Film
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 7/12-7/18
This (sexy) week: Get your Rumpus on at the Makeout Room, makeout with someone in honor of Bastille Day, and help Carol Queen celebrate her birthday in true Exhibitionist stylewith lap dances and a book release at Good Vibrations! Monday…
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Notable New York, This Week 7/12 – 7/18
This week in New York Diane Williams, Rebecca Curtis and Joshua Cohen read at The Bastille Day Soirée, Chuck Klosterman is back Eating Dinosaurs, Candance Bushnell embodies Carrie and takes us back to college, Christopher Finch tells us about Chuck…
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The Rumpus Review of The Kids Are All Right
When you don’t believe that a truth is self-evident, you justify it to others. You try to explain.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #22: Nicholas Rombes in Conversation with Alex Smith
Alex Smith lives in New York City, where he works as a homepage editor at MSN and as a freelance contributor for the New Yorker. During the interview, Alex drank a Kingfisher, and Rombes an Oberon. Some of Alex’s writing…
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The Filming of Bunny Munro?
Looks like Nick Cave is trying to make The Death of Bunny Munro (one of Zak Smith’s favorite books of 2009), which actually started out as a screenplay, into a TV mini-series. (via LargeHearted Boy)
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Notable New York, This Week 7/6 – 7/11
This week in New York Jennifer Egan and Jane Mendelsohn talk about rocking out, Happy Ending provides us with another happy ending, Jakub Ziolkowski exhibits at Hauser & Wirth, David Farley asks who stole Jesus’s foreskin, She & Him sing,…
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The Eyeball #33: Why It’s Complicated Actually Is Complicated
You want to watch an on-demand movie with your wife, something funny, something in which you can become invested in the characters’ problems, something from the “New Arrivals” section, and you keep scrolling back to It’s Complicated, a film starring…
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“I was laughing almost uncontrollably.”
Three movies (ok, let’s be honest, two movies and one movie trailer) that Tao Lin liked.
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TV, Briefly: Peep Show
Rarely do I laugh at people peeing themselves, which is why I’m confident that Peep Show is one of the best TV programs currently on the air. (Should I be laughing more frequently at people pissing themselves? Dear Christopher Hitchens:…
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The Rumpus Review of Make Way for Tomorrow
A Depression-era drama about bankruptcy and aging and the quiet moral failures of the petit bourgeois, Make Way for Tomorrow is the anti-Avatar.
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10/40/70 #14: Blair Witch and House of Leaves
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 the Blair Witch Project and compare it with the novel…
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Movies, Briefly: Le Morte de Loxley
The film Robin Hood appears to be, but is not, about many things: it is not about tensions between the North and South of England, it is not about the financial stresses of a foreign war coming to bear on…