Tag: Nights and Weekends

  • Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, Emerald Fennell to Deliver Screen Talks at BFI London Film Festival

    Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, Emerald Fennell to Deliver Screen Talks at BFI London Film Festival

    Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig and Emerald Fennell are among the filmmakers delivering screen talks at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, alongside Andrew Haigh, Lulu Wang and Kitty Green.Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone, is a headline gala at the festival. He will be in conversation…

  • The 5 Hallmarks of a Greta Gerwig Movie

    The 5 Hallmarks of a Greta Gerwig Movie

    We’re all just Greta Gerwig girls, living in Greta Gerwig’s world. The filmmaker has officially ascended to the A-list of directors with “Barbie,” her third directorial effort. The existential comedy adapted from the Mattel doll line is one of the biggest movies of 2023, and is set to cross the line to $1 billion at…

  • ‘Lady Bird’ Isn’t Greta Gerwig’s Directorial Debut — This Awkward Movie Is

    ‘Lady Bird’ Isn’t Greta Gerwig’s Directorial Debut — This Awkward Movie Is

    Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg’s Nights and Weekends opens with a clumsy sex scene that sheds the clichés of the many that have come before it in favor of capturing every last detail of the process. The camera seems at first uncomfortably voyeuristic before you realize, how many scenes of this kind are this compromising?…