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5 September 2008 11:02 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Cinematical has just received the first trailer for Nights and Weekends, written, starring and directed by Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig. The film, which first premiered during this year's South by Southwest Film Festival (or SXSW), follows one couple struggling to maintain a long distance relationship, and all the ups and downs that go along with that. Not only does it rank among Swanberg and Gerwig's best to date, but, as I said in my review, both "do a tremendous job tapping into everything we love about our relationships, as well as everything we hate - and they do this with moments, glances, kisses and tears. No score. No set pieces. No set up and payoff."

Like most films that carry the Swanberg and Gerwig name, it's experimental and it definitely takes risks in the way it conveys the story -- but that's also what makes it unique and a pleasure to watch.

Erik Davis

20 August 2008 11:26 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Oh baghead man with man titties, you get me so hot!

Photo: Sony Pictures Classics I can't help but wonder if movies should always be graded on the same scale. Should Godfather Part II be graded on the same scale as Space Chimps? When I review Step Brothers should I look at it the same way as Hostel? I have always looked at movies from a perspective of pure entertainment in my eyes, is there really any other way? Should I look at Mamma Mia! and give it a better grade than it actually deserves in my eyes just because the target audience is going to enjoy it even though I did not? To these questions I say, "No." In the case here with Baghead, should I give it a pass because it was made by a couple of guys that are trying their hardest to become big-time filmmakers even

Brad Brevet

24 July 2008 9:08 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Mumblecore - basically, movies by and for 20-somethings focusing on relationships with not much in the way of production values or narrative - goes mainstream with "Baghead," the first such flick with studio-affiliated distribution.

Brothers Mark and Jay Duplass, who helped pioneer this dubious 21st century phenomenon with "The Puffy Chair," have a talented cast in Steve Zissis, Ross Partridge, Greta Gerwig and Elise Muller.

After watching a bad low-budget indie,

By LOU LUMENICK

24 July 2008 4:08 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

With their 2005 indie sleeper The Puffy Chair, the Duplass brothers joined the growing ranks of low-fi digital filmmakers bypassing the usual cinematic gatekeepers, and just making a film on the fly. Their fiendishly clever follow-up, Baghead, pokes merciless fun at the very same Diy aesthetic that called it into existence, wondering aloud whether there's a certain creative bankruptcy to a bunch of friends getting together and deciding to make a movie. When four such friends head off into the woods for a moviemaking weekend, their spitballing session devolves into a fruitless evening of boozy chitchat, yielding not a single good idea. They're inspired by the notion of being filmmakers, but the reality of being one isn't for the half-assed. Ross Partridge, Steve Zissis, Greta Gerwig, and Elise Muller play the would-be writer-actor-directors of this little project, which finally comes to life when Muller dreams (or does she?)...

Scott Tobias

22 July 2008 7:29 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Aaron Hillis

A quick refresher for the six of you who need it: "Mumblecore" (c. 2005 - 2007?) is the hastily designated catch-all for a loosely allied circle of young American filmmakers utilizing a low-budget, documentary-esque shooting style for their talky Diy indies. Regardless of whether you like any of the individual films, odds are you're either (a) tired of hearing that overhyped word, (b) have never heard it before now, or (c) one of the Duplass brothers. Actor/filmmakers Mark and Jay Duplass . whose witty road-trip dramedy "The Puffy Chair" became one of the first m-word successes . are quite comfortable with their association to that so-called movement/genre/clique, and why shouldn't they be, considering Sony Pictures Classics has released their follow-up feature? (Talk about mumble-score, har har!)

"Baghead" stars Steve Zissis, Ross Partridge, Greta Gerwig and Elise Muller as four friends and wannabe thespians who hole up in a

Aaron Hillis

21 July 2008 7:21 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

With blockbusters taking a week off after "The Dark Knight" so thoroughly conquered the box office and its core audience descends upon Comic-Con in San Diego, an outstanding array from the indie scene offers plenty of alternative viewing.

"American Teen"

Her longtime collaborator Brett Morgen may be out of the picture, but "The Kid Stays in the Picture" co-director Nanette Burstein infiltrated the cliques, classrooms and hallways of an Indiana high school for her first solo doc, which netted her a directing award at Sundance earlier this year. Burstein follows a cross section of Warsaw High's senior class for 10 months in pursuit of their respective ambitions and priorities, and discovers that bonding at the library during Saturday detention is no way to communicate when text messaging and Im can be just as intimate.

Opens in limited release.

"Baghead"

Mumblecore alumni Jay and Mark Duplass celebrate their favorite

Neil Pedley

20 July 2008 12:32 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

The New York Film Festival has a new, temporary home. Most of the prestigious event usually un reels at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, but it is shut for renovations. So movies that would nor mally run there will be at the Ziegfeld, on West 54th Street.

One of the city's few remaining single-screen movie houses, it is named for Florenz Ziegfeld, the flamboyant Broadway impresario portrayed by William Powell in the 1936 Hollywood musical "The Great Ziegfeld."

The theater has 1,100 seats, about the same number as Alice Tully. (Last year, the smaller Rose Hall,

22 April 2008 4:02 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Michael Atkinson

Though it may seem unfair at first, let's pick up Joe Swanberg's "Hannah Takes the Stairs," heft it in our grips for a moment, and then use it to beat this thing called "mumblecore" to a pulp. Implicitly a kind of low-budge, ultra-spontaneous, all-hdv answer to the glossy fatuousness of current American film, mumblecore has a number of inherent problems (the least of which is its inherited moniker; using "-core" as a suffix in this way has no meaning). The fad's general strategy . naturally lit shaky-cam coverage of semi-inarticulate twentysomethings with bedhead speaking entirely in casual small talk and having or ruining relationships . is easy to peg as narcissistic and lazy, if you're not finely attuned to the genre's nonchalant sense of cool. But more than that, mumblecore movies strive for an interpersonal intimacy they never achieve, because intimacy requires skill, real acting and visual wisdom,

Michael Atkinson

27 March 2008 10:49 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Today we learned that Dee Wallace (The Howling, Cujo, Hills Have Eyes, Halloween), Mary B. McCann, Brenda Cooney (I Sell the Dead), John Speredakos (I Sell the Dead) and Heather Robb (The Roost, Trigger Man, I Sell the Dead) all join the previously announced Greta Gerwig, Jocelin Donahue, Aj Bowen, Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov in Ti West's House of the Devil, which will be produced and released by Dark Sky Films, along with Larry Fessenden (the roost, Last Winter) and Josh Braun & Roger Kass (History of Violence). In the late 1980s, college student Samantha takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret; they plan to use her in a satanic ritual...

26 February 2008 5:04 PM, PST | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

We learned this past weekend that Tom Noonan (Monster Squad, Robocop 2) and Mary Woronov (Chopping Mall, Devil's Rejects) will be joining the previously announced Greta Gerwig, Jocelin Donahue and Aj Bowen in Ti West's (The Roost, Cabin Fever 2) latest horror film, House of the Devil. In the late 1980s, college student Samantha takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret; they plan to use her in a satanic ritual...

15 February 2008 8:31 PM, PST | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

We got the scoop this evening on the two lead roles for Ti West's House of the Devil, which begins shooting in just a few weeks for Dark Dark Films. Jocelin Donahue, who can also be seen in Jt Petty's The Burrowers, will play the role of Sam; Greta Gerwig, who we saw in Baghead at last month's Sundance, will play Megan. They both join Aj Bowen, who stars in Magnolia Pictures' The Signal, in theaters next Friday. You can check out photos of both of them by reading on. and watch this spot for more updates as they come in.

11 articles from 2008