Sentences with word «gerwig»

Brooke, as played by Greta Gerwig in director Noah Baumbach's brilliant indie screwball comedy, Mistress America, is also a freelance interior decorator of at least one hip laser hair removal center waiting room, a plagiarized T - shirt designer, a writer of stories — not short stories, though — an aspiring SAT tutor, and maybe a cabaret singer too, sometimes.

I was really pulling for Greta Gerwig in this category.

While observers could celebrate the nomination of Greta Gerwig for best director for her coming - of - age drama «Lady Bird,» it was still outrageous that she was only the fifth female nominee in that category in 90 years of the awards (Kathryn Bigelow is still the only winner, for «The Hurt Locker»).

With Gerwig as co-writer and star, the film feels as much hers as Baumbach's, propelled forward by an impulsive verve that's subtly checked by a world that doesn't always bend to her will.

Greta Gerwig says Mike Mills is at his core a listener and he started 20th Century Women from a place of being a listener.

What a glorious film Lady Bird is — wonderful to see nominations for Greta Gerwig as director and writer and also the acting nominations for Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf as the mother and daughter double - act: an all - too - real relationship, dysfunctional, painful, loving and sad.

Ronan, as Lady Bird, embodies the awkward mannerisms and physicality we've come to know from Gerwig.

With men in the background or in supporting roles, it's fun to see what a creative woman like Greta Gerwig makes for her audiences.

From her earliest mumblecore movies, something about Greta Gerwig didn't quite fit the scene.

Her experience with Gerwig on set was eye - opening and life - changing.

Just how New York is Brooke, the free - spirited scenester Greta Gerwig plays in Noah Baumbach's new comedy, Mistress America?

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Though Greta Gerwig wrote Lady Bird with a heavy dose of inspiration from her own high - school experience, she was getting nowhere with the central character until two lines suddenly hit her: «Why won't you call me Lady Bird?

Just like Gerwig with Lady Bird.

I heard director Greta Gerwig gave you reading to do as preparation.

Lady Bird follows Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan), a senior at a Catholic high school in Sacramento, California (where Gerwig also grew up).

The feature's writer - director Greta Gerwig won Best Screenplay yesterday at the Independent Spirit Awards.

While Gerwig makes excellent use of Dave Matthews Band in the film, she also enlisted composer Jon Brion (responsible for such varied work as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Step Brothers) to craft the score, which she calls «joyful and mournful, romantic and heartbroken.»

For its smart, honest storytelling and strong performances (particularly from Ronan and Metcalf), the film suffers some significant pacing problems with it lurching between acts in an at times ungraceful manner, the aftershock of Gerwig finding her footing behind the camera.

Actors often talk of how their own lives influence their work, but it sounds as if Gerwig takes as much from her characters as she gives to them.

As Gerwig told Entertainment Weekly last month when nominations were announced: «It was something about watching her and watching her realize her movie that I thought, «It's time, it's time.

Five too for Dee Rees's Mudbound and the much - loved Lady Bird, and it's a huge relief to see Greta Gerwig get her best director nomination, putting a stop to the stag - invite stigma that had recently attached to this list.

Perhaps the most poetic moment, given the industry's thrust for equality, came when Gerwig took the stage during her presentation for Lady Bird.

For her part, Ronan laughs at the idea she got through the whole shoot without questioning why her character had the name Lady Bird (but click on the video above for our conversation and you will see Gerwig explain it).

Ha may be a bit too quirky and artsy for many, but I found it to be well - made and refreshing — and containing an amazing performance by Gerwig at the center.

20th Century Women in particular features three distinct female characters at different points in their lives, which Gerwig says is rare.

Even though Gerwig doesn't appear in the film, her voice is present and the story hits close to home - similar to how her other films have in the past.

Gerwig cast Ronan after the two shared a giddy read - through in a hotel room during the 2015 Toronto Film Festival.

Saoirse Ronan said watching Greta Gerwig direct made her think she could one day direct.

It helps that it gives much of its second half over to a modern farce, complete with well - timed entrances, exits, door - slams, and the kind of self - aware, self - revealing zingers that both Baumbach and Gerwig know how to nail.

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.

Actress Greta Gerwig attends the premiere of «Jackie» at AFI Fest 2016, presented by Audi at The Chinese Theatre on November 14, 2016 in Hollywood, California.

There's an authenticity with what Gerwig brings to the screen as a writer and director, which can't be denied.

Director Noah Baumbach and actress Greta Gerwig co-wrote the script for this lighthearted portrait of a young woman facing a life crisis.

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.»

Director Greta Gerwig added; «This is an unbelievable honour and I am beside myself with joy and gratitude.

«If — I shouldn't say «if» — when [Gerwig] wins, the roof is gonna come off the gym,» says Rodgers — especially if she secures best director.

With her keen ear for female familiarity (she cowrote Frances Ha and Mistress America), Gerwig sets Lady Bird during that exhilarating, confusing period known as high school senior year, when childhood - defining friendships start slipping away, hormones begin calling the shots and a better existence seems to await elsewhere.

The Frances we get (a collaboration between Gerwig, who co-writes, and Baumbach) is a little less manic pixie and a little more real life, and while she never entirely loses her indie quirk (the film is filled with lines like «You know what Virginia Woolf book this reminds me of...?»)

«Every film I've done, I don't think I could have done [earlier],» Gerwig explains.

In our season 8 premiere episode, Academy Award ® - nominated filmmaker and actress Greta Gerwig talks about her theatrical beginnings, what she learned working with filmmakers Noah Baumbach, Mike Mills, and others in such films as Frances Ha and 20th Century Women, and taking the leap to write and direct her own film, the critically acclaimed Lady Bird.

Daughter of the Central Valley: writer - director Greta Gerwig looks back at Northern California.

And, as Mark Harris pointed out last night on Twitter, even if Gerwig doesn't get a nomination, that perceived «snub» will propel her towards a win (the Argo effect).

For me, it's the blissful image of Gerwig running in «Frances Ha,» her arms flailing and her hair whipping behind her as she sprints and leaps down a New York Chinatown street — an ebullient vision of carefree innocence set to the crackling beat of David Bowie's «Modern Love.»

In preparation for shooting Lady Bird, Gerwig created dossiers for her lead characters.