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This is the first of three consecutive Endy wins for Gerwig, as she'll go on to win Best Actress Awards for Damsels in Distress and then Frances Ha.

Damsels in Distress 3.

With almost fourteen years lapsed since Whit Stillman's previous film Last Days of Disco closed out the trio of films that established him as mid -»90s indie auteur, his new film Damsels in Distress understandably attracts a great deal of anticipation, expectation, and perhaps hesitation.

Whit Stillman, Damsels in Distress 2.

A screwball heroine with a lot of topspin, Greta Gerwig is at her best playing agitators and instigators — taking Lola Kirke under her erratic wing in Mistress America, creating a junior - miss version of Miss Jean Brodie in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress, hatching a scheme to unload her pretentious married boyfriend back onto his wife in Rebecca Miller's Maggie's Plan, and driving Al Pacino out of what's left of his woolly mind in The Humbling.

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This time, however, Flynn was without his usual lady fair, Olivia deHaviland, who had begun to tire of playing damsels in distress, and so young ingenue Brenda Marshall took the role, doing an admirable if not wholly unique performance.

Aja Naomi King's movie ascendancy as the slave girl Cherry in Nate Parker's blazing battle cry, The Birth of a Nation (based on the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831), is a complete boomerang from the role that made her television rep.. After an assortment of credits in film («Positive Polly» in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress and Rosa in the underseen comedy The Rewrite) and in prime - time series such as Emily Owens, M.D. and The Blacklist, King was whisked aboard the mother ship of Shondaland's How to Get Away with Murder, starring the inviolable Viola Davis.

Based on the novel by Fred Zackel, made for NBC by O.J.'s production house, Cocaine and Blue Eyes marks an attempt at a modern noir private investigator flick, complete with voice over narration, damsels in distress, and dialogue that wouldn't sound foreign if Humphrey Bogart had said them 50 years before.

Damsels in Distress - Though not as clever as it thinks it is, Whit Stillman's quirky college comedy has its appeal.

A friend of mine maintains that the directors work is always unappreciated until it ages a little, but I think this may be an exception (time will, of course, tell...) Damsels In Distress finds Stillman making a bitter mockery of his previous work cloaked in effervescent frivolity.

After a distressing number of potential projects have fallen through over the ensuing years, Variety indicates that he has a «micro-indie» on track to be shot in the fall called «Damsels in Distress» (aka Diorissimo.)

Plaza will also be seen in Sony Pictures Classics» Damsels in Distress, director Whit Stillman's first film since 1998's The Last Days of Disco.

Damsels in Distress, Whit Stillman's first film in over a decade, is (in the words of Robert Horton) «a blissful movie - real place that sounds and looks not quite like the one we live in.

And the first trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has all the dinosaurs cast as damsels in distress.

She starred in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress, playing one of the director's singular hyper - articulate moralists, and in Lola Versus, another movie that capitalized on Gerwig's penchant for beguiling, wayward messes.

She received raves earlier this year in Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress.

Writer - director Whit Stillman («Metro - politan,» «Barcelona») makes a long - awaited return to the screen with «Damsels in Distress,» about a quartet of girls in a leafy Eastern college who set out to boost the spirits of severely depressed classmates by combining a regimen of good hygiene and dance lessons.

-- Jane Austen, «Pride and Prejudice,» Chapter VI Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale, «Total Recall»), the main protagonist of Whit Stillman's («Damsels in Distress») period comedy Love & Friendship is determined to get what she wants...

Well, I sort of like these dominant characters because Violet Wister, the Greta Gerwig character from «Damsels in Distress,» is another Emma.

Will Stillman's Damsels in Distress is a disappointing effort that can't be saved by a strong performance from Greta Gerwig.

But he took a break from filmmaking after 1998's The Last Days of Disco, and it's only now that he's returning to the silver screen with Damsels in Distress.

After a a long hiatus over a decade, Stillman returned to filmmaking with the dark 2011 college comedy «Damsels in Distress,» and later made a pilot for Amazon TV called «The Cosmopolitans.»

