Posts Tagged ‘Noah Baumbach’
Episode 146 – Barbie
For this episode of the podcast, we review Greta Gerwig‘s Barbie movie, and for the streaming homework, we review the 1994 Hong Kong romantic comedy, Chungking Express. Keith also gives us details about last weekend at San Diego Comic-Con. Download the episode here. Watch the…
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Top 15 Films of 2019 – Allen’s Picks
2019 was such an excellent year in film that I seriously debated pushing this list out to 25, maybe even 30 entries. There was such an abundance of quality work that whittling it down to a small grouping is about the equivalent of a parent…
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Film Review – Marriage Story
Director and screenwriter Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story is a film that revolves around the dissolution of a marriage, not the story of it. Divorce is, unfortunately, commonplace in our modern society, but that does not mean that it is a not sad occurrence, one that…
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Film Review – Lady Bird
I’ll just come out and say it. I love Greta Gerwig. I love her a lot. She seems both smart and funny, and while she is – like most Hollywood people – exceptionally pretty, it doesn’t feel like a thirsty beauty, if you get what…
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Film Review – De Palma
When it comes to the films of writer, director Brian De Palma there’s an automatic, overt sense of film making on the face of each one that typically it garners an immediate and strong response from viewers. For most of my life I have only…
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Film Review – Mistress America
Mistress America is about beginnings and faith and the people willing to try, no matter how fruitless a quest seems. After age thirty, women are programmed abandon such quests – one of our main characters here is thirty. We peer into this woman’s world through…
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Film Review – While We’re Young
Noah Baumbach‘s films are often alleged to be at least partially autobiographical which, for anyone who has seen his fantastic The Squid and the Whale, is a disturbing notion indeed. Unflinching in its portrayal of a deteriorated family, Squid led the way to his equally…
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Interview – Ryan Serhant – While We’re Young
Sarah interviews actor Ryan Serhant from the dramedy While We’re Young.
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