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Now, Gerwig looks fondly back at her hometown and her experiences growing up there with her Oscar - nominated film, Lady Bird.

Daughter of the Central Valley: writer - director Greta Gerwig looks back at Northern California.

This surprise, small budget, black - and white - collaboration between writer / director Noah Baumbach (Greenberg 76, The Squid and the Whale 82) and writer / star Greta Gerwig looks at the post-college life of Frances (Gerwig), an apprentice dancer fumbling though life in New York City.

Not exact matches

[Gerwig] gave me kind of a magical box full of references [from the era], so you know that jeans look so crappy on the guys and everyone is wearing things that were so disheveled,» laughed Napier.

Greta Gerwig also looked perfectly lovely, but I feel like Michelle Williams will forever own this look of the yellow gown / red lip / diamonds.

While I was falling in love with Greta Gerwig's Hollywood Reporter red carpet look, many of you were adding it to your WDOTY list.

This latest trailer for the remake of the 1981 comedy Arthur gives us our first glimpse of Greta Gerwig and an extended look at Arthur trying out various jobs (with John Hodgman no less).

Little is known about the project, but Vulture does reveal that the film looks at the impact that a young Brooklyn couple (James Franco and Gerwig) has on a documentarian (Stiller) and his wife (possibly Cate Blanchett).

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.

Forty - year - old Roger tries to reconnect with an old bandmate (Rhys Ifans) and an ex-girlfriend (Leigh), but the actual connection comes with his brother's twenty - something personal assistant Florence Marr (Gerwig), who's helping to look after the family dog.

From writer / director Noah Baumbach and writer / star Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha — both the film, and the titular character — manages to be insightful but irreverent, warm but witty, and amusing yet empathetic in its look at the dreams and disappointments that comprise twenty - something existence.

The second collaboration between star / writer Greta Gerwig and director Noah Baumbach is an exponentially more mature and revealing look at young womanhood.

Playing a single mother in 1979, looking to find a way to parent her teenage son via a web of surrogates (including Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, and Billy Crudup), Bening gives some of the best scenes of her career when she's just reacting to people.

Actress and mumblecore icon Greta Gerwig directs and writes a universally insightful look at girls coming to terms with boys, sex, drugs, self - esteem, music, moms, dads and their uncertain futures.

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.

It begins to feel like Old Home Week in Telluride: when I look up Andrew Haigh's «Lean on Pete,» I remember that its star, Travis Fimmel, appeared in «Maggie's Plan,» directed by Rebecca Miller (here with «Arthur Miller: Writer»), which co-starred Ethan Hawke (who's in «First Reformed») and Greta Gerwig, who directs, in «Lady Bird,» Saiorse Ronan, who is one of the voice actors in Loving Vincent.

Greta Gerwig as Florence: Just as we might know a Greenberg, we all know a Greta — she's a regular - looking girl who straddles the line of maturity, but not by choice.

So far, things are looking good: the Academy's just - revealed nominations are diverse and exciting, filled with worthy contenders like Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig in the best - director category.

One look at a widely circulated behind - the - scenes video of Gerwig directing Saoirse Ronan and Lucas Hedges as they frolic and make cute in a garden tells you all you need to know about Gerwig's approach: it's warm and easygoing, but always in command.

Earlier in the season, especially after Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig were not nominated for best - director Golden Globe awards, it looked as if the directors» race might be tinged with injustice, a distillation of creaky prejudices about women and people of color directing movies.

Gerwig, who wrote the original screenplay and makes her solo directorial debut, appears to be looking back at her own youth.

Lady Bird doesn't get enough credit for how good it looks, Gerwig and cinematographer Sam Levy giving the film sometimes the warm glow of fond memory and other times a crispness to match Lady Bird's frank disposition.

Gerwig's line «It looks like a crime scene in my pants» is totally juvenile but when delivered by Gerwig, I couldn't help but hate myself as I laughed.

You feel things more acutely as a teenager, and Gerwig is after how high school can often look like a jagged heart monitor, all highs and lows.

This is far harder to pull off than Gerwig makes it look.

Look no further than this year's nominations list, which includes some of the year's most beloved indie breakouts, including Jordan Peele's «Get Out,» Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird,» Luca Guadagnino's «Call Me by Your Name,» Kogonada's «Columbus,» and Sean Baker's «The Florida Project.»

Ahead of its Christmas day release in the US, a new poster and trailer have arrived online for 20th Century Women, which is written and directed by Mike Mills and stars Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Lucas Jade Zumann and Billy Crudup; take a look below...

