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15.11.2022 - 04:03 / deadline.com
Writer-director Noah Baumbach’s latest film White Noise is his most ambitious project yet, with a production budget reportedly north of $100 million and a wacky plot featuring elaborate car chases and a fully staged train crash.
The film is an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s cult novel of the same name. In the simplest terms, the film follows a family across three wildly different but intersecting stories about contemporary American life following the outbreak of a catastrophic “airborne toxic event.” Some of Baumbach’s acting favorites return, including Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig. There is also lots of his trademark whimsical cross-talk among characters. But the film’s cinematographer, Lol Crawley, told Deadline that the key to executing the family drama was Baumbach embracing a new, larger methodology.
“I discovered early on that Noah doesn’t really like a second camera. But we just had to embrace that to accomplish the more ambitious scenes,” Crawley told Deadline following a raucous screening of the film at the Camerimage film festival in Torun, Poland.
“Also, Steadicam. He hasn’t really used it in the past. He’s not a huge fan. And there are just certain scenes where there just had to be a Steadicam shot.”
White Noise is Baumbach’s first adaptation. The Brooklyn native has built a reputation for witty and original human-scale comedies with films like The Squid and The Whale, Frances Ha, and most recently, Marriage Story, which Crawley said he has often admired.
“I’m a big fan of Altman and Woody Allen, and I’ve enjoyed Noah’s movies because I felt those two filmmakers influenced him in many ways,” Crawley said. “The thing about White Noise that also makes it a Noah Baumbach movie is this kind of examination of
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revealed during an interview on on Thursday that she and Baumbach's family is growing, confirming to Fallon, “I am with child.” However, she confessed, this really shouldn't be news to anyone as she actually debuted her baby bump on the red carpet last month at a premiere for her new film, White Noise. “I went to an event recently, and I wore something, and I thought everyone would be so interested that I was having another child, and nobody cared,” Gerwig explained with a laugh.
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Could anticipation be any higher for Noah Baumbach‘s “White Noise“? Critics loved his last film, 2019’s “Marriage Story,” which racked up six nominations at the 92nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture. But is Baumbach over his head adapting Don Delillo‘s 1985 novel? Critical generally like it, but now audiences get to have their say, as the film hits select theaters before its exclusive Netflix premiere.
Netflix has unveiled the trailer for Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise,” starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig as the heads of a blended family forced to go on the run after an “airborne toxic event” settles over their town.The adaptation of Don DeLillo’s prize-winning novel finds Jack (Driver) and Babette (Gerwig) living with their four whip smart children in a university town at the peak of mid-1980s consumer culture. That all changes when a mysterious chemical cloud starts heading their way, forcing everyone to evacuate.The trailer kicks off with the family romping around a supermarket and enjoying life when a large cargo truck suddenly crashes into a moving train, igniting a massive explosion.“They’re calling it the Airborne Toxic Event,” one of the kids says as they peer through binoculars at a looming cloud.“It won’t come this way,” says Jack, ensuring his kids that they won’t have to leave their home.
Could anticipation be any higher for Noah Baumbach‘s “White Noise“? Critics loved his last film, 2019’s “Marriage Story,” which racked up six nominations at the 92nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture. But is Baumbach over his head adapting Don Delillo‘s 1985 novel? Critical generally like it, but now audiences get to have their say, as the film hits select theaters before its exclusive Netflix premiere.
While White Noise is set in the 1980s, its story of a society that doesn’t know how to deal with an impending ecological disaster that threatens their lives is a dark reflection of our own times, and that, says star Greta Gerwig, is exactly what drew her to the film.