Funny Ha Ha
United States
2002
89 Min
Color
1.33:1
English
Synopsis
When you graduate college you easily sashay into the world of adulthood, start a career, and get serious, right? Wrong. Marnie has left college, but not her drinking habits and her bad taste in bad men. What’s more, Marnie can’t seem to find a permanent job. It would be sad if it weren’t so funny.
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Andrew Bujalski
Andrew Bujalski, born April 29, 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts, is an American film director, screenwriter and actor, who has been called the “Godfather of Mumblecore.”
Bujalski, born in Boston in 1977, is the son of an artist-turned-businesswoman, Sheila Dubman, and a businessman, Edmund Bujalski. Andrew studied film at Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, where the Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman was his thesis advisor.
He shot his first feature, Funny Ha Ha, in 2002, and followed it with Mutual Appreciation in 2003 – though neither film received theatrical distribution until 2005 and 2006, respectively. Bujalski wrote both screenplays, and appears as an actor, playing a major role in both films. In 2006, he appeared as an actor and contributed to the screenplay of the Joe Swanberg film Hannah Takes the Stairs.
As of April, 2007, Bujalski is in Austin, Texas, where he is preparing to shoot his third independent… read more
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Yan Matusevich
10Feb12
I think this film is absolutely brilliant. In fact, the film manages to encapsulate an entire generation of young Americans. The pointlessness, the lack of conviction, the fear of saying anything definite - all of these are traits of America's generation of extremely nice yet hopelessly confused generation of college graduates. Stunning!
Daniel Montiel
3Feb12
That last part (I'm not gonna call that an ending) aggravated what was already wrong in this movie, a movie that while at moments feels honest and poignant becomes understated to the point of irrelevancy.
CrazySphinx
30Sep10
It's good, but nowhere near as good as Mutual Appreciation. Also, the ending was shit, that is if you even call that an ending.
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Matters of Opinion: An Interview with Andrew Bujalski
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on February 4, 2010
Andrew Bujalski's one of the most distinctive directors of drama to emerge in the last decade. The elements that define his work are instantly
"It sounded so different than the way it came out": Andrew Bujalski's "Beeswax"
By Dave McDougall on August 7, 2009
"Part of the ways we grow up is we sort of fail at being adults" - Zoe Kazan, on her role as Ivy in Bradley Rust Gray's 2009 film The Exploding
The Auteurs Daily: Lustig's 70s and Bujalski's "Beeswax"
By David Hudson on August 5, 2009
"Cinema of the 1970s has become so mythologized that it's easy to miss the simpler, unknown pleasures lurking in the shadows of Altman, Scorsese
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Gen X Annie Hall
By Jazzaloha on March 3, 2010
Think of Annie Hall populated with socially inept Gen-Xers and you get a good idea of what this film is about. Marnie is the Annie Hall of the film, and we see her struggles with romance–particularly… read review
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