Mumblecore films - The Puffy Chair, LOL, Hannah Takes the Stairs, Quiet City, and others - take the DIY slacker aesthetic of '90s indie heroes Richard Linklater and Kevin Smith, and take it even further (or backwards?): their budgets are even lower, their look, even more careless. They are united in both community (directors and actors often swap roles in one another's films) and content. The recipe for the standard mumblecore piece: take just a wisp of a plot, throw in some emotionally-stunted, intellectually-witty, twenty-something hipsters, and proceed to let them banter about their insecurities for about ninety minutes in front of a handheld camera.

Many mumblecore films evidence little appeal beyond a small demographic (i.e., emotionally-stunted, intellectually-witty, twenty-something hipsters willing to sit through ninety plotless minutes), but the work of writer-director-actor Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation - the latter of which features some great tunes from indie band Bishop Allen) proves not only tolerable to watch, but often understatedly poignant and engaging. I was excited to read recently, then, that Bujalski is currently working on a screenplay adaptation of Benjamin Kunkel's 2005 novel Indecision, one of this decade's quintessential tales of an emotionally-stunted, intellectually-witty, twenty-something hipster. Producer Scott Rudin and Paramount Pictures are behind this one, so you can probably expect some on-location shooting in South America for the film's third-act and, quite possibly, the very first mumblecore flick to use a Steadicam.