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Rahul Menon

(He/Him)
Los Angeles, New York
As seen in: Script Magazine, Flipboard, Financial Express, EIN News, The India Forum, Pipeline Artists, ApDirect
Covers:  Film, Television, Culture, Film Festivals, Screenwriting
LA + NY | Film Critic | @ScriptMag @PipelineArtists contributor | Filmmaker | Chasing stories on-screen and off | Covering cinema, festivals, and storytelling.

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Rahul Menon’s Biography

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Rahul Menon is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and film critic who swapped a career in software analysis for the world of movies—and hasn’t looked back since. He holds an M.S. in Film Production & Media Management from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and an MFA in Television and Screenwriting from Stephens College, where he completed multiple pilots and features under the guidance of industry mentors. He has also written, directed, and edited award-winning short films, and co-wrote an Indi…

Rahul Menon’s Journalist Portfolio

To Every Song Its Soul: A Conversation with 'Power Ballad' Co-Writer and Filmmaker John Carney

To Every Song Its Soul: A Conversation with 'Power Ballad' Co-Writer and Filmmaker John Carney

John Carney on copyright, craft, the cost of being unheard, and why 'Power Ballad' is a film about every arti…

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Forever on Film

Forever on Film

At the TCM Classic Film Festival and beyond, a devoted community is ensuring that cinema's greatest treasures…

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Chaos, Compassion, and Finding Humanity in the Absurd: A Conversation with 'Dead Man's Wire' Dire...

Chaos, Compassion, and Finding Humanity in the Absurd: A Conversation with 'Dead Man's Wire' Dire...

Filmmaker Gus Van Sant on returning to true crime, finding humor in desperation, and why chaos still reveals …

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Articles

'The Sun Never Sets': A Love Triangle That Feels Uncomfortably Real and Impossible to Look Away From

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By Rahul Menon
| Pipeline Artists
There is a particular kind of filmmaker who thrives in the space where structure loosens and human behavior takes over. Where scenes feel discovered rather than dictated. Joe Swanberg has built an entire career in that space. After almost seven years away from features, he returns with The Sun Never Sets, shot on 35mm and set against the vast, quietly arresting landscapes of Alaska. That combination alone was enough to get the film obsessive in me leaning forward before the first frame even rolled.
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Destin Daniel Cretton Gives Spider-Man Back to New York, and to Us

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By Rahul Menon
| Pipeline Artists
There is a moment in Spider-Man: Brand New Day where the city itself seems to breathe around Peter Parker, and I felt something I had not quite felt in a live-action Spider-Man film since Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2: the sensation that this character genuinely belongs to his neighborhood, not to the multiverse, not to a government agency, not to an Avengers assembly, but to the streets and rooftops and fire escapes of New York City.
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The Honesty of Uncertainty: A Conversation with Writer and Filmmaker Joe Swanberg

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By Rahul Menon
| Pipeline Artists
Joe Swanberg on returning to features, the alchemy of improvisation, and why relationships will always be unfinished business. There is a particular kind of filmmaker who thrives in the space where structure loosens and human behavior takes over. Where scenes feel discovered rather than dictated. Joe Swanberg has spent more than twenty years building his career in exactly that space, and watching him work is a reminder that the most affecting cinema is rarely the kind that announces itself.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

No

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I get to be truthful, expressive and brutally honest about my opinions.

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