movies
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Weekly Geekery
Examining continuity on screen and in our minds. How to constantly work without actually working. Buzzfeed is not so special after all. (So says the Atlantic.) Algorithms are to creativity in the 21st century as Gutenberg’s press was to creativity in…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Waiting for the Tape to Rewind
I started watching as if I were dropping by to say hello.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #63: It’s Supposed to Be Bad
Rick Moody emails with Scott Timberg, author of the new book Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class, about Bob Dylan’s new Sinatra covers album, the need for cultural gatekeepers, and the “slippery sub genre” of bad-on-purpose art.
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The Rumpus Interview with Alix Lambert
Director Alix Lambert talks about her documentary, Mentor, small-town conformity, and bullying in the digital age.
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The Rumpus Interview with Alysia Abbott
Alysia Abbott discusses craft and love in her new memoir, Fairyland, set in the ’70s and ’80s during the AIDS crisis in San Francisco.
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The Upside of Movies Based on Books
New data shows that when the movie version of a book comes out, kids actually go read the book. The book versions of The Hunger Games, The Lorax, and The Giver all gained new readers around the releases of their…
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The Rumpus Review of Life Itself
I thought Roger taught me to watch, to look, to see. I thought he taught me to formulate opinions, discern a smart plot from schlock. I was wrong. He taught me that writing drives a stake into our time, priceless,…
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My Bad Memory: New York Movies Edition
From Raging Bull to Newsies, Adam Wilson (mis)remembers the NY movies he’s seen.
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A Warm Welcome to Our New Film Editor
We’re excited to announce our new film editor: Chloe Schildhause! A graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Chloe is a writer and editor for Decades Magazine and has written for Flaunt Magazine, The Bold Italic, and Nylon Magazine, among…
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Love and Mark Ruffalo
Rumpus contributor Wendy C. Ortiz has an essay at The Nervous Breakdown about the two times she saw Mark Ruffalo and why she couldn’t talk about the first time for a long time. My daycamping-partner-in-crime was very excited about seeing…
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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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“Medora” Screening Coming to San Francisco
On November 18th, San Francisco’s Roxie Theater will be screening Medora, the gripping basketball documentary that dazzled critics at SXSW. Directed by Davy Rothbart, founder and editor of FOUND Magazine, the film chronicles a high school basketball team from Medora, Indiana.…