Sentences with phrase «puffy chair»

Cyrus (Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass): I first became aware of filmmaking brothers Jay and Mark Duplass when I saw their feature The Puffy Chair at SXSW» 05.

He and his brother Jay first gained recognition in the early 2000's for writing, directing and producing several acclaimed independent and studio films, including The Puffy Chair, Cyrus, and Jeff, Who Lives at Home.

And because the finale will leave you in tears, Valentine's Day is the only excusable day to pass on The Puffy Chair.

But the Duplass» brothers brilliant debut The Puffy Chair doesn't play by those rules.

Few films offer such a genuine, unglamorous view of love and heartbreak like the one shown in The Puffy Chair.

Mumblecore pioneer, Mark Duplass (The Puffy Chair, Baghead) plays Kenneth, the supermarket clerk seeking a companion for time travel.

Mark Duplass is also acting in Greenberg, he is the director of a pair of more high profile mumblecore flicks, Baghead and The Puffy Chair and has starred in even more widely known MC pics like Humpday and Hannah Takes the Stairs (also with Gerwig).

Which brings us to The Puffy Chair, a wonderful feature debut from brothers Jay Duplass, who directs, and Mark Duplass, who stars and produces.

But The Puffy Chair could have been more.

Writer / director Mark Duplass (The Puffy Chair) plays Ben, the grounded one who is married, while Joshua Leonard (The Blair Witch Project) plays Andrew, the footloose, spur - of - the - moment one.

Oddly, the solution could be to put more emphasis on the gimmick; give us more puffy chair.

Don't get me wrong: The Puffy Chair is still very much worth seeing.

In fact, Duplass has cast her in several of his films, most notably one of his earliest, The Puffy Chair, where Aselton is the definition of fresh - faced, bringing a really genuine performance to the screen.

Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard, both extremely skilled in semi-improvisational indie fare (Duplass co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in The Puffy Chair and Baghead; Leonard appeared in The Blair Witch Project), fall into an easy chemistry as friends who look at each other's life with a sliver of envy.

As an actor, Mark co-starred in The Puffy Chair, Joe Swanberg's 2007 Hannah Takes The Stairs from IFC Films, and 2009's breakout Sundance hit Humpday from Magnolia Pictures.

He and his brother Jay also wrote and directed the 2005 Sundance breakout hit The Puffy Chair, which went on to win the Audience Award at SXSW 2005 and was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards.

That is a movement that has been easy to miss and I don't expect you to know the co - writers / directors» The Puffy Chair (2006) and Baghead (2008).

Sitting with the creative team behind new indie «The One I Love,» genial actor - producer - writer - director - cool - guy Mark Duplass says of his breakthrough film, «My first movie [«The Puffy Chair»] was shot on VHS - C with a dead pixel in the middle of it, and it looked and sounded like shit, but it went to Sundance because of the spirit.

None of the films of this broad «movement» of a couple of years ago — «The Puffy Chair,» «Baghead» etc. — is as aggressive as your typical Hollywood treatment of the same subject would be.

Mark Duplass (a filmmaker himself as well as an actor The Puffy Chair and Hannah Takes the Stairs) is Ben, a happily, comfortably married man with a home and job, and Joshua Leonard (of The Blair Witch Project) is his old college buddy Andrew a world - travelling free spirit who shows up on his doorstep like the ghost of ideals past.

Mark Duplass (of «The Puffy Chair» and «Hannah Takes the Stairs») and Joshua Leonard (co-star of the blockbuster «The Blair Witch Project») have some indie cachet, to be sure, but are hardly name draws in an industry that banks on star power and prestige for selling films.

Swanberg's inclusion is a notable one, as the film has been referred to as helping to establish a new (and somewhat on the nose) subgenre that mixes the low budget and improvisational style of mumblecore with the horror setting («mumblegore» if you will), and the conversations here take on a casual, loosely scripted feel that would not seem out of place in a film like Computer Chess or The Puffy Chair.

(Just as The Duplass» The Puffy Chair is one of the smartest, subtlest films you've never seen.)

Written and directed by upcoming indie superstar duo Mark and Jay Duplass, Cyrus takes cues from their previous films such as, The Puffy Chair and Baghead.

He co-wrote the film The Puffy Chair and co-directed the film Baghead with his brother Jay.

Other titles new to Amazon Prime this week: Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005) Men in Black II (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2002) Payback (Brian Helgeland, 1999) The Puffy Chair (Jay & Mark Duplass, 2005) The Real Blonde (Tom DiCillo, 1997)

After noodling in the deeper realms of the indie world for years with the likes of The Puffy Chair and Baghead, writing / directing sibling team Jay and Mark Duplass soundly cracked the surface of a bigger awareness level with 2010's achingly sharp comedy - drama Cyrus.

