Growing Up Baumbach
March 17
On the occasion of the release of Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young, we present two of his earlier works that, with it, form a sort-of trilogy: his acclaimed 1995 debut, Kicking and Screaming, and 2005’s The Squid and the Whale, perhaps the film that best encapsulates his signature blend of acidic wit, sardonic tone, and thinly veiled autobiography. Baumbach ranks among the funniest and most perceptive filmmakers of our time, a director whose work has always treated the consequences of growing up a member of the creative class with sensitivity, bone-dry humor, and a commitment to honesty at any cost. The release of While We’re Young marks both the 20th anniversary of Kicking and Screaming and the 10th anniversary of The Squid and the Whale, so it seems only right to present these three films (all selections of the New York Film Festival) as a suite. For more information on this traveling retrospective, click here.
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Kicking and Screaming
20th Anniversary
Post-graduation angst drives Noah Baumbach’s directorial debut, in which four young men try to chart their futures with varying degrees of uneasiness while their formidable girlfriends move ahead with considerably more confidence.
The Squid and the Whale
10th Anniversary
Baumbach scored a triumph with this squirmy-funny, wisely written autobiographical coming-of-age story about a teenager (Jesse Eisenberg) whose writer parents (Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels) are divorcing, detailing bohemian-bourgeois life in brownstone Brooklyn with naked honesty.
While We’re Young
Q&A with Noah Baumbach
In this moving and frequently hilarious comedy of manners, Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts play a happily married, middle-aged NYC couple who finds themselves neglecting friends their own age in favor of spending more time with an uninhibited, impulsive hipster couple (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried) 20 years their juniors.
Special Ticket Prices: $25 General Public / $20 Member