Film
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10/40/70 #2: Out of the Past
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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Movies, Briefly: Play Misty For Me (1971)
When Clint Eastwood made Play Misty for Me he was a cowboy. He got his start on television with Rawhide and of course became an international star in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns. In the six years between the final Leone movie and Misty,…
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The Rumpus Review of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
My name is Jeff and I’m an addict. My drug of choice: Swedish detective fiction.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/5-4/11
This week, get your literature on at Mission-famous events by Quiet Lightning, Sister Spit, and Literary Death Match, celebrate all things female at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, party for civil rights at the 10th annual César Chávez Day…
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Greetings from 1896
There’s no way to embed it here, alas, but the Times of London has video of the newly discovered 1896 film that appears to be Australia’s first movie: “Patineur Grotesque shows a bearded man, dressed in a top hat and smoking a…
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Notable New York, This Week 4/5 – 4/11
This week in New York The Rumpus throws an A Night Together with Sam Lipsyte, Michael Showalter, Lorelei Lee, Jeff Lewis, Jump-Off winners and more, Jamaica Kincaid and Rick Moody help collect Books for NY Schools, Richard Nash and Jim…
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Zoe Kazan: Girl Exploding
After The Exploding Girl’s premiere at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Zoe Kazan’s career has skyrocketed. The public unveiling of The Exploding Girl is well underway, perhaps to coincide with Kazan’s latest Broadway venture, A Behanding in Spokane, a Martin…
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10/40/70 #1: Starship Troopers
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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Movies, Briefly: The Kids Are Alright (1979)
“Rock and roll’s never ever stood dissecting and inspecting it at close range. It doesn’t stand up. So shut up.” Jeff Stein’s documentary, The Kids are Alright, lives up to that statement from The Who frontman Roger Daltrey, who shares it…
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Coming Soon: The Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is one of the most glamorous film events to happen this side of Park City. From April 22 – May 2, the festival will pitch its tents downtown and offer a wide array of independent films…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/29 – 4/4
This week in New York Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood holds a reading series, Threepenny Review celebrates its thirtieth birthday, A Public Space throws a launch party for Issue 10, Paris Review holds a Fiction Salon, Meghan O’Rourke reads, Ryan McGinley shows…
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Movies, Briefly: Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
Footsteps in the Dark is just so wonderfully absurd; there’s maybe eight minutes in this movie that could exist in the real world: they rest is pure poppycock. It concerns a wealthy married banker (played by Errol Flynn) who moonlights…