Let’s get it out of the way: it’s a stupid name. A tossed-off joke made at a bar during the 2005 edition of SXSW. Sound editor and former indie rocker Eric Masunaga technically coined the term, while ...
One of the founding events of the modern cinema is the writing of a letter by Ingrid Bergman, likely in 1947, at the height of her stardom, to the director Roberto Rossellini, expressing her ...
As far as its unofficial members are concerned, the “mumblecore” movement began and ended at the 2005 South by Southwest Film Festival. But the nickname, hatched in jest one night in Austin, Texas, ...
As Andrew Bujalski’s “Beeswax” opens in limited release tomorrow, the Internet is ablaze with discussions of the film and the relationship with the genre to which Bujalski has been named the father, ...
The term “mumblecore” is beside the point. It was coined by Eric Masunaga, who was the sound mixer on Andrew Bujalski’s first feature, “Funny Ha Ha,” one of the ostensible movement’s founding works, ...
Sundance recognizes the “indie genre” just as it is coming to an end. By THR Staff Greta Gerwig starred in director Joe Swanberg’s film. The mumblecore movement is speaking a lot more clearly these ...
I’ve always connected with the work of Jonathan Lethem. I’m a fan of his novels and all, but I especially look at his criticism because his reference points are invariably the same as mine. We’re both ...
Ray Romano and Mark Duplass star as best friends staring death (and the end of their friendship) in the face. No One Lives Forever: The beats and rhythms of mumblecore are pretty familiar for anyone ...
A guy with a bag on his head can play out a couple of ways. The Unknown Comic went for laughs. Recent films such as “The Orphanage” and “The Strangers” go for straight scares. And then there’s the new ...
"Mumblecore" was a punchline before it ever got started, but its low-def look and fumbling improvisations captured social anxieties that movies have since grown too big to see clearly. By the 2000s, ...
As far as its unofficial members are concerned, the “mumblecore” movement began and ended at the 2005 South by Southwest Film Festival. But the nickname, hatched in jest one night in Austin, Texas, ...
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