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«We always joked that we should put up a title card at the end of the movie that said CALL YOUR MOTHER,» Gerwig told New York earlier this year.

Gerwig told me she really sees the movie as a love story between a strong - willed mother (impeccably played by Laurie Metcalf) and her equally fierce - minded daughter.

«I sort of attacked him,» Gerwig told V.F. with a laugh.

But I do think the work is being acknowledged,» Gerwig told The Times.

In 2017, Gerwig told NPR's Terry Gross that she was nervous to discuss working with Allen, but admired what Page had said.

«I really choose movies based on filmmakers more than anything else,» Gerwig tells ET about working with Baumbach.

Not exact matches

But Gerwig addressed her working with Allen head on in 2018, telling The New York Times that she would never work with him again.

Learning of the plan, the jilted wife (Julianne Moore) tells the mistress - turned wife Maggie (Greta Gerwig): «Have the decency to leave him and face the fact that you poisoned my life and my children's life and probably John's life, with your own selfishness.

The film tells the story of three women: Dorothea (Annette Bening), Abbie (Greta Gerwig) and Julie (Elle Fanning).

He'll be the first to tell you that there plenty of other pilfered aspects of his past in the mix as well, ranging from Greta Gerwig's older art - school mentor to Elle Fanning's late - night confidante.

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.»

Julie Delpy and Greta Gerwig star in the pic, which tells several stories featuring people who find their life inspired or changed by one particular dachshund.

Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»

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.

Gerwig has taken exception to the attention she has paid to bringing forth the character of Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Ronan) in the film being dismissed as she telling a story about «just your life».

Gerwig responded to the good news, telling RT, «that there has been such a warm reception is a dream come true.»

According to Gerwig, Metcalf told her she could only do the scene a couple of times.

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.

There are already warm reviews for Alexander Payne's Downsizing and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water out of Venice, whisperings about the promise of Telluride premieres like Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird and Joe Wright's Darkest Hour, and before you know it we'll be reading tweets telling us who will win best actress — and sometimes they'll turn out to be right!

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.

In a frail, fragile tone of voice, Brooke (Greta Gerwig) stares off absentmindedly as she tells Tracy (Lola Kirke), and in turn the audience, that «everything becomes pure want.»

Her mother (Kathryn Erbe) tells her to call her future stepsister Brooke (Greta Gerwig), who lives in the city and seems to be everything Tracy quietly wishes she could be.

Wearing its indie sensibilities like a badge of honor, the film tells the story of a 29 - year - old woman (Gerwig) whose right - on - track life is derailed when her fiancee breaks up with her three weeks before their wedding.

Greta Gerwig, who wrote and directed the film, is telling a semi-autobiographical story, albeit one that also slots nicely with her other on - screen work.

From Greta Gerwig, here comes a firecracker of a coming - of - age story that tells it like it is.

'» Truth be told, there are far more critical questions Gerwig and her characters might be asking themselves right now.

«I get so much pleasure out of seeing what she's going to write,» Baumbach told me of his collaboration with Gerwig.

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

At the Telluride festival last September, there was a photocall for the film - makers in attendance and Gerwig collected a giant bruise on her leg trying to hurdle a bench to tell Payne how much she liked his latest movie, Downsizing.

From Greta Gerwig's buzzy coming - of - age dramedy Lady Bird to riveting documentaries like Nancy Buirski's The Rape of Recy Taylor, the diversity of stories being told by female filmmakers at this year's festival was difficult to narrow down.

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.

«If I had known then what I know now, I would not have acted in the film,» Greta Gerwig, who co-starred in Allen's 2012 comedy «To Rome With Love,» told The New York Times last week.

With Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig steps out of that ridiculous role of «Noah Baumbach's muse» and into her own space, where she can tell her own stories in her own words with her own style.

As Gerwig was exiting the Walter Reed theater, I told her, «I'm about to see my mother [who is visiting from Houston].»

Without derailing this discussion too much into my frustration with being grouped in with the millennial generation, Gerwig, born in 1983 (one year prior to my own entrance), honestly and insightfully depicts the last generation, whose upbringing can be told without showing a single screen.

And if the eventual winners» circle includes notable contenders like Jordan Peele's sharp racial satire / horror debut Get Out, Greta Gerwig's nuanced mother - daughter tale Lady Bird or Mudbound cinematographer Rachel Morrison (the first female cinematographer ever nominated for the Oscars), «it would tell us that the industry isn't closed off to recognizing diverse voices, new voices and different voices,» Yamato noted.

I knew Sacramento very well obviously, growing up there, and I felt like the right way to tell a story of a place was through a person who's about to leave it,» Gerwig explained, sitting down at Deadline's Toronto Studio.

Gerwig also wrote to Dave Matthews asking if she could use his classic song «Crash Into Me» by explaining that it is «the most romantic song ever» and that she wishes she «could go back in time and tell my 16 - year - old self that this moment was coming.»

The production is playfully told in the Japanese language, with interpretation given by a state narrator (voice of Frances McDormand) and an exchange student (voice of Greta Gerwig).

And it's historic,» Dern told Gerwig of her best director nomination — the fifth woman in academy history to be so recognized.

His gradual warm - up to a 25 - year - old woman (Greta Gerwig) and estranged friend (Rhys Ifans) is freeing, funny and powerfully told.

In her first solo outing as a writer - director, Greta Gerwig doesn't just tell a story.

, another collaboration with his beau Greta Gerwig that tells the tale of Tracy (Lola Kirke), a young college freshman feeling lost in New York City until she connects with her stepsister - to - be Brooke (Gerwig).

«Oh, Greta, you wish I'd give you the silent treatment,» Gerwig's mom told her after seeing the film.

While only one female writer / director has broken that barrier — Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird — there are so many other provocative stories told by women that got the shaft, like Mudbound, Detroit, Novitiate, and Battle of the Sexes.

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Ahead of its world premiere at the New York Film Festival next weekend, the first teaser has arrived online for writer - director Mike Mills» upcoming comedy drama 20th Century Women which stars Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Lucas Jade Zumann and Billy Crudup; check it out below after the official synopsis... 20th Century Women tells -LSB-...]