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The film also has a pretty impressive cast that includes Greta Gerwig who will be playing Dawn as well as Brie Larson, Danny DeVito, Julie Delpy, and Ellen Burstyn.

The film is a collaboration between director Noah Baumbach, who is also one of the film's producers, and actor Greta Gerwig who plays the lead character Frances Halladay.

In his latest film Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach pairs his formidable skills with those of the rising indie star Greta Gerwig who has worked with Whit Stillman, Woody Allen, Ivan Reitman and co-wrote the screenplays for Hannah Takes the Stairs, Nights and Weekends, as well as Frances Ha.

Joie de vivre bursts through every shimmering black and white frame of «Frances,» a breathless comedy about a young dancer played by Greta Gerwig who is apartment - hopping through Brooklyn and, seemingly, through life itself.

Perhaps it was only Greta Gerwig who could have pulled that performance off.

Perhaps it was only Greta Gerwig who could have pulled... Read More»

In an ordinary year, this screenplay award would belong to Greta Gerwig who would win it as Jane Campion did, as Sofia Coppola did in the years they were nominated for picture and director.

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.»

Not exact matches

Greta Gerwig, who's been recently lauded for her directorial work in «Lady Bird,» also acted in «To Rome With Love» alongside Ellen Page.

But Greta Gerwig is very good at quirky and that is what Frances Ha is all about, a quirky girl, or rather a young woman of 27 who can not get over being a quirky girl.

I think Baumbach and Gerwig mean Brooke to be a life - affirming free spirit who can't find a place in our mercenary world.

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.

It reteams Baumbach with his partner and muse Greta Gerwig, who plays the impulsive stepsister - to - be of a shy Barnard freshman (rising star Lola Kirke).

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.

Though it would be easy to say that Lola Kirke is MVP here, mainly because her character is the one with whom it is most easy to relate, the majority of kudos deserves to be directed at Gerwig, who has managed to create a character who consistently deflects our empathy, but in a strange and not - altogether - comprehensible manner, she still opens herself up enough to earn it.

Similarly, Rebecca Miller's new film, «Maggie's Plan,» stars a similarly good - hearted leading lady (Greta Gerwig) who decides to become a single mom in lieu of suitors.

THR raved that «the movie belongs to Bening,» who «gives radiant life to all [Dorothea's] complexities,» while Indiewire had particular praise for Bening and Gerwig, writing that «neither has ever been better.»

Announced today as part of the Sundance Film Festival, we now have a first look at the film — titled «Mistress America «-- which stars Gerwig (who also co-wrote the script with Baumbach) and Lola Kirke (the sister of Jemima Kirke from «Girls «-RRB-, along with a complete plot synopsis.

Eliza Hittman and the BEACH RATS team, nominated yesterday for TWO 2018 Independent Spirit Awards, including a rare nomination for a woman cinematographer; Greta Gerwig and the LADY BIRD team, nominated for FOUR 2018 Independent Spirit Awards; Ingrid Jungermann and the WOMEN WHO KILL team; Emily V. Gordon and THE BIG SICK team, nominated for TWO 2018 Independent Spirit Awards; Agnès Varda and FACES PLACES team, nominated in Best Documentary category; Lana Wilson and THE DEPARTURE team, nominated in the Best Documentary category; Chloé Zhao and THE RIDER team, nominated for FOUR 2018 Independent Spirit Awards; Ramona Diaz, nominated for her documentary MOTHERLAND.

He wanted to Gerwig to play Abbie, Jamie's dyed - redhead guide to the world of spirit - of -»79 performance art and punk, because he's a huge Frances Ha fan «and she's one of the few modern actresses who you could believe actually listens to Suicide, Siouxisie and the Banshees and the Raincoats.»

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

Forty - year - old Roger tries to reconnect with an old bandmate (Rhys Ifans) and an ex-girlfriend (Leigh), but the actual connection comes with his brother's twenty - something personal assistant Florence Marr (Gerwig), who's helping to look after the family dog.

The first trailer for Todd Solondz's Wiener - Dog puts the emphasis on quirk as it cuts between the lives of Danny DeVito, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Burstyn, Julie Delpy, Zosia Mamet, Kiernan Culkin, Tracy Letts, and the one wiener - dog who connects...

