Interview

Editor

Unraveling Marriage Story with Oscar-Nominated Editor Jennifer Lame

We’re looking back at some of our interviews with this year’s Oscar nominees in the lead-up to this Sunday’s telecast. This story was originally published on December 5, 2019. It was well past 9 pm on a Sunday night when the word “hello” drifted through the speaker of my phone. On the line was editor ...

By Daron James  |  February 7, 2020

Interview

Director Screenwriter

Best of 2019: Writer/Director Noah Baumbach on his Devastating Marriage Story

*We’re reposting some of our favorite interviews of 2019. Happy Holidays! Writer/director Noah Baumbach’s substantial body of work has often explored families in all their painful, darkly funny dysfunction, evolving from the perspective of an adolescent witness to the break-up of his parents in his 2005 second feature, the Oscar-nominated The Squid and the Whale, ...

By Loren King  |  December 20, 2019

Interview

Editor

Unraveling Marriage Story with Editor Jennifer Lame

It was well past 9 pm on a Sunday night when the word “hello” drifted through the speaker of my phone. On the line was editor Jennifer Lame who pulled herself away from Christopher Nolan’s action-thriller Tenet. “It’s nice speaking with you again,” she said in an even-tempered tone. A tone very unlike the characters ...

By Daron James  |  December 5, 2019

Interview

Director Screenwriter

Writer/Director Noah Baumbach on his Devastating Marriage Story

Writer/director Noah Baumbach’s substantial body of work has often explored families in all their painful, darkly funny dysfunction, evolving from the perspective of an adolescent witness to the break-up of his parents in his 2005 second feature, the Oscar-nominated The Squid and the Whale, to the poignant, middle-aged observations of a son coming to terms ...

By Loren King  |  November 26, 2019

Interview

Production Designer

Marriage Story’s Production Designer on Creating an Environment of Heartbreak

Production designer Jade Healy doesn’t seem to repeat herself much—particularly with the kinds of films she designs, and even the directors she works with. Though as the work remains eclectic, it grows steadily more renowned, and the latter, at least, is changing. She’s the designer for Marriage Story, director Noah Baumbach’s story of a marriage’s ...

By Mark London Williams  |  November 18, 2019
TIFF 2019: Noah Baumbach’s Devastating Marriage Story

One of the buzziest films at this year’s TIFF was writer/director Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story. Starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver as Nicole and Charlie Barber, a couple who have already agreed to divorce by the time our story begins, Baumbach’s latest is a bittersweet gem. The lead performances from Johansson and Driver are as good ...

By Bryan Abrams  |  September 10, 2019