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.
Stunning: She has been the talk of the showbiz circuit after receiving critical acclaim for her leading role in her latest
movie Lady Bird
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.
Gerwig, whose
movie Lady Bird premieres Friday night, was fresh off a mood - boosting conversation with Barry Jenkins, whom she had befriended on the festival circuit in 2008.
I've been thinking about this for a while but since I was invited, free of charge, to see / review
the movie Lady Bird on Monday, it got me thinking and I wanted to explain my position.
Oscar - nominated
movies Lady Bird and Brooklyn, both starring the talented Saoirse Ronan in lead roles, are love letters to nostalgia and a cultural, personal past.
Not exact matches
It appears that Las Vegas oddsmakers are not in total agreement with
movie experts, as the online gambling site Bovada actually has Three Billboards (20/23) as the odds - on bet to win the Best Picture race over the likes of The Shape of Water (7/5), Get Out (11/2), and
Lady Bird (14/1).
Ultimately,
Lady Bird is a
movie about family and the struggle every teenager must go through to step into adulthood.
Lady Bird isn't just one of the best
movies of the year.
The best
movies of 2017 included, clockwise from top left: «Dunkirk,» «Get Out,» «The Florida Project,» «
Lady Bird,» «Okja
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Lady Bird is a brilliant little
movie that deals with ideas both big and small.
Following a young woman as she awkwardly makes her way through her senior year of high school,
Lady Bird explores popularity, family issues, jealousy, and numerous other issues that teenagers face on a daily basis, so if you go into this film having already experienced those years of your life, I guarantee there will be a section of this
movie that you can relate to.
Ronan's performances have always been highlights of every
movie she chooses, and
Lady Bird is no exception to that statement.
Lady Bird doesn't exist as a twee indie
movie construct, it feels thrillingly real and deeply personal, every single beat ringing true.
Scott Rudin had produced that, and he was producing a
movie called «
Lady Bird» that Greta Gerwig was writing and directing.
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.
The Film Stage has been sharing the screenplays for this award season's top contender
movies, and the official one for
Lady Bird, written by Greta Gerwig, is now available!
I'm simply pointing out that in a year that's supposed to be about defining new ways of seeing, «Get Out,» «
Lady Bird,» and «Call Me by Your Name» were all — to me — vastly superior
movies than «The Shape of Water.»
In the post-Moonlight age (and with nominations this year for gay - themed films such as Call Me By Your Name, or those with mild gay content like
Lady Bird), we thought it might be time to look back at 10 LGBTQ
movies that despite deserving some Academy Awards love got no Oscar nomination (including one — believe it or not — from 2017!).
It's the honesty of Greta Gerwig's «
Lady Bird» that really makes the Saoirse Ronan - starring coming - of - age
movie sing.
LADY BIRD - A hilarious and heartfelt comedy about status and rebellion that's sure to become the defining high school
movie of our times.
In the hands of a lesser filmmaker, «
Lady Bird» would be a
movie all about the trials and tribulations leading up to the magnificent creation of «Me,» as in «Moi,» as in the glorious, wonderful person who made the
movie.
Greta Gerwig has previously collaborated with other filmmakers, both in writing and direction, but «
Lady Bird» is the first
movie in which she's been completely in charge — and she is better off on her own.
That's the sort of action that many teen
movies would depict as a flight of fancy, a burst of quickly forgotten surrealism meant to illustrate an impulsive teenage mind; Christine spends the rest of
Lady Bird sporting a fluorescent pink cast with the words «Fuck you mom» scrawled on it in black sharpie.
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Lady Bird
Gerwig's
movie is up for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and the writer - director's Catholic high school is throwing its own «
Lady Bird» - themed Oscar party.
Lots of
movies with strong female characters and themes were recognized, including «
Lady Bird,» and «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.»
