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      <title>Film:Dance Party, USA</title>
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<strong>Title:</strong> Dance Party, USA<br/>
<strong>Year:</strong> 2006<br/>
<strong>Director:</strong> Aaron Katz<br/>
<strong>Plot:</strong> An apathetic seventeen-year old shares a dark secret that causes his aimless new friend to immediately sever ties in director Aaron Katz's talky teen drama. Gus spends most of his time relating self-indulgent tales of sexual conquests and drug fueled frenzies to his best friend Bill. Jessica seems to be drifting away from most of her friends, and lately things have gotten so bad that she isn't even speaking with her one-time best-friend Christie. Every Fourth of July all the kids gather at Brian's house to drink free beer and watch the fireworks. This year, Gus meets Jessica at the party and tries to pick her up. When she blows off his obvious come-on, Gus tells Jessica a secret that he has never revealed to even his closest of friends. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide<br/>
<strong>Times Tagged:</strong> 21<br/>
<strong>Number of blog posts:</strong> 7<br/>
<strong>SpoutRating:</strong> 2<br/>
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      <title>Spout Post: Dance Party, U.S.A. (2006, USA, Aaron Katz) ****</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/cinemarian/archive/2008/8/29/34534.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s278812.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/131080/default.aspx'>CinemaRian</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 8/29/2008 4:14:47 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> No, I was never a part of the social group portrayed in this film, but I knew it existed, and I hated it. I hated it for because I saw that it was self-destructive and damaging and I also hated it because admission into it meant social acceptance, something that I could never really have in high school. The world portrayed in Dance Party U.S.A. is not the typical one portrayed in high school movies, where the kids spend a lot of time worrying about pressing issues such as Prom King and Queen or winning the big football game. It's not an entry into the Heathers genre either, about the revenge of the outcasts. It's a movie about normal people, the people you forgot after you graduated. The characters this film are neither smart nor stupid. Like most high school studends, grades are not that important to them, but the social scene is. That scene is packed to the brim with sex, alcohol and pot, and for some, stronger substances. They are all still figuring themselves out, but they know that like to feel good physically. It's one of the few things human beings can be sure of. The plot of this very naturallistic film is about the awakening of Gus (Cole Pessinger) who is just beginning to wonder if there is more to life than a non-stop party. He is also struggling with concepts of masculinity, knowing that he cannot continuingly emulate his debuchorous friend Bill (Ryan White) but is afraid to show a more sensitive side as well. The movie bills itself about Gus coming to terms with a secret, but the secret is not at all what you would expect (it's not that he's gay). He can only confides it to Jessica (Anna Kavan) a girl he has just met, almost on a whim. The scene where the secret is revealed, coming halfway through the film, is an example of the film masterful understanding of its characters. Gus begins by trying to seduce Jessica, not even because he really wants to but because he merely knows nothing else to do. She resists, and he finds a self respect and sensitivty to her that enables him to reveal the secret. The scene unfolds like it would in real life. This film reminded of me of such pictures as Umberto D. or Bubble in its unfailing reach for realism. What happens after the secret is revealed I will not give away, but I watched the rest of the film in genuine suspense. Dance Party, U.S.A. was shot in and around Portland, Oregon on a miniscule budget, but it could be set in any American town where there is a high school. This is a movie that moved me on a personal level. It's not often that you see characters that seem so real that you could meet them walking down the street once the movie is over. Dance Party, USA (2006)<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:14:47 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>CinemaRian</spout:postby><spout:postto>CinemaRian Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>8/29/2008 4:14:47 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>No, I was never a part of the social group portrayed in this film, but I knew it existed, and I hated it. I hated it for because I saw that it was self-destructive and damaging and I also hated it because admission into it meant social acceptance, something that I could never really have in high school. The world portrayed in Dance Party U.S.A. is not the typical one portrayed in high school movies, where the kids spend a lot of time worrying about pressing issues such as Prom King and Queen or winning the big football game. It's not an entry into the Heathers genre either, about the revenge of the outcasts. It's a movie about normal people, the people you forgot after you graduated. The characters this film are neither smart nor stupid. Like most high school studends, grades