday, better start gearing up.…
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SFIF Questionnaire for the Bay Area
If you are overwhelmed with the myriad film and party options available at this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival, worry no more, you’re just five questions away from narrowing down the endless celluloid festivities and overcoming your indecision. (These…