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Hopkins, Baumbach Turning Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections Into HBO Show

After HBO had hit shows based on books like _Boardwalk Empire_ and _Game of Thrones_, it is no surprise that their next show may be based on Jonathan Frazen’s critically acclaimed novel “The Corrections”.  read more

Salute Your Shorts: Noah Baumbach's "Conrad & Butler Take a Vacation"

Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.After graduating in 1991, Noah Baumbach wrote a screenplay for the movie Fifth Year and spent the next several years working to get it funded. Finally, in 1995, he got the chance to make his film, and Kicking and Screaming was the result, a cult picture about post-college malaise in a style that would be familiar to any fans of Whit Stillman but still unique enough to herald a new talent. Baumbach didn’t have nearly...  read more

Greenberg Review

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

LCD Soundsystem, Duran Duran, Steve Miller Featured on Greenberg Soundtrack

Noah Baumbach’s forthcoming film, Greenberg, is due out next month. The movie follows the single, fortysomething Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) on his quest to find himself....  read more

15 Masterful Directors with Films in 2010

Even the best actors will occasionally take a paycheck from a film they know is a stinker, but a great director is the closest Hollywood has to a sure thing.  read more

Ben Stiller, Noah Baumbach and LCD Soundsystem Join Forces for Greenberg

Writer-director Noah Baumbach has mastered the art of “emotional torture porn,” a phrase aptly applied to his past films by bloggers/NPR radio hosts Adam Kempenaar and Matty Robinson. This is an extreme way of saying that Baumbach creates insidiously cruel, manipulative characters who enter seemingly mundane emotional situations and proceed to torture those around them, all while wearing disturbingly complacent smiles....  read more

Noah Baumbach's New Movie Coming in March

Focus Features has set a March 12 debut for Noah Baumbach’s latest, Greenberg, an earlier-than-expected release for a filmmaker whose work is typically rolled out in the fall as awards bait....  read more

Noah Baumbach Writes Hilarious Tale About Bee on Cocaine

Most of us have never imagined what it would be like to be a bee on cocaine. Then again, most of us aren’t Noah Baumbach. ...  read more

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

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

Shopgirl director finds new muse in Amy Adams

Perhaps that project Anand Tucker announced recently—The Danish Girl with Nicole Kidman playing a transsexual—was a bit too heavy for his liking. While he's still attached to the project, Tucker's announced he's in talks to direct another picture that's, shall we say, a bit more commercial....  read more