are not that important to them, but the social scene is. That scene is packed to the brim with sex, alcohol and pot, and for some, stronger substances. They are all still figuring themselves out, but they know that like to feel good physically. It's one of the few things human beings can be sure of. The plot of this very naturallistic film is about the awakening of Gus (Cole Pessinger) who is just beginning to wonder if there is more to life than a non-stop party. He is also struggling with concepts of masculinity, knowing that he cannot continuingly emulate his debuchorous friend Bill (Ryan White) but is afraid to show a more sensitive side as well. The movie bills itself about Gus coming to terms with a secret, but the secret is not at all what you would expect (it's not that he's gay). He can only confides it to Jessica (Anna Kavan) a girl he has just met, almost on a whim. The scene where the secret is revealed, coming halfway through the film, is an example of the film masterful understanding of its characters. Gus begins by trying to seduce Jessica, not even because he really wants to but because he merely knows nothing else to do. She resists, and he finds a self respect and sensitivty to her that enables him to reveal the secret. The scene unfolds like it would in real life. This film reminded of me of such pictures as Umberto D. or Bubble in its unfailing reach for realism. What happens after the secret is revealed I will not give away, but I watched the rest of the film in genuine suspense. Dance Party, U.S.A. was shot in and around Portland, Oregon on a miniscule budget, but it could be set in any American town where there is a high school. This is a movie that moved me on a personal level. It's not often that you see characters that seem so real that you could meet them walking down the street once the movie is over. Dance Party, USA (2006)</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: My Blueberry Blog Round-Up: Blog Nosh 03/31/08</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/3/31/26801.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s278812.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/19702/default.aspx'>Karina</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 3/31/2008 7:00:56 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 
Jim Emerson has collated an incredibly comprehensive account of the events of the 1983 Telluride Film Festival, where Andrei Tarkovsky made some obtuse statements about cinema and art, and Richard Widmark offered an eloquent counterargument, which can essentially be reduced to its most powerful two words: “He stinks.”
An intern in the Paramount Vantage publicity office Martin Scorsese has a MySpace profile.
If you have $95, you can buy a My Blueberry Nights tee shirt.  Or, you can just go to indieWIRE’s Apple Store event tomorrow night and heckle Wong Kar Wai for indiscriminately distributing his branding rights for free.
Dance Party USA and Quiet City scorer Keegan DeWitt is working on a new album. You can listen to a preview here.
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Jim Emerson has collated an incredibly comprehensive account of the events of the 1983 Telluride Film Festival, where Andrei Tarkovsky made some obtuse statements about cinema and art, and Richard Widmark offered an eloquent counterargument, which can essentially be reduced to its most powerful two words: “He stinks.”
An intern in the Paramount Vantage publicity office Martin Scorsese has a MySpace profile.
If you have $95, you can buy a My Blueberry Nights tee shirt.  Or, you can just go to indieWIRE’s Apple Store event tomorrow night and heckle Wong Kar Wai for indiscriminately distributing his branding rights for free.
Dance Party USA and Quiet City scorer Keegan DeWitt is working on a new album. You can listen to a preview here.
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      <title>Spout Post: My Blueberry Blog Round-Up: Blog Nosh 03/31/08</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/3/31/26800.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s278812.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 3/31/2008 7:00:48 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 
Jim Emerson has collated an incredibly comprehensive account of the events of the 1983 Telluride Film Festival, where Andrei Tarkovsky made some obtuse statements about cinema and art, and Richard Widmark offered an eloquent counterargument, which can essentially be reduced to its most powerful two words: “He stinks.”
An intern in the Paramount Vantage publicity office Martin Scorsese has a MySpace profile.
If you have $95, you can buy a My Blueberry Nights tee shirt.  Or, you can just go to indieWIRE’s Apple Store event tomorrow night and heckle Wong Kar Wai for indiscriminately distributing his branding rights for free.
Dance Party USA and Quiet City scorer Keegan DeWitt is working on a new album. You can listen to a preview here.
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Jim Emerson has collated an incredibly comprehensive account of the events of the 1983 Telluride Film Festival, where Andrei Tarkovsky made some obtuse statements about cinema and art, and Richard Widmark offered an eloquent counterargument, which can essentially be reduced to its most powerful two words: “He stinks.”
An intern in the Paramount Vantage publicity office Martin Scorsese has a MySpace profile.
