Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig's "Frances Ha"

old man yells at ruling class 'why dont you be lesbians'

i just learned who greta gerwig was a couple of days ago because i started to read some profile of her that began with an entire paragraph that can be summed up thusly: "it's not hip to like Woody Allen today in NYC but she does and oh her exuberance and her willowy arms will charm you and challenge you simultaneously while you die of a heart attack from her infectious laugh"
then i stopped reading it and GISed to see who this magnificent creature was and i found a normal looking young woman

which was kind of a relief tbh

this lame reps woody allen... oh but her willowy arms

her spirit inferno will charm you until you have been reduced to a heap of ashes on the ground, which she will then resurrect, thereby earning your eternal devotion

I haven't seen any of Gerwig's pre-Greenberg mumblecore movies. Aren't they meant to be all about incoherence and ambivalence?

well i like mumblecore more than i liked 'frances ha', they are also generally not that successful

Is it "not hip to like Woody Allen" in the sense that it's an assumed thing like liking hamburgers or something, or is it actually hip to not like Woody Allen?

its a lame reference, you can like him but not like, like him ime

i imagine some hip people like woody allen while others do not

if you want to be real hip never like anything too much, all in moderation #protip

The wedding blog was funny.

if you want to be real hip never like anything too much, all in moderation #protip

― lag∞n, Thursday, June 6, 2013 11:33 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this post was alright

i also cite abuse of "modern love" in the trailer

I'm in actuality sleeping with the director in real life to get acting jobs

This is where kiss trigger reveals his hand as a creepy asshole

for some reason I assumed kiss trigger was female

i also cite abuse of "modern love" in the trailer

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, June 6, 2013 10:43 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well his use of this is a nod to carax's "mauvais sang"

not necessarily a good idea to make an extended reference to a film that is much better than yours

xp Oh, you may be right.

"Many would argue" that worked out fine for Brian De Palma.

not necessarily a good idea to make an extended reference to a film that is much better than yours

can't think of many instances where extended references to films that are much worse than the film in question really worked out tbh

and that dope who made The Artist

xp

yeah I think the power move is almost unquestionably to only make extended references to "classic" but obscure and unpopular films, affirming your supreme taste while elevating your film above the subject of your homage.

still haven't had time to see, but as it opens around the country i'd be curious for compare-and-contrasts with An Oversimplification of Her Beauty. (Thirtyish black Brooklyn boho filmmaker makes drama-doc about his ex)

the thread on that 1 will be less than 250+ posts, i predict

i dunno it came at a point in the movie when i was warming to it a little bit and then it was like, "oh, i could've been watching a leos carax film, couldn't i?"

it's not like baumbach _did_ anything with his reference, it was just sort of _there_

'oh i could've been watching a leos carax film, couldn't i?'

"Film About First World Problems Inspires First-er World Problems (Pictures @ 11)"

like you haven't sat through a crappy movie and thought about what you'd rather be doing instead

assholes

I walked out of Before Sunrise long ago because my friend and I realized we could be sitting and talking instead of stuck in a train compartment with Ethan Hawke hitting on a gal. (Liked/loved the second one, though.)

And there are several writers who deal with privilege in a reasonable, persuasive way but in Britain, at least, this issue has caught fire on Twitter, where it's much easier to get heated and phrase a tweet in a way that sets the discussion spiralling down a more negative ad hominem path.

Oops, wrong thread

You sure, DL?

Also: Teasing, Am, Teasing!

This is a good one... fell down a little in a couple repetitive scenes. I liked Sophie's line “He's a nice guy, you know, for today."

The trailer is the worst kind of nineties dr(lol)oll indie romcom.

Were you disappointed that there was no rom?

"I like you, Patches."
"I like you too Frances."

a great movie about a magic pixie girl

After a while you forget about the magic and that she's a six inch pixie with dragonfly wings. Thats the real triumph of Gerwig's performance.

she also doesn't exist to be contingent to some man, to help some dude find his inner freedom or creativity or something

i actually don't think she fulfills that archetype at all. she's a character you actually rarely see written for women: the loveable fuck-up.

still thought these characters were impossibly juvenile for folks in their mid-late 20s

come to Brooklyn sometime!

Slocki otm.

also, i don't really get the "impossible juvenile" criticism. like, would it be a better film if frances has a full time job she took seriously, paid all of her bills on time, and never ate gluten? would the world be a better place if all twentysomethings were like that?

that depends

great answer.

Perhaps amateurist shouldn't have said they were impossibly juvenile for their mid-late twenties. Perhaps he ought to have said they were unbearably juvenile for their mid-late twenties.

that's worse, almost. i thought they were fine. benjy et al were obviously privileged and i felt sort of jealous of them, but to be honest, it seems weird and corporate to insist that people who aren't hurting anyone be "more responsible" just for the sake of it. in an ideal society, everyone would have more time to loaf around, read books, and figure out how they feel about things, not less.

there are better ways to define "more responsible" than you seem to have in mind

that depends on whether any of the characters have a gluten intolerance or celiac disease.

i guess i have love for my fellow millenials who don't know what they want from life yet, and might be harboring unrealistic dreams. life is confusing.

also, fuck narrow definitions of "responsibilty"

Youuuuuuuuuuú

gluten is p bad for everyone at this point i think