Tag: Noah Baumbach

  • Brian De Palma looks back over his career in the documentary ‘De Palma’

    Brian De Palma looks back over his career in the documentary ‘De Palma’

    Brian De Palma is an under-celebrated director, responsible for some of the most stunning sequences in American cinema. Just to name four personal favorites of mine: the split-screen prom massacre in Carrie, the Langley heist sequence in Mission: Impossible, the Grand Central Station steadycam chase in Carlito’s Way, and even the failed spacewalk rescue in […]

  • Noah Baumbach’s Margot at the Wedding

    Noah Baumbach’s Margot at the Wedding

    I very much loved writer/director Noah Baumbach‘s previous film The Squid and The Whale, blessed with an excellent script and superb performances all around (especially by the versatile Jeff Daniels – heartbreaking in Pleasantville, and capable of humanizing no less an icon than George Washington in The Crossing). Margot at the Wedding features another dysfunctional […]