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Germany Hearts Inglorious Basterds

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • September 4, 2009
Schindler’s List and The Reader were scrutinized in Germany. The more recent Valkyrie “made German experts shake with indignation.” Even the uplifting Life is Beautiful was a box office dud…
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The Best Rumpus Video Interruptions According to Julie Greicius

  • Julie Greicius
  • September 3, 2009
Back in the day, back when The Rumpus was still pre-launch, curled up in the warmth of its beta gestation, oh, friends, there were video interruptions. And they were good.
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Is Indie Still Alive?

  • Maddie Oatman
  • September 3, 2009
What’s hipper than indie culture? Discussing whether or not indie culture still exists, of course. In his essay for The Millions, “T.V. Party Tonight!,” Patrick Brown wonders about the reoccurring…
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Because It’s Their Work

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • September 1, 2009
Last week I was reading a review by Arvan Reese of two films, Hot & Bothered and Bill & Desiree, on a website called SexGenderBody. I found the review via @TonyComstock, who made the…
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The Best Rumpus Video Interruptions According to Ted Wilson

  • Ted Wilson
  • September 1, 2009
There are two videos I consider tied for the title of Best Rumpus Video Interruption. The first one stars a young man who appears to be an ordinary surfer. And…
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On Film Criticism

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • August 31, 2009
Yesterday, I spent part of the morning arguing with a friend as to the ongoing importance of film criticism. He said that film critics were like bees in September: dying…
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The Best Rumpus Video Interruptions According to Isaac Fitzgerald

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • August 31, 2009
Today’s video interruption, in my humble opinion,  is one of the best we’ve ever run. It involves a bear, a cardboard cutout, a papier-mâché mask, and a local Fox News…
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Afghan Star: A Conversation with Tamim Ansary

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • August 28, 2009
Pop Idol has been widely imitated throughout the world [American Idol here in the states] , but Afghanistan is possibly the only place where the mere existence of a televised,…
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Kubrick’s 1961 Lolita is the First 70s Movie

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • August 25, 2009
The other day I read a rambling but entertaining essay over on Bright Lights Film Journal, called All Tomorrow’s Playground Narratives, which analyzed Kubrick’s Lolita in terms of — well,…
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Claire Denis Symposium at Reverse Shot

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • August 24, 2009
Reverse Shot — a geeky film journal that I recently discovered and have found interesting — has devoted the bulk of issue #25 to a symposium on the influential French…
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The Rumpus Review of Inglourious Basterds

  • Matt Singer
  • August 24, 2009
Quentin Tarantino makes movies about movies.
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Guerrilla Distribution

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • August 13, 2009
“The glory days of independent film, when hot young directors like Steven Soderbergh and Mr. Tarantino had studio executives tangled in fierce bidding wars at Sundance and other celebrity-studded festivals,…
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