Taxonomies, 4/9.

"Although his career has overlapped those of François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and other critics-turned-filmmakers who became collectively known as the New Wave, [Alain] Resnais was never a member of their group. He, and contemporaries like Agnès Varda and Chris Marker, came from the liberal intellectual establishment of the Left Bank, while Truffaut and many of his colleagues were uncredentialed Right Bank outsiders, whose politics, at least in the early days, tended toward Catholic conservatism." And from this third paragraph on, Dave Kehr walks us through an excellent primer on the oeuvre, right on up through Resnais's latest, Private Fears in Public Places.

As Sujewa Ekanayake adds a page to the IndieFilmPedia, "Mumblecore," Matt Dentler posts an entry entitled "Mumblecore's Cousin = the 'Gordon Green Gang.'" They're distant cousins, but relatives nonetheless, he argues.

In the GGG corner would be Craig Zobel, Zack Godshall and Jeff Nichols, whose crews for Great World of Sound, Low and Behold and Shotgun Stories, respectively, have included many who have had one thing or another to do with David Gordon Green's films. "And, quite directly, there are three filmmakers in the mumblecore movement connected to the North Carolina film community. They are: Nate Meyer (Pretty in the Face), Michael Tully (Cocaine Angel) and Aaron Katz (Quiet City)." But wait, there's more: "I would go toe-to-toe with anyone to proclaim that [DGG's] first two films, George Washington and All the Real Girls, are the first major mumblecore films of the last 10 years. That was where the verite styles of Maysles and Malick, became married with the personal approach of Cassavetes and Rohmer."

Meanwhile, Andy Spletzer introduces himself at Film.com: "What is Indie? And Who Am I?"

Posted by dwhudson at April 9, 2007 1:08 PM