The richly observed “Lady Bird” by Greta Gerwig is not a filmmaker’s debut. Gerwig has been honing her skills for years through her Noah Baumbach work (“Mistress America,” “Frances Ha”), about spunky ...

Saoirse Ronan says she felt empowered to direct after seeing Greta Gerwig. — -- It’s a love-hate relationship nearly everyone can relate to. With its brutally honest portrayals, the ...

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about “Lady Bird” — a film with no shortage of remarkable things — is how Greta Gerwig manages to pack so much life into such a condensed stretch of time. A ...

In Mistress America, the second film Greta Gerwig wrote with her now-boyfriend Noah Baumbach, one of the characters proclaims, “Sometimes I think I’m a genius and I wish I could just fast-forward my ...

Costume designer April Napier shares how the lead character expresses her individuality through clothing in Greta Gerwig's directorial debut. By Stephanie Chan If you haven’t heard much about ...

Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird is slowly becoming the breakout, must-see movie of the fall. The coming-of-age drama, which stars Saoirse Ronan as the titular character (her real name is Christine, but she ...

Credits roll at the end of “Lady Bird,” as they do at the end of every film, but this time they come as a shock. The cascading names of cast and crew are unwilling acknowledgment that what we’ve been ...

The easy flow of dialogue and low-key authenticity of Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird,” and the writer-director’s background in improvised indies, led to speculation about how much of her movie had been ...