Capone's Art-House Round-Up with Joe Swanberg's DRINKING BUDDIES and the appalling AUSTENLAND
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Hey, folks. Capone in Chicago here, with a few films that are making their way into art houses or coming out in limited release around America this week (maybe even taking up one whole screen at a multiplex near you). Do your part to support these films, or at least the good ones… DRINKING BUDDIES Since he's started making films less than 10 years ago, Chicago-based filmmaker Joe Swanberg has gotten a reputation for a couple of different things. First, he works incredibly fast. He's made 21 films (or segments of films, such as a portion of the horror anthology V/H/S), including a couple that he's shot since his latest, DRINKING BUDDIES. And those 21 films don't even include all of the films he's acted in, although he does tend to act in a many of his own works. The other thing he's known for is bringing out raw, emotional, often-tormented performances from his actors, including the likes of Mark Duplass, Greta Gerwig, Jess Weixler, Amy Seimetz and Jane Adams, several of whom he is credited with discovering. But DRINKING BUDDIES is something different, more accessible, and, dare I say, more mainstream thanks to an impressive cast of known actors doing largely improvised dialogue in a story covering familiar Swanberg territory—the disintegration of relationships. But much of the first half of the film feels like a slightly more mature version of a romantic comedy, with Chicago brewery (Revolution Brewing, actually) co-workers Kate (Olivia Wilde) and Luke (Jake Johnson,
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