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Mumblecore mocks itself.
Mon, Oct 5 2009 11:15 AM

I guess one sign that you've really made it is when you can poke fun at yourself and it's not just an inside joke for your friends. With "Birthday Suit," a new three-minute short on "Funny or Die," mumblecore figurehead/sometime colleague Joe Swanberg achieves the latter, if only barely -- hanging at a 48% approval rating, "Birthday... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Watchy, Joe Swanberg, mumblecore, Andrew Bujalski, Alexander the Last, Robert Zemeckis, Vinessa Shaw, Sex And The City, Jason Lewis

Sundance gets more annoying.
Wed, Sep 2 2009 2:53 PM

So Sundance woke up all sweaty and hungover a few days ago and apparently decided it was time to change its ways. The quirky Fox Searchlight acquisitions, the earnest Amerindie movies like "Sin Nombre" going nowhere slowly but self-righteously...something didn't feel right. Was this the same festival that gave us Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, mumblecore, Andrew Bujalski, Sundance, Shotgun Stories, Berlinale, John Cooper, Beeswax

SXSW 2009: "Sorry, Thanks."
Tue, Mar 17 2009 8:56 AM

Apologies for whipping out the m-word, but mumblecore always seemed to me to be defined by its choreography of conflict avoidance. Its characters are so vague about they want and what they think because what they definitely don't want is to lay those things out and risk disagreement, rejection or open hostility. They lack any obvious sharp edges, and so seem... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Reviews, mumblecore, SXSW 2009, Wiley Wiggins, Andrew Bujalski, Kenya Miles, Dia Sokol, Sorry Thanks, Ia Hernandez