james franco
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The Era of Celebrity Bookselling
The Colbert Bump helped propel Edan Lepucki‘s California to the third spot on the New York Times bestseller list. Lena Dunham’s endorsement helped sell Adelle Waldman‘s The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. Celebrity and celebrity endorsements have long played a role…
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The Rumpus Review of Palo Alto
Director and screenwriter Gia Coppola has done an amazing job of distilling a cohesive narrative from Franco’s disparate stories…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: American Horror in New Orleans
I came home from work the other day and found a notice taped to my front door. It had the logo for the FX television series American Horror Story on it and announced they would be filming on my block…
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Spring Break is Over, Bitches
[James] Franco wrote that “whoever is involved in the [Spring Breakers] sequel is jumping on board a poison ship,” and he’s right.
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Literary Hollywood
Vice just introduced its summer fiction issue, which isn’t necessarily themed around Hollywood but rather written solely by people writing in Hollywood: …we made a long list of our favorite movies and looked up the writers who worked on them,…
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Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying on Film
Check out Joseph Entin’s even-handed review of James Franco’s movie adaptation of “As I Lay Dying” at LARB. Franco has tackled the über-challenging multi-perspective modernist piece where others demurred, and has come away with something worthy of examination, particularly by…
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Reelings #6: Interior. Leather Bar.
Interior. Leather Bar. is actually less a tribute to the lost footage from Cruising, and more of a docufiction about the nature of sexuality, heteronormativity, and the representation of both in mainstream films.
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Adapting Blood Meridian?
I just found out that James Franco is set to direct the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian which is the most violent novel I’ve ever read. So I pose the obvious questions: how will he pull it off?…
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James Franco In a Chair On a Stage
The actor/artist/writer/director talks for four hours about his process; young writer takes notes:
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Notable New York, This Week 10/19 – 10/24
This week in New York Judah Friedlander does Karate, Ian Frazier joins the FDG Reading Series, The Word Made Flesh celebrates in Brooklyn, James Franco takes a stab at writing, Rick Moody battles, Amy Sedaris is The Sound of Young…
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Coming Soon: The Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is one of the most glamorous film events to happen this side of Park City. From April 22 – May 2, the festival will pitch its tents downtown and offer a wide array of independent films…
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James Franco’s Face: A Subjective Account of the New Yorker Festival
Friday October 16, the New Yorker opened its annual weekend festival of readings, conversations, art tours and musical performances. This is my account of the events I attended, which included among others a talk with Malcolm Gladwell, readings by George…