Say Goodbye To Mumblecore: How The Duplass Brothers Rise Above The Ramble [Grierson & Leitch]

It’s really easy to hate mumblecore. Not the movies—just that name. A collection of like-minded low-budget indie films about 20-somethings (usually white and pasty) trying to find their way in the world, “mumblecore” calls to mind all the weakest tendencies in these movies—specifically, their ineffectual, rambling, mumbling meagerness. You can get a sense of how much people even within this so-called movement hate that label by how quickly they dismiss it in interviews. The reason’s pretty obvious: “Mumblecore” suggests the epitome of Hipster White People Problems, and who wants to be associated with that? More »