Results tagged “mutualappreciation”

We interviewed local filmmaker Joe Swanberg recently and so we figured that was a pretty good excuse to talk to his sometime-partner-in-crime Andrew Bujalski. The two have been fountainheads of enthusiasm for the recent explosion in microbudget filmmaking. Bujalski has two features under his belt, Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation. Both are painfully hilarious (or hilariously painful) and startlingly lifelike: it's impossible to tell where the screenplays ends and improv begins. Pretentious comparisons to John Cassavetes and Richard Linklatter are hard to avoid, and like the latter, his honest handling of the foibles of youth are a billion miles away from Hollywood.

We don't know about you, but we're not really like most characters on TV: toothy grins, fabulous apartments, going to hangouts where everyone seems to know our name, and conveniently never getting charged for anything. Nope, we're apt to avoid the dentist out of fear or laziness, our apartment is substantially furnished with items found through dumpster diving, and we never seem to get that free drink we thought was imminent.