Oscar-Nominee Greta Gerwig On Moving Behind the Camera for her Solo Directorial Debut Lady Bird
As part of our Oscars week coverage, we’re re-posting our conversations with some of this year’s Oscar-nominees, as well as publishing new interviews with those vying for Oscar gold this Sunday. Greta Gerwig is nominated in two categories; Directing and Writing (Original Screenplay) for her work on Lady Bird. She joins Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk), Jordan Peele (Get Out), Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread) and Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water) in the Directing category.
Costume Designer April Napier on Crafting Early Aughts Authenticity in Lady Bird
It’d be an understatement to say Lady Bird has taken the country by storm. After quietly positive bows at Telluride and TIFF earlier this year, Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut has gone on to become one of the best-reviewed film of all time on Rotten Tomatoes (until a certain someone got the score lowered from a perfect 100 to a near-perfect 99), score five Oscar nominations in a heavily competitive year and stack up a $40M+ box office against a shoestring budget.
A Peek at Your Oscar Contenders—A Day Before The Nominations
If there’s one film in this year’s Oscar race that could benefit from the current moment in the cultural consciousness, it’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic tale of revenge about a middle-aged badass (best actress frontrunner Frances McDormand) angry at authorities for failing to solve the murder of her daughter seems attuned to the #MeToo and TimesUp movements; ongoing allegations of abuse and harassment within the entertainment industry; and backlash against revelations of the huge pay gap between Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg for their work on All the Money in the World.
Featurette Pulls Back the Curtain on Greta Gerwig’s Directorial Debut Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig’s career has been driven by her fearlessness. She became one of the pioneers of the improvisational movement, mumblecore – a term she told CBS Sunday Morning she hates. Her acting, however, was something we all fell in love with. After roles in films like Frances Ha and Jackie, we were thrilled when she boldly stepped into directing, and her debut was a delight. A new featurette exclusive to Vimeo takes audiences behind the scenes of Gerwig’s directing method.
Your 2018 Golden Globes Winners
The 2018 Golden Globes will be remembered primarily for Oprah Winfrey’s speech, upon accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement, one of the greatest ever delivered at the show. Oprah was called on stage by host Seth Meyers, who offered this perfect observation: “Oprah Winfrey is receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award tonight. What a tremendous honor for Cecil B. DeMille.”
We’ll be looking at Oprah’s momentous speech in a separate post,
Greta Gerwig On Moving Behind the Camera for her Solo Directorial Debut Lady Bird
*We’re sharing some of our favorite interviews of the year this week in our ‘Best of 2017’ roundup.
Fans of Greta Gerwig know her as the go-to muse of indie filmdom’s mumblecore movement and for her collaborations with such notable directors as Joe Swanberg (LOL,
Cinematographer Sam Levy’s Shot List Pictured Lady Bird a Year in Advance
In the beginning, there was the shot list. When Greta Gerwig organized her directorial debut, she left nothing to chance. A full year before production began on her coming-of-age story Lady Bird, the actress-turned-filmmaker sat down in New York with director of photography Sam Levy and together they planned out every shot of the movie. Levy, who got to know Gerwig when they worked on Frances Ha and Mistress America,
Greta Gerwig On Moving Behind the Camera for her Solo Directorial Debut Lady Bird
Fans of Greta Gerwig know her as the go-to muse of indie filmdom’s mumblecore movement and for her collaborations with such notable directors as Joe Swanberg (LOL, Nights and Weekends) and Noah Baumbach (Greenberg,
The 55th Annual New York Film Festival: The Best From Week Two
The 55th edition of the New York film Festival wraps up on October 15. On the one hand, it’s been a superb smorgasbord that testifies to the continuing capacity of feature films to tell great, relevant, unexpected stories. On the other hand, I’m stuffed (but only temporarily). Here is a roundup of films from the second week of the festival’s main slate, plus one documentary about a Hollywood icon.
Disturbingly Accurate (I Should Know) Portrait of SIngle,
The 55th Annual New York Film Festival Begins Today
The New York Film Festival, which runs from September 28 to October 15, is a funny bird. Housed in that Temple of Culture, Lincoln Center, the 55th edition of the festival is showing as many movies in its Robert Mitchum Retrospective as it is in the Main Slate, its showcase for the annual crop of prestigious indies (25 each to be exact). The festival doesn’t try to compete with industry heavyweights like Cannes, Sundance and Toronto.
