Some films ask big questions. Oru Naal Uravu asks a smaller, more uncomfortable one: what do you do with a connection that ...

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 ...

If you think that the tiny indie movies known as ‘mumblecore’ -- movies like "The Puffy Chair" and "Quiet City" -- are easy to make, watch one that systematically botches the staging and framing and ...

One of the founding events of the modern cinema is the writing of a letter by Ingrid Bergman, likely in 1947, at the height of her stardom, to the director Roberto Rossellini, expressing her ...

As mumblecore legends Andrew Bujalski and Joe Swanberg release new films, Computer Chess and Drinking Buddies, Ryan Gilbey talks to them about the meandering legacy of a movement that irritated as ...

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, ...

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, ...

"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, ...