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Funny Ha Ha (2003)
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Funny Ha Ha - A Review
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"First paragraph of a review that I posted last year:"If I'm in the mood for a Western, I want horses. If I'm in the mood for explosions, I go to a Jerry Bruckheimer or Michael Bay movie. In either case, I don't want, say, Max Von Sydow playing chess with Death in some black-and-white hovel on the rocky shores of Sturnnveggloven. In the same way, if I'm in the mood to watch echo-boomer twenty-somethings filming their friends hanging out with each other in small apartments and on the urban stoop and in the homes and basements of their parents and grandparents, none of whom will ever appear onscreen, then for those of you who haven't seen one such film before, this would be mumblecore."My assigned movie, "Funny Ha Ha," would be perhaps the first film in the mumblecore genre. Did I read something somewhere about how frequently, for some mysterious reason, the first in a genre is also the best? Homer, Milton, and Cervantes were mentioned. Could this be true of FHH? Is it the purest, a ... "
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Funny Ha Ha on Reel 13
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"I saw FUNNY HA HA in February on a panel for the new mumblecore movement and so for the first time since Reel 13 started, I turned off the TV after the short. I just couldn't sit through it again. That is not to say that it's this awful, unwatchable movie, but it's not good enough to rewatch so recently after seeing it for the first time. For those of you who aren't aware, mumblecore is an emerging movement in independent cinema (similar to the Dogma movement of the mid-90's) that feature non-actors, improvised dialogue, handheld verite camera, a loose plot and are shot with a micro-budget. The problem with most mumblecore films, including FUNNY HA HA, is that they are what they are out of necessity as opposed to aesthetics. In other words, they have handheld camera and non-actors because that's what they can afford, not because they have some high-brow artistic purpose. The scenes in FUNNY HA HA often feel quite staged for the camera, which belies the naturalism that mumblecore is ... "
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Funny Ha Ha - Sequins
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"By Tricia Olszewski “Honest” is a word likely to be thrown around a lot regarding writer-director Andrew Bujalski’s debut, Funny Ha Ha. “Realistic” is another. As in, people in real life aren’t always articulate, and they’re not always interesting or put together, and they don’t always have a whole lot to do. Just like Bujalski’s characters. Man, it’s so honest. Yeah, but you know what? Sometimes—in fact, a whole lot of the time, if you’re lucky enough—people in real life are also well-spoken and charismatic and fun to be around. And therein lies the problem with Funny Ha Ha, a meandering drama about a meandering college grad and her dull friends. Sure, life right after college can be a drag. And certainly, adolescence can now extend well into one’s 20s, causing physical grown-ups to still make giant deals out of crushes and bust creamer containers in restaurants and yell out “Dorks!” ... "
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Mumblecore
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"When is it time to demarcate a filmmaking "movement"? What if the filmmakers in this movement don't want to be grouped into any kind of movement at all? And what if the films in this movement revolve around the crisis of self-definition? Could it get any worse for one of its members than to have to talk about feeling self-conscious about being in a movement? An article in the Spring 2007 issue of Filmmaker Magazine begins by asking these very smart questions, which immediately intrigued me. The article, "What I Meant to Say," looks quite thoroughly at the independent film movement known by many as "mumblecore." There are several posts waiting to emerge from this article, so I hope Paul and some of the other guys will share their thoughts in the coming days. For now, just check out the article and take note of the collaboration aspect of this movement. The article generalizes these mumblecore films as "severely naturalistic portraits of the life and loves of artistic twentysomet ... "
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Funny Ha Ha: sort-of loved it
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"I sorta loved this film, but sorta thought it was awful. Which is probably the exact right response for a film that is all about indecision, paralysis, and the inability to deal. It's a far cry from Slacker, the granddaddy of all slacker-made, slacker-themed films, though. "
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