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Greta Gerwig has matured out of playing the adorable, quirky, self - absorbed with self - invention young women of «Hannah Takes the Stairs» and «Damsels in Distress.»

I don't think there are any damsels in distress in this movie.

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«Damsels In Distress «In a decent year for comedy, two femme - centric examples of the genre were battling it out of for this place, and while «Bridesmaids» is certainly the best of the Judd Apatow films to date and as consistently funny a mainstream film as has come along since «Anchorman,» nothing brought me greater joy than Whit Stillman «s return after 13 long years away — «Damsels in Distress.»

For those already familiar with Gerwig (Hannah Takes the Stairs, Damsels in Distress, Arthur), enjoyment of Frances Ha is pre-determined.

The trailer for Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress is not representative of its wit, humour and style.

Soracha Pelan Ó Treasaigh met with Whit Stillman during the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival to discuss his new film Damsels in Distress.

A deeply hermetic work even by Stillman's standards, Damsels in Distress feels in retrospect like a minor but necessary stepping stone back to the better realized but still heightened reality of Love & Friendship, a signature work that is nevertheless Stillman's most accessible to the uninitiated.

by Angelo Muredda When Whit Stillman emerged from his thirteen - year sojourn in the wilderness after The Last Days of Disco, it was with the pastel - washed curio Damsels in Distress, practically a radio transmission from a planet of the auteur's own construction.

Damsels in Distress follows a trio of girls in a university who attempt to civilise the DU frat boys and uplift the depressed student body with musical numbers.

There's a disturbing conversation to be had here about why the corrupt judge of the real case is replaced by a justice - loving curmudgeon — and, better, how it is that this film revolving around women's rights in the workplace is fought and won by men acting like boys, swooping in to rescue their damsels in distress and accusing one another of being girls while the actual girls sit around crying.

This is the first film from Stillman since his 2011 release Damsels In Distress ($ 1 million, Sony Classics) and only his fifth feature film ever.

Harper and Allie are indeed damsels in distress, and not just because they can't efficiently navigate the way from a Brooklyn loft to the Rockaways (a disastrous, distended day trip to hook up with some boys, which makes up the film's entire plot).

Damsels in distress and various states of undress?

Mr. Stillman (Damsels in Distress, The Last Days of Disco) is an immensely talented writer, and certainly a welcome complement Ms. Austen's posthumously published work.

Hagner also appeared in Ingrid Goes West, Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress and Woody Allen's Irrational Man.

It's definitely the most ridiculous medieval comedy where there's magic and damsels in distress and we get anal sex jokes from Danny McBride.

We talked to the trenchant and kind American writer / director, Whit Stillman (Damsels in Distress), at the conclusion of our inaugural Live Directors Series.

We talked to the trenchant and kind American writer / director, Whit Stillman (Damsels in Distress),...

In many ways his latest film and first in thirteen years, Damsels in Distress (2001), breaks away from the preceding three films.

The fact that the dance the Sambola will please fans of Damsels in Distress, Stillman's latest film, as will the rest of it.

Writer and star Greta Gerwig (Damsels in Distress) has absorbed the sensibilities of Whit Stillman and taken the direction of Noah Baumbach (Greenberg) to create a film both comfortably familiar and uniquely her own.

The autobiographical portrait of a group of young Americans living in Paris stars Chloë Sevigny, Adam Brody and Carrie MacLemore (both from Damsels in Distress), Dree Hemingway (Starlet), and Adriano Giannini (son of Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini), «plus other great performers to be discovered» per Stillman.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Stillman's Violet Wister's Damsels in Distress, starring Greta Gerwig and Adam Brody.

Stillman fans may also want to shimmy over to the Cinefamily on June 1, when the director will also be in attendance, for a Q&A following a screening of his latest comedy, Damsels in Distress.

In films like «Damsels in Distress» and the sublime «Frances Ha,» Gerwig the actress skillfully pivots between the wacky and the poignant, so it's no surprise that Gerwig the auteur so delicately balances hilarity and heartbreak.