Nicole Holofcener
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Though she is often compared to Woody Allen, more likely models would seem to be two directors named Brooks: James L. Brooks (Broadcast News, As Good As It Gets) for his menschy comedies of flawed people seeking to connect, and Albert Brooks for his wry social satires.
As Good as It Gets (1997)
Directed by James L. Brooks
influenced Enough Said (2013), Lovely & Amazing (2002)
Though she is often compared to Woody Allen, more likely models would seem to be two directors named Brooks: James L. Brooks (Broadcast News, As Good As It Gets) for his menschy comedies of flawed people seeking to connect, and Albert Brooks for his wry social satires.
There is certainly no reason why the dizzy harpies played by Maggie Smith ( Gosford Park ), Shirley Knight ( As Good As It Gets ), and Fionnula Flanagan ( The Others ) couldn't be combined into two characters, or even one.
While the film has been shorthand-marketed as "The Hangover for girls," Nicole Holofcener's first film, Walking and Talking, is more Bridesmaids' thematic forebear; what surprises most is how Wiig, in a winning, vanity-free star turn, tweaks her signature deadpan delivery to get at very real, very raw emotions.
"Frances Ha" is a quiet story about a complicated female friendship, perhaps the best treatment of that subject since Nicole Holofcener's "Walking and Talking."
We’ll never know, any more than we’ll know whether James Dean’s turn in Rebel Without a Cause would have landed the same way had it not followed his death, or Heath Ledger’s performance in The Dark Knight, or Brandon Lee’s in The Crow.
The King of Staten Island (2020)
Directed by Judd Apatow
influenced by Enough Said (2013)
Characters
When the film takes a moment to focus on her, it plays like the casual and intimate work of Nicole Holofcener, with the kind of chemistry between Tomei and Bill Burr's Ray that Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini had in Enough Said.
There are big moments, Powers' doomed flight rattlingly realistic, but the director uses smaller ones like when we realize Donovan's daughter (Eve Hewson, "Enough Said") was stood up by his law assistant or all the discarded flash bulbs littering the floor of a court house to insinuate deeper meaning.
Unwilling to let go, she kept running with it and nurtured the film project at Sundance Labs, with help from filmmakers Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right) and Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said).
Clerks , Spanking the Monkey , and Pulp Fiction were all released in 1994, clearing a path for dozens of low-budget features to follow.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Directed by Nicholas Stoller
influenced by Friends with Money (2006)
I’m thinking of filmmakers like Noah Baumbach (“The Squid and the Whale”), Nicole Holofcener (“Friends with Money”), Tamara Jenkins (“The Savages”), Andrew Wagner (“Starting Out in the Evening”), and now Noam Murro, whose new “Smart People” is about a middle-aged literature professor in a funk.
The more Trent makes demands of Duncan, the more the boy seeks escape, so as his mom suffers the alcohol-fueled antics of Trent's married friends Kip (Rob Corddry, "Warm Bodies") and Joan (Amanda Peet, "2012," "Please Give"), Duncan blossoms in the weird world of Water Wizz.
It is an affable addition to the growing sisterhood of films with that awkward female factor, including 2012's "Frances Ha," starring a charmingly hapless Greta Gerwig , and the West Coast/middle-age version, 2013's "Enough Said," with the delightful fumblings of Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Remember the line in Enough Said when Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ character announces she loves dollhouse furniture so much she wants to eat it?