To Rome with Love

By Clay Steakley at 10:23 PM on June 27, 2012

Woody Allen’s latest is a giddy, glittering film drunk on the city of its title. To Rome with Love is a film of fountains and Vespas, of paparazzi and shower Pavarottis, young lovers and shrewd prostitutes. In his attempt to embrace Rome in one collection of stories, Allen gives us a richly textured film that is part love story, part comedy of errors, a little bit farce and a little bit tragedy....  read more

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Lola Versus

By Annlee Ellingson at 10:47 PM on June 7, 2012

Since breaking out of the mumblecore movies (Hannah Takes the Stairs) in which she got her start as both an actress and a writer-director, Greta Gerwig has emerged in films like Greenberg and No Strings Attached as a fresh face among supporting casts. Tall and curvy, she’s at once beautiful and awkward, a real-world woman who’s easy to get behind—especially in the couple of plum indie leads (Damsels in Distress and now Lola Versus) that she landed this year. The character of Lola, though, poses a bit of a challenge—portraying a suddenly single 29-year-old self-involvedly stumbling through the New York...  read more

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Watch The First Trailer for Greta Gerwig's New Film Lola Versus

By Kristen Blanton at 2:54 PM on April 10, 2012

New director Daryl Wein enlisted an impressive cast for his debut comedy Lola Versus, which is set to hit theaters June 8.   read more

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Damsels in Distress

By Will McCord at 7:34 PM on April 5, 2012

Whit Stillman fans have had to wait a long, fourteen years since his last film, The Last Days of Disco. While diehard enthusiasts may be satisfied with his latest effort, Damsels in Distress feels too episodic and light to fully endorse despite some snappy dialogue and charming dance numbers. Actress Greta Gerwig makes a sharp departure from her mumblecore beginnings and pulls off Stillman’s highly stylized banter, as do several of the other actors. Ultimately, though, the banter feels empty and little more than dressing on a meandering plot....  read more

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Greenberg Review

By Amanda Petrusich at 8:30 AM on March 25, 2010

The Los Angeles of Greenberg is crammed with strip malls, old Hollywood grills and florescent-lit donut shops...  read more

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The House of the Devil

By Sean Edgar at 12:30 PM on November 3, 2009

Release Date: October 30 Director/Writer: Ti West Cinematographer: Eliot Rockett Starring: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Greta Gerwig Studio/Run Time: Magnolia Pictures/93 mins. The devil’s in the details of this modern horror classic The House of the Devil isn’t just a movie: it’s an experience. It joins the league of Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist and The Omen as one of the most diabolical entries in the modern horror library. And as you can probably guess, it’s also batshit scary....  read more

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Greta Gerwig & Joe Swanberg: The Penny-Pinching Future of Indie Cinema

By Steve Dollar at 7:50 AM on March 2, 2009

There’s low-budget guerrilla filmmaking and then there’s low-budget guerrilla filmmaking...  read more

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Noah Baumbach's latest to star Ben Stiller and Greta Gerwig

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 7:50 AM on February 17, 2009

Ben Stiller and mumblecore princess Greta Gerwig (pictured) will star in Noah Baumbach's next movie, Greenburg, apparently replacing planned co-stars Mark Ruffalo and Amy Adams. ...  read more

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