Despite all their self-mythologisation, filmmakers are still ultimately mortal. So it’d be entirely forgivable if they’d spent the past few years preoccupied with death. Why else would Noah Baumbach have been so drawn to make White Noise? This is, after all, an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s supposedly “unfilmable” novel that positions fear of the grave as the driving force behind every American ideal, from station wagons to Elvis Presley.
DeLillo’s language is severe and enchantingly precise; every individual in his world is a philosopher lecturing to no one but themselves. His book is set in the Eighties and concerns a miniaturised apocalypse triggered by a cloud of chemicals – not an obvious fit, then, for Baumbach, whose films (Marriage Story; The Meyerowitz Stories) largely concern the most intricate neuroses of modern-day, self-branded intellectuals. But there is nothing more self-centred, perhaps, than a fear of death. And even...
DeLillo’s language is severe and enchantingly precise; every individual in his world is a philosopher lecturing to no one but themselves. His book is set in the Eighties and concerns a miniaturised apocalypse triggered by a cloud of chemicals – not an obvious fit, then, for Baumbach, whose films (Marriage Story; The Meyerowitz Stories) largely concern the most intricate neuroses of modern-day, self-branded intellectuals. But there is nothing more self-centred, perhaps, than a fear of death. And even...
- 12/23/2022
- by Clarisse Loughrey
- The Independent - Film
It’s the end of times in “White Noise”.
Netflix released the trailer for Noah Baumbach’s apocalyptic family comedy on Tuesday.
Adam Driver plays a father with a blended family of four children and his wife as they face the end of the world. They have to wrestle with the everyday tasks of mundane life as they struggle to survive the apocalypse with a blend of the lyrical and absurd.
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White Noise – (L-r) Don Cheadle (Murray) and Adam Driver (Jack). – Photo: Wilson Webb/Netflix © 2022 White Noise. (L to R) Sam Nivola as Heinrich, Adam Driver as Jack, May Nivola as Steffie, Greta Gerwig as Babette, Dean Moore/Henry Moore as Wilder and Raffey Cassidy as Denise in White Noise. – Photo: Wilson Webb/Netflix © 2022 White Noise – (L-r) Greta Gerwig (Babette), May Nivola (Steffie), Adam...
Netflix released the trailer for Noah Baumbach’s apocalyptic family comedy on Tuesday.
Adam Driver plays a father with a blended family of four children and his wife as they face the end of the world. They have to wrestle with the everyday tasks of mundane life as they struggle to survive the apocalypse with a blend of the lyrical and absurd.
Read More: First Look At Adam Driver And Greta Gerwig In Noah Baumbach’s ‘White Noise’
White Noise – (L-r) Don Cheadle (Murray) and Adam Driver (Jack). – Photo: Wilson Webb/Netflix © 2022 White Noise. (L to R) Sam Nivola as Heinrich, Adam Driver as Jack, May Nivola as Steffie, Greta Gerwig as Babette, Dean Moore/Henry Moore as Wilder and Raffey Cassidy as Denise in White Noise. – Photo: Wilson Webb/Netflix © 2022 White Noise – (L-r) Greta Gerwig (Babette), May Nivola (Steffie), Adam...
- 11/22/2022
- by Anita Tai
- ET Canada
Noah Baumbach has a firm grip on Don DeLillo’s masterpiece White Noise (the Opening Night selection of the 60th New York Film Festival). It is the first time the writer/director adapted someone else’s work, and the result is a vibrantly disturbing tableau that is joyously faithful to the source.
The Gladney household consists of Jack (Adam Driver) and his wife Babette (Greta Gerwig), his two children from previous marriages, Heinrich (Sam Nivola) and Steffie (May Nivola), Babette’s daughter Denise (Raffey Cassidy) and the wise, wordless Wilder (played by twins Henry Moore and Dean Moore), who, as opposed to the novel, is the son they have together (Wilder here also does get to say one single show-stopping word - “again”).
Cinema has visual and musical forms of expression at its disposal that books don’t. Baumbach, together with his expert crackerjack team, cinematographer Lol Crawley, production designer.
