After writing and directing the pitch perfect movie that is The Squid and the Whale , Noah Baumbach was undoubtedly under a heavy amount of self-imposed pressure to follow it up with something equally as caustic in its assessment of family dynamics.
Even though the film is called Margot at the Wedding , a more accurate title might be Margot at the Convention of Psychopaths , but then studios are so stringent about names that reveal too much of the plot. Consequently, Margot at the Wedding...Read Full Story
Noah Baumbach 's new film, Greenberg , is better than his last, Margot at the Wedding , but it still
doesn't quite hit the high notes of The Squid and the Whale . He's now taking a stab at someone else's material, so we'll see what
he can do with that.
The Wrap reports that Baumbach will direct the adaptation of The Emperor's Children , a 2006 novel by Claire Messud. And he walks
into a pretty good situation with a cast already in place: Richard Gere , Eric Bana , and Keira Knightley .Read Full Story
Production began last week in Los Angeles on the “untitled” film starring Ben Stiller for writer/director Noah Baumbach, an Academy Award nominee for his original screenplay of The Squid and the Whale (which he also directed). Scott Rudin, an Academy Award winner as producer of No Country for Old Men , and Jennifer Jason Leigh are producing the movie, to which Focus Features holds worldwide rights.
The script is an original story by Baumbach and revolves around, Roger Greenberg (Stiller...Read Full Story
British folk rockers Noah and the Whale got their band name from combining the name of their favorite film with the director: Noah Baumbach and his film The Squid and the Whale . However, after listening to their debut release Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down , it seems like they were channeling a different film as the whole album sounds like it would have have been perfect as part of the soundtrack to Juno .
It is really hard to find anything to criticize about this album. Instrumentally...Read Full Story
Jennifer Jason Leigh will play the estranged older sister of Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) on at least two upcoming episodesof Showtime's Weeds, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The fifth season of the show, which follows the misadventures of a suburban housewife-turned-drug dealer (Parker), will debut in June. Leigh will next be seen on the big screen opposite Ben Stiller in 2010's Greenberg, a drama written and directed by Leigh's husband, Noah Baumbach (Margot at the Wedding...Read Full Story
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I know already I've gone [2] on [3] and [4] on [5] about how excited I am by HBO's adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, but considering the talent signed on -- Noah Baumbach, Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Dianne Wiest -- can you blame me? Today the good news continues with the report that Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rhys Ifans could be up for parts in the series as well. More details after the jump.
Published in 2001, Franzen's...
Nothing demonstrates the status of HBO these days better than "The Corrections." Jonathan Franzen's novel was hugely acclaimed on publication in 2001, later landing atop many of the "best of the decade" literary lists, and was soon snapped up for a film version by Scott Rudin, one of the most important producers in Hollywood, and the man behind some of the most acclaimed novel-to-film translations of the last decade, from "Wonder Boys" to "No...
Not long ago, HBO and super producer Scott Rudin hired Noah Baumbach to adapt and direct Jonathan Franzen's critically acclaimed novel The Corrections. Baumbach has a unique voice that often delves into the dysfunctionality of the modern American family which makes him more than well suited to adapt the Franzen's most celebrated work. And to help bring the complex family to life, the network has accumulated an incredible cast with two more now...
Noah Baumbach (born September 3, 1969) is an Academy Award-nominated writer and director best known for the films "The Squid and the Whale" and "Margot at the Wedding." Find more pictures, news and articles about Noah Baumbach here.
My dad didn't leave me with any words of wisdom that I remember. But he did teach me through example â good and bad â how to be a father. And, while all these years later, I realize I hardly knew him, having kids of my own â who... Writer ...
Trivia: According to Noah Baumbach at the Lincoln Center anniversary screening, there was another actor scheduled to play the lead role who dropped out at the last minute ...