If you have $95, you can buy a My Blueberry Nights tee shirt.  Or, you can just go to indieWIRE’s Apple Store event tomorrow night and heckle Wong Kar Wai for indiscriminately distributing his branding rights for free.
Dance Party USA and Quiet City scorer Keegan DeWitt is working on a new album. You can listen to a preview here.
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      <title>Spout Post: Quiet City &amp; Dance Party, USA, on DVD Today</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/1/29/24504.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s278812.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/19702/default.aspx'>Karina</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/29/2008 12:00:38 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> ??
Benten Films‘ second superbly-packaged DVD set (they previously released Joe Swamberg’s LOL) hits stores today. The set includes two films directed by Aaron Katz: Dance Party, USA, a kind of correction to Larry Clark’s KIDS, set in Portland and starring exquisitely natural local teens; and the Independent Spirit Award-nominated Quiet City, which I previously reviewed here. Both films are about a young boy and girl who venture out into urban spaces looking for an authentic experience. What sets them apart from traditional coming-of-age stories is, in part, the patience Katz shows in allowing his characters to take the time to settle into a tentative trust together. The films are both languid and totally economical; in terms of action, virtually nothing “happens,” and yet if there’s any fat to cut on either, I can’t find it.
In Dance Party, we follow Gus, a teenage lothario whose sexual exploits seem rooted in a need to have a kernel of truth on which to base the elaborate stories with which he regales his friend/protege Bill, to a Fourth of July house party. Within minutes, Gus has talked a previously unknown girl into bed, but when that’s over??????Katz cuts straight from the initiation of the flirtation to Gus rolling off the unnamed female like a cold wave??????he still needs someone to talk to.
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Benten Films‘ second superbly-packaged DVD set (they previously released Joe Swamberg’s LOL) hits stores today. The set includes two films directed by Aaron Katz: Dance Party, USA, a kind of correction to Larry Clark’s KIDS, set in Portland and starring exquisitely natural local teens; and the Independent Spirit Award-nominated Quiet City, which I previously reviewed here. Both films are about a young boy and girl who venture out into urban spaces looking for an authentic experience. What sets them apart from traditional coming-of-age stories is, in part, the patience Katz shows in allowing his characters to take the time to settle into a tentative trust together. The films are both languid and totally economical; in terms of action, virtually nothing “happens,” and yet if there’s any fat to cut on either, I can’t find it.
In Dance Party, we follow Gus, a teenage lothario whose sexual exploits seem rooted in a need to have a kernel of truth on which to base the elaborate stories with which he regales his friend/protege Bill, to a Fourth of July house party. Within minutes, Gus has talked a previously unknown girl into bed, but when that’s over??????Katz cuts straight from the initiation of the flirtation to Gus rolling off the unnamed female like a cold wave??????he still needs someone to talk to.
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      <title>Spout Post: Quiet City &amp; Dance Party, USA, on DVD Today</title>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/29/2008 12:00:26 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> ??
Benten Films‘ second superbly-packaged DVD set (they previously released Joe Swamberg’s LOL) hits stores today. The set includes two films directed by Aaron Katz: Dance Party, USA, a kind of correction to Larry Clark’s KIDS, set in Portland and starring exquisitely natural local teens; and the Independent Spirit Award-nominated Quiet City, which I previously reviewed here. Both films are about a young boy and girl who venture out into urban spaces looking for an authentic experience. What sets them apart from traditional coming-of-age stories is, in part, the patience Katz shows in allowing his characters to take the time to settle into a tentative trust together. The films are both languid and totally economical; in terms of action, virtually nothing “happens,” and yet if there’s any fat to cut on either, I can’t find it.
In Dance Party, we follow Gus, a teenage lothario whose sexual exploits seem rooted in a need to have a kernel of truth on which to base the elaborate stories with which he regales his friend/protege Bill, to a Fourth of July house party. Within minutes, Gus has talked a previously unknown girl into bed, but when that’s over??????Katz cuts straight from the initiation of the flirtation to Gus rolling off the unnamed female like a cold wave??????he still needs someone to talk to.
