Noah Baumbach
Marriage Story
MARRIAGE STORY Marriage Story is a flawlessly written and extraordinarily acted drama about two professional people getting divorced. After the first ten minutes, you understand the people and the marriage. Then, during the next two hours, you go through their divorce. Plot: Nicole Barber (Scarlett Johansson) gets a role in a TV show and wants…
The Squid and the Whale
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE The Squid and the Whale is Noah Baumbach’s 2005 Indie movie about the breakdown of a marriage and the effects on the children. Main reason I watched was to prepare for Noah’s newest divorce film – Marriage Story – scheduled for release to theaters in November 2019 and streaming through…
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) Written and directed by Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha) who, in this case, writes the type of movie I call, “A couple of days in the life of….” In this case, the three children of Harold Meyerowitz (Dustin Hoffman) – a retire Bard College art professor, who is always bitter…
Frances Ha
FRANCES HA Frances Ha shows the beginnings of Greta Gerwig, future writer and Director of the Oscar-nominated 2017 Lady Bird. This is the second movie she co-wrote with Director – and partner beginning in 2011 – Noah Baumbach. For this movie they wrote “mumblecore,” usually low-budget independent films characterized by naturalistic acting and dialogue and…