Entries tagged “Joe Swanberg”
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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Joe Swanberg doesn't stop.
By Alison Willmore on 04/01/2009
Filed under: Festivals
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, either, since we covered a lot of interesting ground about how the way Joe shoots films is changing, and how he'd like to be, as impossible as it might seem, even more prolific. So here's a selection, with... MORE »
Sundance 2009: "You Wont Miss Me."
By Alison Willmore on 01/17/2009
Filed under: Festivals
"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 pay her enough attention, and no job beyond auditioning for roles herself. But the film, the second from Ry Russo-Young, isn't your average chronicle of dabblings in urban self-destruction, because Shelly, as she's begun to realize herself, can't turn down the volume.... MORE »
Starting up "The Stagg Party."
By Alison Willmore on 10/14/2008
Filed under: WatchyEpisodes one and two of the new web series from mumblecore's own Joe Swanberg are now up on the main site of IFC.com: "The Stagg Party" is a documentary series about Ellen Stagg, a Brooklyn-based photographer whose commercial career is sometimes at odds with her passion for shooting high-end erotica. (Stagg also has a small role in Swanberg's "Nights and Weekends," which opened on Friday.) Needless to say, this one is NSFW. Stagg on the series, from The Huffington Post: "The only problem that reared its head when I was shooting is that sometimes Joe would be in my shot... MORE »
Trailering: Three "Nights."
By Alison Willmore on 09/11/2008
Filed under: TraileringThere are three different teaser trailers, or maybe they'd be better described as anti-trailers, for Joe Swanberg's "Nights and Weekends" up on the official site here -- like the film, they're without music, based instead around single conversations ("You kiss harder... than I recall") cut through with other footage. Here's my review from the SXSW premiere; it opens October 10th. For a trailer that's very much A Trailer, see this one for "The Soloist," director Joe Wright's first excursion into the present day after "Pride & Prejudice" and "Atonement," and extremely Oscar-baitey in a totally different way. Robert Downey Jr.... MORE »
Cough to get off.
By Alison Willmore on 05/05/2008
Filed under: From the Editor, WatchyA bit of network news: "Wilfred," IFC.com's new web series, kicks off today, with a new episode going up every weekday — the first episode is here, the second here. A cult TV show from Australia, the series began as a short film that won the best comedy award at Tropfest in 2002, possibly due to its killer thematic combination of pot-smoking pets and guys in animal costumes. The shiny new third season of Joe Swanberg's "Young American Bodies" will also be premiering on IFC.com starting next week — here's a promo. [Photo: "Wilfred," IFC, 2007] + Wilfred (IFC)... MORE »
SXSW 2008: "Nights and Weekends."
By Alison Willmore on 03/17/2008
Filed under: Festivals, ReviewsThere's a meta-mumblecore movie just begging to be made that's set amidst the group of people who've been making mumblecore movies, and it would start off at the tense premiere screening of "Nights and Weekends." Co-directors, writers and stars Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg presented their third feature together to (and later took part in a candid Q&A in front of) a crowd half made up of friends and acquaintances uncomfortably aware that things had gotten ugly during the making of the film. In a mini-movement that's eluded agreed-upon definitions beyond the fact that its films are the collaborative creations... MORE »
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