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I flirted with the idea of making today Frances Ha Day, but I lack the focus to pull that off - as soon as I said it was Frances Ha Day something crazy like Jake Gyllenhaal being photographed making out with Michael Fassbender would happen and whoosh bye bye Frances Ha Day. But let's unofficially call it that anyway. The movie is out in theaters in New York and Los Angeles today and as I tweeted last evening y'all owe it to yourself to seek it out even if you have to buy a plane ticket to do so. I mean in the time it took me to write that sentence Star Trek Into Darkness just made more than Frances Ha will make in its entire run, so we need to make a little extra effort for some quality cinema, methinks.
Here's my review from the New York Film Festival where I first saw it last Fall. In the New York Times critic AO Scott, who seems to adore Greta Gerwig nearly as much as I do, called the film "a bedtime story for young adults," and that seems like an entirely lovely way to put it. I actually saw the film a second time last weekend, and my adoration didn't diminish a smidge. Here's a lousy picture I took of director Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig at the Q&A after that screening...
The lighting was really bad, it wasn't my fault! (So was the Q&A, which you can read about here. The dude asking the "social context" question was a total douchebag.) Anyway if you are in New York or LA and are planning on seeing this wonderful wonderful movie, you should know that Noah Baumbach will be at a few screenings here in new York, while Greta Gerwig will be at a few screenings in LA. That info's below. I'm seeing the film a third time, yes a third time, on Sunday. And I can't wait!
Two more things - go read this piece over at TFE about why Frances Ha probably won't make Greta a giant star and why that's a good thing. Lovely work by Tim there, and I totally agree.
And then you owe it to yourself to read through this glorious piece at the NYT where Miss Gerwig herself goes through a single scene in the film that they did forty-two takes for, take by take by take, forty-two times, and breaks down what worked and what didn't in each one, and what was going through her mind as both an actress and a writer during the process. This woman... she is the best woman, full stop. (thx Mac)
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Here's my review from the New York Film Festival where I first saw it last Fall. In the New York Times critic AO Scott, who seems to adore Greta Gerwig nearly as much as I do, called the film "a bedtime story for young adults," and that seems like an entirely lovely way to put it. I actually saw the film a second time last weekend, and my adoration didn't diminish a smidge. Here's a lousy picture I took of director Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig at the Q&A after that screening...
And then you owe it to yourself to read through this glorious piece at the NYT where Miss Gerwig herself goes through a single scene in the film that they did forty-two takes for, take by take by take, forty-two times, and breaks down what worked and what didn't in each one, and what was going through her mind as both an actress and a writer during the process. This woman... she is the best woman, full stop. (thx Mac)
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I'm seeing it tonight! It's playing 2x this weekend in Seattle at the film festival.
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