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Joe Swanberg doesn't stop.
Wed, Apr 1 2009 10:19 AM

I had a good half-hour talk with Joe Swanberg at SXSW, two days after the world premiere of his latest film "Alexander the Last" and a few days before my laptop hard drive failed, taking with it my audio files and transcripts. I'm slowly getting everything back, and while this interview isn't so timely anymore, I didn't want to let it go... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Joe Swanberg, Nights and Weekends, mumblecore, SXSW 2009, Jane Adams, Jess Weixler, Alexander the Last, Kissing on the Mouth, LOL

SXSW 2009: "The Hurt Locker."
Wed, Mar 25 2009 4:49 PM

What's bound to be one of the best action films of the year happen to be set in Iraq. Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Guy Pearce, The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, SXSW 2009, David Morse, Point Break, Anthony Mackie, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Renner

SXSW 2009: "Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same."
Tue, Mar 24 2009 8:05 PM

A portrait of the artist as totally unbearable. Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, SXSW 2009, Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same, Jody Lee Lipes, Brock Enright

SXSW 2009: "We Live in Public."
Thu, Mar 19 2009 7:12 PM

Josh Harris might just be too good a subject for a film. A dotcom millionaire, Harris was unerringly ahead of his time, seeing promise in the internet before it really existed, focusing on chat at the dawn of services like Prodigy, moving into web-only TV before there was even infrastructure for it, and putting the home life of himself and his girlfriend online... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, SXSW 2009, Ondi Timoner, Josh Harris, We Live In Public

SXSW 2009: "Observe and Report."
Tue, Mar 17 2009 12:28 PM

Jody Hill's "Observe and Report" is like a Will Ferrell movie that's been run over by a car again and again until it's warped and unrecognizable. It's still has the rough shape of a feel-good story about a lovable loser, a mall security guard who longs to be a real policeman and who's in love with the bitchy make-up counter girl... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Seth Rogen, SXSW 2009, Observe and Report, Patton Oswalt, Anna Faris, The Foot Fist Way, Danny McBride, Jody Hill

SXSW 2009: "Trust Us, This Is All Made Up."
Sun, Mar 15 2009 3:38 PM

How to capture improvised comedy, which is the essence of having to be there, on film? Recorded, performances are always going to feel flat without the high wire act immediacy of watching people pull characters, jokes and storylines out of thin air. The central hour or so of Alex Karpovsky's documentary "Trust Us, This Is All Made Up" is a straight... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, SXSW 2009, TJ Jagodowski, David Pasquesi, Alex Karpovsky, Trust Us This is All Made Up

SXSW 2009: "The 2 Bobs."
Sun, Mar 15 2009 11:13 AM

Goofy, well-intentioned and not particularly good, "The 2 Bobs" is a mad-lib love letter to the city of Austin -- the tech industry, barbecue and a billion other disparate elements have been swirled together into a shambolic comedy about how the brilliant, socially inept founders of a gaming company, both named Bob, lose the title they spent years coding... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, SXSW 2009, Austin, Tim McCanlies, The Iron Giant, The 2 Bobs, Mika Boorem, Leonardo Lam, Secondhand Lions, Jay Chandrasekhar

SXSW 2009 is all lined up.
Mon, Feb 2 2009 8:00 AM

The complete SXSW 2009 film line-up has been unveiled, the first under new head Janet Pierson and, arguably, its first post-mumblecore iteration. Not that there aren't still plenty of names familiar to anyone acquainted with the movement -- it was already announced that Joe Swanberg would be premiering his fifth feature in five years, "Alexander the... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, SXSW 2009