Tag: Greta Gerwig
2024 Cannes: Mumblecore to Barbie to the Croisette: Greta Gerwig is Jury President
In a bold, refreshing move, Thierry Frémaux's first decision for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival is likely to be a people-pleaser. Synonymous with mumblecore,...
White Noise | Review
Death Wishes: Baumbach Dons DeLillo’s Satirical Death March
The characters anchoring the existential narrative of White Noise have kindly stopped for death, so consumed with...
The Conversation: Time for TIFF 2019 – Predictions!
The Toronto International Film Festival is set to unspool its latest monolithic program. A major cue to set Oscar season into motion, the line-up...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2019
And between the remakes, prequels, sequels, reboots and rehashes pouring out of the Hollywood studio system, we sift through the detritus of continual superhero...
Isle of Dogs | Review
A Dog’s Tale: Anderson Returns to Animation with Scruffy, Eclectic Fantasy
We’ve come to expect a certain technical formality from Wes Anderson, even across a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #5. Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs
Isle of Dogs
Embarking on his ninth feature film, second stop-animated project, and third straight collab with Production Designer Adam Stockhausen (2012's Moonrise Kingdom, 2014's...
2018 Indie Spirit Noms: Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name” Leads Pack with 6, Benny Safdie Lands 3
It's the head-scratching nominations process where Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is good enough for the Best Feature category and picks up four nominations in...
Lady Bird | Review
Call Her by Her Name: Gerwig Shifts Shrewdly in Director’s Seat
Actress Greta Gerwig, alum of the American film movement known as Mumblecore and ingenious...
Guess Who’s Coming to the Awards Dinner? Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” Leads 2017 Gotham Award Noms
Today's Gotham Awards nominees announcement proves that the film's themselves have their own against all odds narratives. With the five noms for the Best...
Balagov’s “Closeness”, Olsson’s “That Summer” & Quinn’s “Eating Animals” Land in Telluride
While questions still surround when (and where) Abdellatif Kechiche's Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno and Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here will have...
TIFF 2017: Special Presentations World Preem Status for Gillespie, Gomez-Rejon, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun & Sebastián Lelio
If Alexander Payne, Valerie Faris/Jonathan Dayton, Scott Cooper, Darren Aronofsky, Martin McDonagh, Stephen Frears, Greta Gerwig and George Clooney appear jetlagged its because they'll...
The Conversation: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex
As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Following a glut...
Jackie | Review
The Safety of Objects: Larrain Revisits Traumatic Chapter of Iconic First Lady
There have been very few First Ladies either before or after Jacqueline Kennedy...
Wiener-Dog | Review
Every Dachshund Has His Day: Solondz Provides Droll Despair
It’s been five years since we were last graced with Todd Solondz’s particular brand of muted...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Todd Solondz’s Wiener-Dog
Of the seven feature films in his just under two decade filmography, Todd Solondz has landed in Park City twice with 1996's Welcome to...
Mistress America | Review
Sister, My Sister: Baumbach’s Energetic Return to Facades of NYC
The latest in Noah Baumbach’s prolific slew of projects, Mistress America is the follow-up collaboration...
Eden | Review
In The Garden Of Garage: Hansen-Løve Recounts Brother's Coming of Age During the Rise of House Music
Thanks to her brother Sven’s involvement in the popularization...
The Humbling | Review
Or The Unexpected Convenience of Sexism: Levinson's Perplexing but Deviously Funny Stab at Roth
Decades passed between initial adaptations of novelist Philip Roth’s novels (1969’s...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Noah Baumbach’s Untitled Public School Project
Akin to Michel Gondry's low-budgeter We and I, the shot in 2013 campus comedy still doesn't have a name, doesn't have a release date,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #36. Noah Baumbach’s Untitled Public School Project
Director: Noah Baumbach
Writer: Noah Baumbach
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Greta Gerwig, Lola Kirke, Rob Yang
It received one messily award season nom, but the terribly neglected...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #48. Mia Hansen-Love’s Eden
Eden
Director: Mia Hansen-Love
Writers: Mia Hansen-Love, Sven Hansen-Love
Producers: Charles Gillibert, Jimmy Price
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Greta Gerwig, Brady Corbet, Laura Smet, Golshifteh Farahani, Pauline Etienne
After...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Noah Baumbach’s Public School Project
His only ever appearance at the festival was with 2005's The Squid and the Whale. Be a nice, unexpected "surprise" if Noah Baumbach returns...
