![]() ![]() This news understandably set the online film world ablaze.Ī Zoom call was arranged between WBD CEO David Zaslav and filmmakers Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Paul Thomas Anderson, three of the leading advocates for film preservation and cinema culture in Hollywood. Discovery announced personnel cuts at the beloved Turner Classic Movies channel, including programming head Charles Tabesh, general manager Pola Changnon and Genevieve McGillicuddy, who was instrumental in the TCM Classic Film Festival. The biggest movie news this week may have involved a television channel, as Warner Bros. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. In 2011, Gerwig received an award for Acting from the Athena Film Festival for her artistry as one of Hollywood's definitive screen actresses of her generation.Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. In 2017, she wrote and directed the highly acclaimed, semi-autobiographical teen movie Lady Bird (2017), set in 2002-2003, and starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, and Timothée Chalamet. Both tall and immature, awkward and graceful, blundering and candid, annoying and engaging, Greta has won all hearts in the title role of Frances Ha(liday). She has worked with good quality directors such as Ti West ( The House of the Devil (2009)), Whit Stillman ( Damsels in Distress (2011)), or Woody Allen ( To Rome with Love (2012)) but success and (international) recognition did not come until Frances Ha (2012), directed by Noah Baumbach, a film she also co-wrote. She then appeared in many of Swanberg's films, and personally co-directed, co-wrote and co-produced one entitled Nights and Weekends (2008). Gerwig was cast in a minor role in Swanberg's LOL (2006) in 2006, while still studying at Barnard. Originally intending to become a playwright, after meeting young film director Joe Swanberg, she became the star of a series of intellectual low budget movies made by first-time filmmakers, a trend dubbed "mumblecore". She graduated from Barnard College in NY, where she studied English and philosophy, instead. With an early interest in dance, she intended to get a degree in musical theatre in New York. She has described herself as "an intense child". Gerwig was raised as a Unitarian Universalist, but also attended an all-girls Catholic school. She has German, Irish, and English ancestry. Greta Celeste Gerwig was born in Sacramento, California, to Christine Gerwig (née Sauer), a nurse, and Gordon Gerwig, a financial consultant and computer programmer. Gerwig made her solo directorial debut with the critically acclaimed comedy-drama film Lady Bird (2017), which she also wrote, and has also had starring roles in the films Damsels in Distress (2011), Jackie (2016), and 20th Century Women (2016). She has collaborated with Noah Baumbach on several films, including Greenberg (2010), Frances Ha (2012), for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination, and Mistress America (2015). Greta Gerwig is an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and director.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |