Sentences with phrase «gerwig sets»

Shortly after realizing that Greta Gerwig sets her movie in a Catholic high school, I felt somewhat at home with the world she creates.

Making her solo directorial debut (she shares a credit with Joe Swanberg on 2008's Nights And Weekends), Gerwig sets Lady Bird in her hometown of Sacramento, and in 2002, when she was around the same age as her protagonist / proxy, 17 - year - old Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan).

But, that's not the film that Gerwig set out to make.

Not exact matches

«I take a long time to write scripts, because I don't do any improvisation on set,» said Greta Gerwig in an interview with RELEVANT.

Gerwig has an eye for every step of this character's journey, and in so doing, sets out on her own path toward what promises to be an exciting directorial career.

It's not clear how autobiographical Lady Bird is — Gerwig is from Sacramento and graduated from high school around the time the film is set — but the little slice of universe she shows us feels deeply and lovingly observed.

By all rights I should have been repelled by this leisurely stroll with the privileged Ivy League set, but I found myself won over by «mumblecore» alumni Greta Gerwig, and the spectacularly kitschy doo - wop soundtrack.

If her 2017 IMDb page is any indication, however, she'll soon have to dust off those high heels and ring up Swennen, with five feature films set to debut this year, including a role in Greta Gerwig's highly - anticipated directorial debut, Ladybird.

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

Mistress America (R for profanity and sexual references) Buddy comedy, set in New York City, about a lonely college freshman (Lola Kirke) shaken out of the doldrums by her relatively - adventurous, soon - to - be stepsister (Greta Gerwig).

Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning have joined the cast of 20TH Century Women, a comedy / drama from Annapurna Pictures set in Santa Barbara in 1979 written and directed by Mike Mills and based on people he knew growing up.

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.

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.

Starring Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning, and Billy Crudup, this unique, 1970s - set coming - of - age story follows a teenage boy named Jamie as he attempts to navigate the wild waters of young adulthood and his eccentric single mother (Bening) does the best she can to aid him on his journey.

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.

Starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig and Billy Crudup, 20th Century Women is set in 1979 Santa Barbara.

A period piece set in late»70s Santa Barbara, California, Mills» movie focuses on three different generations of women: Bening's Dorothea, a child of the Depression; Greta Gerwig's feminist rebel Abbie; and Elle Fanning's teenage Julie.

Billy Crudup, who recently starred in The Stanford Prison Project, is set to play the male lead in 20th Century Women, an Annapurna film written and directed by Mike Mills and co-starring 21st century women Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, and Greta Gerwig.

To prepare for working on a film set in the»70s, aside from learning how to use cameras from that era, Gerwig says it was «more about trying to place more what it would feel like to encounter it for the first time.»

Director Greta Gerwig on the set of «Lady Bird,» which was shot extensively in her hometown of Sacramento.

Reunited two years later on a chilly late - afternoon on the balcony of a West Hollywood hotel room, the sun setting, other guests on display on their own terraces («I bet there is a lot of debauchery at this hotel,» Ronan guesses, to which Gerwig answers, «Not us... we're just drinking Cokes»), the pair settle in with blankets, clasping hands throughout a lengthy conversation about their lovely movie, which was nominated Tuesday for five Oscars, including best picture and director, and nods for Ronan and Metcalf.

The film begins in the fall of 2002 and is set in Sacramento, California, which is where Gerwig was born; she attended an all - girls Catholic school and her mother was a nurse, just like the fictionalized lead characters.

Writer / director Daryl Wein and actors Greta Gerwig and Hamish Linklater on the set of LOLA VERSUS.

Although Baumbach and Gerwig didn't intentionally set out to turn «Mistress America» into some kind of companion piece to «Frances Ha,» they did want to tell a story with the same sort of framework, at least when it comes to its central characters.

«Black Panther» star Chadwick Boseman, «Girls Trip» breakout star Tiffany Haddish, «Lady Bird» author Greta Gerwig and «The Big Sick» co-writer and actor Kumail Nanjiani are set to appear at the 90th annual Academy Awards.

