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Interviews: 10-25.
With Hannah Takes the Stairs set to open in Austin, Spencer Parsons has a few points to make before getting his Chronicle interview started: "'Improv' has often been too often invoked in discussions of independent filmmaking since Cassavetes put that prankish title card at the end of Shadows, but no other American filmmaker I know, mumbling or not, engages in such radical and rigorous improvisation on every level. It's a dangerous sort of process to discuss, sure to be used as ammunition by detractors or to become the downfall of would-be disciples who think it can be easily imitated. So I talked with Joe [Swanberg] and some of his chief collaborators about how they wouldn't have it any other way."
Meanwhile, dave at chained to the cinemathèque: "Hannah Takes the Stairs is one of the finest American independent films I've seen".
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