Sentences with phrase «lady bird come»

One example will have to suffice, but it captures the spirit of film and the nature of Gerwig's talent: After having sex for the first time, Lady Bird comes down the stairs in her boyfriend's house and sees the boyfriend's father, asleep in a chair.

Writer - director Greta Gerwig's poignant coming - of - age drama Lady Bird came in as the runner - up.

After sharing tears over an audio version of «The Grapes of Wrath,» Marion says «let's just sit with what we've heard,» with Lady Bird coming back with «Are you serious?»

After all the hype, Lady Bird came away with nothing.

Fresh: The film is not so much a coming - of - age story... [it] aims for a deeper truth, being that life's most important lessons come incrementally, in small, touching moments, something Lady Bird comes to appreciate, however reluctantly.

So it was only a matter of time before Gerwig made a film all her own, and with Lady Bird comes something expected yet totally delightful: a work of both nostalgia and anti-nostalgia, something both fleeting and grounded, all anchored in an utterly indelible character.

What Lady Bird comes to see, and what the movie communicates in each nervy and authentic scene, is that everything that happens to her — and, by implication, to all of us — is more than an experience.

Not exact matches

Any doubts of whether the 34 - year - old was ready to handle directing solo — a role that often comes much later in the film industry — have been silenced by early buzz around the film mixed with Lady Bird's current score of 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

It can be sensibly placed on the kitchen table the previous day but come morning it has moved and disappeared into a «What the lady bird heard» shaped black hole.

Dotted with honest observational drama and comedy, it makes a curious spiritual sibling to Lady Bird (another coming - of - age movie and another female director's solo debut), though it's considerably more sanguine.

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.»

Gerwig's warmth as an artist becomes important, because in «Lady Bird» she is dealing in what is often the most self - centered of forms, the coming - of - age story; particularly, the coming - of - age story based on the filmmaker's own life.

From a fraught relationship with her mom (Metcalf) to a falling out with her best pal (Feldstein) to a very messy romantic life, Lady Bird is as authentic as they come.

Gerwig herself has been open about the many films that inspired «Lady Bird» — she even programmed an entire series at NYC's Quad Cinema featuring a dozen films that she says helped fuel her creativity — and it while the list is peppered with some surprises, there's at least one coming - of - age classic that seems obvious: Howard Deutch's «Pretty in Pink.»

It's the honesty of Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird» that really makes the Saoirse Ronan - starring coming - of - age movie sing.

Oscar Nominated, Lady Bird is coming home March 6th!

In the hands of many other writers, the titular, self - proclaimed Lady Bird — real name Christine McPherson played by renowned Irish actress Saoirse Ronan — would come across as whiny, entitled, and unlikable to the point where the entire film comes crumbling down.

Greta Gerwig won the best screenplay award for her Oscar - nominated coming - of - age comedy - drama Lady Bird.

Guillermo del Toro's fairy tale noir «The Shape of Water» tied with Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age directorial debut «Lady Bird» for best film of the festival.

Lady Bird, a coming - of - age story starring Saoirse Ronan that The A.V. Club's own A.A. Dowd said is «so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.»

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.

Lady Bird is a masterful, exquisite coming - of - age comedy starring the great Saoirse Ronan as Christine — or «Lady Bird,» as she's re-christened herself — and it's as funny, smart, and filled with yearning as its heroine.

VANCOUVER, B.C. (December 18, 2017)-- Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age comedy Lady Bird leads the Vancouver Film Critic's Circle international awards with three wins, including Best Film.

«Lady Bird» is a graceful, insightful, smart, hilarious and warm coming - of - age comedic drama that could only come from Greta Gerwig.

* Dunkirk: lapping of leaflets as they fall in quiet street of a seaside town... * Imperceptible bleed of newsreel and movie, Detroit... * Post-first-kiss, Christine's (Saoirse Ronan's) milestone - marking scream in middle of suburban street, Lady Bird... * Bobby (Willem Dafoe) fires up a cigarette; lights come on all over The Florida Project....

The coming - of - age comedy, out next year, chronicles a year in the life of Christine (Saoirse Ronan), an angsty teen who refuses to be known by anything other than Lady Bird.

