Noah Baumbach

Frances Ha: Not Yet a Person, But a Damn Good Film

With Greta Gerwig as his collaborator, Noah Baumbach shows a new lightness of touch

10 Movies We're Excited to See in 2013

See also: *Top 10 Films of 2012 *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Most of the blathering this year about the death of the movies has already evaporated from the mind, like so much inert gas. But one gnomic pronouncement endures: Leos Carax describing cinema as "a beautiful island with a cemetery" fol ... More >>

When Directors Love Their Stars: Frances Ha and Yellow at the Toronto Film Festival

For maybe the first hour of Yellow (written and directed by Nick Cassavetes, the man responsible for the national treasure that is The Notebook), I kept thinking about another film premiering here in Toronto, Frances Ha, co-written by and starring Greta Gerwig, and co-written and directed by Noah Ba ... More >>

Telluride Film Festival: Noah Baumbach, Sarah Polley Bring New Films

Joe Swanberg's Full Moon trilogy

The auteur answers critics who call him a sexually depraved narcissist

Ceremony

The Social Network Named Best Movie of 2010

The film critics' poll

The Top 10 Films of 2010

Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola and sex with garbage

Tiny Furniture: Shame and Fortune

Family time with indie darling Lena Dunham

"Fuller at Fox": Weird Wars

Fighting life in LACMA's weekend series

Over the Weekend: LCD Soundsystem at the Palladium

Live Review: LCD Soundsystem at the Palladium

From Zombieland to Indieland

Jesse Eisenberg's excellent adventure

Please Give: Liberal Guilt's Got Soul

Rich-people problems — but compelling ones — in Nicole Holofcener's new feature

Strange Death Fellows

How do you go from In the Company of Men, to remaking The Wicker Man, to directing a Martin Lawrence/Chris Rock comedy? Neil LaBute explains himself

SXSW: Gone to the Masses

Yet fest still has fresh, experimental edge

Greenberg: Los Angeles Plays Itself

Noah Baumbach goes West with his latest self-obsessed, unlikable protagonist

Driving Mr. Greenberg

Noah Baumbach on the DIY ethos, L.A. without a car and his new film starring Ben Stiller and Greta Gerwig

What's Wrong With Wes Anderson?

A decade after Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, Generation Y's anointed auteur tries for a comeback with Fantastic Mr. Fox

21st-Century Fox

Rachel Getting Married: Anne Hathaway Plays the Other Sister

Actress makes compelling bad girl in pedestrian family drama

Disappointments and Surprises: Toronto International Film Festival

When good directors go bad

American Cinema: Our Best Diplomat in 2007?

Annus mirabilis

Margot at the Wedding: Born Identities

Family matters in Baumbach’s latest

So Close, and Yet So Far

The intimate pleasures and necessary detachments of Toronto 2007

Mutual Appreciation Society

The World of Andrew Bujalski

Film Reviews

For the week of April 21-27

Histories of Violence

In the best films of 2005, the past came back to haunt

Smart & Smarterer

Jeff Daniels comes into his own

Family Matters

Love and pain and the whole damn thing in The Squid and the Whale

Walking and Talking

Noah Baumbach (almost) grows up

Vanishing Acts

Fragmented identities abound at Sundance 2005

Water Water Everywhere

Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic, Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve

Second Wind

A new generation of filmmakers translates Bill Murray