Greenberg [A Noah Baumbach Film]

[pete]

oh my god thank you for telling me about whitewhine.com.
this is gonna make san francisco a little easier to deal with.

[ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ]

I thought the movie was really good... what is the reprisal against "mumblecore" why does the term even exist?  All kinds of people make movies, some of them are neurotic, affluent white people with unclear ambitions.  Why does it matter?  There are really solid scenes in this and the characters grow and deal with their own insecurities in an honest fashion.  I can easily identify the people in the movie for people I know and otherwise, the whole concept of house sitting and running the house with the nanny who would otherwise be taking time off is a really solid foundation to the rest of the tone of the film.  He wants to do nothing, he just wants nothing.  She just got out of a relationship and wants nothing.  They want nothing but are propelled towards each other and are forced to overcome the absurdity of pushing other people away for arbitrary, otherwise immature reasons.

[pete]

I haven't seen the film but I think mumblecore as a movement does not transcend the very small but lime-lit crowd that's made it popular - as opposed to woody allen whose films about the neurotic demographic can reach the rest of the world.  that's the basic problem with mumblecore, for all the attention it's gotten at the film fest circuit, most people just can't give a shit or relate to it.  this is a studio film though, so I don't even know why we're talking about that movement.

[ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ]

I've just heard Greenberg and mumblecore tossed around in conversation, so I associated the two. 

[72teeth]

if all the characters were 15 years younger, i think i would have hated this.
Favorite film of '10 so far.

[Pas]

That is a fucking depressing but good/great film. Fuck the Florence character though.

I guess I'm a bit Greenberg-ian in a way and it's scary. Not all out like him, but you know, being a douche sometimes.  being self-aware is at least something, yeah?

Good film.

[Pwaybloe]

Will you be translating it?  Are they going to call it "Greenbérg"?

[matt35mm]

"La Vie en M. Greenbert"

[Pas]

Haha it would probably be more like : "La vie folle folle folle de Greenberg"

they always give the zaniest titles even to the most serious films