Sentences with phrase «when gerwig»

That film succeeded most when Gerwig was given space to inject humanity into Baumbach's darkening worldview.

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

When Gerwig realised she was writing about mothers and daughters, she started thinking about movies that covered a similar theme.

Whether it's there or when Gerwig visits Sacramento for the holidays (her parents play themselves), the movie makes the subtly optimistic point that the life you build in youth is always available.

Not exact matches

According to Gerwig, the only way to make an authentic movie about teenagers and not have them constantly interacting with mobile devices was simply to move the plot back in time to the pre-smartphone era when interaction had to be more face to face.

Paul experiences that in «Eden» when he meets up with an American ex-girlfriend (an awkward and sweet Greta Gerwig) years later when he DJs a party at P.S. 1 in New York.

The film belongs to Stiller and Gerwig, though (and maybe to the adorable dog Mahler, the magnet that keeps bringing Roger and Florence together when it seems they no longer can stomach each other).

When asked if she regretted being part of a Woody Allen movie (the 2012 «To Rome with Love»), Gerwig deflected — while she has reflected on it, she preferred to emphasize continuing to create, write and direct after the success of her debut movie.

No word on when she might make that leap, but in the meantime both Ronan and Gerwig are nominated for their work on «Lady Bird.»

Playing a single mother in 1979, looking to find a way to parent her teenage son via a web of surrogates (including Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, and Billy Crudup), Bening gives some of the best scenes of her career when she's just reacting to people.

Gerwig's at her best when she uses her body language to add subtle layers onto her performance — perfectly demonstrated when she's imploring Daryl and Maime Claire to invest.

One of the biggest missteps Baumbach and Gerwig's script makes is with the dialogue that tries way to hard to be both incredibly quotable (which it is) and profoundly resonant (which it isn't) when, in all reality, the talk mostly just comes off as narcissism.

Writer / director Greta Gerwig captures with breathtaking precision that liminal moment when teenagers manage to mash - up grandiosity that stretches to infinity and soul - crushing insecurity.

Lola (Greta Gerwig) just turned 29 years - old and according to her astrology book, it is the year that Saturn returns to the location it was when she was born.

My love - hate relationship with Noah Baumbach's films lurched firmly into love when Greta Gerwig became his collaborator: as star, as muse, and most importantly as screenwriter, Gerwig's contribution appeared — from the outside, at least — to help push Baumbach's works into a new class, with 2012's Frances Ha and 2015's Mistress America both perfectly - executed chronicles of the modern millennial.

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

The meaning of that best director nomination is not lost on Gerwig, who recalled her feelings when Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Oscar for best director for «The Hurt Locker» in 2010.

Frances (Gerwig) and her best friend / roommate Sophie (Sumner) seem to do everything together: dance around the park, smoke out the window, play backgammon, etc... When her boyfriend Dan (Esper) suggests she live with him, she can't seem to depart her Sophie.

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.

«When I first read Joan Didion,» Gerwig said, «I was getting to see the place I was from through the eyes of this brilliant writer.»

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.

Gerwig: Do you remember when I brought [«Lady Bird» cast member] Lucas [Hedges] to see you in «The Crucible»?

Keaton came to mind again when later that same day I was privy to Greta Gerwig's entrancing figure wandering through the streets and interiors of New York in Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha.

When Noah and his co-creator, actor Greta Gerwig, eventually offered Lola the part of Tracy, her elation was mixed with sheer relief that the auditioning was over.

When Emma Stone introduced the directing category, she did so with irony: «These four men and Greta Gerwig created their own masterpieces this year.»

Making her solo directorial debut (she shares a credit with Joe Swanberg on 2008's Nights And Weekends), Gerwig sets Lady Bird in her hometown of Sacramento, and in 2002, when she was around the same age as her protagonist / proxy, 17 - year - old Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan).

Gerwig envisions a program in which locals apprentice with seasoned crew members (if only such an agenda were in place when Memoirs of a Geisha and The Assassination of Richard Nixon were filming in the area), citing how the cult fantasy show Xena: Warrior Princess laid the groundwork in New Zealand for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, some of the biggest productions in motion picture history.

Although Baumbach and Gerwig didn't intentionally set out to turn «Mistress America» into some kind of companion piece to «Frances Ha,» they did want to tell a story with the same sort of framework, at least when it comes to its central characters.

Gerwig's line «It looks like a crime scene in my pants» is totally juvenile but when delivered by Gerwig, I couldn't help but hate myself as I laughed.

One of Gerwig's high school drama teachers, Ed Trafton of the all - boys Jesuit High School — which invites students from her alma mater, the all - girls St. Francis, to participate in their stage productions, and vice versa — recognized her «it» factor nearly 20 years ago when she was a bespectacled, Converse - wearing Dorothy in a student production of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, speak - singing «Over the Rainbow» to his solo piano accompaniment in the key of A-flat major.

