Sentences with phrase «what lady bird»

Actually, I think that's what Lady Bird and her mom have.

Her family is barely holding on and Mom is trying to be realistic, but what Lady Bird needs is some warmth and encouragement.

What Lady Bird comes to see, and what the movie communicates in each nervy and authentic scene, is that everything that happens to her — and, by implication, to all of us — is more than an experience.

These 47 seconds have nothing to do with the movie's plot, but everything to do with what Lady Bird's about: the daily life and reckless leisure of a well - meaning, but not always all that self - aware, white middle - class teenage girl in Sacramento in the early 2000s.

But check out what Lady Bird has going for it at the Oscars: five nominations that include acting, directing and writing nods, potent backup for a Best Picture contender.

That's what Lady Bird is all about, Charlie Brown.

The entire time I watched this movie, I felt that I could relate to what Lady Bird was going through even though I have never experienced it before.

Because what Lady Bird is yearning for as well is that you're one person in the place where you grew up and then you're another person in the place where you find yourself.

«It was good to use that as setting the stage for possibility for what Lady Bird could be — and to be rebelling against.»

Our book link this week is What the lady bird heard I hear this read to J every evening by Rainy Day Dad at bedtime — it has to be one of his current favourite stories.

It can be sensibly placed on the kitchen table the previous day but come morning it has moved and disappeared into a «What the lady bird heard» shaped black hole.

Not exact matches

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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Gerwig's warmth as an artist becomes important, because in «Lady Bird» she is dealing in what is often the most self - centered of forms, the coming - of - age story; particularly, the coming - of - age story based on the filmmaker's own life.

I'm a major fan of every winner in the four acting categories, yet I'm haunted by the fact that Allison Janney, brilliant as she was as Tonya Harding's seething narcissist of a stage mom, had a role that was so much showier than Laurie Metcalf's in «Lady Bird,» and that the showiness is what put her over.

What has it been like to experience her success with Lady Bird, her solo directorial debut?

It's no wonder her debut as a feature film writer and director would be met with a certain level of expectation, but what she delivers with Lady Bird is something even more magical and grander than could have ever be expected.

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

She's excellent here as Lady Bird McPherson, a high school senior in Sacramento, unsure of what to do with her life.

With a later introduction to Kyle (Timothee Chalamet) through classmate Jenna (Odeya Rush) Lady Bird finds her flight on a different path, briefly forgetting what really matters to her.

As Lady Bird Johnson, Jennifer Jason Leigh is distinctive — but what makes this a film worth paying for is the spectacularly good performance by fellow Texan Woody Harrelson as LBJ, a role he was born for.

That for me is really important, and what was clear with Lady Bird, Greta had written a very personal story.

Gerwig talked about how Lady Bird evolved into what it is now, whether she ever considered acting in the film, that she's not Lady Bird, putting together such a terrific cast, and whether acting or directing is her priority.

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?»

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.

Ferris Bueller was brave, the members of the The Breakfast Club at least understood what stereotype they fit in, and even Lady Bird's defiance would have been something to marvel at.

Lady Bird knows what she wants and seems to know how to get it.

Instead, Lady Bird cares about the opposite sex, her social life and daydreaming about what the future might hold.

In one scene, she chastises Lady Bird for leaving her school uniform on the floor and then proceeds to explain exactly what financial and societal concerns have led her to stress this request so strongly.

In between Roseanne and an upcoming episode of the CW's Supergirl — which she is guest - starring in so her youngest child can meet her idol Melissa Benoist — Metcalf is girding herself for what is sure to be a whirlwind of Oscar - season press and events to talk about Lady Bird.

When we were making «Lady Bird,» I said, «Laurie, what's the last movie you did before this?»

Lady Bird portrays what it is like to go to Catholic school so accurately.

(Guess what happens between Lady Bird and Danny.)

What really elevates the film is its depiction of the relationship between Lady Bird and her mother, Marion, played by Laurie Metcalf.

To bring it back to Lady Bird, what I love about working with Greta Gerwig — her writing, her dialogue, is very musical.

What's finally remarkable about Lady Bird is how it commiserates with that itchy impatience, that desire to break out into the world, while also capturing what its title character can't or won't see: the brilliant extinguishing flame of her childhWhat's finally remarkable about Lady Bird is how it commiserates with that itchy impatience, that desire to break out into the world, while also capturing what its title character can't or won't see: the brilliant extinguishing flame of her childhwhat its title character can't or won't see: the brilliant extinguishing flame of her childhood.

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.

Still, we'll be waiting to see what happens with Lady Bird and Get Out competing in screenplay, once again, and picture.

Love the love throughout these for Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird, Frantz, and Atomic Blonde.I always appreciate your dedication to expanding the «what's worthy» conversation beyond the same small set of films that dominate conversations this time of year.

When she's gently urged by Lady Bird Johnson to change her bloodstained suit before emerging from Air Force One, Jackie refuses, insisting that «I want them to see what they've done.»

If Greta Gerwig can't even get a Golden Globe nomination for directing «Lady Bird» then what the hell are we even doing here?

What makes Lady Bird so remarkable is how unremarkable it seems on the surface, but that doesn't mean it should not have been honored at all.

As is the matter - of - fact announcement «As you all know, Lindsay turned out to be a ghost,» from guest star (and Ronan's Lady Bird director), Greta Gerwig, who also exclaims, blithely, «I don't know exactly what we do here, but let's get to work.»

Saoirse Ronan Winning Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role: What initially felt like it would be a tight race between McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water) has become, essentially, a coin toss between McDormand and Lady Bird's Ronan.

Gerwig's directorial breakout Lady Bird is only the most recent and perhaps most ample proof of what was already a clear trend.

This past year alone, films such as Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, Princess Cyd, and Call Me By Your Name, navigate the landscapes of what people go through to find out who they are.

But regardless of what Oscar and the larger theatergoing audiences decide, Lady Bird and Gerwig have officially earned a spot in the conversation about surprising box - office earners in 2017.

At the film's press day, Collider sat down with actress Jennifer Jason Leigh to chat for this 1 - on - 1 interview about why she wanted to sign on for LBJ, how daunting it was to take on Lady Bird Johnson, the prosthetics and make - up that went into transforming her, what she enjoys about working with Rob Reiner, and the newfound respect she has for the woman that she portrayed.

I didn't even really think about tackling Lady Bird when I first said yes because I was so excited to work with the two of them, and then it hit me, what a huge responsibility it is to play her.