THE PUFFY CHAIR ** 1/2 / **** starring Mark Duplass, Kathryn Aselton, Rhett Wilkins, Julie Fischer screenplay by Mark Duplass directed by Jay Duplass

They began by making short films and micro-budget features, including their 2005 breakout movie The Puffy Chair.

Ever since the premiere of The Puffy Chair at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Mark and Jay Duplass have been one of the most prominent filmmaking team on the independent circuit, turning out such acclaimed films as Baghead, Cyrus, and Jeff Who Lives At Home.

As early advocates of the streaming service, the brothers had sold The Puffy Chair, their debut feature, to Netflix for distribution in January 2006.

This is the case in The Puffy Chair: a tale about a young couple, Josh (Mark Duplass) and Emily (Katie Aselton), who take a road trip to surprise Josh's father for his birthday.

Far less noxious — and much more crossover - friendly — than most of their peers, writer - directors Jay and Mark Duplass had established a comfy little niche in the Amerindie landscape, imbuing films like The Puffy Chair (2005) and Baghead (2008) with a shaggy - dog humor that's an antidote to all that SXSW - sponsored mopiness.

I'm no mumblecore slut and found the two previous Duplass Brothers films I'd seen — The Puffy Chair and Cyrus — to be an off - putting cross between Judd Apatow and Henry Jaglom, but Jeff, Who Lives at Home is lovely.

As the road trip genre is best when it's used as a catalyst for a metaphysical journey of discovery engaged in by our protagonists, the narrative of The Puffy Chair is not nearly so important as the rambling, improvised conversations (arguments and pillow talk) engaged in by its trio of twentysomething slacker pilgrims.

At least The Puffy Chair uses Cassavetes's laconic, loquacious love stories as a template, following the relational travails of ex-failed-Austin-rocker Josh (writer Mark Duplass — brother Jay is the film's director) and girlfriend Emily (Kathryn Aselton, Mark Duplass's real - life fiancée) as they take a van and Josh's brother Rhett (Rhett Wilkins) on a road trip to pick up the titular eBay - acquired furniture item and deliver it for their father's surprise birthday party.

At its best moments (and there are a couple of great ones in here), The Puffy Chair makes you want to shake some sense into the kids struggling mortally with what appears small - time in the rear - view — but then there's the realization that poetry is woven from these threads of wilfulness and the courage of being naïve in love.

Netflix's relationship with the Duplasses goes back to their first feature film, «The Puffy Chair,» which Netflix's Red Envelope Entertainment co-distributed in 2005 as its first feature film acquisition.

Written and directed by Jay and Mark Duplass, the iconoclastic filmmaking team behind Sundance Film Festival favorite The Puffy Chair, Cyrus takes an insightful and funny look at love and family in contemporary Los Angeles.

After the Duplass brothers» no - budget 2005 debut feature The Puffy Chair put them on the map, they followed up by poking fun at their own DIY aesthetic in Baghead, which follows four friends who want to make a movie, but are creatively bankrupt.

Except for a few brief moments of brutal violence, there's little here that would feel out of place in traditional mumblecore staples like The Puffy Chair, Mutual Appreciation or Hannah Takes the Stairs.

The Duplass Brothers have premiered many of their short films and their last two features, The Puffy Chair and Baghead, at Sundance previously, but this was the first year that their film has ever played in the biggest Eccles Theater.

Before directing Cyrus, the two directed indie hits like The Puffy Chair and Baghead.

-- Jay Duplass, Director of Togetherness, Cyrus and The Puffy Chair

A little too real at times, The Puffy Chair examines how comfortability is no substitute for romance or longterm satisfaction.

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Jeff Who Lives at Home is the latest film from the Duplass Brothers (of The Puffy Chair, Baghead, Cyrus) that, in its simplest description, is a stoner comedy about a 30 - something guy who lives in his mom's basement and the adventure he goes when leaving to buy wood glue.

Baghead Jay and Mark Duplass, the celebrated and derided members of the low - budget film movement known as mumblecore, marry their talky relationship fare («The Puffy Chair») with a horror story.

This writer is in the latter camp, but either way it's worth noting that the climax — spoken of in broad, none - too - specific terms — is a quantum leap forward for the brothers Duplass in terms of technical resources and scale of filmmaking — no, they won't be making a sequel to «The Fast and the Furious» anytime soon, but compared to the small - room scale of their earlier works «The Puffy Chair» and «Cyrus,» «Jeff Who Lives at Home» feels like «Avatar.»

Mark Duplass seems to play similar characters in his roles, just as in The Puffy Chair, he reminds me so much of myself, which really allows me to connect to the film better.