 Today kicks off the second annual Montclair Film Festival in Montclair, New Jersey. Located about twenty miles outside of Manhattan, this quiet yet very compelling festival has quite a few highlights that will be showcased at this year’s festivities. In its second year, the impressive slate will have lots of films getting some extra press in preparation for their openings and plays around the circuit during the awards season.
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Director Noah Baumbach co-wrote the screenplay for his latest film, Frances Ha, with the film’s star Greta Gerwig, who plays the titular character. I’ll let the synopsis for the film explain the rest: Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she’s not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren’t really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Frances wants so much more than she has, but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness. Frances Ha is a modern comic fable in which Noah Baumbach explores New York, friendship, class, ambition, failure, and redemption. Opens May 17th.
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 Sizing Up Series continues with an in-depth look at the Director candidates for this year’s Oscar ceremony. As was the case last year, there are a few things to keep an eye for this particular category. One obviously is that a lot will have to do with which films get nominated for Best Picture at the end of the day. The other is the possibility of a Lone Director nod. It used to be something that happened, but it hasn’t come close of late. Now, with us in the brave new-ish world of anywhere from 5 to 10 nominees, it keeps the idea of the lone director alive, though it’s going to be unlikely for one to wind up breaking through. Not impossible, mind you…but I wouldn’t count on seeing it this year, or too many instances going forward.
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Frances Ha (***½)
Noah Baumbach has really outdone himself in his newest film, Frances Ha starring Greta Gerwig, who also co-writes. The film not only stands as one of the great films of 2012, it’s the best of Baumbach’s career. The film is full of charm, spunk, and a massive amount of heart. Read more on NYFF: “Frances Ha” ignites awards season…
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 Perhaps the most pleasant surprise of the festival season so far is the news that Noah Baumbach’s somewhat secret project ‘Frances Ha’ has turned into one of the biggest crowd pleasers at Telluride and Toronto. A true collaboration with Greta Gerwig (who helped write the screenplay), it’s now going to be distributed by IFC films, who’s acquired the flick. Could it come out and make a play for awards this year? After the jump I’ll get into that a bit, but either way this seems like a movie to look forward to. Read on for more below…
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Greta Gerwig co-writes and stars in Noah Baumbach’s “Frances Ha”
As Oscar season gets ready to jump into high gear, contenders will rise and fall by the wayside as Telluride wraps up, Venice is underway, and Toronto is about to explode onto the scene.
One young talent I’ve kept a close eye on since early March is Greta Gerwig. The 29-year-old actress has been quietly on the scene for a while and has managed to appear in four films that have been released or are scheduled in 2012. Not to mention, she has a co-writing credit with Noah Baumbach in his upcoming Frances Ha.
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 After a little bit of pondering on my part, the question of what will be playing this year at the New York Film Festival has now been answered. 32 films will comprise the main section of the fest, according to the NYFF website (here), and besides the movies already known about, we’ll also be seeing ‘Amour’, ‘Frances’, ‘Holy Motors’, ‘Hyde Park on Hudson’, and ‘Passion’ represent some of the most notable entries. After the jump you can see the full lineup, but it’s looking like a really stellar film festival (I’m especially interested in that new flick from Noah Baumbach). The rest of the titles can be found below…
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