Martin Scorsese
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Blue, Blue Windows: On Writing and Helplessness in the Age of Trump
The brain in the jar wants out, you know. It just can’t do anything about it.
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The Rumpus Interview with Tobias Carroll
Tobias Carroll discusses his newest collection Transitory, the influence of film on his writing, and getting good news at bad times.
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Majik Market
The summer and early fall of 1974 replays like a gritty movie in my head, a 70s era Lumet or Scorsese, elements of cinema verite, but stylized, heightened.
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The Rumpus Interview with Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Producer Jeff Sommerville, director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, and the cast of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl discuss their movie that went to Sundance and beyond.
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Writing Screen
Book-to-movie adaptations are nothing new, but does the transition work the other way around? Over at Electric Literature, Tobias Carroll examines the capacity of prose to put film on paper: This shouldn’t work, but it does. Perhaps it’s that the…
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The Fifty-Year-Old Startup
In a conversation with Joe Fassler at Salon, Robert Silvers, “co-editor or editor for every issue” of the New York Review of Books, recalls how the publication came to be born.
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Homo Homini Lupus Est: The Rumpus Review of The Wolf of Wall Street
This movie is not a critique. It’s an advertisement for capitalism and its salacious, delectable greeds.
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3-D Movies Here Forever?
Veteran directors Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg are jumping on the 3-D movie bandwagon, though this cinematic trend’s sustainability is currently being questioned. With movie studios and DVD sales in financially tenuous situations, 3-D movies could be…