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May 13, 2019 · Interview Highlights. Enlarge this image. Joe Swanberg, pictured at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, has translated his filmmaking style into an anthology Netflix series in Easy. Matt...
Sep 23, 2016 · Features. General. How ‘Easy’ Creator Joe Swanberg Talked Himself Into Making TV for Netflix. The indie favorite explains how his transition from the 90-minute format to the 30-minute format...
Published Sep. 22, 2016, 12:25 p.m. ET. Netflix. Where to Stream: Easy. Powered by Reelgood. New to Netflix today is Joe Swanberg ’s new drama-comedy Easy, an anthology series that examines the...
- Acting in Tension
- "I Am A Pawn in Your Larger Game"
- Directing — You Can Do It Too
- Working on His Offseason
A large part of the world, though, might know Swanberg for his acting career, where he brings a charming and comic simplicity to some roles (like the excellent Christmas dark comedy White Reindeer), though he's also essentially very good at dying. He usually transports the tonal naturalism of his great independent films into the heightened terror o...
The realism he brings to something like You're Next is funny in contrast to the horrific gore of that wonderful home invasion film, and the naturalism he brings in Offseason (as someone accompanying his on-again-off-again partner to her haunted hometown) makes the atmospheric dread all the more believable, even in an often allegorical setting. Ulti...
Swanberg may have been inspired by Keating, but he's been inspirational to many himself. He was one of the directors who proved that a good film could be made in very cheap ways (his LOL and Kissing on the Moutheach cost less than $3,000), and his prolific output and refusal to stay down almost makes him the 'Rocky' of independent cinema. He doesn'...
Mickey Keating and Swanberg have a lot in common, even if the former excels at the 'precision technical' side and the latter is best with 'messy emotions.' They both spent chunks of their childhood in Florida, right around where Offseasonwas filmed, and the two could talk cinema together for hours. The production brought these two forces of film to...
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Oct 25, 2011 · Things soon get complicated—especially since the film-within-a-film narrative distorts reality, fiction, and desire. Swanberg recently spoke with Slant about his work to date, the making of Silver Bullets, and the mumblecore movement. Silver Bullets is one of six films you directed in 2011.
Aug 21, 2015 · Interview: Joe Swanberg Talks Personal Filmmaking, Paul Mazursky, And The Inspiration Of 'Friday Night Lights' By Katie Walsh. August 21, 2015 12:00 pm. Share. Joe Swanberg’s work has...
Jun 7, 2014 · The Sacrament Interview: Joe Swanberg. Joe Swanberg Talks THE SACRAMENT, Collaborating with Ti West, Challenges of Acting in a Vérité Film, How His Career Has Evolved, and More. By...
