Film
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10/40/70 #36: I Shot Andy Warhol
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine I Shot Andy Warhol, directed by Mary Harron (1996):
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What Film Haunts You? #1: Gilda
What Film Haunts You? is a series of essays curated by Nicholas Rombes featuring writers, musicians, scientists, revolutionaries, and others. The debut installment is by Grace Krilanovich:
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The Rumpus Interview with BEBE ZEVA’s Megan Boyle
17-year-old Bebe Zeva is the subject of the second documentary from MDMAfilms. You can see clips here. MDMAfilms is the project of newly-married writers Tao Lin and Megan Boyle. They film their movies on a laptop.
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“‘When It’s Not Your Turn’: The Quintessentially Victorian Vision of Ogden’s The Wire”
We do our best to stay away from pop culture here at The Rumpus, but this gets a pass. The reason? Well it’s not about the HBO hit series The Wire, but the Victorian masterpiece by “Horatio Bucklesby Ogden” also…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/28-4/03
This week in New York Jennifer Egan at Book Court; Pitchapalooza; The Inspired Word featuring poets Samantha Thornhill and Veronica Golos, along with guitarist Valerie June; The New School Arts Festival on Noir; The Poetry Society of America brings poetry…
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10/40/70 Contest
This coming Wednesday, March 30, a new 10/40/70 experimental film column will be published here at The Rumpus. In the spirit of the absurd beauty of spring, if you can identify the film I’ll be writing about from this single…
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Spalding Gray Review in Cineaste
Cineaste Magazine has published a long, considered review of the new documentary by Stephen Soderbergh about Spalding Gray, And Everything Is Going Fine. The film consists entirely of footage of Gray himself, either performing his monologues or being interviewed. The…
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Nicholas Rombes’s Art Film Roundup #5
Not usually a fan of these mash-ups, but this one—the great museum sequence from Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill (1980) set to Brian Eno’s song “Third Uncle”—works just fine. Oh Angie! (The music kicks in at around 40 seconds.):
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WUSA Reconsidered: Newman’s Epic Flop Forty Years Later
I’ve always had a soft spot for literary and cinematic evocations of New Orleans.
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New Julian Schnabel Film Under Fire
Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) has a new film, Miral, about a young girl in Jerusalem. That’s exciting, right? When the United Nations decided to screen the film, the American Jewish Committee…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/14-3/20
This week in San Francisco, The Monthly Rumpus puts on its best pasties, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival is on, and food culture rocks SFMoMA with Sidebar: Wine! at How Wine Became Modern. Monday 3/14: Catch some…