Noah Baumbach

Mark Ruffalo, Amy Adams in for Baumbach's Greenburg

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Noah Baumbach, another 90's boy who grew up, will probably have more heady examinations of "young urban angst" in Greenburg, his new film starring Mark Ruffalo (doughy animal cracker eating cop in Zodiac) and Amy Adams (Disney heroine in Enchanted, indie princess in Junebug). The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop:  read more »

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Beowulf Reigns, While Cholera Looks Sick

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Robert Zemeckis used Beowulf (No. 1), once the scourge of high-school English classes nationwide, to lure unsuspecting children and families to the box office this weekend, promising a 3-D spectacle the likes the which they had never seen. Improbably, he ended the weekend at the top of the box-office charts both in Manhattan and across the country. What's next? The Finnish national epic, the Kalevala?  read more »

Baumbach Makes It Up As He Goes Along; Saved by Kidman, Leigh

New bohemians: Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black.
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New bohemians: Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black.

Noah Baumbach’s latest is a tangle of subplots and ugliness that falls short of The Squid, but with a weird dream logic.  read more »

’90s Boy Grows Up

Chris Eigeman.
James Hamilton
Chris Eigeman.

Chris Eigeman, Whit Stillman’s and Noah Baumbach’s proxy, hits adulthood.  read more »

Wes Is More! Pretension Pollutes the New York Film Festival

Pray for our careers! Schwartzman, Brody and Wilson.
James Hamilton
Pray for our careers! Schwartzman, Brody and Wilson.

Hold your nose, fellow citizens! For some reason, talented indie directing trio Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach and Todd Haynes are each presenting stinkers this year. Somebody bring me a poultice!  read more »