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Directed by Noah BaumbachSamuel Goldwyn Films4 stars Many filmgoers will likely have an urge to compare Noah Baumbach’s new film, “The Squid and the Whale,” to Wes Anderson’s cult classic, “The Royal Tenenbaums.” The comparison isn’t entirely unjustified: both films chronicle the disintegration of elite New York City families headed by vain and delusional patriarchs. Also, Baumbach and Anderson are collaborators—Baumbach co-wrote Anderson’s 2004 film “The Life Aquatic With...
After the near-universal critical acclaim accorded to her debut film “Whale Rider” in 2003, director Niki Caro follows up on her breakout success with “North Country.” She looks slightly embarrassed when I address her as “Ms. Caro” and asks me to call her Niki. Caro sits down with The Crimson to talk about her life, her film, and her duty to tell the stories of great women. The Harvard Crimson: In your previous film, “Whale Rider...
...raise purses or produce great television. So Jacobs supplanted them with corporations such as GM's Chevrolet division, M&M/Mars, 7-Up and Fujifilm, which wouldn't blink at, say, a $10 million sponsorship fee if it could move the sales needle. Then in 1997 he landed the whale: Wal-Mart. "We tend to think in increments, in small steps," Scott tells TIME. "Irwin thinks in big steps, in flights of steps." He also hounded the Wal-Mart man into submission. "It was the only way I could get Irwin to stop calling," says Scott of the deal...
...Japanese scientists?Tsunemi Kubodera and Kyoichi Mori?published the first photographs of a giant squid in action, captured by a robotic camera 900 m below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. For obsessive squid hunters, it's the scientific equivalent of Captain Ahab finally getting his white sperm whale...
Anyway, a terrific movie. That's what Noah Baumbach, son of writers and film critics Jonathan Baumbach and Georgia Brown, has made from the memories of his parents' split when he was a teenager in 1986. The Squid and the Whale is domestic tragedy recollected as comedy: a film whose catalog of deceits and embarrassments, and of love pratfalling over itself, makes it as (excruciatingly) painful as it is (exhilaratingly) funny. Its family quartet--including Laura Linney as wife Joan, Jesse Eisenberg as 16-year-old Walt and Owen Kline as his 12-year-old brother Frank--is a fearless...