Film
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SFIFF53: Dispatch #4, Opening Night, Micmacs
Coverage of the San Francisco International Film Festival by Rumpus Film editor Jeremy Hatch. This is my third year covering film in San Francisco, but this opening night, which took place last Thursday, was the first I’ve ever attended, for…
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SFIFF53: Dispatch #3, Picks Through Wednesday
Coverage of the San Francisco International Film Festival by Rumpus Film editor Jeremy Hatch. Today and over the next few days, I’ll be filing reports on the festival events and one-time screenings I attended over the weekend — opening night,…
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Tribeca Film Festival Questionnaire: We Ask, They Answer. #2: Beware the Gonzo
WE ASK THE ACTORS TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS…AND DRAW Zoe Kravitz, it seems, has it easy. With musician Lenny Kravitz (Remember his “Flowers for Zoe”?) and actress Lisa Bonet for parents audiences may assume that the actress hasn’t had to…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/26 – 5/2:
This week, show some skin for Boobquake!, shake your booty at ODC’s free dance classes, and get hotter than Georgia asphalt at the x-rated 20 year anniversary showing of Wild at Heart. Monday 4/26: Ladies, participate in a global experiment…
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Notable New York, This Week 4/26 – 5/2
This week in New York the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival (PWVF) opens its week-long celebration of international writing with such notable literary figures as Sherman Alexie, Claire Messud, Yiyun Li, Salman Rushdie and Lewis Lapham among others (Full…
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The Rumpus Review of Exit Through the Gift Shop
According to Banksy, his first film, made with footage shot by its subject, Thierry Guetta, is about “how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed.”
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Tribeca Film Festival Questionnaire: We Ask, They Answer. #1: Meskada
WE ASK THE ACTORS TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS… AND DRAW Meskada, a murder mystery set in a rural town reeling from depression, premiered Thursday night on day two of the Tribeca Film Festival. The film follows a detective who returns…
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Trust Fund Hotties Fall Short
If you enjoy flipping through the first eighty pages of Vogue, Tanner Hall is the film for you. Evident throughout were the beautiful people, the beautiful clothes, the beautiful places. Less evident was the story. While it bore the trappings…
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Paradox and Self-Annihilation in Hot Tub Time Machine
After watching Hot Tub Time Machine, a raunchy, slightly funnier-than-average buddy comedy set against the backdrop of 80’s nostalgia, I left the theater with the peculiar feeling I always get after watching movies that involve time-travel. It’s the peculiar feeling…
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SFIFF53: Dispatch #2, Top Films to See
Coverage of the San Francisco International Film Festival by Rumpus Film editor Jeremy Hatch. At the press conference for the festival given a few weeks ago, programming director Rachel Rosen characterized the selections as, overall, showing a return to basics…
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10/40/70 #4: Cleo from 5 to 7
This column is an experiment in writing about film: what if, instead of freely choosing which parts of the film to address, I select three different, arbitrary time codes (in this case and for future columns, the 10-minute, 40-minute, and 70-minute…
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SFIFF53: Dispatch #1, Events Preview
The largest and, arguably, the most glamorous film festival in San Francisco is about to get underway for the 53rd year in a row, and the Rumpus has been watching selected films and listening to buzz for the past two…