Indie Flicks
"Ohhhh yuhs. Let's put on our vintage wear and be suburban and arty: Let's make a Po-mo Indie film."
Addicted, yet detached. Like an Indie Film.
I just saw Me, you and everyone we know. I didn't really rate it, although the child actors were great and it was so well edited and filmed, I couldn't help but want the movie to keep going.
Other films in the genre:
- About Schmidt
- Thumbsucker
- The Royal Taunenbaums
- Shop Girl
- Napoleon Dynamite
- The Squid and The Whale
- The upcoming Little Miss Sunshine
Elements required by the genre:
- 70's Organ Solos
- Retro dresses
- Lots of silence
- Dysfunction/angst
- An artist working a low end job waiting for her big break
- Middle America
- Close-ups of ordinary objects
- Minimal dialouge, and of that, a good percetage must be absurdist
- Naught melodrama, minimal emotion
I welcome your suggestions.
posted by The Borg at
9:43 PM
2 Comments:
Saw the ads for Nacho Libris the other night. Looked kinda funny, but the reviews have been fairly poor...
By
Craig Schwarze, At
10:21 PM
Haven't seen many of those movies (and the ones I have seen, left me wanting to ask for a refund of the 90 minutes of my life I wasted on them).
As much as I love Zach Braff in Scrubs, I think you would need to add Garden State to your list of po-mo indie flicks.
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Anonymous, At
7:49 PM
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