Joe Swanberg
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First Look: Olivia Wilde & Jake Johnson In Joe Swanberg's 'Drinking Buddies'
Since 2005, director Joe Swanberg has shot over a dozen feature-length DIY films. He helped kick off the term "mumblecore" in 2005 with his debut, "Kissing on the Mouth," and he's known for micro-budgeted indies like "Hannah Takes The Stairs" (which helped launch Greta Gerwig's career), "Nights & We...
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SXSW Head Janet Pierson Discusses SXSW 2013 Lineup: 'I get invested in so many of the films.'
SXSW Film Festival producer Janet Pierson has one of more challenging roles among festival programmers in North America.
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AFI Fest Review: Joe Swanberg's 'All the Light in the Sky' Is a Minor Effort in a Minor Key
Some filmmakers invest in each new movie with a robustness comparable to a band making a full-fledged musical album, but Joe Swanberg's lean, scrappy approach to each project often results in works resembling individual tracks. "All the Light in the Sky" is a B-side in the prolific you...
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Filmmaker Joe Swanberg and Critic Devin Faraci Clash at Fantastic Fest
See the pictures. Read the transcript. Witness as filmmaker and critic literally come to blows.
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Exclusive Excerpts: J. Hoberman's "FILM AFTER FILM: Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?"
In the book, the former Village Voice film critic and current ARTINFO contributor addresses the shift from film to digital cinema in the first decade of the new millennium.
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Critic's Notebook: Joe Swanberg's New Star-Studded Project Proves No Microbudget Filmmaker Wants to Stay That Way Forever
I have a theory: Joe Swanberg is fucking with us.
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Olivia Wilde, Ron Livingston & Jake Johnson Join Joe Swanberg's 'Drinking Buddies'
Following in the footsteps of micro-budgeted filmmakers like the Duplass Brothers, American independent filmmaker and actor Joe Swanberg looks like he's going Hollywood for his next project. And or, at the very least, the mumblecore-y director/writer/thespian has scored himself a prett...
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Anna Kendrick To Star In Joe Swanberg's 'Drinking Buddies'
So is Joe Swanberg selling out, or is Anna Kendrick slumming it? Perhaps it's somewhere in the middle for both these talents, but if you told us before today that these two would be working together on a movie, we would've laughed.
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Sundance Film Festival Announces Out of Competition Lineups
The Sundance Film Festival has announced its 2012 Out of Competition titles, which will screen in the event's Spotlight, Park City at Midnight, NEXT <=> (yep, that symbol is part of the name) and New Frontier sections. Today's announcement comes on the heels of yesterday's U....
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With “The Zone,” 2011 AFI Fest Honoree Joe Swanberg Wises Up: “I Want People to Like Me.”
A lot of people are skeptical about Joe Swanberg, especially Joe Swanberg. Thirty years old and Chicago based, he’s the only filmmaker to gain serious mileage from the vaguely defined “mumblecore” movement. And he’s the first to realize that making extremely similar microbudg...
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