{"id":9060,"date":"2010-09-09T22:47:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T21:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9060"},"modified":"2010-09-09T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T22:13:07","slug":"interview-jay-duplass-on-cyrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/09\/09\/interview-jay-duplass-on-cyrus\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Jay Duplass on Cyrus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cyrus<\/a><\/strong> is the latest film from Jay<\/a> and Mark Duplass<\/a>, <\/strong>a\u00a0is a comedy-drama about a lonely divorcee (John C. Reilly<\/a>) who finally meets the woman of his dreams (Marisa Tomei<\/a>), only to discover that she has an over-protective son (Jonah Hill<\/a>).<\/p>\n

After breaking through on the US festival scene with low-budget films such as The Puffy Chair<\/a> (2005) and Baghead<\/a> (2008), the Duplass Brothers quickly became associated with the term ‘mumblecore<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

It was a loose phrase used to describe a certain kind of US indie movie, often focusing on introspective twenty-somethings and shot on tiny budgets using documentary-style techniques.<\/p>\n

Directors such as Andrew Bujalski<\/a>,\u00a0Lynn Shelton<\/a>, Aaron Katz<\/a> and Joe Swanberg<\/a> all had the label applied to their films, which stood out from the increasingly expensive indie scene of the early and mid-2000s.<\/p>\n

Since then, the genre has arguably been absorbed into the mainstream with Greenberg<\/a> – the Ben Stiller comedy featuring mumblecore regular Greta Gerwig<\/a> – and now Cyrus, which sees the Duplass Brothers take their style of filmmaking to the division of a major studio (Fox Searchlight).<\/p>\n

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I recently spoke with Jay Duplass<\/strong> in London about the new film, what the term mumblecore means to him now and the transition from ultra-low budget indies to the studio system.<\/p>\n

Listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Jay_Duplass_on_Cyrus.mp3]\n

You can also download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n

Cyrus<\/strong> opens at UK cinemas on Friday 10th September<\/em><\/p>\n

> Official site for Cyrus<\/a>
\n> Jay Duplass<\/a> at the IMDb
\n>\u00a0New York Times article from 2007 on Mumblecore<\/a><\/p>\n

[Photo: Chuck Zlotnick \/ \u00a9 Fox Searchlight Pictures]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interview with Jay Duplass, co-writer and director of the new comedy-drama Cyrus, which stars John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei and Jonah Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[1543,1544],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}