Film
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10/40/70 #8: The Foreigner
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 Foreigner, by Amos Poe.
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Notable New York, This Week 5/18 – 5/23
This week in New York Ben Marcus and Deb Olin Unferth read, John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) performs with PiL, MobyLives presents book trailer awards, One Story holds a Debutante Ball, Jewcy presents readings by Rachel…
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Notable San Francisco, this Week: 5/17-5/23
This week, wood block prints, films about farms, have a nerd-gasm at Cory Doctorow’s EFF reading at 111 Minna, see suspense-master Palahniuk at the Swedish American Music Hall, and get queer at RADAR’s fundraiser with Michelle Tea and Heklina. Monday…
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SFIFF53: Dispatch #7, Closing Night Party
Friend of the Rumpus Tony DuShane sent us this dispatch from the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Closing Night Party. I’ve been covering the SFIFF since 2000, except when it coincided with rewrites of my novel the last two years.…
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The Rumpus Review of Kick-Ass
If the sight of a 10-year-old girl acrobatically and graphically hacking up a roomful of muscle-bound drug dealers makes you squirm, then Kick-Ass is not your kind of film. Also, we probably can’t be friends.
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10/40/70 #7: New Moon, Twin Peaks
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 New Moon, with notes on Twin Peaks and surrealism.
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YouTube Art: The Magic of Running Scared
Quick, name the first two actors that come to mind when I say the phrase “badass buddy cops.” Who’d you think of? Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal? Hey, me too!
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/10-5/16
This Week: The May Monthly Rumpus! Have some Lit&Lunch at 111 Minna, Bawdy Storytelling, an extra Rumpus-y Literary Death Match, and crazy drunken San Franciscans in varying degrees of nudity: it’s Bay to Breakers! Monday 5/10: It’s time for the…
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Buggin Out in the Bunker
Specimens from the ‘illustration bunker‘ of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive:
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Lena Horne
“Horne was an important trailblazer, the first African American performer signed by a major Hollywood studio.” “Actor, singer and activist” Lena Horne died on Sunday at the age of 92.
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Shit Justin Halpern Says
“It’s been insane. It’s like hitting the lottery, only less money. But I’m lucky like that, you know? Internet money.” The Book Bench talks with Justin Halpern, whose Twitter feed, @shitmydadsays, has led to the publication of a collection of…