Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig's "Frances Ha"

it does look super 90s. im cool with that

Yeah I'm looking foward seeing this. Love GeeGee.

way better than the G.G. we had in the 90s

Ha. Were you around back then, Treeship?

lol no. i'm 24. i know of g.g. allin from the todd philips documentary.

Well, at least thanks to this thread I now know who actually watches movies like this for pleasure—I saw the trailer and it made me want to track down everyone involved and set them on fire one at a time.

it shows girls dancing to express their love of life

誤訳侮辱, you should try Girls.

誤訳侮辱, what are your thoughts on Woody Allen?

alf didnt u love damsels in distress

誤訳侮辱, you should try Girls.

Does it have car chases, gunfire, explosions, and people getting punched in the face? Because those are the common factors of the TV shows I watch.

誤訳侮辱, what are your thoughts on Woody Allen?

I've only seen three of his movies (Annie Hall, Sleeper and Love and Death) and I hated all three. They had a disturbing lack of car chases, gunfire, explosions etc.

I do like Whit Stillman's movies, though...

in love and death, did you at least like woody's dance with Death during the end credits?

actually, that's an irrelevant point. nothing in girls or baumbach's films are like that. frances ha is probably not for you.

the freeze frame of Garwig's face in the first post is the most frightening image I've seen all year -- maybe since all these straight boys thought what's her name in 50 Days of Summer was cute.

why do you think indie dreamgirls are so terrible? i understand the feminist complaint that often, in films like 500 days, they are just a vehicle for the male characters to achieve self-awareness/happiness/something, but that doesn't seem to be the deal with this movie as gerwig is the main character. just curious. people h8 zooey and i never really understood why, even though i am not a fan of she and him.

Indie dreamgirls are feminized versions of their male indie writer-directors. Julie Delpy of the Before series is the most successfully realized, I think: her insecurities are her own.

Aren't most female characters feminized versions of their writer-directors? I know I haven't been able to escape that in my short films.
I don't think it is a trend exclusive to indie girls. In this case, Baumbach is just very specific with his lines so there is no room for actresses like GG to breathe.

Julie Delpy of the Before series is the most successfully realized, I think: her insecurities are her own.

She's been a co-writer on the second and third movies.

yep

I think to be fair to Girls here, I do not get the impression from having only watched season 1 of girls that Dunham would write the "girls dancing to show love of life" scene - in fact I kind of picture her doing that mime finger-down-throat thing at it.

doesnt that exact scene happen in girls season 1

yeah you're right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8_ssvjnNYg

but somehow much less bad

That's the most I've ever seen of Girls and it just proves that people who like Robyn should be shunned.

ur dumb that scene's awesome

love gerwig, ambivalent at best about baumbach (loved greenberg though), new yorker profile was a depressing read though there was the hilarious revelation that baumbach and wes anderson dine w/ bogdanovich and regard him as a mentor and father figure (to the extent of him calling them 'son'), i kept getting the faintest whiff of that horace mann story from it, what a fitting circle jerk.

Bogdo still trying to ingratiate himself into financing

saw this back at TIFF, it's much much better than Greenberg (thankfully)

that wasn't exactly one of my favorite scenes in season 1, but it's not terrible

Bogdo still trying to ingratiate himself into financing

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, May 11, 2013 9:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...and all he gets are these lousy* dvd supplements...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQPzzNhqGCo

*which is too strong a word. You just wish they were talking about a better movie.

so GG is clearly NB's Cybill Shepherd

o come now, she's a much better actress than cybill shepherd was circa bogdanovich (if not circa moonlighting).

I was alluding to the leaving-yr-wife/collaborator-for-yr-star aspect

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/movies/greta-gerwig-in-noah-baumbachs-frances-ha.html?hpw

“There’s no heterosexual relationship in it,” Ms. Gerwig said. “There’s no kissing.” Instead, the movie chronicles Frances’ flirtation with adulthood and her subsequent fall from perpetual adolescent grace. “I’m so embarrassed,” Frances says. “I’m not a real person yet.”

What would be the present day equivalent of Cybil's Cole Porter album for GG? Carole King?

Cyndi Lauper.

Who is their Orson Welles?

don't forget Cybill did a Cole Porter MOVIE for Bogdanovich

(that finished a whole buncha things)

Who is their Orson Welles?

― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, May 12, 2013 9:44 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Bogdanovich, no? Apparently Baumbach is also tight w/De Palma (he interviewed him for a featurette on the CC Blow-Out, which included allusions to them hanging out). However BDP is still working regularly, so...Captain Ascot it is!

rosie bogdanovich is their orson welles :(

every millenial is their own orson welles

wow so i'd heard bogdanovich ran a 'letter of apology' after at long last love flopped but i never knew it was THIS (pretty far from apologetic):

http://www.thelmagazine.com/images/blogimages/2011/06/17/1308330989-bogdanovichloveletter.jpg

what a fucking schmuck

btw anyone w/ any curiosity about at long last love, thinking a fiasco that legendary must be somehow inadvertantly entertaining, do not bother. it is one dreary turd of a movie. can't even begin to imagine what his daisy miller was like.

this is great

i really liked it

how much dancing?

Oh, I hope Bogdanovich moves in with them and starts ranting about Fudgesicles.

really loved the trip to paris part.

Bogdanovich should endorse a line of celebrity ascots.

Yeah, this was pretty great; think I liked it even more than Damsels in Distress.

yeah... yeah!!! suck it johny crunmch

*farts*

This is a ridiculously charming movie, which means that some people will find ridiculously irritating but screw those people.

I can see why they wanted to emphasise that it germinated before Girls because the territory's very similar except the characters are 10x more likeable.

I just watched this for the first time. I hated it. Maybe it's already aged poorly? I am now hate reading glowing reviews of this when it came out.

what does aging poorly mean?

My issues with the movie seem to have already been mentioned in this thread (I just read through it). GG is charming but the character is unsubstantial and basically a really pleasant idiot at 27. I feel like I used to enjoy movies like this more. I liked the first couple of seasons of Girls, I still like Kicking and Screaming. Now it just all invokes Kendall Jenner giving the police a pepsi in the middle of a protest. I did enjoy the Paris scenes (this should've just been a longform commercial for Miu Miu or something) and Dean and Britta. I am also remembering a conversation I had with a well known music critic a long time ago when the show Felicity was still on air. I thought the show would've totally been his jam but he hated it because he had to see boring, overprivileged white NYU students every day so why would he want to also suffer through watching it on tv.

I am now talking about this movie with A friend who is a huge Greta Gerwig fan. "So, I know how much you hate Fleabag, I was watching Frances Ha and I finally understood why you hate Fleabag so much." Her "You know I hated Frances Ha, right? With the heat of a thousand white hot suns!"

saw this for the first time last night and found it very affecting. was really mesmerized by gerwig and her awkward sincerity, the way she speaks to strangers as if they’ve been friends for years, her love for dancing even though she’s awful at it, that aimless trip to paris, how deeply she longs to be loved while simultaneously lacking any real interest in romance

I like it more with each re-viewing. I always forget Dean Wareham's in it.

watched this again last night. what a perfect little movie — the goodness of frances is almost too much to bear

I'm still crushing on her roommate.

Loved this movie

On Netflix again! Still love it.

annual rewatch tonight. I just adore everyone in this movie so much