REVIEW | Disconnect Four: Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass's "Baghead"

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by Michael Koresky (July 19, 2008) [An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot .] A refreshingly high-concept low-budget outing, the Duplass Brothers ' " Baghead " is an immensely likeable and surprisingly well-executed genre hybrid. The difficulty one finds in trying to categorize it is part of its charm, and this is not just whether one sees it as horror, comedy, or relationship roundelay ... [link]

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Jay and Mark Duplass: "The Hardest Part About Mixing Genres Is Mixing Genres"
Published 7/22/2008 by dwhudson at GreenCine
... is an immensely likeable and surprisingly well-executed genre hybrid," writes Michael Koresky at indieWIRE. "The difficulty one finds in trying to categorize it is part of its charm... [I]t smartly proves that it only takes the slightest, smartest tweaks to temporarily revitalize an entire genre." ...

Interview. Jay and Mark Duplass.
Published 7/22/2008 at GreenCine Daily
... is an immensely likeable and surprisingly well-executed genre hybrid," writes Michael Koresky at indieWIRE. "The difficulty one finds in trying to categorize it is part of its charm, and this is not just whether one sees it as horror, comedy, or relationship roundelay but also how one defines and compartmentalizes its aesthetic: Baghead's makers and at least one of its stars may have crawled out from under the 'mumble'-corps, but its adherence to a somewhat conventional narrative framework successfully contorts and expands the boundaries of ...

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