Film
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 6/7-6/13
This Week: check out an “occurrence” in a motel at Mugwumpin’s Get This Go, The Rumpus hosts an evening of music and film with The Yellow Dress at The Rickshaw Stop, Paul Madonna’s All Over Coffee is all over SFMoMA’s…
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The Paris Review Goes Southern
It’s “Terry Southern Month” at The Paris Review Daily—the quarterly’s online “culture gazette,” the goal of which is to stay in touch with The Paris Review’s audience between print issues. Today, read an interview with Terry Southern from Issue 138.…
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The Rumpus Review of Littlerock
If films were fighters, Mike Ott’s second offering, Littlerock, would weigh in at 123 minutes, placing it in the featherweight division, a deft, gentle movie, lithe and light during its two hours in the ring. Not to suggest that it’s diminutive —…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/31-6/6
This week, get your food on at the Old Mint Building, learn how to write the perfect press release, get crafty at Workshop SF for the Divisadero Art Walk and Indie Mart at Thee Parkside, and celebrate all things queer…
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Emotional Creatures: Excess, Restraint and Deliverance in Antichrist
Lars von Trier’s films are effective primarily because he is not afraid of creating complex female characters.
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10/40/70 #9: The Descent
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 Descent, by Neil Marshall.
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Scoring Chaplin
“Film scoring is an essential part of cinema, and it’s a part of cinema that works — when it works — completely unconsciously. When you hear a great score after the movie, you’re unaware you heard anything.” Our own New…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/24-5/30
This week, Monday gets more tolerable with cocktails and local art at Make My Monday, Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher takes over El Rio, demystify the history of the Wiggle with ThinkWalk, and celebrate National Masturbation Month at the San…
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Notable New York, This Week 5/24 – 5/30
This week in New York, BookExpo America (BEA) kicks off, and this year with a new feature: New York Book Week–events that are open to the public. Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) discusses and serves up cocktails, Timothy Donnelly and…
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The Rumpus Review of Bluebeard
Anyone familiar with Catherine Breillat’s career to this point might have been momentarily confused upon hearing or reading about her latest film, a retelling of the classic gothic fairy tale “Bluebeard.”
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Why Roger Ebert Thinks 3D Sucks
A little while back, Roger Ebert wrote a great article on Newsweek entitled “Why I Hate 3D.” It’s a fun read, an entertaining rundown of all the ways in which 3D is a pointless novelty that mostly exists to help…
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Matthew Barney’s Manhattan Proposition
Murderer Gary Gilmore does the Texas two-step, Master Masons experience spiritual transcendence in the Chrysler building and satyrs compete in motorcycle side-car teams. These are just a few bits of the sprawling terrain that comprises Matthew Barney’s epic film cycle…