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Notable New York, This Week 4/19 – 4/25
This week in New York NOON launches Issue 9 with a reading and party, a reading by notable New Yorkers of stories on their first time in New York, Maile…
Documenting Burroughs
“Each person can draw something completely different from him because he’s so multifaceted. I think it depends on the reader, but for me, I was first drawn to his awareness…
10/40/70 #3: Raising Cain
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…
Movies, Briefly: Night and the City (1950)
We meet Night and the City‘s protagonist Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) in his natural state: on the run from his creditors. Things are bad for Harry before the movie begins…
The Rumpus Review of The Secret in Their Eyes
The richest articulation yet of Campanella’s restrained visual wit and uniquely humanist aesthetic, and one of the few genuinely sensitive thrillers ever made.
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/12-4/18
This week: The Monthly Rumpus rocks the Makeout Room yet again, The Believer presents You’re a Horrible Person, but I Like You, San Francisco’s Cinematheque society has a neat film…
Notable New York, This Week 4/12 – 4/18
This week in New York The Future of Criticism with Lorin Stein and Maud Newton, John D’Agata and Thalia Field discuss the lyric essay, Alice Walker on activism, Salman Rushdie…
Movies, Briefly: Brute Force (1947)
Brute Force is a robust, testosterone-soaked action picture. It’s about as manly as movies get, and yet it paints such a different picture of masculinity than the one seen in…
The Rumpus Original Combo: Chloe
The recent film Chloe gets the Rumpus Original Combo treatment today, with a review and an interview from two different contributors. Details after the jump.
The Rumpus Review of Chloe
Egoyan skillfully balances a rote exercise in marital discord with a less-rote exercise in narrative suspense; but it’s hard to shake the feeling that the former exists only to distract…
The Rumpus Interview with Atom Egoyan: Chloe
Hiring a prostitute to relate to you the nature of how your husband behaves is asking for, not proof of an affair, but an erotic retelling of a person you…