Sentences with phrase «gerwig co-wrote»

Gerwig co-wrote that film and this one, but Brooke is at best a distant cousin of Frances, a seemingly more accomplished woman about town who lives in a commercial loft, teaches spinning classes, is photographed at fancy parties, and has dreams of opening a restaurant.

Mistress America — Real life darlings and frequent collaborators Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig co-wrote the script and it's some of their best work yet.

Gerwig co-wrote «Mistress America,» just as she co-wrote Baumbach's best film, «Frances Ha,» and in both, you get the sense that maybe, just maybe, a human being's entire worth can't be summed up in a résumé.

Director Noah Baumbach and actress Greta Gerwig co-wrote the script for this lighthearted portrait of a young woman facing a life crisis.

Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig co-wrote Mistress America, and from the looks of this darkly sparkling trailer it's got WGA and other screenwriter love written all over it.

Most recently, Gerwig co-wrote two screenplays with director Noah Baumbach («Frances Ha» and «Mistress America»), and the sense that came from those films was of visions in collision: Baumbach's pinched, insulated vision versus Gerwig's generous, expansive vision.

Not exact matches

Announced today as part of the Sundance Film Festival, we now have a first look at the film — titled «Mistress America «-- which stars Gerwig (who also co-wrote the script with Baumbach) and Lola Kirke (the sister of Jemima Kirke from «Girls «-RRB-, along with a complete plot synopsis.

Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote with her director, plays the eponymous heroine, a 27 - year - old who passes through life with an exuberance that's obnoxious and disarming in equal measure.

Gerwig recently co-wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed Frances Ha for IFC Films, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe.

Related Reviews: Written and Directed by Noah Baumbach: Frances Ha • Greenberg • While We're Young • The Squid and the Whale • Margot at the Wedding Greta Gerwig: Arthur (2011) • The Humbling • No Strings Attached • To Rome with Love Lola Kirke: Gone Girl Co-Written by Noah Baumbach: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou • Fantastic Mr. Fox • Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted Now in Theaters: Irrational Man • The End of the Tour • Dark Places

Cornelia too is more fully fleshed than we have come to expect from this writer - director, the experience of making the divisively wide - eyed Frances Ha (which he co-wrote with star Greta Gerwig) apparently broadening his horizons as much as the experiences of ageing and parenting.

Gerwig is the singular comedic talent whose quirky, offbeat sense of style was on glorious display in several Noah Baumbach films, notably «Frances Ha» and «Mistress America,» both of which she co-wrote.

Gerwig, McDonagh and del Toro — who co-wrote his screenplay with Taylor — also did double duty.

The film tells the tale of college freshman Tracy (played by the resplendent Lola Kirke) who, feeling lonely and down in the dumps, calls up her future step - sister / whirling dervish of energy and business ideas Brooke (played by the transcendent Greta Gerwig, who also co-wrote and produced this film) for a night on the town.

The title character is played by the lovely Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the script with Baumbach.

In a New Yorker piece on the director, Baumbach briefly mentions his follow - up to «Frances Ha»: another New York - set film co-written with Gerwig, and one reportedly much «looser and wonkier» than their previous effort.

Gerwig, whose credits include co-writing and starring in Noah Baumbach's fine «Frances Ha,» has given us an elegantly empathetic portrait of a teenage girl's senior year in high school that will resonate even with those (no names) who feel they've seen enough teen - centric movies to last multiple lifetimes.

Gerwig has co-written (and starred in) other films — Frances Ha and Mistress America with Noah Baumbach — but this is the first to be entirely written by her.

Actress Greta Gerwig has been co-writing many of her starring vehicles since her mumble - core beginnings a decade ago.

Frances, played by Greta Gerwig with all the informed mannerisms that might be expected of someone who co-wrote the screenplay, is a dancer whose career has hit a dead end, good enough to nab an apprenticeship at a dance company, but not good enough to secure steady work.

Gerwig, meanwhile, earned rave reviews for her turn as a disenchanted twentysomething in May's «Frances Ha,» which she co-wrote with director Noah Baumbach.

One of writer / director Noah Baumbach's many smart career moves was to collaborate with actor Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the screenplays for both Frances Ha and Mistress America.

It's always been clear that Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote and starred in the film, played an enormous role in shaping its title character, to say nothing of how she may have mitigated some of the nastiness that had started to weigh down Baumbach's work in the years prior.

Co-written by its director, Noah Baumbach, and its star, Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha is also that rarest kind of new American movie: one that captures in painstaking detail the way young people talk today while simultaneously paying tribute to the past century of movie aesthetics and mythologies.