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Benten Films‘ second superbly-packaged DVD set (they previously released Joe Swamberg’s LOL) hits stores today. The set includes two films directed by Aaron Katz: Dance Party, USA, a kind of correction to Larry Clark’s KIDS, set in Portland and starring exquisitely natural local teens; and the Independent Spirit Award-nominated Quiet City, which I previously reviewed here. Both films are about a young boy and girl who venture out into urban spaces looking for an authentic experience. What sets them apart from traditional coming-of-age stories is, in part, the patience Katz shows in allowing his characters to take the time to settle into a tentative trust together. The films are both languid and totally economical; in terms of action, virtually nothing “happens,” and yet if there’s any fat to cut on either, I can’t find it.
In Dance Party, we follow Gus, a teenage lothario whose sexual exploits seem rooted in a need to have a kernel of truth on which to base the elaborate stories with which he regales his friend/protege Bill, to a Fourth of July house party. Within minutes, Gus has talked a previously unknown girl into bed, but when that’s over??????Katz cuts straight from the initiation of the flirtation to Gus rolling off the unnamed female like a cold wave??????he still needs someone to talk to.
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      <title>Spout Post: The Media Diet: Andrew Grant and Aaron Hillis, Benten Films</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2007/8/17/18302.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s278812.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 8/17/2007 3:02:16 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> This week on The Media Diet, we check in with Andrew Grant and Aaron Hillis. Grant is the brain behind Filmbrain; Hillis is a freelance critic and reporter whose work can be found at Premiere, The Village Voice and his personal blog, Cinephiliac. Together, they’ve just launched Benten Films, a boutique DVD distribution company aimed at drawing attention to “overlooked gems that deserve greater recognition.” Benten’s first release, Joe Swanberg’s LOL, will hit stores on August 28 (more on that closer to the date).  They’re also planning to release two films by Aaron Katz, Dance Party USA and Quiet City, sometime after both screen at The New Talkies festival in New York, which begins next week.
SPOUT: We start each installment of The Media Diet with the old desert island question: you’re packing your suitcase for life-long seclusion on a tropical island that happens to have a full entertainment system. What records, books, movies, video games, websites, etc do you bring with?
AARON: I’m a media whore, so this stream of consciousness might change in an hour: I’m watching Playtime, Once Upon a Time in the West, 2001, Wings of Desire, Suspiria, Penn & Teller Get Killed, and the collected works of Herzog, Buñuel, Altman, Godard, and the Marx Brothers. I’m listening to Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Zappa, James Kochalka Superstar, and the four actresses covering Blue Hearts songs in Linda Linda Linda. Also, if my island has internet and video games, who needs books? (Kidding!)
ANDREW: I’ll try to keep this sensible, i.e., what I could reasonably carry in my backpack. The only book I’d need (the only book anybody needs for that matter) is William Gaddis’ The Recognitions, for it says everything there is to say about the human condition. I’d like to have every note recorded by John Coltrane, some Nick Drake, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, and that Scarlett Johansson album of Tom Waits covers. (No, I haven’t heard it, but, come on…) Films, of course, are tough—give me complete box sets of Godard, Allen, Cassavetes and Imamura. Throw in The Big Lebowski, Lawrence of Arabia, and Xanadu and I’m set.
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</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:02:16 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SpoutBlog</spout:postby><spout:postto>SpoutBlog on spout.com</spout:postto><spout:postdate>8/17/2007 3:02:16 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>This week on The Media Diet, we check in with Andrew Grant and Aaron Hillis. Grant is the brain behind Filmbrain; Hillis is a freelance critic and reporter whose work can be found at Premiere, The Village Voice and his personal blog, Cinephiliac. Together, they’ve just launched Benten Films, a boutique DVD distribution company aimed at drawing attention to “overlooked gems that deserve greater recognition.” Benten’s first release, Joe Swanberg’s LOL, will hit stores on August 28 (more on that closer to the date).  They’re also planning to release two films by Aaron Katz, Dance Party USA and Quiet City, sometime after both screen at The New Talkies festival in New York, which begins next week.
SPOUT: We start each installment of The Media Diet with the old desert island question: you’re packing your suitcase for life-long seclusion on a tropical island that happens to have a full entertainment system. What records, books, movies, video games, websites, etc do you bring with?
AARON: I’m a media whore, so this stream of consciousness might change in an hour: I’m watching Playtime, Once Upon a Time in the West, 2001, Wings of Desire, Suspiria, Penn &amp; Teller Get Killed, and the collected works of Herzog, Buñuel, Altman, Godard, and the Marx Brothers. I’m listening to Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Zappa, James Kochalka Superstar, and the four actresses covering Blue Hearts songs in Linda Linda Linda. Also, if my island has internet and video games, who needs books? (Kidding!)