The fantastical
movie is a world apart from «
Lady Bird,» Gerwig's first solo directing credit, which stars Saoirse Ronan as a disgruntled Sacramento teen who's eager to escape her drab surroundings in 2002.
Toy Story 2 got 163 in 1999, but Rotten Tomatoes notes that
Lady Bird's total will probably just keep going up from here as the
movie expands out of limited release — unless it inexplicably starts getting pulled down by contrarian critics who are disappointed in its lack of Hank Hill or
Lady Bird Johnson.
* 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....
Q: There are lots of other great characters in the
movie, though, from the disappointing guys
Lady Bird dates (played by «Call Me by Your Name's» Timothee Chalamet and «Manchester by the Sea's» Lucas Hedges) to her patient dad (Tracy Letts) to a cool school nun (Lois Smith) and more.
Here's a supplementary list of ten performances: Betty Buckley, articulate as a psychotherapist, and the protean James McAvoy playing against her in Split; Harris Dickinson, implosive with self - loathing in Beach Rats; two turns by Michael Fassbender, as the smarmy villains of Song to Song and Alien: Covenant; Milla Jovovich's valedictory sprint through Resident Evil: The Final Chapter; Barry Keoghan as a teenage sprite barely veiling his hostility in The Killing of a Sacred Deer; Keanu Reeves, put through his paces again in John Wick: Chapter 2;
Lady Bird's callous, precocious, and heartbreaking Saoirse Ronan; newcomer Millicent Simmonds and her silent
movie acting in Wonderstruck; octagenarian Lois Smith playing her age as Marjorie of Marjorie Prime; and Adrian Titieni, slouching and gloomy as a bad dad in Graduation.
«
Lady Bird» is a brilliant little
movie that deals with many different concepts, ideas both big and small.
Lady Bird is the rare
movie that manages to be affectionate, entertaining, hilarious, witty, and confident.
Lady Bird Rated R for language, sexual content, brief graphic nudity and teen partying Rotten Tomatoes Score: 99 % Available on Disc and Streaming While it's hard to pinpoint and describe the actual plot of
Lady Bird, it's easy to describe it as one of the best
movies of 2017.
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Outside of those two
movies, Get Out won Best Screenplay, Willem DaFoe won Best Supporting Actor for The Florida Project, and Laurie Metcalf won Best Supporting Actress for
Lady Bird.
Lady Bird movie cast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges
Lady Bird movie director: Greta Gerwig
Lady Bird movie rating: 4 stars
A few Oscar nominees broke into the heavily pop - cultured group of mentions today — Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) and Saoirse Ronan (
Lady Bird) for Best Performance in a
Movie.
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.»
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.
Do you feel that with «
Lady Bird» — a
movie written and directed by a woman, focused on a female - centered story about a mother and a daughter — this year in particular has had extra power?
That's why any vote for
Lady Bird (or Call Me By Your Name, or The Post, or the seamstress
movie) is a vote against self - interest.
Morgan Freeman was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Sunday's show, while
movies like Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and
Lady Bird, and TV shows like The Crown and Game of Thrones were nominated for big awards.
Showing the «nurturing, mothering side» in all its complexity is what actor - turned - director Greta Gerwig does in her solo directorial debut
Lady Bird (in UK cinemas 23 February), a
movie in which a mother lobs molotov cocktails of the emotional variety.
By the end of the
movie,
Lady Bird and Marion know each other more deeply than before, taking their first steps into an adult relationship.
There are three other
movies —
Lady Bird, Phantom Thread, and The Post — that have caused less of an uproar.
Nolan watched the
movies directed by his four competitors — Greta Gerwig («
Lady Bird»), Jordan Peele («Get Out»), Guillermo del Toro («The Shape of Water»), and Paul Thomas Anderson («Phantom Thread»)-- and he has nothing but praise for every single one.
Lady Bird is a fantastic
movie and I don't begrudge all their nominations, specially the acting ones.
Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig's
movie has now made more money than any film from A24.