I type this from the Cleveland Airport, where I’m heading into hour 3 of an indefinite layover, but I couldn’t wait to get out of purgatory to tell you about a press release I’ve just received. Joe Swanberg’s Hannah Takes the Stairs, the current hallmark of the burgeoning “mumblecore” wave, will screen in New York and on cable this August, courtesy of IFC’s First Take day-and-date program. The film, which you surely remember from Spout’s SXSW coverage and from the recent mumblecore episode of FilmCouch, opens August 22 at the IFC Center in the West Village; it should be available for on-demand rental several days later. As a huge fan of both Swanberg and the IFC In Theaters model, I think this is great news–this hyper-intimate character study is ideally suited to the on-demand experience.

If you made it to SXSW this year, you saw at least one of the Festival trailers, directed by Swanberg and starring the Hannah crew. My favorite is embedded below.