The Rumpus Review of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
My boyfriend insisted I read Brief Interviews with Hideous Men when we started dating. “It will help you understand the way men think!” he exclaimed. Secrets of those bearing a…
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The Eyeball #29: Oscilloscope Laboratories, Dear Zachary
Oscilloscope Laboratories is the movie studio helmed by Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys. MCA isn't just fucking around, he's serious about quality films. For proof, look no further than the devastating documentary by Kurt Kuenne, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.
Craig Schwartz Memories
On Friday night, and in preparation for Where the Wild Things Are, I rewatched Spike Jonze’s first feature, Being John Malkovitch. What struck me was not the film’s final childlike shots or…
Movies for the Left
Over at Riku Writes, Richard Hourula has posted “Movies For Your Inner Leftist, That Are Suitable For All Political Persuasions.” In the piece Hourula offers little write ups on left…
Notable San Francisco, This Week 10/12-10/18
This week in San Francisco home-ec gets a rock’n’roll makeover, Doug Dorst does multiple events, LitQuake kicks into full swing, and The Rumpus gets its groove on at The Rickshaw…
Notable New York, This Week 10/12-10/18
MONDAY, October 12, 2009 – SUNDAY, October 18, 2009 This week in New York, The New Yorker Festival hits town. And yes, while the “Humor Revue,” “About Towns,” and “Kaffeeklatches”…
Interview With Michael Stuhlbarg, Movie Star
The folks at Greencine posted an interview with Michael Stulhbarg, the star of the new Coen Brothers movie A Serious Man. In the interview, Greencine and Stulbarg gab about how…
California Dreaming
If you haven’t yet watched Showtime’s hit series Californication, here’s a quick tagline: Down-and-out novelist Hank Moody – played by David Duchovny – tries to get his life back on…
Before You See “Antichrist,” A Few Other Romantic Films
It doesn’t take a Harvard-trained therapist to know that with love comes madness, obsession, jealousy, mind-fuckery, fear, panic and a healthy dose of psychosexual terrorism. Maybe these symptoms aren’t manifested…
Wild Things Take NY, The Spike Jonze Special
In conjunction with the national release of Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, 10/16/09, the first feature film Jonze has directed since Adaptation (2002!), there are a lot of…
Invstigations into Voice: Robert Lepage’s Lipsynch
A woman who can’t speak leans her bandaged head towards a microphone and hums. After recording a live loop, she plays it back and hums again–this time a little differently.…
Notable New York, This Week 10/5-10/11
MONDAY, October 5, 2009 – SUNDAY October 11, 2009 This week in New York, Stephen Elliott reads from his memoir The Adderall Diaries, which has its East Coast Launch with…