Film
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Essays on the Game
With contemporary postcolonial critique, Darkmatter offers a series of papers discussing HBO’s The Wire. With titles including: – “The Wire: Investigating the use of a Neoliberal Institutional Apparatus and a ‘New Humanist’ Philosophical Apparatus,” – “The Politics of Brisket: Jews…
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The Rumpus Interview with filmmaker Matt Tyrnaeur
Legendary clothing designer Valentino Garavani dressed everyone from Jackie Onassis to Gwyneth Paltrow, and made — and spent! — millions doing it. But why should a Rumpus reader care?
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Up Yours Some More, Told You So Edition
So Richard Greenfield, the ding dong who predicted failure for Pixar’s oh-so-risky Up, and the NY Times media reporter who helped spread the false doubt with out question have issued an apology. Or at least, the reporter filed a new…
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THE EYEBALL, The Rumpus DVD Column: #24 Nicolas Roeg’s First Five Films
Years ago I happened upon a series of arresting images on cable. There was a young Mick Jagger cavorting in a bath tub with two svelte beauties. A child wearing a fake mustache. A still image of Jorge Luis Borges…
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Tony Comstock on the MPAA Ratings Board
Tony Comstock is the founder of Comstock Films (likely NSFW), which produces films that I can’t bring myself to call pornography, even though their central subject, depicted in explicit detail, is the sex that ordinary couples have in private. The…
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Ryeberg: The curator for YouTube fatigue
Ryeberg is a site that features videos curated by various contributors accompanied by short essays. Contributors include Mary Gaitskill, Russell Smith, and the reliably compelling and often as reliably insane Lynn Crosbie. Check out her recent post dismantling the psycho-sexual…
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Movies Briefly, Stripes (1981)
Few movies deserve an “Extended Cut” but I can think of few that deserve one less than Stripes, which was already twenty minutes longer than necessary in its original theatrical edition. Rather than expanding the film to a bloated 126…
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THE EYEBALL: There Will Be Blood
Sometimes I just want an actor to take a movie by the fuckin’ balls. I’m thinking of Benicio del Toro in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or Jack Nicholson in The Shining. Add to that rogue’s gallery of scenery…
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Michelle Orange on Lynn Shelton
Lynn Shelton‘s third feature film, Humpday (trailer after the jump), is getting a lot of love for its quiet, almost bashful take on this year’s favorite buzz-relationship: “the bromance.” Humpday takes the concept to a whole new level though, with…
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Movies Briefly, The Proposal (2009)
The title The Proposal has two meanings; it refers to the improvised marriage between shrew boss Margaret (Sandra Bullock) and exasperated assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds) devised to stave off her deportation, as well as to their jobs in the world…
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Movies Briefly, Suspiria (1977)
It boggles my mind that Dario Argento directed a movie called Deep Red and it is not this picture. How is that possible? How could any movie not set entirely in a darkroom be more about the color red than…