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Dakota Fanning, Jake Johnson and Cory Michael Smith have signed on to star in an Alaska-set romantic drama from filmmaker Joe ...
When director Joe Swanberg came up with the idea for “Easy,” a new Chicago-set anthology series streaming on Netflix on Thursday, he first looked at his own TV habits. “The goal was to make ...
I have a theory: Joe Swanberg is fucking with us. I don’t mean that the 30-year-old filmmaker, having directed a dozen scrappy features more or less based on everyday existence in seven years ...
To properly discuss a Joe Swanberg movie involves, eventually, talking about yourself, so let’s get it out of the way: I don’t like or love his movies, as much as I find them . . . unavoidable.
Easy comes from prolific writer/director/actor Joe Swanberg, who you probably don’t know by name, you might know by the titles of his films, but you definitely know the people in his movies.
Richard Brody reviews Season 2 of “Easy,” Joe Swanberg’s Netflix series, which stars Kate Micucci, Dave Franco, Kiersey Clemons, Karley Sciortino, Jane Adams, and more.
Joe Swanberg doesn’t envy today’s emerging filmmakers. They’ve got a tough road ahead of them — far tougher, he says, than just a decade ago, when he was making a name for himself on the ...
Swanberg had started making his series for $500 to $1,000 an episode. “If I didn’t know Ti, I would have been happy with [getting a raise] to $3,000,” but instead IFC, didn’t blink when he ...
Has Joe Swanberg Gone Hollywood? Don’t Count on It Following the success of "Drinking Buddies" and the hype surrounding the Lena Dunham-starrer "Happy Christmas," the hot director tells THR why ...
Even Joe Swanberg has to stop to count the number of Joe Swanberg movies out there right now. Just this year he premiered “Uncle Kent” at Sundance and unveiled “Silver Bullets” and “Art ...
Joe Swanberg, a busy bee who has put the indie in independent filmmaker – he completed seven features in 2010 alone – turns to television this week as the creator, director and writer of the ...
Last winter I emailed Chicago filmmaker Joe Swanberg and said I would like to write a profile of him. The reason was obvious: Unusual as it may seem for a dizzyingly prolific 32-year-old ...