The indie auteur’s latest film, the romance drama, “The Sun Never Sets,” closes out the Chicago Critics Film Festival.

Tonight through Wednesday, Northwest Film Forum will be screening Joe Swanberg’s Full Moon Trilogy, a trio of thematically linked films from the acclaimed mumblecore director. In advance of the series ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: Producer Joe Swanberg has partnered with Yale Entertainment’s Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman to produce a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We haven’t seen a feature from mumblecore godfather Joe Swanberg in nearly a decade, but it’s not like he was just slacking off in ...

Joe Swanberg, 32, is a writer and director (and actor and producer and editor and cinematographer) who has managed to fund and release 16 full-length films since 2005, and has become known as one of ...

Dakota Fanning headed to Alaska for her new film, The Sun Never Sets, and it proved to be one of her more unique filming experiences yet. Marking Fanning's first collaboration with writer/director Joe ...

Last night I watched Hannah Takes the Stairs director Joe Swanberg’s new movie Drinking Buddies; we’ll have a full review in the paper next week, but suffice to say that it is an observant movie about ...

We would like to believe that with maturity comes kindness, that there is a way to transmute youthful intensity without mellowing it. Netflix’s Easy proves it can be done, and well. Joe Swanberg’s ...

The prolific indie director Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies) has mostly shied away from direct conflict in his films, which makes the upcoming Win It All seem like a comparatively risky change of pace.

"Mumblecore" was a punchline before it ever got started, but its low-def look and fumbling improvisations captured social anxieties that movies have since grown too big to see clearly. By the 2000s, ...

Right now on Kentucker Audley’s No Budge website, it’s Frank V. Ross week. If that name elicits a blank response, it’s not an uncommon reaction. Though Chicago-based Ross is one of the original class ...

Joe Swanberg (born August 31, 1981) is an American independent film director, producer, writer, and actor. Known for micro-budget films which make extensive use of improvisation, Swanberg is ...