Stiller is paired to great effect with Greta Gerwig in a breakout role as an aspiring musician with her own self - esteem issues, a woman who kind of falls for Greenberg despite his off - putting demeanor.

Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote with her director, plays the eponymous heroine, a 27 - year - old who passes through life with an exuberance that's obnoxious and disarming in equal measure.

Greta Gerwig, who's credited as a co-writer on both this project and «Frances Ha», shows off her comic ability beautifully.

Hannah Takes the Stairs (Unrated) Office romance is the theme of this relationship drama about a recent college grad (Greta Gerwig) who breaks up with her unemployed boyfriend (Mark Duplass) only to develop crushes on two of her co-workers (Andrew Bujalski and Kent Osborne) at a Chicago production company.

Anyone who has seen «Lady Bird» knows how instrumental Gerwig's all - girl Catholic high school years were to the creation of the film.

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.

The school is so proud of Gerwig, who is only the fifth woman nominated for Best Director, that A24's official «Lady Bird» poster is mounted in the school's administrative office along with a crucifix and a photo of the pope.

Gerwig will play Abbie, asophisticated photographer submersed in the punk culture of the era who is forced to return to her home town and ends up living with Dorothea and Jamie.

The fantastical movie is a world apart from «Lady Bird,» Gerwig's first solo directing credit, which stars Saoirse Ronan as a disgruntled Sacramento teen who's eager to escape her drab surroundings in 2002.

On the advice of her mother (Kathryn Erbe), who is about to remarry, Tracy reaches out to Brooke Cardinas (Gerwig), the 30 - year - old who will become her stepsister through the union.

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.

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).

«Lady Bird,» written and directed by Gerwig, and starring Saoirse Ronan, is a coming - of - age story about a high school senior in Sacramento, California in 2002/03, who acts out and searches for her place even as she prepares to take wing.

Those who are new to this universe, like Cranston and Greta Gerwig (who voices an American exchange student determined to uncover official conspiracy), are perfect fits.

Greta Gerwig plays Tracy Walker, an American exchange student who leads the protests against Kobayashi and the ban.

Greta Gerwig's directorial debut follows a teenage girl named Christine (aka Lady Bird) who is still finding her way in the world.

Maggie's Plan entangles Gerwig's serial bachelorette career woman with Ethan Hawke's struggling academic and his wife, a neurotic Swedish scholar played by Julianne Moore, in a game of who loves who.

In actress - turned - writer / director Greta Gerwig's autobiographical coming - of - age drama, Ronan is Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson, a Catholic high school senior who longs to escape her stultifying lower - middle - class Sacramento environs for East Coast college life.

Under Greta Gerwig's astonishingly sure hand, the two give stunning performances as a daughter and mother who have a relationship that every woman I know found terrifyingly spot - on.

Now divorced, she lives with Jamie in a rambling old house with a makeshift family: boarders Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a 20 - something photographer recovering from cancer treatment, and agreeable handyman William (Billy Crudup); 17 - year - old neighbor Julie (Elle Fanning), who finds a haven in Dorothea's home — and with whom Jamie is hopelessly in love.

Also, big props to writer / director Greta Gerwig, who deserves all sorts of recognition for her feature film debut.

The main music moments involve Dave Matthews Band and Alanis Morissette, while Gerwig admitted in press that she advised Timothée Chalamet (who plays Ronan's boyfriend from hell) to behave like an obnoxious Pavement fan.

Gerwig, McDonagh and del Toro — who co-wrote his screenplay with Taylor — also did double duty.

What I wanted more was at least a Best Supporting nod for Greta Gerwig, who gives the performance of her career in this film.

Due to vagaries of scheduling, A24 is releasing «While We're Young» March 27 after which Fox Searchlight will eventually open enchanting comedy «Mistress America,» which Baumbauch wrote with his partner and actress muse Greta Gerwig (who collaborated with him memorably on «Frances Ha»), creating Brooke, the most entertaining screwball heroine since Holly Golightly.

Part of that comes from the fact that it's a reunion with Frances Ha co-writer and star Greta Gerwig, also Baumbach's off - screen partner, who has seemingly given him that rejuvenating spirit which has catapulted him into this exciting new phase of his career.