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(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.)

Gerwig went on to say she would never work with Allen again, and said she was heartbroken to «realize [she] increased another woman's pain.»

Baumbach and Gerwig go back to the roots of the old - school screwball comedies of the 1930s - 1950s with its jokes.

«I've felt for so long that there just need to be more women in positions of power,» Gerwig goes on.

Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird,» starring Saoirse Ronan (pronounced Ser - Sha, as in Sersha, Sersha, Sersha) finds Gerwig going all semi-autobiographical mumblecore, as if that Godforsaken genre weren't already long dead gone.

Gerwig goes on to note that Ronan, Lady Bird's leading lady, sang Morissette's «Ironic» in the first film she ever did, and provided a link to the performance.

Not exact matches

«Lady Bird» is semi-autobiographical — director Greta Gerwig also grew up in Sacramento at the same time, went to a private Catholic high school, and moved to NYC after graduation.

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 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.»

True, Gerwig has gone out of her way to say that «Lady Bird» is not factually autobiographical, but she admits that to some extent it's emotionally autobiographical.

Related Reviews: Written and Directed by Noah Baumbach: Frances Ha • Greenberg • While We're Young • The Squid and the Whale • Margot at the Wedding Greta Gerwig: Arthur (2011) • The Humbling • No Strings Attached • To Rome with Love Lola Kirke: Gone Girl Co-Written by Noah Baumbach: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou • Fantastic Mr. Fox • Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted Now in Theaters: Irrational Man • The End of the Tour • Dark Places

Best supporting female and male went to I, Tonya's Alison Janney and Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards, while best screenplay went to Greta Gerwig for Ladybird.

Then there were those women who went a little too literal (Ariana Grande), those who sacrificed fit for theme (Shailene Woodley), style for theme (Janelle Monae), those who were lost in their own gowns (Greta Gerwig), and those who were, quite frankly, far past their prime (Madonna, who one would think this event was themed specifically for).

Instead, that honor went to Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird.

I get the feeling Peele will get it as a sop for not getting director, but I'd go either Gerwig or Gordon / Nanjiani.

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«I think this Fall is going to be my moment to finally acquire a poodle,» says Greta Gerwig, sounding exactly like Greta Gerwig.

Of all the crafty schemes «Brooke» had going, Gerwig said her favorite was the spin class instructor.

Greta Gerwig proves that you can indeed go home again with her stunning directorial debut «Lady Bird,» a semi-autobiographical story about the Sacramento native's senior year in high school.

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.

I can honestly say that I've never felt so connected to a character as I did with Frances (wonderfully played by Greta Gerwig); she is the embodiment of every emotion and defeat we go through.

Same goes for # 5's Greta Gerwig.

Free from the shackles of the ill - fated How I Met Your Dad, Greta Gerwig can go back to doing what she does best: Working with director Noah Baumbach, who directed her in Greenberg and Frances Ha.

Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah — «Gangsta» Augustine Frizzell — «Never Going Back» Greta Gerwig — «Lady Bird» Joseph Kahn — «Bodied» Xavier Legrand — «Custody» Carlos Lopez Estrada — «Blindspotting» Anthony Maras — «The Palace» Samuel Maoz — «Foxtrot» Claire McCarthy — «Ophelia» Chloe Zhao — «The Rider»

With a supporting cast that includes Helen Mirren, Greta Gerwig, Jennifer Garner, Nick Nolte, and Luis Guzmán, the movie has a lot going for it.

Small wonder that film critics, a largely liberal enclave, have taken it to their hearts: Gerwig's film, I sense, will remain a treasured item long after any Rotten Tomatoes records go splat.

Baumbach isn't the type of writer to succumb to a tidy bastard's - redemption premise, but Gerwig's presence in Greenberg goes a long way toward redeeming the movie, even if Greenberg himself is a hopeless case.

The recent release of Lady Bird makes Greta Gerwig one of several directorial debuts this year to strike a resonant chord with audiences — it's self - assured and absent of clichés, and if you've seen it already, you're probably aware that it's the kind of movie that will make you want to go and call your mom as soon as its done.

