He works in mysterious ways.

If you’re a fan of indie filmmaking, Andrew Bujalski’s exceptionally crafted comedy Funny Ha Ha is as must-see as it gets. A pioneering film of the mumblecore movement, this 2002 slice of life centers ...

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Christian Rudder in writer-director Andrew Bujalksi's 2002 film "Funny Ha Ha." (Courtesy Goodbye Cruel Releasing/Photofest) To hear him tell it, writer-director Andrew Bujalski didn’t deliberately set ...

[EDITORS NOTE: Michael Koresky spoke with Andrew Bujalski about “Funny Ha Ha” for indieWIRE, the film was released on DVD last week (August 16, 2005).] Andrew Bujalski: We had no expectations at all.

Democratization of the medium aside, the first scene in writer-director Andrew Bujalski's no-budget Funny Ha Ha is enough to make a person lament the age when anyone with a camera can make a movie.

The unabashedly teensy-budgeted Funny Ha Ha, written and directed by Andrew Bujalski, is actually more like Funny Strange—or even Funny Unsettling. You might be tempted to walk out in the first 20 ...

The pauses and stammers, the thoughts that roll over each other, the skittery spirit of disconnection — for those, like me, who admire the films of John Cassavetes in theory but weary of them in ...