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It’s hard to say who the first hipster was, but John Cassavetes — an eccentric New Yorker and music fan who started making hyperrealistic movies about crazy, angsty, tortured types in the ’50s — was certainly one of the originals. His impossibly low-cost cinéma vérité masterpieces were DIY nearly 20 years before punk rock. Today’s micro-budget filmmakers, from Lena Dunham of Tiny Furniture fame to the boys of “mumblecore” (Joe Swanberg, Aaron Katz, the Duplass brothers) to Baltimore auteur Matt Porterfield ( of the great, recent Putty Hill), certainly owe Cassavetes a debt. But Cassavetes’s economical aesthetic has also impacted the mainstream: big-name directors including Darren Aronofsky, Robert Rodriguez, and Kevin Smith all got their start making movies on a shoestring, gaining cult (dare we say “hipster”) followings before breaking through to the multiplex.
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