Film
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Kids + Money
A preview for Lauren Greenfield’s “Kids + Money,” which won the 2009 Sundance Short Award. The documentary is featured in Wholphin No 8.
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THE EYEBALL: This was, is, and will be Spinal Tap
I recently read on some blog somewhere in the bloggy blog blogosphere a reference to certain movies as “wallpaper.”
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Outsider Art with a Professional Sheen
America has always had people dying for a taste of the limelight and others willing to delude them for a healthy profit. PBS takes a funny and moving look at one such scheme in Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story…
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The Life of Ferlinghetti
Chris Felver’s doc about Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a little rough around the edges, with jumpy editing and a tendency to wander away from the subject of the moment without adequate explanation, but it’s an engaging film all the same, featuring a wealth of archival footage, home…
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How to Break Up with Your Girlfriend in 64 Easy Steps
How I found this video: 1. It’s late-ish Sunday night. 2. I am working on an interview for The Rumpus.
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In New Yorker Letter, Lee Gruenfeld Diagnoses Toback Fail in Tyson
In this week’s New Yorker, Lee Gruenfeld writes to the editor:
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Inglourious Basterds: Reactions from Cannes
Quentin Tarantino’s new film, the mysteriously misspelled Inglourious Basterds, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last week to mixed reviews. According to Tarantino, the film is a comic revenge fantasy about “the power of cinema bringing down the Third Reich.”
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The Forgotten Movie Screens of Broward County
University Cinema 4 This four-screen theater, in a small strip shopping center at the corner of Pines Boulevard and University Drive, was where Mom and Dad took us to see Kramer vs. Kramer one night during Christmas vacation in 1979.
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The Rumpus Interview with Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan, the Armenian-Canadian director best known for The Sweet Hereafter, Where the Truth Lies, and Ararat, is back with a new film out in theaters, titled Adoration.
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Thoughts on Antichrist
I took notes during the first Cannes press screening of Lars von Trier’s new film Antichrist but I don’t have them in front of me right now. I don’t need them. This movie is many things: shocking, troubling, angry, maybe…
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OK, OK, I Get it! Keyboard Cat!
Steven: You haven’t seen this shit? Me: What? Steven: It’s been going around recently. It’s just like funny videos, and then at the end there’s this cat starts playing an electric piano. Me: What song? Steven: Some little ditty. With…
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The Rumpus Interview with Kirby Dick
Kirby Dick’s new film, four years in the making, seeks to expose the secret, and sometimes not-so-secret, double lives of closeted gay politicians, whose numbers are higher than you might imagine.