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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

How to save indie film? Form bands, not labs.
Thu, Aug 13 2009 3:30 PM

Ted Hope, the major indie producer behind "Happiness," "American Splendor," "Adventureland" and many others, is a worrier -- he wants new distribution models and new ideas for independent film, and he wants them now. This week he's got a provocative guest post on his blog from Caitlin McCarthy, a screenwriter and inner-city public... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Versus, mumblecore, Sundance, Ted Hope

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

Sundance 2009: "You Wont Miss Me."
Sat, Jan 17 2009 12:30 AM

"You Wont Miss Me" is all about Shelly Brown, a girl with the kind of problems plenty of 20-somethings dream of moving to New York for the express purpose of having: substance abuse, reckless hookups in her bedraggled Williamsburg apartment with shaggy boys who mistreat her, sudden fights with friends and strangers, an unseen actress mother who doesn't... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Sundance 2009, Ry Russo-Young, Julian Schnabel, Stella Schnabel, You Wont Miss Me, mumblecore