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Thursday, September 6, 2007

Mumblecore at NW Film Forum

posted by on September 6 at 12:48 PM

A pair of Mumblecore movies by director Aaron Katz is showing at Northwest Film Forum this weekend.

I’ve cheered about Mumblecore before. I like the genre because despite its sullen, art house trappings, the films are sad & groovy, emphasis on groovy: Slow films running on irrepressible optimism.

Stranger Film Editor Annie Wagner, also a Mumblecore fan, seconded my opinion during NWFF’s last mumblecore showing.

Annie’s on vacation, so she asked me to review the latest batch showing this weekend as NWFF kicks off its “Mumble Without a Cause” showcase.

You can read my short review of Katz’s movies in this week’s Film Shorts calendar.

I didn’t have room in the review, though, to highlight a couple of extra things.

1) Despite the non-Hollywood actors (Mublecore specializes in the “Use-your-Friends” school of casting) the acting is top-notch. You forget the people on screen are acting. And there’s definitely some Hollywood good looks going on. The lead female in Quiet City looks like a real-life Scarlett Johansson, and the lead female in Dance Party USA looks like a young Cybil Shepherd. (Seems to be a thing with these movies. The girl in Andrew Bujalski’s 2002 Mumblecore classic Funny Ha Ha was a total looker.)

2) The piano music interludes in both Katz movies, composed by Keegan DeWitt, are beautiful.

3) Katz’s cinematographer, Sean McElwee, has serious chops. The closing scene of Dance Party USA obsesses on a charming surprise visual that reframes the whole flick with Mumblecore optimism.

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Stop saying Mumblecore.

Posted by Nick | September 6, 2007 1:27 PM
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I can't.

Posted by Josh Feit | September 6, 2007 1:29 PM
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Vacation? Where? Iraq?

Posted by Mr. Poe | September 6, 2007 1:56 PM
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I love/hate the term "mumblecore" so much.

Posted by josh | September 6, 2007 2:18 PM
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I refuse to watch anything called classified as mumblecore. And I really don't care if I'm missing out.

Posted by Rotten666 | September 6, 2007 2:47 PM
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Mumblecore just got the kiss of death

Posted by figureit | September 6, 2007 4:10 PM
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I'm glad that we're really open mided in Seattle. Let's see... I could say I refuse to read any post by anyone with the handle Rotten666 for instance, but that would robably mean that I was a provincial son of a bitch wouldn't it?

Check the films out... the filmmakers themselves hate the term, but its the media who have really propagated it. You will be missing out.

Posted by apttitle@yahoo.com | September 7, 2007 8:39 AM
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nope. Still not watching.

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I'm not sure what the fuck they accomplish though.

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