It's in the bag
Baghead
Say hello to mumblecore's answer to the Coen brothers.
Mumblecore n. American independent film movement characterised by low-budget production, improvised scripts and non-professional actors.
Dubbed the 'Coens of mumblecore', the Duplass brothers - Jay and Mark - have come a long way. The first film they ever made was called The Blob and starred their blue beanbag. Then came The Invisible Man Walking Across the Den followed by the epic saga of (in Jay's words) "the robber versus the karate expert".
After making more bad movies, the Duplass boys finally hit the jackpot when they wrote, produced and directed (and in Mark's case starred in) The Puffy Chair, for which their only expenses were "two puffy chairs, gas and food". The film is, yes, about a puffy chair. It's also a very funny road-trip movie in which Josh (Mark Duplass) drives cross-country with his demanding girlfriend, who just wants him to commit, and his brother whose biggest accomplishment is videotaping a lizard in the bushes outside his apartment building.
The Puffy Chair premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, scored the Audience Award at the SXSW Film Festival and is making its Melbourne premiere in Freaky Fridays next week. Then, over the following two weeks, Freaky Fridays will screen the Melbourne premiere of their latest film Baghead, which is about, well, a guy with a bag over his head (who may or may not be a violent killer) who torments two couples in the woods. Think The Blair Witch Project with a touch of Scooby Doo. As Jay once said, "we were excited about trying to make something scary where the only tool that you had was a grocery bag".
You'll never look at a paper bag the same way again.
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Published Thursday, 30 July 2009
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