Let’s get it out of the way: it’s a stupid name. A tossed-off joke made at a bar during the 2005 edition of SXSW. Sound editor and former indie rocker Eric Masunaga technically coined the term, while ...

As Andrew Bujalski’s “Beeswax” opens in limited release tomorrow, the Internet is ablaze with discussions of the film and the relationship with the genre to which Bujalski has been named the father, ...

As far as its unofficial members are concerned, the “mumblecore” movement began and ended at the 2005 South by Southwest Film Festival. But the nickname, hatched in jest one night in Austin, Texas, ...

The post Director Katie Aselton on Moving From Mumblecore to Mack and Rita appeared first on Consequence. In Los Angeles, it feels like everyone wants to be young — except for Mackenzie “Mack” Martin ...

Christian Rudder in writer-director Andrew Bujalksi's 2002 film "Funny Ha Ha." (Courtesy Goodbye Cruel Releasing/Photofest) To hear him tell it, writer-director Andrew Bujalski didn’t deliberately set ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The new Netflix series “Easy” isn’t that good. In straining for realism, writer-director Joe ...

Joe Swanberg is a leading force in the Mumblecore movement and the brains behind such offbeat, character-driven dramas as LOL and Nights & Weekends. The innovative writer/director/actor’s latest, ...

"Mumblecore" was a punchline before it ever got started, but its low-def look and fumbling improvisations captured social anxieties that movies have since grown too big to see clearly. By the 2000s, ...