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GRETA GERWIG’S LITTLE WOMEN

This sort of inchoate desire, or desire that doesn’t have an object, is interesting to me, because I think it’s so much a dimension of what it is to be an ambitious woman. Because, for every other moment in human history, [that ambition] had nowhere to go… I knew I could not do the ending [of LITTLE WOMEN] just as the book did—especially because Louisa May Alcott didn’t really want to end it that way… and if we can’t give her an ending she would like, 150 years later, then what have we done? We’ve made no progress.Greta Gerwig

Gerwig’s LITTLE WOMEN—a complete artistic success and Noah Baumbach’s favorite film of the year—is here.

On January 3, Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan, and the American Cinematheque present a double-feature screening of LITTLE WOMEN and LADY BIRD at the Egyptian Theatre, with a between-film conversation.

LITTLE WOMEN

Now playing:

Arclight Hollywood

6360 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.

Alamo Drafthouse

700 West 7th Street, downtown Los Angeles.

Laemmle Pasadena

673 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena.

Laemmle Santa Monica

1332 2nd Street, Santa Monica.

LITTLE WOMEN and LADY BIRD—GRETA GERWIG and SAOIRSE RONAN IN CONVERSATION

Friday, January 3, at 6:30 pm.

Egyptian Theatre

6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.

Greta Gerwig, Little Women, from top: Emma Watson (left), Florence Pugh, Saoirse Ronan and Eliza Scanlen; Ronan and Louis Garrel; Watson (left), Ronan, and Pugh; Scanlen; Ronan and Timothée Chalamet; Gerwig (left) with Meryl Streep on set; Laura Dern; Pugh and Chalamet; Garrel and Ronan; Ronan. Images courtesy and © the filmmakers, the actors, the photographers, Wilson Webb, CTMG, and Sony Pictures.

ADAM DRIVER AT THE EGYPTIAN

Adam Driver will be at the Egyptian Theatre this weekend for a between-film conversation. The American Cinematheque presentation on Sunday of Noah Baumbach’s acclaimed MARRIAGE STORY and Jim Jarmusch’s underseen gem PATERSON begins at 7:30 pm, with Driver taking the stage shortly before 10.

MARRIAGE STORY and PATERSON

Sunday, December 15, at 7:30.

Egyptian Theatre

6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.

From top: Adam Driver in Paterson (2016); Scarlett Johansson and Driver in Marriage Story (2019) (2); U.S. poster for Paterson; Driver and Golshifteh Farahani in Paterson; Driver in Marriage Story. Images courtesy and © the filmmakers, the actors, the photographers, Netflix (Marriage Story) and Amazon Studios (Paterson).

BAUMBACH’S STORIES

Elvis Mitchell: “You’ve made a film where art has replaced religion… The artist, played by Dustin Hoffman, feels patronized by the world. [Through his dialogue] he’s a narcissist writing history as it happens, as if no one around him is living it at the same time.”

Noah Baumbach: “Dustin told me that his lines were hard to remember because they referenced nothing external, but were all self-referential self-assessments… The best compliment I ever got was from Mike Nichols…”

Mitchell: “Well… ” [laughs]

Baumbach: “Nichols said, ‘You realize how embarrassed we all are.’ ”

(Conversation from the October 12 LACMA screening of Baumbach’s THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED), which was followed by a Q & A with Mitchell, curator of Film Independent at the museum.)

Embarrassment—recognized and shared—is always a delight in a room full of fellow movie-goers watching a new comedy by Noah Baumbach. And while Baumbach is happy for his current Netflix association, he’d prefer that you see his work in a cinema.

 

THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED), through October 26.

LANDMARK, 10850 West Pico Boulevard, Rancho Park, Los Angeles.

landmarktheatres.com/los-angeles/the-landmark/film-info/the-meyerowitz-stories

LAEMMLE NOHO, 5240 Lankershim Boulevard, North Hollywood.

laemmle.com/films/42922

Opening Friday, October 27:

LAEMMLE MONICA FILM CENTER, 1332 2nd Street, Santa Monica.

TOWN CENTER, 17200 Ventura Boulevard, Encino.

THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED), now streaming on Netflix.

netflix.com/title/80174434

Noah Baumbach (left) and Elvis Mitchell at LACMA, October 12, 2017. Image courtesy of WireImage and Film Independent.

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