Mistress America is quite a bit of fun for its first 45 minutes, but when Greta Gerwig's Brooke drags her soon - to - be-half-sister Tracy (Lola Kirke), her friend who almost assuredly has a crush on her Tony (Matthew Shear) and his dramatically jealous and paranoid girlfriend Nicolette (Jasmine Cephas Jones) to suburban Connecticut in order to confront / solicit her ex-fiancee Dylan (Michael Chernus) and his wife / her nemesis Mamie - Claire (Heather Lind), it kicks into another gear entirely.

The scene became all the more poignant when I learned that it was shot in Gerwig's actual hometown and featured her own parents.

On the evening in October 2016 when the movie crew shot the innocent frolic between Lady Bird and Danny in the McKinley Park rose garden, the one where the lovebirds waltz through the rose bushes and name a star in the sky to commemorate their new romance, Gerwig's friends and family gathered to watch, including her brother and sister - in - law, who live in Land Park, Mickiewicz's sister and nieces, and Trafton, who said of the experience, «We were in the present, seeing a story inspired by the past, and witnessing something incredible about Greta's future.

«I can't speak about her without becoming emotional,» Gerwig says when asked about her leading lady.

Though your films aren't documentaries, you do blend reality and fiction, such as when Frances (Greta Gerwig) visits her parents in Sacramento in «Frances Ha.»

Of course host Jimmy Kimmel found time for plenty of jokes about Harvey Weinstein during his opening monologue, but elsewhere, some of the industry's biggest names made their allegiances evident, from the introduction of Best Actor by Helen Mirren and Jane Fonda, Emma Stone singling out sole female Best Director nominee Greta Gerwig when announcing that award, and Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence taking the stage to announce that it was a new day before they presented the Best Actress award to McDormand.

Speaking with Backstage, Gerwig recalls how Metcalf brought many of Marion's nonaggressive moments to light herself, like when she gets a gift for her co-worker's newborn or empathizes with Lady Bird's drama teacher, Father Leviatch (Stephen McKinley Henderson).

That's also when the film goes from great to greater, as the mostly small - scale back - and - forth between Gerwig and Kirke expands to a dizzying series of interactions between nearly a dozen characters over the course of one afternoon.

Cast: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver Program: Special Presentations Headline: Annie Ha Noel's Take: Someday when cultural historians look back at this era of cinema and television, they'll wonder why we so obsessively documented the lives of upper - middle - class city - dwelling Americans between the ages of 22 and 28.

For instance, when Baumbach mentioned the possibility of casting Gerwig in Greenberg, De Palma did his homework: «I said, «Who's Greta»?»

Wearing its indie sensibilities like a badge of honor, the film tells the story of a 29 - year - old woman (Gerwig) whose right - on - track life is derailed when her fiancee breaks up with her three weeks before their wedding.

When that falls apart, she visits her own parents in Sacramento, Calif. (they're played by Gerwig's real - life parents, seen mainly in a Christmas - vacation montage that has to be the happiest tableau of family life ever seen in a Baumbach film).

When the film premiered at Sundance this year, Gerwig made a revealing comment about why it's important to advocate that women write movies about women, saying, «I did go to a women's college, so I'm going to quote Virginia Woolf, who said that «Only women know what women are like when they're alone.&raWhen the film premiered at Sundance this year, Gerwig made a revealing comment about why it's important to advocate that women write movies about women, saying, «I did go to a women's college, so I'm going to quote Virginia Woolf, who said that «Only women know what women are like when they're alone.&rawhen they're alone.»

«I did go to a woman's college,» added Gerwig, «so I'm going to quote Virginia Woolf, who said that «Only women know what women are like when they're alone.»

Greta Gerwig's directorial debut Lady Bird — which also features Timothée Chalamet — took the title of the year's best per theater average opener when it rolled out the first weekend of November, grossing $ 375,612 in four theaters, giving the A24 release a $ 93,903 average.

That leaves Arthur trapped between a rock and a bank account when his tycoon mother says he'll be cut off if he doesn't marry uptight Susan (Jennifer Garner), who can't hold a candle to the far more appealing Naomi (Greta Gerwig, a considerable step up in the cuteness department from Liza Minnelli).

There are even moments where the movie recognizes that it's on the verge of spinning off into some New Age silliness and perverse introspection, like when resident fallen bohemian William (Billy Crudup) tries to explain to co-boarder Abbie (Greta Gerwig) that we're all made of stardust... and she laughs at him.

In a recent email, Gerwig said that she texts regularly with her high school's president, Theresa Rodgers, who alerts Gerwig when students offer her name in prayer.

There's also Florence (Greta Gerwig) in his «now,» his brother's 20 - something assistant, who is at Roger's beck and call for whatever groceries he might need (usually liquor and ice cream sandwiches), to drive him around town, and to occasionally fool around, when he isn't acting like a complete jerk toward her.

It may seem like a fun and innocent high school romp kind of movie, but then Greta Gerwig hits you about an hour when you realize how much you have come to care about all of these characters.