With "The Zone," 2011 AFI Fest Honoree Joe Swanberg Wises Up: "I Want People to Like Me."

A lot of people are skeptical about Joe Swanberg, especially Joe Swanberg. Thirty years old and Chicago based, he's the only filmmaker to gain serious mileage from the vaguely defined "mumblecore" movement. And he's the first to realize that making extremely similar microbudget movies about sex, filmmaking and uncertain twentysomethings has turned him into a walking cliché. "I'm still trying to have that broader conversation with an audience that doesn't ...

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