Stiller and Gerwig assumed the lead roles in his last film, Greenberg; Blanchett acted in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, the script of which Baumbach co-wrote.

Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the screenplay with...

Baumbach, who also co-wrote the script with Gerwig (his romantic partner), has a loose improvisatory feel for funky comedy.

Director Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha — which he co-wrote with his star, Greta Gerwig — is another in the seemingly unceasing string of stories about post-graduate men and women who aren't quite ready to be responsible adults, yet can't really afford to continue being flighty either.

Even in the event of bad buzz, there was no way I was going to miss out on the premiere of a new movie from Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, the co-writing team whose previous collaboration was one of the most effervescent comedies of the last decade.

Maybe not — but just as May remains one of the enduring writer / director / actors of her era, so too has Greta Gerwig — in films like Mistress America and Frances Ha, both of which she starred in and co-wrote — become one of ours.

The Frances we get (a collaboration between Gerwig, who co-writes, and Baumbach) is a little less manic pixie and a little more real life, and while she never entirely loses her indie quirk (the film is filled with lines like «You know what Virginia Woolf book this reminds me of...?»)

The latest entry in the Noah Baumbach: The Greta Gerwig Years collection, this delightful, insightful little film was co-written by and again features a terrific turn from Gerwig.

At its heart, Mistress America is the study of a female friendship between freshman Tracy (Lola Kirke) and live wire Brooke (Greta Gerwig, who co-writes), a relationship forged by their status as prospective stepsisters.

In his latest film Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach pairs his formidable skills with those of the rising indie star Greta Gerwig who has worked with Whit Stillman, Woody Allen, Ivan Reitman and co-wrote the screenplays for Hannah Takes the Stairs, Nights and Weekends, as well as Frances Ha.

Frances Ha, which starred and was co-written by Baumbach's partner Greta Gerwig, was a meandering black - and - white bildungsroman with contemporary dance and stilted conversation as major themes.

It was directed by Noah Baumbach from a script he co-wrote with Gerwig.

Greta Gerwig (who co-wrote) is a marvel, but Mickey Sumner should not be overlooked as Frances» best friend Sophie.

Gerwig and Emily Gordon — who co-wrote «Big Sick» with her husband, Kumail Nanjiani, based on her own sudden illness — are the only female writers in the current mother - daughter pack.

The fruit of this is Baumbach's Frances Ha, co-written by and starring Gerwig, an unabashed tribute to the actress» distinctive (don't you dare say «quirky») charms.

The «Frances Ha» director / co-writer talks about co-writing a new film with Greta Gerwig, and how he gets away with shooting movies in secret.

Gerwig and Baumbach (who became a couple in 2011) co-wrote his 2013 film Frances Ha, in which she starred.

Reflecting on this pivotal and groundbreaking moment in Gerwig's career, it is the perfect opportunity to revisit the film she co-wrote with her frequent collaborator and real life partner, director Noah Baumbach: Frances Ha (2012).

Following two exemplary collaborations co-writing scripts with Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha reveals Noah Baumbach's luminous lighter touch; Mistress America explores the power of friendship beyond ego with endearment), Gerwig makes her debut as a director, and it's a tremendous work in its restraint and dynamism.

Rating: R (for language, including some sexual references) Cast: Greta Gerwig, Lola Kirke, Matthew Shear, Heather Lind, Michael Chernus, Jasmine Cephas - Jones Director: Noah Baumbach, co-written by Baumbach and Gerwig Running time: 1 hour, 26 minutes

Greta Gerwig, the pixie - like pillar of indie film and an indomitable screen presence, recently starred in and co-wrote «Frances Ha» and «Mistress America» with her boyfriend, Noah Baumbach, who direct...

With this foray into screenwriting, Gerwig, 29, has become part of a current wave of actresses writing or co-writing their own material, a group that includes Zoe Kazan («Ruby Sparks») and Rashida Jones («Celeste and Jesse Forever»).

A decade after sharing a byline with Joe Swanberg, and a few years after co-writing two of Noah Baumbach's fizziest films, Greta Gerwig strikes out on her own with a loosely autobiographical high school comedy.

Co-written by and starring his beau, Greta Gerwig, the picture is as great as it is underseen (it made a dinky $ 2.5 million worldwide).

Director Noah Baumbach's «Frances Ha» — co-written by star Greta Gerwig — is another story about an aging post-graduate who can no longer afford to be «fun,» «free - spirited» and «irresponsible.»

After falling into a depressing, dour pit with 2010's Greenberg, director Noah Baumbach rebounded with the far more lighthearted and sprightly Frances Ha, which he co-wrote with Greta Gerwig.