Marta Balaga Nicole Holofcener wouldn’t mind reuniting with her “Friends With Money” star Jennifer Aniston. “Maybe we will work together again,” she says. “She knew my movies.
30.06.2024 - 21:37 / deadline.com
American filmmaker Nicole Holofcener is relaxed. Her legs are crossed in the yoga pose and she reclines into a large armchair with a glass of white wine perched on the side.
“I’m out of practice talking about my films, especially the older ones,” she joked. “I’ll try to remember them.”
We’re in the Czech Republic at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival where Holofcener is set to be honored this week with a career retrospective. The festival will screen three Holofcener titles, Please Give, Enough Said, and 2023’s You Hurt My Feelings. The stalwart indie filmmaker will also host an onstage Q&A about her work.
Holofcener has clocked seven features across her decades-long career, all of which explore similar themes — white middle-class families on the coasts, messy relationships, and troubled artists — with a razor-sharp consistency rarely found in Hollywood today. Holofcener has also lent her hand to television, directing episodes of shows such as Parks and Recreation, Orange Is The New Black, and HBO’s Sex and The City.
“It was the first season, so nobody knew what was happening. I didn’t know if I was gonna be working on porn,” she joked of Sex and The City. “It was my first television job and it was a great introduction to that.”
Alongside a steady stream of stories, Holofcener has often worked with a band of returning performers like Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Catherine Keener, who she said have often been overlooked by awards voters for their performances in her movies.
“Catherine Keener was in four of my films, but she’ll get nominated for Capote. It’s like what? And then she got nominated for Being John Malkovich,” Holofcener said. Keener picked up supporting actress Oscar noms for her performances in both films. She
Marta Balaga Nicole Holofcener wouldn’t mind reuniting with her “Friends With Money” star Jennifer Aniston. “Maybe we will work together again,” she says. “She knew my movies.
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