Ryan Gosling slugging it out with Harrison Ford in a ballroom of holograms. Saoirse Ronan defiantly rolling out of a moving vehicle. Soldiers sitting like ducks on a beach as a German fighter plane dives menacingly out of the sky. All of the above moments—and a couple dozen more besides—would have made fine additions…
In his latest in-depth video essay, YouTuber Nerdwriter1 takes a look at Noah Baumbach’s recent comedy-drama The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected) to see how the writer-director manages to accurately depict the way people, specifically emotionally repressed family members, actually talk to one another. While other…
Just about every movie by Noah Baumbach (Kicking And Screaming, Frances Ha) is a study of prickly personalities. But with The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected), which arrives in select theaters and on Netflix tomorrow, the New York writer-director creates a whole family tree of neurotics, then populates it with…
Harold Meyerowitz, the unsung artist and shitty father Dustin Hoffman plays in The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected), is a fresh addition to Noah Baumbach’s ever-expanding gallery of neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers. One could be forgiven, however, for confusing him for the older, squatter version of a different…
A new Adam Sandler movie arrives on Netflix this week. This is not a notable event; even the comedian’s aged base of die-hard fans may have grown accustomed to Sandler vehicles showing up in their living rooms with the same semi-clockwork regularity that they used to land in mall multiplexes—and leaning more heavily…
The first teaser for Netflix’s new Noah Baumbach film The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected) was all based around stars Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Elizabeth Marvel, Emma Thompson, and Dustin Hoffman singing a fun family song together. This new trailer features a similar amount of family fun, but it also hints at…
Netflix has released its October offerings (and sacrifices), and they look seasonally appropriate. Next month, go inside the mind of David Fincher’s Mindhunter series, which premieres October 13, or saddle up for a harrowing ride alongside Frank Grillo in Wheelman. And on October 27, you can demonstrate how unafraid…
Every few years, some stray artistic impulse prods Adam Sandler to bring out the sad clown lurking underneath his normal angry clown, loud clown, and vacation clown performances, producing critically acclaimed films like Funny People or Punch-Drunk Love. Going off of the reception it got at Cannes, Noah Baumbach’s The…
While we don’t yet know who received the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, we have learned who got the Palm Dog, the award for a distinguished pup in a movie: A good boy named Bruno, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Bruno is one of the stars of Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories, alongside Ben Stiller,…
Sunday is the final day of Cannes, but for yours truly, the festival ends in a couple hours, with a flight from Nice to New York. It’s been a great time: a blur of movies, hastily consumed lunches, leisurely consumed late-night dinners, long and scenic walks into town (and back), feverish debates while standing in…
Cannes is dealing with its identity crisis over the inclusion of Netflix films in a gloriously passive aggressive manner. The Federation Of French Cinemas was reportedly mad because because Bong Joon-Ho’s Okja and Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories are on the festival’s competition slate, and yet the streaming…
The lineup for the 70th Cannes Film Festival was announced a few days ago, and it included the Netflix original films Okja and The Meyerowitz Stories. To most of the world, this is indicative of the streaming service’s rising legitimacy, but to the Federation Of French Cinemas—a surprisingly powerful group that…