The first film Gerwig has solitarily written and directed (this is not, as many have claimed, her inaugural turn behind the camera; she shares a directorial credit with Joe Swanberg on 2008's Nights And Weekends), Lady Bird arranges an even better entrance for its own irresistible heroine: Squabbling with her combative, witheringly disapproving mother (Laurie Metcalf, granted her best role in ages) while driving around to look at colleges, Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) decides she's had just about enough conversation, opens her passenger - side car door, and rolls out.

; comedic relief sidekicks are plentiful (Gerwig, Olivia Thirlby, Ludacris) and yet seem to have simply stumbled onto the set by accident (Cary Elwes, I'm looking at you!).

Cast: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver Program: Special Presentations Headline: Annie Ha Noel's Take: Someday when cultural historians look back at this era of cinema and television, they'll wonder why we so obsessively documented the lives of upper - middle - class city - dwelling Americans between the ages of 22 and 28.

Not so in the case of Greta Gerwig, as from the looks of things the Frances Ha and 20th Century Women actor has delivered a confident and substantial first feature behind the camera with Lady Bird.

There's nothing new about Frances Ha; the plot's been done, the main character is a familiar type, and even Baumbach's use of black - and - white just makes Gerwig's New York look like a vintage Woody Allen film.

Prestige pictures lead the way, with The Post and Three Billboards also up there — but with no Dee Rees, Kathryn Bigelow or Greta Gerwig, the director nominations look dubious

«I look at the lists of which people from which festivals need to watch my movie,» said writer - director Greta Gerwig, whose new film, Lady Bird, will screen at Telluride this year.

Then there's exchange student Tracy Walker (Greta Gerwig) who's character is fun and whip smart and a go - getter but she sadly falls right into the «white savior» trope that is just beyond tired and is just a bad look when it's a white guy using another culture to tell that story in the first place.

Writer - director Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age story follows a free - thinking high school senior, Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan), looking to escape Sacramento (or as she calls it «the Midwest of California»).

«Lady Bird,» Greta Gerwig's delightful semi-autobiographical look at the relationship between an equally headstrong mother and daughter set over the course of the latter's senior year in high school, was named the winner of the Chicago Film Critics Association's award for the Best Picture of 2017 in a ceremony held tonight.

Four vignettes — the story of a boy caring for his first pup; Greta Gerwig as a soul - searching, pet - stealing suburbanite; a portrait of a college screenwriting professor; and an elderly dog owner's encounter with the younger generation — comprise this wickedly comical, existentially provocative look at life with pets.

Gerwig refuses to look down on the lovebirds» naivété, and she elicits an affecting, deeply felt performance from Hedges, whose character even gets to perform Shakespeare with a poise that would give theater veterans envy.

Ahead of its February release here, and to celebrate Saoirse Ronan's Golden Globe win, James Bartlett takes a look at Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird».

But whether she's working closely with her editors or she's leaving them little choice in how to cut her films because of how lean her scripts and footage are, this kind of short, snappy, collage - like approach to storytelling has become Gerwig's «style» — which undercuts the argument that there's nothing distinctive about the way her movies look and feel.

Greta Gerwig has made her bones with this film and I look forward to seeing more from her.

Gerwig and Levy spent many conversations figuring out how to make the film «look like a memory» without using gimmick - y sepia tones or blurred edges.

Both Lady Bird and Gerwig cast themselves in junior Didion molds, artistic spirits who want to flee somewhere more famous — only to look back on the town they left with a warm, nostalgic lens.

As Lady Bird's director of photography Sam Levy remembers it, Gerwig hoped that the film would «look like a memory.»

As Streisand spoke, the camera showed Lady Bird star Saoirse Ronan looking on in agreement, locking hands with her film's director, Greta Gerwig.

«Greta Gerwig made a first movie as a director that in no way looked like a first movie,» said Bob Berney, the head of marketing and distribution at Amazon Studios.

With five nominations, including best picture, many voters will be looking for a spot to reward Greta Gerwig's movie.

Last year, Baumbach directed a movie about a similar subject («While We're Young») without Gerwig's involvement, and the reason that film was such a success is because it skewered the faux - intellectual hipster crowd from the outside looking in.

For anyone familiar with Gerwig's work, the film looks to fit in particularly well with some of her previous written efforts, as it follows a sometimes infuriating protagonist during an important transitionary moment in her life.