Compared to the more straightforward filming of her hometown («I wanted Sacramento to be beautiful in its simplicity,» says Gerwig), New York appears «mythical and fairy - tale - like» — the qualities of any whereabouts you've ever dreamed of going.

That's also when the film goes from great to greater, as the mostly small - scale back - and - forth between Gerwig and Kirke expands to a dizzying series of interactions between nearly a dozen characters over the course of one afternoon.

Throughout the scene, Gerwig never cuts to inside the dressing room; the camera stays on Marion (with Lady Bird occasionally emerging in a new dress), with Metcalf registering the tiniest facial twinges every time she realizes she's said something that goes too far.

Given the phenomenal success of HIMYM and the unexpected casting of Greta Gerwig as the central husband - hunting character (in this case, one who was also going through a divorce), HIMYD seemed like a...

I don't think, at this point, anyone is going to get in Lady Bird or Greta Gerwig's way.

Also, Greta Gerwig movies should be watched all the time, but especially whenever you're going through a transition in life.

Even in the event of bad buzz, there was no way I was going to miss out on the premiere of a new movie from Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, the co-writing team whose previous collaboration was one of the most effervescent comedies of the last decade.

Just let that properly sink in: this is going to be 90th Oscars ceremony, yet Gerwig is only the fifth -LRB-!)

And Gerwig takes full ownership of the role; even the way she moves, with her limbs as if slightly detached from the rest of her body but completely aware of what she is doing, feels like a choice she went with and committed to.

The 44th annual Telluride Film Festival lineup is out, and it's going to be a busy Labor Day weekend in the Rockies, with Joe Wright's Darkest Hour, Scott Cooper's Hostiles, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris's Battle of the Sexes, Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird, and Angelina Jolie's First They Killed My Father all making their debuts.

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.»

«I did go to a woman's college,» added Gerwig, «so I'm going to quote Virginia Woolf, who said that «Only women know what women are like when they're alone.»

So while we're celebrating Gerwig and Peele's nominations, there's still a long way to go towards equality here.

If you're still riding a Greta Gerwig high after Lady Bird, you're gonna love Maggie's Plan.

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

This, I figure, is going to be an especially good day for Greta Gerwig, being the only female directing nominee and a true charmer.

Kirke, the trailer trash who diddles Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl, registers in a quiet, intense way that is no mean feat in the face of Gerwig's tour de force.

Similarly Greta Gerwig, director of Lady Bird, and Ellen Page have both recently gone on record as regretting their appearances in the 2012 Allen film To Rome With Love.

Greta Gerwig wrote an article for the NY Times Magazine entitled «One Scene, 42 Takes and 2 Hours in a Bathroom Stall» where she outlines in detail the rigors that she and Mickey Sumner had to go through for a short but crucial scene.

Besides «Marshall» director Hudlin, stars Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad and Sterling K. Brown and producer Paula Wagner, high - profile guests expected at various screenings and events during the festival include Patrick Stewart (subject of an Oct. 25 career retrospective tribute and a conversation with yours truly); Vanessa Redgrave (Oct. 16, presenting her documentary «Sea Sorrow» and represented elsewhere in the festival by a revival screening of «Blow - Up»); Alfre Woodard (subject of an Oct. 21 career retrospective tribute); Michael Shannon (Chicago's own, as the locals like to call him, representing «The Shape of Water» on Oct. 26); Tracy Letts (Chicago's own, as the locals also like to call him, participating Oct. 18 on behalf of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed directorial debut «Lady Bird»); Michael Stuhlbarg (arriving Oct. 25; he gives a beautiful supporting turn in the coming - of - age drama «Call Me by Your Name»); Jon Lovitz (part of the Chicago - sprung comedy «Chasing the Blues,» appearing Oct. 14); and, in an Oct. 23 addition announced after the program went to press, Bill Pullman (getting good notices for the western «The Ballad of Lefty Brown»).

Greta [Gerwig] and I were working on Mistress America and had this other movie we wanted to do, and we felt like, we're not going to have enough time to finish it, but why don't we just do it as far as we can do it.

Go Greta Gerwig!!