Sentences with phrase «gerwig makes»

Indie film goddess Greta Gerwig makes her solo directorial debut with this «hella tight» noughties throwback coming of age comedy - a sweet and wistful ode to mothers and daughters, growing pains, and the ups and downs of small - town adolescence.

While Gerwig makes excellent use of Dave Matthews Band in the film, she also enlisted composer Jon Brion (responsible for such varied work as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Step Brothers) to craft the score, which she calls «joyful and mournful, romantic and heartbroken.»

Greta Gerwig makes her solo directorial debut with this incredible coming - of - age film starring Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf.

Actress Greta Gerwig makes her directorial debut with her new film, Lady Bird, which loosely chronicles her teenage years growing up in a small town.

While Frances» fortunes take a nose - dive, Gerwig makes it all rather charming.

-RRB-, Gerwig makes her debut as a director, and it's a tremendous work in its restraint and dynamism.

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.

Greta Gerwig makes her solo - directing debut with an autobiographical movie called Lady Bird, a comedy that follows a teenager in her senior year of high school.

Delving into equal parts poignancy and playfulness with surety and poise, Greta Gerwig makes an impressive and unhesitating directorial debut with the charismatic coming - of - age comedy Lady Bird.

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

Greta Gerwig makes a seamless transition from actress to director with this poignant dramedy about a teenage girl (a flawless Saoirse Ronan), from the wrong side of the tracks, coming into her own as she stands on the brink of adulthood.

When the film premiered at Sundance this year, Gerwig made a revealing comment about why it's important to advocate that women write movies about women, saying, «I did go to a women's college, so I'm going to quote Virginia Woolf, who said that «Only women know what women are like when they're alone.»

Gerwig made the film as an act of love, not just toward her hometown of Sacramento but also toward girlhood, and toward the feeling of always being on the outside of wherever real life is happening.

So it was only a matter of time before Gerwig made a film all her own, and with Lady Bird comes something expected yet totally delightful: a work of both nostalgia and anti-nostalgia, something both fleeting and grounded, all anchored in an utterly indelible character.

Alongside a book of poetry and movie recommendations, Gerwig made him a playlist filled with Broadway classics and indie pop.

«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.

Greta Gerwig, «Greenberg» The reigning Converse - wearing princess of mumblecore, the gangly, self - scrutinizing Gerwig made a thoroughly winning crossover into more polished Amerindie fare as Ben Stiller's not - quite - love - interest in Noah Baumbach's latest.

I've seen stories like «sexual autonomy» and dozens of videos explaining the underlying depth, but the fact is that Gerwig made a quirky funny movie that expresses who she is.

When it came to 20th Century Women, about Dorothea (Bening), a single mother who turns to two younger women to help with her son's upbringing, Gerwig made the decision to work with Mills over anything else.

Not exact matches

According to Gerwig, the only way to make an authentic movie about teenagers and not have them constantly interacting with mobile devices was simply to move the plot back in time to the pre-smartphone era when interaction had to be more face to face.

Are Greta Gerwig's trousers a smart way to show off the thinnest part of your leg (the ankle), a way to make athleisure work with a formal top, or both?

Gerwig can't make her character come alive, though, and neither can Adam Brody as one of their neediest male cases.

Variety also praises the actress, writing, «Gerwig manages to just be, making her precisely the right young star to carry such a genial glimpse at a character who doesn't even seem to realize she's trying to find herself.»

Gerwig — a graduate of Barnard College and a longtime resident and habitué of Brooklyn, NY — first made her presence known in Swanberg's 2006 LOL (as a girl who sends pictures of herself to an admirer via cell phone), but only rocketed to fame the following year, as the lead in the same director's Hannah Takes the Stairs.

Gerwig's character is extremely similar to the one she played in Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress, a person whose go - getting nature makes it difficult for her to forge meaningful bonds with normal people.

Greta Gerwig stars in her idiot savant Annie Hall mode as Maggie, a New York art dealer who is trying to become a single mom using sperm donated by an old school contemporary who is now making a fortune marketing pickles.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

Yes, it's very funny and filled with enough genuinely great performances that it's actually debatable which supporting star turns in the best work (it's Laurie Metcalf, or maybe Beanie Feldstein, or possibly Tracy Letts), but what makes Gerwig's movie such a gem is the honesty that infuses every part and every scene.

For a fresh face such as Gerwig, it could be a career - making role.

A24 just uploaded a very fun video of a Q&A made with our dearest Lady Bird ensemble, featuring director Greta Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Timothée Chalamet, Odeya Rush, Marielle Scott and Bob Stephenson.

The romantic comedy, starring Greta Gerwig, Julianne Moore and Bill Hader, seemed like a good fit for Sundance in January, but it will be making its world premiere at Toronto following a remarkably tight turnaround.

It's the honesty of Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird» that really makes the Saoirse Ronan - starring coming - of - age movie sing.

That list includes Greta Gerwig, of course, who made her solo directorial debut by directing Ronan in «Lady Bird.»

Taking inspiration from author Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, Gerwig is planning to make three more films set in Sacramento.

Greta Gerwig has played a variety of eccentric characters before to the point of making it a trademark feature for her.

Whether it's there or when Gerwig visits Sacramento for the holidays (her parents play themselves), the movie makes the subtly optimistic point that the life you build in youth is always available.

No word on when she might make that leap, but in the meantime both Ronan and Gerwig are nominated for their work on «Lady Bird.»

Hedges, who first made his mark in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, recently wrapped on Greta Gerwig's directional debut, Lady Bird, alongside Saoirse Ronan and Tracy Letts, and Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Gerwig has made a personal film that is half coming - of - age and half mother - daughter relationship story.

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.

One of the biggest missteps Baumbach and Gerwig's script makes is with the dialogue that tries way to hard to be both incredibly quotable (which it is) and profoundly resonant (which it isn't) when, in all reality, the talk mostly just comes off as narcissism.

Set in 2002, Greta Gerwig's semi-autobiographical coming - of - age drama takes a simple premise — a daughter's (Ronan) tumultuous relationship with her mother (Laurie Metcalf)-- and makes it universal with rapid - fire witticisms and poignant characterisations.

A coming - of - age story set in 2002 Sacramento, the film could very easily have fallen into the trappings of a subgenre that has been expanding for decades, but Gerwig's film is littered with pitch - perfect drama, humor, and emotion that makes it far greater than the sum of its parts.

(Gerwig went to a Catholic high school in Sacramento in 2002 and attended college in New York; no word if she made her friends call her Lady Bird, not that it would come as a surprise.)

NEW YORK (AP)-- Guillermo del Toro's lavish monster romance «The Shape of Water» fished out a leading 13 nominations, Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman nominated for best director and «Mudbound» cinematographer Rachel Morrison made history...

Gerwig first made her name in no - budget indies such as 2008's Nights And Weekends, a film that portrays a relationship about as honestly as it gets; sex and love all raw and clumsy.

Ben Stiller has portrayed his alter - ego twice now, in L.A. - set «Greenberg,» co-starring Greta Gerwig, which made me squirm with discomfort, and now «While We're Young,» which debuted at Toronto 2014.

Sorvino, who won an Oscar for her role in Allen's 1995 comedy, «Mighty Aphrodite,» made the declaration on the heels of «Lady Bird» director Greta Gerwig's public departure from the revered filmmaker this week.

Gerwig said she hopes to eventually make a «quartet» of movies around her hometown.

Birbiglia sat down with RogerEbert.com inside one of the city's improv studios to discuss his new film, how he enlisted Nicole Holofcener and Greta Gerwig to help with his script, a true story of dark humor at a Benihana that didn't make into the final draft and more.