Film
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 6/14-6/20
This week in San Francisco: The June Monthly Rumpus!, short operas, burlesque, underground film, and cardboard tube fighting! Monday 6/14: It’s that time again: get your ass down to the Makeout Room for June’s Rumpus, Beautiful Beginnings! Co-hosted by SMITH…
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Last Minute Notice
Lena Dunham’s excellent new film and SXSW favorite Tiny Furniture is screening this evening in NYC at BAM. We interviewed Lena last year, you should definitely check it out.
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10/40/70 #11: Mildred Pierce
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 Mildred Pierce, directed by Michael Curtiz.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 6/7-6/13
This Week: check out an “occurrence” in a motel at Mugwumpin’s Get This Go, The Rumpus hosts an evening of music and film with The Yellow Dress at The Rickshaw Stop, Paul Madonna’s All Over Coffee is all over SFMoMA’s…
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The Paris Review Goes Southern
It’s “Terry Southern Month” at The Paris Review Daily—the quarterly’s online “culture gazette,” the goal of which is to stay in touch with The Paris Review’s audience between print issues. Today, read an interview with Terry Southern from Issue 138.…
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The Rumpus Review of Littlerock
If films were fighters, Mike Ott’s second offering, Littlerock, would weigh in at 123 minutes, placing it in the featherweight division, a deft, gentle movie, lithe and light during its two hours in the ring. Not to suggest that it’s diminutive —…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/31-6/6
This week, get your food on at the Old Mint Building, learn how to write the perfect press release, get crafty at Workshop SF for the Divisadero Art Walk and Indie Mart at Thee Parkside, and celebrate all things queer…
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Emotional Creatures: Excess, Restraint and Deliverance in Antichrist
Lars von Trier’s films are effective primarily because he is not afraid of creating complex female characters.
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10/40/70 #9: The Descent
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 Descent, by Neil Marshall.
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Scoring Chaplin
“Film scoring is an essential part of cinema, and it’s a part of cinema that works — when it works — completely unconsciously. When you hear a great score after the movie, you’re unaware you heard anything.” Our own New…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/24-5/30
This week, Monday gets more tolerable with cocktails and local art at Make My Monday, Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher takes over El Rio, demystify the history of the Wiggle with ThinkWalk, and celebrate National Masturbation Month at the San…
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Notable New York, This Week 5/24 – 5/30
This week in New York, BookExpo America (BEA) kicks off, and this year with a new feature: New York Book Week–events that are open to the public. Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) discusses and serves up cocktails, Timothy Donnelly and…