As I perused this years film catalogue for FilmColumbia, I saw some films that could be classified as pure entertainment but others that really will spark controversy and understanding of what is happening in our social/political world.
Tag: Noah Baumbach
FilmColumbia to celebrate 20 years
The 10-day festival will feature more than 60 world-class independent and international features and documentaries, plus post-screening question-and-answer sessions with artists, and special tributes and events.
Remembering Jonathan Baumbach
Jon was an old-fashioned guy. He didn’t have a cell phone… He never saw
“The Sopranos.”
Annette Grant: A remembrance
She had worked at the New York Times, having been the editor of the Living section, then editor of the Weekend section and, finally, art editor of the Arts & Leisure section.
REVIEW: 55th New York Film Festival, Part II
“Lady Bird” is the debut feature film by actress Greta Gerwig, known especially as the lead in Noah Baumbach’s recent films. It’s a girl’s coming-of-age movie, a genre as rare as hens’ teeth. Baumbach’s latest film, ‘The Meyerowitz Stories,’ was also featured in the festival.
Bits & Bytes: BIFF 2016; Miss B. Haven at the Colonial; Family Fun Day & Health Fair; ‘Who Was Annie Haggerty?’; Artful Hike at Olana; Cafe Anshe
Roberta Hareld’s talk at Ventfort Hall is presented in conjunction with an exhibit that portrays the lives of Civil War hero Col. Robert Gould Shaw and his bride, Annie Haggerty, whose family owned Ventfort, the home at which the two spent their brief honeymoon.
The Baumbachs: Three generations of creative life
This desperate need to create can at times feel more like a curse to artists and those around them. The human soul doesn’t mess around.
FILM REVIEW: ‘Mistress America,’ Baumbach at his most urbane and zany
The film reminds one of Woody Allen at his best — profoundly urban and urbane with Greta Gerwig playing an even more quick-witted variation of Diane Keaton. I’m not saying Baumbach’s film is as good as ‘Manhattan’ or ‘Annie Hall,’ but it comes close.
At Baumbach Gallery, a great artist finds a home in Housatonic
It is entirely possible that Harold Baumbach’s work will finally receive the attention it deserves not merely because of his son Jonathan’s efforts but because his grandson, Noah, has won precisely the sort of fame that he himself disdained.
Film Review: Noah Baumbach’s ‘While We’re Young’ is witty, rueful
In “While We’re Young” Baumbach has made a more mainstream comedy. It’s one that displays his keen insight into the comic/pathetic nature of human behavior, and a social intelligence that captures the absurdities and pain of the generational divide.