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August 08, 2007
Hannah Takes The Cake
During the brief discussion following the Slackavettes program at the Dallas Video Festival last week, an attempt was made to disavow the Mumblecore moniker. True to my own entry in the program, I remained entirely mum, but had I spoken, I would have suggested that the ultimate qualification that all the films lumped under this mildly awkward term share is simply: they're all good. Sure, there are other factors (DV, improvisation, Swanberg) that tie some of them together, but ultimately, I think the link they all share is both temporal and qualitative, and any attempt to bandy about any sort of categorization can ultimately be justified merely by the fact that they're made on on their own terms - and that those terms, in their own right, are very, very strong.
All of this is a preamble to the official trailer for Hannah Takes The Stairs, which is itself a proem to a certain degree of coverage this New Talkies genre is going to be receiving in the near future, both here and elsewhere.
In related news, Wiley Wiggins reports that the outstanding Kevin Bewersdorf, who arranged the cover of the 1812 Overture that's audible in the above trailer, will be having a show with Paul Slocum in Austin this weekend. Will it compare to the amazing evening of hotel room fireworks (leftover from James' shoot) in Dallas this past week? I wish I could tell you for certain, but regretfully I've forsaken the plains of Texas for the palm trees of La La Land once again. The thought of this transition makes me want to throw up in my mouth a little bit.
Posted by David Lowery at August 8, 2007 01:12 AM