The Gladney household consists of Jack (Adam Driver) and his wife Babette (Greta Gerwig), his two children from previous marriages, Heinrich (Sam Nivola) and Steffie (May Nivola), Babette’s daughter Denise (Raffey Cassidy) and the wise, wordless Wilder (played by twins Henry Moore and Dean Moore), who, as opposed to the novel, is the son they have together (Wilder here also does get to say one single show-stopping word - “again”).
Cinema has visual and musical forms of expression at its disposal that books don’t. Baumbach, together with his expert crackerjack team, cinematographer Lol Crawley, production designer.
- 10/3/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Oscar-nominated writer/director Noah Baumbach reunites with two-time Oscar nominee Adam Driver and three-time Oscar nominee Greta Gerwig (his real-life partner) for White Noise, based on the book by Don DeLillo. The one-minute teaser trailer doesn’t give away much; if you haven’t read the book, odds are you’ll have no better idea what the film’s about after watching the trailer than you did before pressing play.
Netflix hasn’t set a premiere date for the comedy/drama which is embarking on a festival run before its wide release. White Noise is the opening night film at the Venice Film Festival on August 31, 2022 and will screen at the New York Film Festival in September.
“Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of White Noise is an unequivocal triumph: a wildly entertaining and morbidly funny meditation on the way we live now that is also the director’s most ambitious and expansive film,...
Netflix hasn’t set a premiere date for the comedy/drama which is embarking on a festival run before its wide release. White Noise is the opening night film at the Venice Film Festival on August 31, 2022 and will screen at the New York Film Festival in September.
“Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of White Noise is an unequivocal triumph: a wildly entertaining and morbidly funny meditation on the way we live now that is also the director’s most ambitious and expansive film,...
- 8/25/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Viewers are getting their first look at Noah Baumbach’s latest project, “White Noise”.
Baumbach writes, directs, and produces the dark satire starring frequent collaborators Adam Driver and real-life partner Greta Gerwig in the Netflix film. Based on the 1985 novel by Don DeLillo, “White Noise” marks the first time Baumach will direct a film he didn’t write himself.
The story centres on Prof. Jack Gladney (Driver), an academic who has made a name for himself in the field of “Hitler studies” and his wife Babette (Gerwig), who struggle to protect their family after an “airborne toxic event” occurs in their fictional town. The film’s official synopsis says the story “dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.”
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Baumbach writes, directs, and produces the dark satire starring frequent collaborators Adam Driver and real-life partner Greta Gerwig in the Netflix film. Based on the 1985 novel by Don DeLillo, “White Noise” marks the first time Baumach will direct a film he didn’t write himself.
The story centres on Prof. Jack Gladney (Driver), an academic who has made a name for himself in the field of “Hitler studies” and his wife Babette (Gerwig), who struggle to protect their family after an “airborne toxic event” occurs in their fictional town. The film’s official synopsis says the story “dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.”
Read More: Shirtless Adam Driver...
- 8/25/2022
- by Rachel West
- ET Canada
At 71, actress Candice Bergen has become an in-demand painter of famous pets.
Instead of canvas, her acrylic creations are rendered on thousand-dollar designer handbags for clients including Barbra Streisand, who got a portrait of her beloved Maltese, Miss Fanny; and Lena Dunham, who requested a picture of hedgehogs. (Proceeds go to charity.)
The headquarters of the Murphy Brown alum’s burgeoning business, dubbed Bergenbags, is the stunning backyard of her East Hampton home featured in the March issue of Architectural Digest.
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The garden — profiled in the magazine by Bergen’s daughter,...
Instead of canvas, her acrylic creations are rendered on thousand-dollar designer handbags for clients including Barbra Streisand, who got a portrait of her beloved Maltese, Miss Fanny; and Lena Dunham, who requested a picture of hedgehogs. (Proceeds go to charity.)
The headquarters of the Murphy Brown alum’s burgeoning business, dubbed Bergenbags, is the stunning backyard of her East Hampton home featured in the March issue of Architectural Digest.
Related: Inside Nicky Hilton and James Rothschild’s Family-Friendly New York City Penthouse
The garden — profiled in the magazine by Bergen’s daughter,...
- 2/13/2018
- by Mackenzie Schmidt
- PEOPLE.com
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