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Mutual Appreciation (2005)
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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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"I just watched this for the first time the other day. I'd heard that it was one of the first of a new crop of talkie, low-budget indy movies, a few of which I've really liked (namely Quiet City and The Puffy Chair). I guess that when it first came out I can see how the no-frils naturalistic dialogue could seem really fresh, but watching it now it seems like a tool that's used well, but it doesn't accomplish much. "
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Sundance Trailer: ‘Goliath’
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"From what I hear, everyone is talking about Goliath, a film by the Zellner Brothers that premieres at Sundance this evening. But after watching the trailer, I have to wonder what has people so excited. Sure, I think it looks cheap and funny in a Me and You and Everyone We Know sort of way — which isn’t a gripe, as Miranda July’s film was my favorite at the festival back in 2005 — but it also looks like something homemade and bound for YouTube, and I’m not the only person on the internet to say so. Fortunately, the film has support from the right people. On the Goliath Facebook page, SXSW producer Matt Dentler commented that it’s “an awesome, awesome movie. Truly.” But Sundance is very different from Austin, and just because the Zellner Brothers have a loyal following back home doesn’t mean they’ll succeed in Park City. Then again, after excitedly watching Me and You three years ago, I never thought it was going to catch on with other people at Su "
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A Rare Character Study
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"One ongoing debate in cinema is realism, and how much of it really exists in a film. There is always that question of what the audience wants: ridiculously unreal yet amusing, or true-to-life, yet accurate? Let's take for example the relationship comedy. Most of these films rely on pre-planned monologues and dialogues about sex and dating that may be rather funny at times. However, there is sometimes a question about the truthfulness of these scenes. Is this really how people talk in real life, and does the audience really relate to the material? In a sea of clichés, there are a few filmmakers in the independent world who will boldly sacrifice blockbuster spectacle to capture the essence of how humans really interact. Mutual Appreciation is a striking example. In the spirit of Swingers and Rent, Mutual Appreciation focuses on the "little fish in the big sea" idea of young twentysomethings moving to the big city to pursue their dreams. Alan (Justin Rice) is an ... "
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"Here’s an excerpt from a comment by Variety writer Peter Debruge, left on a SXSW dispatch by Aaron Hillis on Glenn Kenny’s blog: Pretty soon, it all reduces to semantics, but the label benefits those it describes in that it connects films that, on an individual basis, would be too small to register on most people’s radar. Would Hannah Takes the Stairs or Quiet City or Mutual Appreciation have warranted a NY Times piece on their own? (Then again, is the NYT even the right forum to discuss such films, which seem to do just fine with the more selective audience of the blogosphere?) Debruge is here giving us an object lesson in why most applications of The M Word are really, really frustrating: the genre label becomes a polite form of thinly masking the condescending assumption that none of these films can stand on their own without it. Mutual Appreciation is not a film that needs a movement as a prerequisite, especially one which mostly coalesced after its premiere. As resolutely anal ... "
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"Here’s an excerpt from a comment by Variety writer Peter Debruge, left on a SXSW dispatch by Aaron Hillis on Glenn Kenny’s blog: Pretty soon, it all reduces to semantics, but the label benefits those it describes in that it connects films that, on an individual basis, would be too small to register on most people’s radar. Would Hannah Takes the Stairs or Quiet City or Mutual Appreciation have warranted a NY Times piece on their own? (Then again, is the NYT even the right forum to discuss such films, which seem to do just fine with the more selective audience of the blogosphere?) Debruge is here giving us an object lesson in why most applications of The M Word are really, really frustrating: the genre label becomes a polite form of thinly masking the condescending assumption that none of these films can stand on their own without it. Mutual Appreciation is not a film that needs a movement as a prerequisite, especially one which mostly coalesced after its premiere. As resolutely anal ... "
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Voice of his generation.
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"I hope this film ends up doing for our generation of slackers what Richard Linklater did for the 90's slacker. Andrew Bujalski is the next great indy director that everybody should keep an eye on. His writing, acting, directing, and editing show a man who understands his art. I can't wait to see his next film. On a side note, the music is unbeleivable. Justin Rice and Bishop Allen are just straight up great musicians that Bujalski did right by exploiting. Also, math rock drummers suck. Everyone should see this film. "
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The New Naturalists
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"Yet another gem from the Silent Movie’s stellar fall schedule that I somehow forgot to mention: The New Naturalists, with Saturdays in December devoted to a handful of works from “America’s new-fly-on-the-wall auteurs.” The Puffy Chair, Mutual Appreciation, Frownland and Old Joy and will be joined by Jennifer Shainin and Randy Walker’s Apart From That. All that, and not an M-word in sight. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog "
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"Please join me in thanking SXSW’s Matt Dentler for the above. Earlier today, Matt posted a video on his blog titled “How Mumblecore Saved My Life.” In it, a young, female filmmaker named Erin (peruse her full YouTube oeuvre here) explains at some length how films like Andrew Bujalski’s Mutual Appreciation have restored her faith in independent cinema. If you’ve got seven minutes to kill, it’s great, but oh–there’s so much more. Matt pinged me this afternoon to draw my attention to another of Erin’s videos, and this one shot to the top of my list of potential Clips of the Day. It’s Erin’s version of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl … rewritten as a tribute to one Lindsay Lohan. As you’re surely aware by now, Ms. Lohan was busted yet again this morning for driving with alcohol in her bloodstream and coke in her pants (for more det "
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