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A Meaningful Light: Open Letter to Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times

I’m writing to you, Kenneth, because your review and my behavior at the Rialto Cinema are integral parts of the problem in Israel/Palestine. It’s why we both felt so scared and embarrassed: Tears of Gaza implicates us.

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Fundraising Campaign Internship

Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott is raising funds for his next feature film, based on his acclaimed novel Happy Baby, and he needs your help! The Rumpus is seeking applications for a…

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The Rumpus Review of How To Survive a Plague

The response to the AIDS epidemic that ripped through the gay community starting in the early years of the Reagan administration can be best characterized by how most health and…

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Reelings #3: THE IMPOSTER

I’m going to go ahead and spoil the entire plot of Bart Layton’s documentary The Imposter, but only because the film does in its first opening minutes. Why? Because the…

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REELINGS #2: Meek’s Cutoff

The skillfully understated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt joins up again with screenwriter Jon Raymond to give us Meek’s Cutoff.

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The Rumpus Interview with Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola hardly needs an introduction.

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The Rumpus Review of Beasts of The Southern Wild

I can’t tell you about this movie without telling you about my father.

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Impersonation and Self-Portraiture

On July 14, SF MoMA will be opening a retrospective of the work of photographer Cindy Sherman. Starting with her series Untitled Film Stills, Sherman’s photographs have consistently challenged the limits, meaning,…

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The Rumpus Interview with Mark and Jay Duplass

Since premiering at Sundance in 2002 with This is John, Mark and Jay Duplass have acquired a reputation for making emotional family-driven films on the budget of a shoestring, while also finding success with studio backed films like Cyrus and Jeff, Who Lives At Home.

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About Cherry Opens in New York

Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott’s About Cherry will make its New York premiere tomorrow! The film is screening in the Northside Festival on Thursday, June 21st, 7pm at Brooklyn’s indieScreen. You…

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Project Dad

Project Dad follows filmmaker Sharon Shattuck’s “quest to understand her LGBT family through a two-way dialogue with her dad,” who is transgender. The film, which is in the production phase,…

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The Rumpus Review of Punishment Park

In America, good dinner etiquette entails avoiding certain contentious topics, particularly politics. Whether it has more to do with possible digestive disorders developing from unpleasant –isms or a predilection towards…

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