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In our season 8 premiere episode, Academy Award ® - nominated filmmaker and actress Greta Gerwig talks about her theatrical beginnings, what she learned working with filmmakers Noah Baumbach, Mike Mills, and others in such films as Frances Ha and 20th Century Women, and taking the leap to write and direct her own film, the critically acclaimed Lady Bird.

Take a listen as Gerwig talks about the scene when Lady Bird has a moment with a communion wafer and her pal Julie (played by the superb Beanie Feldstein).

In our eight - page cover story, Gerwig talks about her love for Sacramento and New York, her responsibilities as a woman screenwriter and director, and her relationship with her boyfriend and frequent collaborator Noah Baumbach.

Gerwig talked about how Lady Bird evolved into what it is now, whether she ever considered acting in the film, that she's not Lady Bird, putting together such a terrific cast, and whether acting or directing is her priority.

Not exact matches

We talk to Gerwig about all things Ladybird, her breakthroughs in Greenberg and Frances Ha, and whether she'd like to direct a big studio picture.

While I love the way Gerwig and Baumbach's rapid - fire dialogue moves and breathes, it's difficult to not notice characters don't really talk to each other as much as they talk at each other, divulging random personal facts with little to no follow up.

Other highlights of the festival include three Philadelphia - shot archival screenings from the late, great Jonathan Demme, including, Beloved, Neil Young Trunk Show, and Philadelphia; WWII drama Darkest Hour; Greta Gerwig's coming - of - ager Lady Bird; the much - talked - about The Florida Project; and Todd Haynes reunion with muse Julianne Moore in Wonderstruck.

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.

We talk about Greta Gerwig's film Lady Bird and discuss with Liz the history of disability activism and her documentary Defiant Lives.

I sat down with him to talk about how he met Gerwig at Sundance.

Talking to Greta Gerwig was my last exciting engagement at the 5th annual Middleburg Film Festival before taking a shuttle to catch a plane back to Los Angeles.

Actors often talk of how their own lives influence their work, but it sounds as if Gerwig takes as much from her characters as she gives to them.

Shohreh Aghdashloo — The Promise * Jennifer Aniston — The Yellow Birds * Annette Bening — Rules Don't Apply * Lily Collins — Rules Don't Apply * Olivia Colman — The Lobster Laura Dern — The Founder Aunjanue Ellis — The Birth of a Nation Elle Fanning — 20th Century Women Greta Gerwig — 20th Century Women Allison Janney — Tallulah * Nicole Kidman — How to Talk to Girls at Parties * Jennifer Jason Leigh — LBJ Laura Linney — Sully Rooney Mara — Lion * Helen Mirren — Eye in the Sky Janelle Monáe — Hidden Figures Janelle Monáe — Moonlight Katey Sagal — Bleed For This * Octavia Spencer — Hidden Figures * Kristen Stewart — Certain Women Meg Tilly — War Machine

As we're only talking theoretically, it is a less crowded field, so far: Davis will get her nod and is the frontrunner to win, with nominee potential for Greta Gerwig (20th Century Women), Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea), Naomie Harris (Moonlight), and Nicole Kidman (Lion).

«Something we talked about a lot were these»80s movies where there were these female characters, like in Something Wild, the Melanie Griffith character,» Gerwig explains.

I sat down with Gerwig to talk about her unique character, the difference between working on a Hollywood project as opposed to an independent, and what the next Woody Allen movie To Rome with Love is going to be like.

They had talked on Skype months earlier, and now they were both at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, promoting movies, and Gerwig came to Ronan's hotel room for a proper script read - through.

So while he's listening to the Talking Heads and doting on his lifelong friend and neighbor Julie (Elle Fanning), she's smoking like a chimney and perpetually remodeling her 19th - century home, hoping Julie and her tenant, Abbie (Greta Gerwig), can help lead him to manhood.

And Gerwig's dialogue hits that rare, special sweet spot between authenticity and zing — an ideal middle ground, in other words, between the way people really talk and the gut - busting way we only wished they did.

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.

And if Gerwig isn't reinventing the coming - of - age movie, she's certainly investing it with uncommon wit and quotability; her dialogue hits that rare, special sweet spot between authenticity and zing — an ideal middle ground, in other words, between the way people actually talk and the gut - busting way we only want them to.

In collaboration with her boyfriend of six years, director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding), Gerwig penned screenplays for Frances Ha and 2015's Mistress America, in which she plays Brooke, an impetuous, fast - talking operator who drags Tracy, her impressionable stepsister - to - be, along on her New York misadventures.

Naturally, Gerwig would have preferred to film all of Lady Bird in Sacramento — just like she and Levy, also the cinematographer for this movie, talked about doing back in the day — but proved her budget savvy by shooting, for instance, the interior of the McPherson home in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley.

Brooke (Gerwig) talks nonstop and seems to know everyone.

Gerwig's Abbie puts finality into the mix with her talk of treatments, while Elle «s Julie, though sexually active in the film, finds it boring and wants to do something with her life.

For Timothée Chalamet, who plays Lady Bird's mansplaining crush, Kyle, Gerwig encouraged viewings of Éric Rohmer films to study «young men talking at women about their ideas.»

Baumbach and Gerwig have a knack for creating whiney people who talk (incessantly) their way through the process of assembling pieces of the universe.

When I first talk to Gerwig, on an otherwise regulation Friday during the London film festival, there is a surreal, even comic, imbalance in London's Soho hotel.

I really hoped to talk a little more about the directors and having Greta Gerwig be only the fifth woman ever to be nominated for being best director.

I want to talk you off the edge about a Gerwig Best Director omission, but I don't have any evidence to do so.

Brooke Cardinas (Greta Gerwig) is a New Yorker who's everything a New Yorker should be: hip, witty and eloquent, especially when talking about her favourite subject.

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.

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.

Finally, «Behind the House of the Devil» (5 mins., HD) has West revealing, unsurprisingly (to his credit), his chief influences — Polanski and Kubrick — and contains brief soundbites from Donahue and the awesome Greta Gerwig that add not a whole lot, though I sure like watching them talk.

Interview: Greta Gerwig and Lola Kirke Talk «Mistress America», Roles for Women, Writing and Being Written About

«If you've ever talked to Greta, it's such a Greta Gerwig thing to say — brilliant but very straightforward.

I got a chance to talk with Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan as well as Beanie Feldstein and Lucas Hedges about the film.

«I'm really interested in friendships among women, the way they are manifested, the different dimensions these relationships take on, whether we're talking about best friends or mentors or mothers or daughters or sisters,» Gerwig said.

As the Oscar race slowly begins to take shape, there's much talk of prime contenders building a topical «narrative» to fuel their campaigns: Three Billboards is being pitched as a spiky response to the culture of toxic masculinity exemplified by Harvey Weinstein; on a related note, Lady Bird and Greta Gerwig carry heightened hopes for another female best director winner; Get Out continues to mark the temperature of America's rampant racial tensions; Call Me By Your Name takes the baton of LGBT empowerment and visibility from reigning Oscar champ Moonlight.

Greta Gerwig is ready to talk about Woody Allen.

Her work in Greta Gerwig's Ladybird, which also won Best Picture, is among the most talked about performances in film over the last 12 months.