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Lady Bird tells the story of a young girl Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan) in her last year of high school in her hometown of Sacramento.

Lady Bird tells the story of Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan), a high school rebel who can not wait -LSB-...]

On the surface, Lady Bird tells the story of an angsty teen desperate to escape her middle - class life in a dull California town, where she's forced to put up with the politics of Catholic school — the rich kids, the strict rules, the repressed sexuality.

This year has been one of the most exciting line - ups in recent memory, as the culture - shifting Get Out takes on the heavily nominated The Shape of Water; Call Me By Your Name and Lady Bird both tell small, personal stories; Dunkirk, Darkest Hour and Phantom Thread bring that historical flair Oscar loves so much; and The Post and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri both tell timely, vital stories (even if one takes place decades ago).

Not exact matches

I then had a call from a lovely lady who had recently opened a gift shop on the quay in Exeter and had been told about my birds.

In this piece from 2010, I wrote of right wing hostility to Michelle O's efforts: «Absent pre-existing political animus toward the Obamas (which of course is at work here), that view seems about as rational to me as attacking former First Lady Laura Bush for «meddling in my child's education» or Lady Bird Johnson for «thinking she can tell us what flowers to plant on our highways.»

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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.»

Fortunately, if frustratingly, Lady Bird has retained the solipsistic luxury of tuning out most of what her parents tell her.

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».

As Greta tells it, she had seen me in a bunch of movies playing hard asses, but once she sat with me, she realized I was a softie and thought I was great to play the dad in Lady Bird and I said yes immediately.

Also on the scene are the best friend, irrepressible Julie (Beanie Feldstein), classic cool girl Jenna (Odeya Rush), the irritating older brother Miguel (Jordan Rodrigues) and his live - in girlfriend Shelly (Marielle Scott), who tells a disbelieving Lady Bird that «your mother has a big heart.»

This is 2002 and although Lady Bird (real name Christine; with typical feistiness she tells a priest at her Catholic school that Lady Bird is her given name, «Given to me by me») doesn't get good grades, she reckons that maybe 9/11 will improve her chances of getting in to NYU as applications are down due to terrorism.

A nominee for Lady Bird, Saoirse Ronan told ET that «it's been incredible as a young person... to really feel a part of a community of women.»

Saoirse Ronan, Golden Globe nominees for her work in Lady Bird, told ET that «it's been incredible as a young person... to really feel a part of a community of women.»

She witheringly tells Lady Bird that she doesn't have a hope in hell of getting into a prestigious arts university.

«The Shape of Water,» «Lady Bird» and «Get Out,» all of which did expectedly well in the nominations, made significant strides for greater inclusiveness, in terms of the stories they told and the filmmakers they employed.

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!

In Lady Bird, what's special about what people are saying is in the subtext, so for example, when Lady Bird's mom [Laurie Metcalf] is telling her to clean her room, what she's really saying is, «I'm scared, because your father just got laid off.»

Like this movie Lady Bird that I shot, we have these incredibly skilled actors, all of whom have theater backgrounds, and you can tell them what to do, or make little changes, and they run with it.

Other Awards Gala honorees were Allison Janney, who won the Spotlight Award, Actress for her role in «I, Tonya,»; «Wonder Woman» star Gal Gadot (Rising Star Award, Actress), who told her husband that she loved him in Hebrew during her thank you speech (Ani ohevet otcha); «Darkest Hour» star Gary Oldman (Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor); «The Big Sick» lead Holly Hunter (Career Achievement Award); Mary J. Blige, feted with the Breakthrough Performance Award for her supporting role in «Mudbound»; Sam Rockwell, honored with the Spotlight Award, Actor for his performance in «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri»; «Lady Bird» lead Saoirse Ronan (Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress); «The Florida Project's» Willem Dafoe (Icon Award); and «Call Me By Your Name» star Timothée Chalamet, who took home the Rising Star Award, Actor.

