Film
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Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup
Before the fiasco of the “rock musical” Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Julie Taymor worked in smaller savageries, especially Titus (1999), her adaptation of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. The movie was a bit of an easy target. It was released after…
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Gabi on the Roof in July (in San Francisco)
Tonight is the final screening of Gabi on the Roof in July at the San Francisco Indiefest. If you’ve seen Tiny Furniture, you’ll appreciate that both movies feature hipster hamster’s that die unexpectedly. But Gabi‘s hamster could beat up Tiny‘s.…
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Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup
Speaking of Egypt. The Yacobean Building (2006), directed by Marwan Hamed. The film shifts stunningly and beautifully between hard-core melodrama, sadness, and comedy. There are, eerily, some scenes that seem to predict the uprising against Mubarek.
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Notable New York, This Week 2/07-2/13
This week in New York actors celebrate Tennessee Williams at the 92nd Street Y, poets celebrate Elizabeth Bishop, pre-Valentine’s Day advice from love gurus at Speed Shrinking, Major Jackson reads his poetry, novelists discuss the future of the novel, and…
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Music Man Murray
Friend of the Rumpus Richard Parks is Kickstarting a documentary short about “Music Man” Murray Gershenz, LA’s premier rare-vinyl dealer. He’s put his entire collection up for sale at $500,000 — much of it is literally priceless, but he originally…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 1/31-2/6
This week in San Francisco, Airplane! takes over the Castro Theater, Feast of Words: Sensory Feast, a free Valentine’s Day Etsy Labs Craft Bar, Mirah & Thao, and The Dude abides at the 8th Annual Lebowski Party. Monday 1/31: As…
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Notable New York, This Week 1/31-2/06
This week in New York lots of literary events to make you forget that you’re not going to be at AWP: authors Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko introduced by Toni Morrison at the 92nd Street Y, Bomb Magazine…
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Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup
Another clip from Polish director Andrzej Zulawski’s masterpiece Possession (1981), starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill. The movie piles on one outrageous, tornado-like scene after another, but it is often the quiet, in-between moments that are more deeply eerie. In…
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“Oscars take a pass on people of color.”
“Setting aside the more obscure, technical categories, when it comes to the best picture award along with the major nominations for acting, writing and directing, there are, ahem, zero people of color in the Oscar race this year.” With everyone…
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July in Utah
“A man in his underwear banged on his hotel window while I was being interviewed outside. When I looked up he pressed his whole body against the glass.” Miranda July shares “Some Things That Happened at Sundance.”
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The Eyeball #40: Unreal Fiction and Film, Part 1
I’m midway through teaching a course at Antioch University Seattle called Unreal Fiction and Film. Every week we pair a film or selection of shorts with a short story. The class is scheduled from 7-10 PM on Mondays, a brutal…
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Lovecraft Documentary
Lately I’ve been wanting to watch more documentaries about writers. Any suggestions? In the meantime, thanks to Galley Cat, I found this documentary about H.P. Lovecraft which is worth ninety minutes of your time.