Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig's "Frances Ha"

Margot was how I discovered Karen Dalton's "Something on Your Mind,

Let Me Make You A Cool Mixtape direction

Well...throw in Kenneth Anger and the guy who made Mean Streets and Who's That Knocking at My Door, too.

I think he's an indie "it" guy but this movie is the only place i can think of where he was dreamy. On Girls his character can be pretty dark at times, and is always a little "off" and not in a cute way.

― Treeship, Tuesday, May 28, 2013 8:38 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

way late on this, but false^

also GG looks like nellie mckay

gg got a gg nom

I'm sort of agnostic about Baumbach - his movies get really close to something I like/appreciate/get something out of, and I can't tell if that's ironically what makes them good or what makes them, you know, fall short - but his pile of glass gag in "Kicking and Screaming" is one of my all time favorite jokes.

Wasn't a dedicated Gerwig thread, so.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/greta-gerwig-star-cbs-how-679633

ok i am gonna call that 'how i met greta gerwig' from now on, i don't care if that doesn't make sense

this movie sucked 1 butt

Pretty, but aggravating. Something like the cinematic equivalent of what its prettiest (yet sill aggravating) character might call "undateable."

fantastic movie! i'm amazed this thread hasn't been revived for a year.

anyway check this if you liked the film, and avoid it like the plague if you didn't. Gerwig goes through *all 42* takes of the 28 seconds-long 'scene in the bathroom' (which she co-wrote) making notes on each one. in the end Baumbach went back and used 'Take 29' anyway, having made his actors go through a full hour of unnecessary re-takes. i don't think i've read a piece like it before, ever.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/magazine/one-scene-42-takes-and-2-hours-in-a-bathroom-stall.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

trailer for the new one seems really whit stillman (like, more so than usual) - quite excited

he doesn't sit about that lad.

we can start a nu thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=14&v=TL-B8SdE6D0

god, this is stilted - I don't expect better of Gerwig, but Baumbach feels like he's regressing the more contact he has with mumblecore people

frances ha > while we're young > mistress america is a v good run of movies imo fyi

baumbach is the closest thing to rohmer that currently exists and roughly no one presently cares but whatever i guess

deserves its own thread

Clearly Hong Sang Soo is the modern Rohmer. And I care a lot about that being acknowledged!

NB not really anywhere close to ER

and yeah you ppl have to get less fucking lazy about starting threads

what about greenberg

noah baumbach is the closest thing to 2004 - 2007 woody allen that currently exists, kinda like late woody allen only with less visual finesse. frederik one trillion percent otm.

noah baumbach is the closest thing to 2004 - 2007 woody allen that currently exists,

no need to be insulting

I liked this movie. Baumbach and Gerwig push whimsy so far out that it's in danger of just drifting away yet it never does. Some of the best dialogue I've heard in an American movie too.

frances Ha or MIstress America?

just saw the latter - some really LOL moments at the ex's house in that one.

MA. The ex's house scenes are choreographed like a ballet (Dean Wareham is the only sour note).

yeah otm. baumbachs timing / dialogue / editing have been so strong in these last few

even like throw away lines just ring perfectly to me like when they first arrive at the connecticut house and the guy is like "holy shit those pregnant women are super smart"

YOU PPL BETTER NOT BE TALKIN BOUT MISTRESS AMERICA

whadya mean "YOU PPL"

i loved when the leftover pregnant lady finally acknowledged that they kept offering her alcohol to drink

Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig's "Mistress America"

Not sure if I hated Damsels in Distress or just wasn't in the mood for it. I like the film before it and like some of the film after it, so I don't think Noel Baumbach's gone off the Wes Anderson deep end. Megalyn Echikunwoke was incredibly beautiful. Thought for sure I spotted Lauren Ambrose from Six Feet Under in a classroom scene, but she's not listed in the credits, so I guess not. Still haven't seen Mistress America.

? damsels in distress is a whit stillman movie

Um, oops...the whole time I'm thinking, "This is the same guy that made The Squid & the Whale." And I almost made mention of the Metropolitan allusions.

I don't think it changes my reaction to the film, although it does help explain a lot.

#NotAllGerwigsAreBaumbachs

Although to be fair this thread at times served as a "Rolling Greta Gerwig" one.

Interesting experiment, though...That's the first time I've ever sat through an entire film thinking it was someone other than the actual director. And of course it would have altered my reaction if I'd remembered it was Stillman. I don't know that I would have liked it any more, but I certainly would have had an easier time getting my head around it.

dunno why I've never met a Benji

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