Film
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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 Y chromosome would be revealed, he promised; David Foster Wallace…
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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…
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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 how Christopher Walken and those expensive, “absurdly heavy” monster suits…
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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 leaning movies, some historically, some not. I mean, did you…
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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 Stop.
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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” seem to have been sold out before they were on…
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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 the movie is being labeled as a ‘starless’ film, Stulbarg’s…
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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 track after his partner/muse leaves him and he succumbs to…
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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 in such harsh terms for everyone, but there’ s no…
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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 Wild Things happenings around New York. (Also, his company Girl…
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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. She does this again and again, layering sound over sound,…
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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 n+1, Spike Jonze week in New York, Sufjan Stevens performs,…