There are occasionally pointed moments, such as when Lady Bird, forced to sit through an anti-abortion presentation, tells the presenter that, «If your mother had had an abortion, we wouldn't have to sit through this stupid assembly.»

«Nothing about Greta seemed inexperienced for a first - time director,» Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright and actor who plays Lady Bird's tenderhearted father, told V.F. «The work she's done in front of the camera and as a writer has really prepared her for this moment.

Some other titles to look forward to: «Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Men Tell No Tales»; «Personal Shopper»; «Kong Skull Island»; «The Mummy»; «Snatched»; «Jumanji»; «You Were Never Really Here»; «Lady Macbeth»; «Thor: Ragnarok»; «The Lovers»; «Euphoria»; «The Book of Henry»; «Lady Bird»; «Journeyman»; «Mute»; «The Florida Project»; «Wind River»; «Tully»; «It Comes at Night»; «Stronger»; «Justice League»; «How to Talk to Girls at Parties»; «The Shape of Water»; «Coco»; «The Killing of a Sacred Deer»; «Happy End»; «Tulip Fever»; «The Seagulls»; and «Kingsman: The Golden Circle.»

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

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.

Lady Bird mocks herself by telling Danny she's from «the wrong side of the tracks,» unaware of how that wounds her parents.

Lady Bird — or, as she calls herself by the end of the movie, Christine — will likely remember her office chats with Sister Sarah Joan, especially the one in which she gently tells Lady Bird it sure seems like she loves Sacramento, for a long time beyond high school.

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.

The film is mostly told from Lady Bird's perspective, and like most high school seniors, her attention is all focused on herself and her own troubles.

With a goofy and oblivious grin on his face, her first boyfriend Danny (Lucas Hedges), a kid from a well - to - do family, tells Marion and Lady Bird's father Larry (Tracy Letts) that he thought the phrase was only a joke — until he passed over some railroad tracks on the way to their house.

Through Lady Bird and those around her, the film explores subjects such as recognising depression in loved ones, coming out to your parents, and the value of telling pro-lifers to fuck off.

Caroline: There's just no way I can leave this roundtable without mentioning Hedges's extraordinary work in the scene where Danny, broken and scared after Lady Bird caught him kissing another boy, pleads with her to not tell anyone before he's ready.

She's dyed her hair pink, tells anyone who'll listen that she intends to leave Sacramento as soon as possible for New York, «where the culture is», and has changed her name to «Lady Bird».

The brilliance of Lady Bird lies in its bittersweet telling of the tribulations required to earn perspective on one's own identity and emerge anew.

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.

Lady Bird will quit the club in high dudgeon when she's overlooked for all the main parts in a production of Shakespeare's Tempest, but meanwhile has found a boyfriend in Danny (Lucas Hedges), a sweet young man who tells her he respects her too much to touch her breasts.

There is a scene right at the end that told me this is my favorite of the year: Lady Bird visits a Catholic church to remember her family, despite denying religion many times previously.

After being told that Math Olympiad doesn't play to any kind of aptitude for math, Lady Bird offers, «That we know of... yet.»

Rather than being happy about getting accepted into such a respected college, Lady Bird throws a spoiled brat temper tantrum and tells Miguel that the only reason he got accepted into Harvard was because he was a minority.

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.

Beanie Feldstein, who co-stars as Lady Bird's best friend, Julie, tells me, «She just cared about it so much, and so we all cared about it so much.»

But the headmistress of Lady Bird's Catholic school, Sister Sarah Joan (Lois Smith), thinks she knows better, telling our protagonist that it's obvious, from the way she writes about Sacramento in her college admissions essays, that Lady Bird loves the city.

Lady Bird may be the star of this story — a star in general, she would tell you — but the movie is more than simply the coming - of - age of a discontented creative type.

Part picaresque, part bildungsroman, Lady Bird & The Fox is a return to the dual - narrative romantic adventure of my early novels — packed with the kinds of historical detail that are generally overlooked in Australian fiction, and told with a bit of a wry smile and plenty of warmth.

Can you tell me about your latest novel Lady Bird & The Fox?