Lady Bird
In the early 2000s, an artistically-inclined seventeen year-old comes of age in Sacramento, California.
Lady Bird
- Interviews
Beanie Feldstein And The Challenge of ‘How To Build A Girl’
Luckily, most people only have to navigate the treacherous waters of High School once; but for Beanie Feldstein, that experience has now been endured three times, cinematically at least. “I am very fond of this trio of works,” the 26-year-old Golden Globe nominee declares about her appearance in the films Lady Bird, Booksmart, and the just-released How To Build A Girl, each of which transports the actress back to those formative teenage years.
- Golden Globe Awards
2018 – Musical or Comedy: Lady Bird
The 75th anniversary of the Golden Globes will not only be remembered in years to come for Oprah Winfrey’s show-stopping Cecil B. deMille acceptance speech, but also for the solidarity on the red carpet and inside the Beverly Hilton ballroom for the #TimesUp movement, espousing equal rights for women.
- Box Office
World Box Office Jan 8 – Jan 14, 2018
In this week’s roundup, several 75th Golden Globe winners and prominent nominees saw an immediate boost from their well-deserved prizes, while the last blockbusters of 2017 had a surprising reversal of fortune with their second forays into the new year over Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.
- Golden Globe Awards
Lady Bird – Winners Stage
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- Box Office
World Box Office, Nov 27 – Dec 3, 2017
This uncluttered post-Thanksgiving frame left the US box office without a single major wide release, but several returning titles and expanding specialty films made milestones of their own. First place went to Disney/Pixar’s Coco, which once again sapped some super powers away from Justice League and finished its second weekend with $26.
- Interviews
Greta Gerwig on “Lady Bird”
Starring past Golden Globe nominee Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig’s (also nominated, in 2014 for her role in Frances Ha) directorial debut is a coming of age story set in the artist’s native Sacramento, California. A deft and heartfelt portrayal of the fraught transition between girlhood and adult life with all the doubt, self-exploration and attending emotional turmoil of impending separation from family and childhood.
- Interviews
Greta Gerwig Flies High with ‘Lady Bird’
The title of Greta Gerwig’s debut film as a director is Lady Bird. It is also the name that her lead character, the young Christine McPherson has given herself in order to find her own identity in the midst of teenage confusion.