Existentialist and ineffable, the mumblecore movement has been popular with indie filmmakers for two decades and counting. Read on for information on this film subgenre, how it came to be, and the ...

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, ...

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 ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

A bit late to the Dance Party USA, David Denby discovers mumblecore in this week’s New Yorker, devoting his entire film column to the genre. You’re about twenty-five years old, and you’re no more than ...

After launching his career in 2002 with Funny Ha Ha, a comedy that focused on aimless twentysomethings and was filmed with handheld 16mm cameras, Andrew Bujalski helped usher in the mumblecore genre ...

"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, ...