Julie Delpy, Kieran Culkin, Danny DeVito, Ellen Burstyn, Zosia Mamet and Tracy Letts are also set to star alongside Gerwig.

The film, which Gerwig also wrote solo following several previous screenplay collaborations including two with Noah Baumbach on her starring films Frances Ha and Mistress America, is set in 2002 Sacramento, California where Christine attends a Catholic school while also dealing with the shaky bond between her and her domineering, impossible to please mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf) who is trying to hold the family together by working double shifts as a nurse after her husband Larry (Tracy Letts) has lost his job.

«We very deliberately set out to make this movie where the central question and the central relationship was another relationship between two women,» Gerwig said.

Greta Gerwig plays a staunch idealist who helms a suicide - prevention organization and tries to elevate her classmates by setting a good example, and by teaching them to keep their spirits up through proper hygiene.

• «Lady Bird» screenwriter and director Greta Gerwig's choice of a yellow gown by Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy felt especially appropriate: The Mulleavys wrote and directed their first feature film in 2017, the Humboldt - set «Woodshock,» and have been major advocates for female filmmakers.

; 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!).

Co-directors Tom Luddy and Julie Huntsinger certainly set out to program the year's likeliest Oscar contenders, including Joe Wright's Gary Oldman vehicle «Darkest Hour,» Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird,» starring Saoirse Ronan, Guillermo del Toro's «The Shape of Water,» starring Sally Hawkins, and «Battle of the Sexes,» starring a luminous Emma Stone as real - life hero Billie Jean King.

In a recent interview Gerwig perhaps reveals the relatively low bar she set for herself: «I just don't feel like I've seen very many movies about 17 - year - old girls where the question is not, «Will she find the right guy» or «Will he find her?»

Gerwig also served as a role model for the young actors on her set.

If you've been waiting for an excuse to sit and watch Greta Gerwig just sort of behave for an hour and a half, your Sunday matinee plans are set.

Writer - director Greta Gerwig, right, with actress Saoirse Ronan on the set of the coming - of - age film «Lady Bird.»

Gerwig said she is not sure whether her future movies set in Sacramento will revisit «Lady Bird's» characters or tell different stories.

For me, it's the blissful image of Gerwig running in «Frances Ha,» her arms flailing and her hair whipping behind her as she sprints and leaps down a New York Chinatown street — an ebullient vision of carefree innocence set to the crackling beat of David Bowie's «Modern Love.»

«Lady Bird,» Greta Gerwig's directorial debut, has set the record for most reviews for a film with a 100 percent - positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

A Lady Bird bulletin board St. Francis High School designed in congratulations; Saoirse Ronan and Greta Gerwig on set.

Gerwig said she plans to follow «Lady Bird» — up for four Golden Globes Sunday, Jan. 7 — with three more movies set in Sacramento.

But the movie we're most excited about is the California - set Lady Bird, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, starring Saoirse Ronan, the latter who gave 2015's best performance in Brooklyn.

«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.

Lady Bird is, noticeably, set in Sacramento, where Gerwig grew up and eventually left.

Set in Gerwig's hometown — the movie opens on a black screen with a quote from fellow escapee Joan Didion, «Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento» — «Lady Bird» hits the mark of the American teen movie while quietly reaching toward literary effect.

The 2002 setting, which doesn't match up with Gerwig's biography, was selected for its post-9 / 11 shadow: «We were starting the invasion into Iraq... and we were ushered into a new age of politics.

What Gerwig does is smart: instead of going back, she sets the film in 2003 and explores what it was that created these emotions in the first place.

Saoirse Ronan, who last week received an Oscar nomination for best actress for Brooklyn, is set to star in Lady Bird, the writing and directorial debut of actress Greta Gerwig, reports Deadline.com.

Gerwig hasn't announced what her next directorial effort will be, but she confirms she's planning on sticking with Sacramento - set stories in the future.