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Mumblecore mocks itself.
By Vadim Rizov on 10/05/2009
Filed under: Watchy
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 Suit" seems to be lost on some of the site's audience. In films like "Hannah Takes The Stairs" and "Alexander The Last," Swanberg's toyed with very plausible-looking sex scenes as a way of advancing narrative. The premise of "Birthday Suit" is that Swanberg... MORE »
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Sundance gets more annoying.
By Vadim Rizov on 09/02/2009
Filed under: Festivals
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? No. No it wasn't. It was fat and out of shape. It needed...mumblecore! Hence, as indieWIRE reports the first major act under new festival director John Cooper is the somewhat patronizing news that Sundance is adding a new section, to be called "Next," consisting of... MORE »
SXSW 2009: "Sorry, Thanks."
By Alison Willmore on 03/17/2009
Filed under: Reviews
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 to be infected with terminal niceness, but to say that is to ignore all the passive aggression lurking underneath the surface of those meandering exchanges. A fine sign of how the mumble-crowd is coming of age is Dia Sokol's... MORE »
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