Five Reasons To See Jeff Who Lives At Home  ...even if you don't
think you like mumblecore.  by Andrew Osborne  Mark Duplass
doesn't classify the films he's co-directed with his brother
(including this week's Jeff, Who Lives At Home and The Do-Deca-
Pentathlon, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival on March
11) as "mumblecore."  "It was just a tag that somebody started
calling our movies," he explains — and by our, he means not just
Duplass Brothers movies, but the work of a new generation of
independent filmmakers, including Andrew Bujalski (Beeswax),
Lynn Shelton (Humpday), and Joe Swanberg (Hannah Takes The
Stairs). "I don't have a problem with people using tags in the
press to help group things," Duplass clarifies, though he finds
the term mumblecore "a bit reductive. But more importantly, it
sounds hoity-toity and exclusionary... I want to invite
everybody to see my movies." In that spirit, here are five
reasons to see Jeff, Who Lives At Home, even if "mumblecore"
sounds silly to you.  1. "Mumblecore"