The loveliest thing we can say about Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is that it comes as close — maybe closer — to capturing...

Greta Gerwig's directorial debut in Lady Bird is considered one of the best coming - of - age stories in years.

«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.

Despite hitting so many classic coming - of - age hallmarks, Lady Bird never feels anything but fresh (and refreshing).

Best Supporting Actress was awarded to Laurie Metcalf, as a working - class mother struggling to see eye - to - eye with her headstrong teenage daughter, in truthful coming - of - age film «Lady Bird.»

With a bold leading turn from Saoirse Ronan, and an internalized masterclass of a performance from the often underappreciated Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird is an honest comment on strained mother - daughter relationships, functioning as a sort - of companion piece to last year's best coming - of - age film, The Edge of Seventeen.

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.

Coming in behind «The Shape of Water» are Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age dramedy «Lady Bird» and Luca Guadagnino's summer romance «Call Me By Your Name» with seven nominations each, also including best piComing in behind «The Shape of Water» are Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age dramedy «Lady Bird» and Luca Guadagnino's summer romance «Call Me By Your Name» with seven nominations each, also including best picoming - of - age dramedy «Lady Bird» and Luca Guadagnino's summer romance «Call Me By Your Name» with seven nominations each, also including best picture.

(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.)

Greta Gerwig's triumphant directorial debut, the coming - of - age drama Lady Bird, has been a huge hit with critics and audiences.

It's no wonder Lady Bird is getting the acclaim is has received thus far this year and announces Gerwig as a filmmaking force to be watched in the coming years.

For some, Lady Bird may come across as too bratty and occasionally self destructive to care about and follow for the entire 94 - minute running time.

«Lady Bird» — This smart, tender coming - of - age tale nimbly captures the spirit of teenage angst, so wonderfully, fully realized in Saoirse Ronan's Oscar - quality performance as a teen in her last year of high school navigating the tumultuous waters of romance and self - realization while also butting heads with her equally strong - willed mother (an astounding Laurie Metcalf).

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, director & writer) Terrific coming - of - age story written and directed by Greta Gerwig.

Lady Bird is every bit a charming coming of age film, with Saoirse Ronan as a young woman finding her own unique ways of dealing with issues every teenager encounters.

Greta Gerwig's acclaimed coming of age story Lady Bird and Steven Spielberg's The Post left empty - handed, though Jordan Peele's Get Out won best original screenplay, prompting a rapturous standing ovation that cemented his elevation to Hollywood's elite.

The comedy «Lady Bird» had 55 % of its sales come by way of Blu - ray, while the documentary series «Blue Planet II» had 75 % and «The Man Who Invented Christmas» had 46 %.

Greta Gerwig is only the fifth woman nominated in the best director category for bringing «Lady Bird,» a tender coming - of - age story, to the screen, while «Get Out» s» Jordan Peele became the fifth black man nominated in the best director category.

As for Chalamet, the Lady Bird scene stealer admitted his parents had seen the coming - of - age homosexual movie, but he fears his grandma «is going to be in shock when she does.»

Joining the ranks of The Diary of a Teenage Girl and The Edge of Seventeen as a refreshing woman - centered coming - of - age film (and offering more depth than either), Lady Bird captures a recent era with precision and a hint of nostalgia that's not distracting: Clunky flip phones and «Cry Me a River» blend right in.

They cite Dee Rees for «Mudbound,» Patty Jenkins for «Wonder Woman» and Greta Gerwig for «Lady Bird» as snubs, coming just a couple of years after April Reign created the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite calling for industry - wide inclusion for women, people of color and other diverse people.

With Lady Bird, Gerwig paints a painfully beautiful family portrait that showcases an artistically inclined 17 - year - old girl (Saoirse Ronan) coming of age in Sacramento, Calif. in 2002.

But a come - from - behind victory for Peele's film — or «Lady Bird,» «Dunkirk,» «Call Me by Your Name» or «Phantom Thread,» to cite a few excellent alternatives — was not in the cards.

Saoirse (23) is up for the Best Actress BAFTA for her role in Greta Gerwig's coming of age story Lady Bird but faces stiff competition from Annette Bening for Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri, Margot Robbie for I Tonya, and British actress Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water.