I’m a big fan of Noah Baumbach’s first film, Kicking and Screaming, probably because I saw it shortly after finishing grad school. I’m not sure there’s another movie that so squarely gets that post-graduation combination of anxiety and ambivalence, where the freedom to do anything paralyzes you into doing nothing. Sure, The Graduate is a [...]
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Mailbox Film Festival #15: Greenberg (Baumbach, 2010)
Posted in Say/Think, tagged 2010, 2010 movies, ben stiller, greenberg, greta gerwig, jennifer jason leigh, kicking and screaming, mailbox film festival, mark duplass, movies, noah baumbach, rhys ifans on March 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Mailbox Film Festival #1: Cyrus (Duplass & Duplass, 2010)
Posted in Say/Think, tagged 2010, 2010 movies, catherine keener, cyrus, jay duplass, john c. reilly, jonah hill, mailbox film festival, marisa tomei, mark duplass, matt walsh, movies, mumblecore, netflix on January 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In “Mailbox Film Festival,” I’ll write about every movie I get sent through my new Netflix account. I’m signed up for the one-at-a-time plan, so if I’m disciplined enough (and the postal service cooperates), I should be writing about two of these a week. First up: Cyrus, a semi-big-budget mumblecore dramedy by fellow Louisiana natives [...]
