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 ...
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, ...
Who needs Hollywood when there’s Mumblecore? Only a little over a decade old, this movement of DIY filmmaking is known for its micro-budgets, improvisation, naturalistic conversations in real places, ...
An established preoccupation among film directors is how the re-staging of a scene from different perspectives alters the tone, message and experience of an otherwise unchanged plot. Whether it’s the ...
“The Baltimorons” is a terrible title for a sweet film. What were director Jay Duplass and co-screenwriter and leading man Michael Strassner thinking? They were likely thinking that it keyed into a ...
The Finale of the Mumblecore Musical With Shahar Kramer as The Student MT Shelves as The QA Attendee Nathaniel Hendrickson as The Kimono Artist Maria Josefina Viteri as Intuition Roya Haroun as The ...
"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, ...