ANDREW: I’ll try to keep this sensible, i.e., what I could reasonably carry in my backpack. The only book I’d need (the only book anybody needs for that matter) is William Gaddis’ The Recognitions, for it says everything there is to say about the human condition. I’d like to have every note recorded by John Coltrane, some Nick Drake, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, and that Scarlett Johansson album of Tom Waits covers. (No, I haven’t heard it, but, come on…) Films, of course, are tough—give me complete box sets of Godard, Allen, Cassavetes and Imamura. Throw in The Big Lebowski, Lawrence of Arabia, and Xanadu and I’m set.
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      <title>Spout Post: Dentler Takes the Stairs: Mark Duplass Interview</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2007/8/16/18229.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s278812.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 8/16/2007 2:00:43 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> If you read a lot of film blogs, you might have noticed a virus going around called Dentler Takes the Stairs. It’s all the brainchild of Matt Dentler, who is like the P.T. Barnum of the SXSW Film Festival, and who, by being the first person to program movies like Kissing on the Mouth and Dance Party, USA, has played a huge role in legitimizing this wave of no-budget American indie filmmaking over the past few years. Dentler conducted interviews with the major players in Hannah Takes the Stairs (the Joe Swanberg drama starring Greta Gerwig and filmmakers Mark Duplass, Andrew Bujalski, Kent Osbourne, Ry Russo-Young and Todd Rohal), and asked a number of us film bloggers to each broadcast one of these interviews on our blogs.
Matt asked me to carry the interview with Mark Duplass, and of course, I complied. I reviewed The Duplass Brothers’ The Puffy Chair, which Mark starred in and co-wrote, in 2005 after seeing the film both at SXSW and the Chicago International Film Festival. At the time I said this:
 It’s amazing how [The Puffy Chair] nails the mealy-mouthed way people my age have of saying what we mean by dressing the same words, over and over again, in different kinds of inflection. Between Rhett and Josh, the word “dude” has a thousand meanings; Emily isn’t satisfied being referred to by any of them. Fleshing out that tension, between what is being said and what it obviously means, is where The Puffy Chair really succeeds.
After the jump, I turn it over to Matt and Mark, who talk about Hannah’s Atari-fueled set, Andrew Bujalski’s boxers, and what Duplass did to get the film’s mythic stairs cut out of the picture.
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</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:00:43 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SpoutBlog</spout:postby><spout:postto>SpoutBlog on spout.com</spout:postto><spout:postdate>8/16/2007 2:00:43 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>If you read a lot of film blogs, you might have noticed a virus going around called Dentler Takes the Stairs. It’s all the brainchild of Matt Dentler, who is like the P.T. Barnum of the SXSW Film Festival, and who, by being the first person to program movies like Kissing on the Mouth and Dance Party, USA, has played a huge role in legitimizing this wave of no-budget American indie filmmaking over the past few years. Dentler conducted interviews with the major players in Hannah Takes the Stairs (the Joe Swanberg drama starring Greta Gerwig and filmmakers Mark Duplass, Andrew Bujalski, Kent Osbourne, Ry Russo-Young and Todd Rohal), and asked a number of us film bloggers to each broadcast one of these interviews on our blogs.
Matt asked me to carry the interview with Mark Duplass, and of course, I complied. I reviewed The Duplass Brothers’ The Puffy Chair, which Mark starred in and co-wrote, in 2005 after seeing the film both at SXSW and the Chicago International Film Festival. At the time I said this:
 It’s amazing how [The Puffy Chair] nails the mealy-mouthed way people my age have of saying what we mean by dressing the same words, over and over again, in different kinds of inflection. Between Rhett and Josh, the word “dude” has a thousand meanings; Emily isn’t satisfied being referred to by any of them. Fleshing out that tension, between what is being said and what it obviously means, is where The Puffy Chair really succeeds.
After the jump, I turn it over to Matt and Mark, who talk about Hannah’s Atari-fueled set, Andrew Bujalski’s boxers, and what Duplass did to get the film’s mythic stairs cut out of the picture.
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