Film
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Movies, Briefly: Surrogates (2009)
Surrogates feels like the least interesting film you could possibly make out of some very interesting material. It presents a world, adapted from the graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele, full of bold ideas and rich thematic possibilities,…
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The Rumpus Original Combo: The Red Riding Trilogy
The Rumpus Review of the Red Riding Trilogy and a Conversation with Directors Julian Jarrold and James Marsh The Red Riding Trilogy, which recently opened in U.S. theatres, is both mesmerizing to watch and haunting to remember.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/22-3/28
This Week, tweet for a good cause at TwestivalSF 2010, stop by for just an hour or the entire day to hear sounds of all sorts at the Switchboard Music Festival, get your McSweeney’s fix with readings from Jessica Anthony…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/22 – 3/28
This week in New York a tribute to George Carlin, James Wood reads a book he’s never read before, Shya Scanlon gets other people to read his poems, NYC Twestival 2010, Huggabroomstik, Jeff Lewis and others cover songs by Major…
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Movies, Briefly: An Affair to Remember (1957)
Though its final act revolves around a thoroughly aggravating plot contrivance (“Just tell him Deborah Kerr! TELL HIM!”) and there’s two dopey musical numbers by children’s choirs for no reasons whatsoever, An Affair to Remember is, without question, one of…
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GENERATION GAP #2: Artistic Research in Contemporary Beirut
Marwa Arsanios and Vartan Avakian are still young. They belong to a generation of artists who grew up during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), and their unique experience with artistic research in Lebanon is revealing new narratives for a catastrophic…
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Movies, Briefly: Octopussy (1983)
When people claim Casino Royale is a “realistic” Bond movie, they don’t mean it’s realistic in any sense that relates to the real world, because it’s not and it doesn’t. They mean it’s more realistic than 1983’s Octopussy, which makes…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/15-3/21
This week, the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival is in full swing, catch Paul Madonna at Sketch Tuesday, assuage the pain of your own coyote-ugly experiences at Bawdy Storytelling’s Too Close For Comfort reading, and celebrate your favorite ephemera…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/15 – 3/21
This week in New York Keith Gessen and Elif Batuman talk, Guernica has a reading, Joanna Newsom sings and plays harp, Marcel Dzama appears, talks and signs books, The Moth has a Story Slam, Christopher Walken loses a hand and…
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The Rumpus Review of Wonderful World
Wonderful World taps the fretful zeitgeist, but trips along with freshness and humor and pleasant darkness, like Broken Flowers or Happy-Go-Lucky.
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The Rumpus Review of Shutter Island
When Scorsese makes a new film, the question is less whether it’s good than whether the decision to make it in the first place was good.
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Movies, Briefly: I Was A Male War Bride (1949)
What a pleasure to find an old Hollywood movie whose primary conflict is the battle of its two leads to get laid. I don’t mean it in the lovey-dovey romantic ideal sort of way, I mean I Was A War…