The Essentials: The 5 Best Nicole Kidman Performances
The Essentials: The 5 Best Nicole Kidman Performances
Noah Baumbach Has Another Wes Anderson Collaboration In The Works; Still Hopes To Direct ‘Prep’ & ‘The Emperor’s Children’
Noah Baumbach's fifth feature-length picture, "Greenberg" hits theaters later this month. The picture stars Ben Stiller as an aimless 40-something New Yorker who moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his ...
The Playlist: The Best Soundtracks Of The Decade
Yes, here at the Playlist it's been an exhausting month. Anticipating the end of the aughts we've done the Best Films of the Decade (00-08), the Best Documentaries, Music Documentaries, and Best Animated films....
Trade Noise: Paramount Vantage Folded, ‘Nailed’ Gets Back On Its Feet, Indies Protected By SAG Waivers
The bad news for smaller studio imprints keeps piling up. Paramount Vantage, the artier, boutique arm of Paramount pictures is being absorbed by the larger studio including all areas of marketing, distribution ...
Noah Baumbach Returns With Mark Ruffalo & Amy Adams For ‘Greenburg’
We pretty much adore Noah Baumbach's work, so it's nice to hear that someone is letting him make another film. Especially after the poor and mixed reception to his last film, "Margot At The Wedding" - a fantast...
The Playlists’ Top 10 Movies, Music & Whatnot Of The Year 2007 (Very Belated)
In general, or as we've become more, *cough* sage, we've come to find Top 10s very arbitrary and in a way, superficial. Don't you think the qualification of art is rather shallow?This is a bit of a familiar ran...
Last Minute For Your Consideration: The Playlist Sums Up Shit That Will Get Overlooked Come Oscar Noms Tomorrow
Every one's doing the For Your Consideration pieces, trying to get the Academy to take one last glance at a certain performance or job on set that has been overlooked or undervalued. So, why we don't we join th...
The Playlist’s Top Soundtracks of 2007
What's that? 2007 ended three weeks ago? Yeah, go fuck yourself, we work on our own timetable. So anyhooo, there were like, a bunch of movies released this year and a few of them even had music in them. You may...
Noah Baumbach’s ‘Margot At The Wedding’: Emotional Violence At Its Best
While we're encouraging you to not go to films, how about we be positive for once? The New York Times has an excellent feature on the bitingly funny and trenchantly painful new Noah Baumbach film, "Margot At Th...
Margot At The Wedding: Families Behaving Badly
Our belated New York Film Festival review.We've been rooting for Noah Baumbach for years. Most of his early films were extremely clever and droll, but problematic (though"The Squid & The Whale" is pretty fa...