Dig out your collared dresses this Valentine’s Day and enjoy this abridged timeline of the hipster cinematic canon
Gwyneth Paltrow Photo: Buena Vista Pictures Indie sleaze is back from the dead. Resurrected by COVID disillusionment and nostalgia for a pre-Trump era, indie sleaze is a fuzzy term illustrated through a collection of products and notable figures, including “It” girls Sky Ferreira and Alexa Chung. The phrase conjures the dreamscape of early 2000s and 2010s Tumblr; think knee-high socks, porn GIFs, Lana Del Rey covers, and the Cobra Snake party pics. Basically anything that we considered hipster.
But what exactly is indie sleaze? We can look to film for the answer. Brooding soft-boy directors like Edgar Wright and Wes Anderson spearheaded this cinematic movement with movies such as Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and The Royal Tenenbaums. Without getting into the whole Dogme 95 fiasco, indie-sleaze cinema is characterized by gorgeous film sequences, manic pixie dream girls, and unabashed quirkiness. .
Rushmore Before Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, Wes Anderson gave us another cringe-inducing age-gap crush. In Rushmore, eccentric prep-school student Max Fischer develops an obsession with his teacher, Rosemary Cross. Fischer juggles a mountain of extracurriculars, from fencing to junior thespians, all while competing with none other than Bill Murray for Cross’s affection. Rushmore basks in its own kitschy glory complete with a choreographed dance to “Ooh La La,” by Faces.
Eternal Sunshine differs from the rest of the movies on this list because of how explicitly Clementine rejects the manic-pixie-dream-girl title. “I’m just a fucked-up girl who’s looking for her own peace of mind,” she says to Joel. “Don’t assign me yours.” Her defiant attitude and Joel’s inability to cope with it leads to their downfall.
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