Mutual Appreciation News

Fans of cutesy indie rock, rejoice. Bishop Allen, Throw Me the Statue and Darwin Deez will grace Washington with their presences tomorrow night at the Black Cat.

Party like it's Bishop Allen. Sebastian Mlynarski Has a band ever dared to be as cute and cuddly as Brooklyn's Bishop Allen ? And who can resist a clutch of brainy indie rockers with such a light touch, such a likable sense of humor? You get a good dose of Bishop Allen's whimsy on this year's Dead Oceans release, Grrr... , and you wouldn't be out ...

Opening this week on the local film-society circuit: 'Harmony and Me' This low-key comedy, named after an Elton John song, belongs to the badly named indie sub-genre known as mumblecore.

As Jeannie, Tilly Hatcher rolls as she pleases. Details: Runs at Northwest Film Forum, Fri., Oct.

Heading toward Halloween weekend, a pair of new web series are testing the notion that scary fare can work online.

Harvard is an incubator for people who become wildly successful in medicine, law, politics, science and business.

An Anxious Engine production in association with Film Theory. Produced by Lauren Veloski.

Andrew Bujalski writes his films with its nominal stars in mind first, and from there runs with the story.

Swanberg and Rice get stranded. Details: Local Sightings Film Festival Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., 267-5380, nwfilmforum.org . Fri., Oct.

The only American film to have its world premiere at MoMA's New Directors/New Films festival in April, Bob Byington's Harmony and Me takes the low-budget techniques associated with the much-maligned "mumblecore" cycle and puts them to the service of a raucous, highly musical comedy about the agony of introducing a broken heart into everyday life.

Writer-director Andrew Bujalski follows up his well-received Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation with Beeswax, a subtle, amusing film filled with charm and spontaneity that displays the filmmaker's gift for creating an acute sense of life being lived before our very eyes.

There's no filmmaker working today who more accurately captures awkward moments than Andrew Bujalski.

Beeswax the third feature film by award-winning director Andrew Bujalski will open at the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles Aug.

Beeswax the third feature film by award-winning director Andrew Bujalski will open at the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles Aug.

The characters in Andrew Bujalski's stable of unenthused meanderers are at once unabashedly talky and frustratingly reticent.

If the word 'mumblecore' ever meant anything in the first place, it definitely had something to do with Andrew Bujalski.

Over-under-articulators might be the best way to describe the characters in the films of Andrew Bujalski.

Jess Weixler and Justin Rice in "Alexander the Last" Alexander the Last , the fifth feature from this year's readers' choice for best local filmmaker Joe Swanberg , headlines Indie Flicks Tuesday, 8/11 at Sonotheque.

Release Date: Aug. 7 Director/ Writer: Andrew Bujalski Cinematographer: Matthias Grunsky Starring: Tilly Hatcher, Maggie Hatcher, Alex Karpovsky, Katy O'Connor Studio/Run Time: The Cinema Guild, 100 mins.

The late critic Manny Farber was most famous for his distinction between "White Elephant Art" and "Termite Art." The former referred to bloated, self-important works , the latter to art much more modest in scale, but also more valued for "eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaving nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, ...