Sentences with phrase «after lady bird»

Gerwig said she plans to return to directing after Lady Bird's theatrical release is complete, and she has been working on a script.

The directorial debut by actress Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha, Mistress America), Lady Bird stars Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn, The Grand Budapest Hotel) as Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson, a young woman who fights against but is exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong - willed mom (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse working tirelessly to keep her family afloat after Lady Bird's father (Tracy Letts) loses his job.

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.

After Lady Bird ditches her unfashionable BFF Julie (Beanie Feldstein) in favor of the cold - eyed beauty Jenna (Odeya Rush) who hangs in Kyle's cynical crowd, she learns a moral lesson.

And after Lady Bird, she'll be able to.

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

After Lady Bird joins the school's theater program to find herself, she meets Danny (Lucas Hedges), the first of several men she jumps into relationships with during her struggle to find herself and her efforts to escape from her family.

The pic, which will fly in theaters November 10 via A24, follows a young woman who fights against but is exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong - willed mom a nurse working tirelessly to keep her family afloat after Lady Bird's father loses his job.

Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) fights against but is exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong - willed mom (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse working tirelessly to keep her family afloat after Lady Bird's father (Tracy Letts) loses his job.

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.

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After a whimsical white ensemble at the 2018 Critics» Choice Awards, the «Lady Bird» director went for a darker mood in Proenza Schouler.

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.

There were moans after one critic, Cole Smithey, gave Greta Gerwig's mother - daughter drama «Lady Bird» a lukewarm review — tripping up the film's high score on Rotten Tomatoes.

When the talk turns to Lady Bird's college plans after her senior year at Immaculate Heart in Sacramento («the Midwest of California»), the divide widens precipitously.

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.

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?»

Ronan, who is no stranger to the awards circuit after starring in films like 2015's Brooklyn and 2007's Atonement, is earning praise for her latest role in Lady Bird, while Chalamet, who acts alongside Ronan in the Greta Gerwig - directed film, has been the subject of awards buzz for his part in Call Me by Your Name.

After her obligatory five minutes with press were up, the actress was tequila - bound... until realizing that Lady Bird's filmmaker, Greta Gerwig, and Saoirse Ronan were across the Beverly Hilton ballroom.

Except that after all her seeming - rebelliousness, Lady Bird finds she does like her name, boyfriends who have other leanings are really not boyfriends at all and the truest friends are those who have always been there for you.

«Several key theaters are still holding onto Lady Bird and The Shape of Water, but we think audiences need fresh product, especially after a season of Foreign Language Oscar nominees with tough subject matter.

Running a few minutes late, I race - walked down 7th Avenue to Morandi, an Italian restaurant near Gerwig's home in Greenwich Village, after a private screening of Lady Bird, blotting tears from my eyes.

New York has been a character in a few of her movies — after all, adopted homes have a tendency to shape a person as much as his or her native stomping grounds — and Lady Bird is no different.

After their meeting in Canada, Gerwig felt so certain that Ronan was right for the role that she agreed to push production on «Lady Bird» six months to accommodate the actress, who was in the midst of rehearsing for «The Crucible» on Broadway.

Another embattled mother, Laurie Metcalf saw her chances rise in Toronto, where her film Lady Bird earned a second round of rapturous odes after premiering in Telluride the week prior.

This universal rite of passage inspired her screenplay for Lady Bird, which she started crafting in 2011, soon after shooting scenes for her title role in the film Frances Ha at the Sacramento airport, at her childhood home in River Park, where her parents still live, and at Burr's Fountain, a frequent haunt in Gerwig's youth for its hot dog sandwiches on white bread and ice cream frosts.

At this time of writing, Lady Bird holds a 100 % «fresh» score after 170 reviews have been counted, beating Toy Story 2's previous golden run of 163.

If Lady Bird is, as Gerwig asserts, a «love letter to Sacramento,» then this montage of everyday, easy - to - take - for - granted sights is the big S.W.A.K. on the envelope, an unmistakable declaration of affection; the static shots throughout the movie of old neon signs from Gunther's, the Tower Theatre and Club Raven could be considered the missive's heart - shaped punctuation marks; and the purposeful use of light, about which Gerwig was particularly exacting (she dutifully studied the Sacramento landscapes of renowned contemporary painters Gregory Kondos and Wayne Thiebaud to make sure the color and intensity were just right), is suitably analogous to the fine mist of perfume that will linger after the pages have been folded away.

After big Gotham Award wins for Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird and Get Out and Independent Spirit Awards nominations for the same films (plus The Florida Project) we saw this week those same films hit big with NBR and NYFCC too.

Stunning: She has been the talk of the showbiz circuit after receiving critical acclaim for her leading role in her latest movie Lady Bird

Writer - director Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird,» which follows the senior year of a precocious high schooler as she learns one life lesson after another, is one such rare case.

This is a film about growing up, after all, and the way we see Lady Bird marching through her last year of high school makes it quite apparent that adolescence is, for her, like a battlefield.

And yet, «a lot of things can be devastating, it's not all war,» remarks Lady Bird after a disastrous first sex experience with an emotionally detached socialist / anarchist to be (Timothée Chalamet, brilliant as ever).

Gerwig pointed out in the post-screening Q&A that it's no coincidence she felt urgently compelled to start writing Lady Bird after working with Rebecca Miller, who directed her in the 2015 screwball rom - com Maggie's Plan.

But Gerwig's «Lady Bird» left empty handed, Rachel Morrison did not become the first female cinematography winner (the long - snubbed Roger Deakins got that honor finally for «Blade Runner 2049» after 14 nominations) and Ford was not the first transgender Oscar - winner.

After receiving her third Oscar nomination by the age of 23, Saoirse Ronan will follow up «Lady Bird» with a return to her period drama roots, starring alongside four - time Oscar nominee Annette Bening for an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's stage classic «The Seagull.»

The two - time Oscar nominee has picked up another accolade after winning the prestigious Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for her leading role in new movie Lady Bird.

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»).

Ten years after moving from Israel to the United States and starting her career with modeling work and acting classes, her latest role as Jenna in Greta Gerwig's celebrated new film Lady Bird has put her on the map, and, with a number of upcoming movies, the young actress is one to watch.

Perhaps California's capital will become a hangout spot for the intelligentsia post - «Lady Bird,» as this state capital did after Linklater helped put it on the filmmaking map.

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

Greta Gerwig's solo directorial debut «Lady Bird» has been gathering buzz after its world premiere at last weekend's Telluride Film Festival.

After the Golden Globes — where Lady Bird and Ronan both won awards — Watson sent her former student a congratulatory e-mail.

Saoirse Ronan revealed she is excited to party with her mam at this year's Academy Awards after being nominated for Best Actress for her role in «Lady Bird».

Written and directed by Greta Gerwig, «Lady Bird» is such a compelling slice of life you'll want to know more — even after it's clear you've seen plenty.

Gerwig crams this tale with pain, generosity, a delicately awkward grace and such abundant laughs that it may only register after the fact that «Lady Bird» is a striking piece of feminist filmmaking.

When Lady Bird sobs in her mom's car after losing her virginity to an uncaring partner, Marion's shoulder is there for her to cry on.

After returning from college visits with her mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf), Lady Bird is even more concerned about the future.

In December, The Hollywood Reporter broke that producers Scott Rudin (Lady Bird) and David Ellison (Geostorm) butted heads after an early screening of Annihilation, when Ellison demanded that changes be made because the movie was — get ready for it — «too intellectual.»

After reading her college entrance essay, she remarks that Lady Bird clearly loves the city.