Sentences with phrase «baumbach on films like»

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It may be hard to assess the sheer scope of a festival with over 300 features on offer, but TIFF 2012 looks like a particularly exciting year, opening with Rian Johnson's Looper and continuing with new films by Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master), Brian De Palma (Passion), Terrence Malick (To The Wonder), Joss Whedon (Much Ado About Nothing), Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha), David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook), Olivier Assayas (Something In The Air), Sally Potter (Ginger And Rosa), Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers), and many others.

Though he stood out as a teen in small films like 2002's Rodger Dodger, the film that put Eisenberg on the map for most people was Noah Baumbach's acidic divorce comedy The Squid And The Whale.

Coming on the heels of While We're Young (the other new Baumbach, which hasn't even hit U.S. theaters yet), the film is further evidence that the caustic comedic visionary behind downers like Greenberg and Margot At The Wedding has officially revived the gentler sensibilities of his early work.

If Francis Ha was Baumbach's ode to French New Wave and While We're Young his comment on hipster culture, Mistress America feels somewhat like the 80s throwback to the comedy of manners revival of films from the 30s.

Like Frances Ha on Adderall, Mistress America finds Baumbach working with a manic screwball energy that has more in common with Preston Sturges or Howard Hawks than it does any of his previous films.

And yet, where nearly all of Baumbach's films have ended with their protagonists on the run or at least out of breath, Greenberg culminates in an unexpected moment of clarity, like the skies above the Southland on those rare days after it rains.