The wikipedia quote uses the words "movement" and "genre" interchangeably. Maybe "mumblecore" (which I can only use as a quotation myself) is both a movement and a genre. I happen to be more interested in genres than movements, at least currently. And bringing up Wittgenstein into a discussion of genre is most appropriate and stimulating. Thanks.
Part of my lack of enthusiasm for "mumblecore"(and by that I mean simply the films of the directors listed by wikipedia) is that I didn't find any of the films to be anywhere close to the American independent films I have loved over the course of the last decade. And they are: the trio by Ramin Bahrani, Paranoid Park, Half Nelson, Sugar, George Washington, All the Real Girls, Lodge Kerrigan's Keane, Julian Goldberger's Trans, Lance Hammer's Ballast, and Azazel Jacobs' Momma's Man. Mutual Appreciation, Medicine for Melancholy, and Cyrus are good films though, worth recommending, and I will continue to seek the work of their writer/directors.
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