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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

"I think my heart's big enough..."
Tue, Mar 24 2009 11:03 AM

Funny or Die gets all inside mumblecore baseball with this trailer for the nonexistent SXSW 2009 selection "The Dirty Garage," about, apparently, how a pair of childhood friends/brothers clean a garage and have lots of incoherent conversation, accompanied by one of their former flames. Swanberg co-conspirators Kent Osborne and Tipper Newton appear,... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Watchy, mumblecore, SXSW 2009, Funny or Die, The Dirty Garage

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