Sentences with phrase «like gerwig»

A group effort between writer / director Alison Bagnall (who has acted, like Gerwig, in a few Joe Swanberg films), writer Andrew Lewis, and actors Gerwig and Olly Alexander, the film is slight but somehow enchanting despite the standoffishness of the main character and a few odd plot turns.

Look at the films from 2017 that centered around artists and their creative process, however, and it's tough to find anyone who looks or acts remotely like a Gerwig.

Davis is still the odds - on Oscar favorite, but it'll be interesting to see if the Golden Globe and SAG nominations include actresses like Gerwig and Kidman or off - the - radar picks like a Gladstone or one of the Hidden Figures ladies.

If you like Gerwig you won't be disappointed in Lady Bird.

I like Gerwig but I find her kind of one note as an actress, I love her so much more as a director.

Many had thought this year might be different due to directors like Gerwig, Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman) and Dee Rees (Mudbound).

Just like Gerwig with Lady Bird.

Like Gerwig, getting to this sentimental place was a long and angsty road for her movie alter ego, the self - monikered Lady Bird, née Christine McPherson, played by Irish starlet Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, Brooklyn).

It also stars Lola Kirke — sister of «Girls» star Jemima Kirke — as a Barnard undergraduate who aspires to be just like Gerwig's character.

Some of the actors, like Gerwig and Davis, do very little, and have very little to work with.

Although I'm not always into Noah Baumbach's work, I've always liked Gerwig's performances in his films, and I'm glad to see her in the director's chair.

Not exact matches

Greta Gerwig has had a very successful acting career in independent films, several you haven't seen and one you may even like, Damsels in Distress.

It is possible that the self - deprecation of the character in the plot reflects what the actress is like, really, and is therefore necessary for Baumbach's purpose, which seems to be to let us all know how wonderful Greta Gerwig is.

Greta Gerwig also looked perfectly lovely, but I feel like Michelle Williams will forever own this look of the yellow gown / red lip / diamonds.

The picture (like LOL) immediately became a sensation and turned Gerwig into a screen favorite among enthusiasts of grassroots independent filmmaking.

You might have forgotten about this, but right after «Frances Ha» hit the festival circuit, Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig quickly got to work shooting another movie, that, like their previous collaboration, was done below the radar.

The romantic comedy, starring Greta Gerwig, Julianne Moore and Bill Hader, seemed like a good fit for Sundance in January, but it will be making its world premiere at Toronto following a remarkably tight turnaround.

Watch above to see cameos from the likes of Bill Hader, Eddie Vedder, Maya Rudolph, Greta Gerwig, and many more.

We talk to Gerwig about all things Ladybird, her breakthroughs in Greenberg and Frances Ha, and whether she'd like to direct a big studio picture.

Instead he has hired a remarkable voice cast here, which also features the likes of Liev Schreiber, Greta Gerwig, Scarlett Johansson and Frances McDormand, each bringing their indelible talents to this production.

Sumner is Gerwig's closest confidant — they are, in Gerwig's words, like «an old lesbian couple that doesn't have sex anymore,» and the pair's split throws her for a loop.

(Bit part - seasoned Chernus seizes an opportunity to shine comedically like never before, displaying comfort with the dialogue only exceeded by Gerwig.)

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.

Gerwig has become an indie comedy staple, with her turns in films like «Greenburg,» «Frances Ha» and, my favorite, «Mistress America.»

Released: November 10 Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges Director: Greta Gerwig Why it's great: Senior year of high school is less like a roller coaster than a Tilt - a-Whirl, daily life wildly spinning in one direction as existence spins in another.

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.

Actually, thanks to a voice cast that includes Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Balaban, Greta Gerwig, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Scarlett Johansson, Edward Norton and Frances McDormand, it literally sounds like a Wes Anderson movie during every moment — and, it proves a smart, sharp, glorious and gorgeous feast for both the ears and the eyes.

«I think this Fall is going to be my moment to finally acquire a poodle,» says Greta Gerwig, sounding exactly like Greta Gerwig.

One of the most heartening things about Greta Gerwig's directorial arrival Lady Bird is how naturally it feels like an extension of her previous acting work.

«Oh, well... I don't like it,» Gerwig muses when Etonline asks for her thoughts on the «MPDG» trope.

Gerwig adds, «I do think a lot of the idea of how they function is in relation to a guy, that they pull some guy out of their malaise and help them like, dance at a party, or something.»

It's like Baumbach and Gerwig had bottled up all my insecurities and nighttime panics and hopes and dreams, shot them in gorgeous black - and - white and cut them together with a featherlight, almost Lubitschian touch.

«Something we talked about a lot were these»80s movies where there were these female characters, like in Something Wild, the Melanie Griffith character,» Gerwig explains.

The broad planes of Gerwig's face, her large eyes and blonde hair soak up the black and white cinematography of «Frances Ha» — she's like a Lempicka portrait, with her almost Art Deco facial structure a perfect complement to the cityscape.

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I am especially thrilled to share this moment with [costar] Laurie Metcalf and our leader and director, Greta Gerwig, who, like Lady Bird, is an incredible woman and a dear friend.

To prepare for working on a film set in the»70s, aside from learning how to use cameras from that era, Gerwig says it was «more about trying to place more what it would feel like to encounter it for the first time.»

It begins to feel like Old Home Week in Telluride: when I look up Andrew Haigh's «Lean on Pete,» I remember that its star, Travis Fimmel, appeared in «Maggie's Plan,» directed by Rebecca Miller (here with «Arthur Miller: Writer»), which co-starred Ethan Hawke (who's in «First Reformed») and Greta Gerwig, who directs, in «Lady Bird,» Saiorse Ronan, who is one of the voice actors in Loving Vincent.

«I always feel like a vague failure in L.A.,» said Greta Gerwig, sitting in a movie theater in the heart of Hollywood.

I sat down with Gerwig to talk about her unique character, the difference between working on a Hollywood project as opposed to an independent, and what the next Woody Allen movie To Rome with Love is going to be like.

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.

Gerwig: [Singing] «When you call my name, it's like a little prayer...» I had that experience with a few different boys, not that they reciprocated at all.

«They have tall poppy syndrome in Ireland, just like they do in Sacramento,» Gerwig said.

So far, things are looking good: the Academy's just - revealed nominations are diverse and exciting, filled with worthy contenders like Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig in the best - director category.

Like Peele, Gerwig assembled a terrific cast and knew exactly how to use them.

The film begins in the fall of 2002 and is set in Sacramento, California, which is where Gerwig was born; she attended an all - girls Catholic school and her mother was a nurse, just like the fictionalized lead characters.

Hard to say, but if it does, that whole «for a girl» thing works in Gerwig's favor big time, especially a year like this.

So while he's listening to the Talking Heads and doting on his lifelong friend and neighbor Julie (Elle Fanning), she's smoking like a chimney and perpetually remodeling her 19th - century home, hoping Julie and her tenant, Abbie (Greta Gerwig), can help lead him to manhood.

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!

«To me, they all feel like very different characters,» said Baumbach of Gerwig's performances in Greenberg, Frances Ha, and Mistress America.