Noah Baumbach | BAFTA Screenwriters’ Lecture Series

Noah Baumbach’s full talk from the BAFTA Screenwriters’ Lecture Series where he talks about movies that have influenced him and creating Marriage Story with Adam Driver, Laura Dern and Scarlett Johansson.
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[@baftaguru]

What did you think of Marriage Story?

[@jcate8952]

I actually loved his The Squid and the Whale much much more.

[@nichijin]

The perfectly crafted script, subtle directing, and understated visual design allowed the nuanced performances to shine and resonate. I was deeply moved, I laughed, I related. I loved it.

[@punkrachmaninoff]

he should have at least made the millenials aware of bergman's 'scenes from a marriage' on the press tour... 🤓

[@TonyPxTV]

Excellent film. Glad I watched it in an actual movie theatre!

[@beckypon5277]

I thought it was incredibly touching, surprisingly funny. The ending proved, that despited the breakdown of the marriage, the commitment to caring for one another remained. Even as the world, encompassed by their legal advisors, sought to encourage them to tear one another apart, the characters remained true, loving individuals. It's tough not to become biased as an audience and the follow through for the development of the story was strong.

[@ronxinator9050]

i love that this feels like a professional stand up comedian trying to play a nervous professor

[@xxuan5532]

哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈

[@flrnce]

I love seeing people nervous. There's something comforting seeing someone who has experience in a field you're interested in be as vulnerable as anyone else. It's like yeah, this person is just another human being who happens to be accomplished at what they do

[@0TheMovieMonkey0]

Love Noah's sharp and dry sense of humour, you can really tell how it comes through in his writing.

[@tristanlaferriere5194]

I really love this guy. I can tell that he writes from the heart, he seems like a truly wonderful person, and I personally think he's quite beautiful.

[@diegosanchezescobar2159]

"Well my wife left me and from that I made the best script ever made"

[@Ella-gb7no]

when was that?

[@taheemlewis7627]

he had free time and wrote out of spite

[@muchtartidakbahagia]

Lmao

[@AnaTorres-nw5ef]

I honestly love how nervous he was

[@tomasznocon6378]

"Those are really exciting moments in life when you start to see connections or invisible conversations between works of art from different time periods" Fascinating, because that so precisely puts to words how I felt watching Frances Ha.

[@rakshawestlife]

There is a delicate pride he takes in his work, and rightly so. I'm so happy artists these days (at least some of them) work really hard on their art, and their look back at it lovingly years later as well. And I love that :) P.S.: I also feel like I can almost see the influence Greta has had on his writing and movies - its inexplicable, but there's something touched-by-the-Greta about him/his movies now that I LOVE! Not that his older movies (Kicking and Screaming, Squid and the Whale, etc.) weren't exceptional as well.

[@v.u.4055]

I have been waiting for a lecture from him to appear somewhere on the internet. Thank you BAFTA Guru & Mr Baumbach! Great voice & speaking style too.

[@pushkarjoseph7100]

Am I the only guy who is seeing an error at 37th minute or is it a creative cut? 🙁

[@priyac7054]

Talking in one single personality(and not with 5 different ones) : An important lecture from an important director. Great Video

[@shenkaed]

Charming man. Very insightful. Maybe nervous, don’t blame him, I would be too! Great lecture nonetheless

[@unitedstatesofadam]

he’s so nervous lol

[@RhinocerosProductions]

I didn't believe him when he said he has never given a talk before...then I hear his voice shaking..I guess he was being honest...but that was why the talk was so good...wasn't smooth contrived bs

[@rafaelandrade7627]

Amazing how much he acts like a Noah Baumbach character

[@jovanndzaky653]

see? you don't have to be good at public speaking to make a great work.. even some of them who are good are pretentious and deceitful

[@ethancooney3331]

I love how at 57:39 the interviewer falls in love with Noah for a second, snaps out of it, and then keeps going

[@1995yuda]

Everything this guy touches turns to gold.

[@KungaMatata]

1. The Squid and the Whale 2. Mistress America 3. Margot at the Wedding 4. Marriage Story 5. Kicking and Screaming 6. Greenberg 7. Frances Ha 8. The Meyerowitz Stories 9. Mr. Jealousy 10. While We're Young

[@pankakemixer]

The Meyerowitz Stories Kicking and Screaming Marriage Story Mistress America The Squid and the Whale Greenberg Frances Ha (forgive me) While We Were Young

[@michaelboysen3971]

Baumbach doesn't like the searchers because essentially the searchers is a very masculine film and Baumbach's work is steeped in femininity

[@AnubhavNagpalIDCIITB]

37:15 editing error. Wrong clip...

[@biancasantiago9735]

love that they showed laura dern's monologue! that part in the movie really made me sit up in pleasant surprise

[@sebastiansmith5524]

Before even clicking play, I'm guessing he's a woody allen fan.

[@GeoffreyThomasGonzales]

top left logo placement is horrendous

[@TiempoFilmico]

I've been here every week since this was posted...It's too good

[@Benjaminbutton86]

Im not sure how nervous he was actually... definitely seems to be channeling Woody 9:28

[@thespileys2301]

This should've been way longer. They hardly talked about the screenwriting process.

[@philadelphiawalksptsd]

💗🐈‍⬛ wow. three days before pandemic closures. related to The Squid and The Whale so many years ago.

[@sofiafrances427]

not just his movies have woody allen vibe, noah's whole being feels like a parody of a woody allen character

[@MARCO-hp5fg]

Dar una importancia a la escena de entrada es escencial

[@user-jc5lf6sf7g]

This is so great

[@Skatthoce]

What the fuck happens at 37:15

[@freddys12]

Okay Greggeg H

[@archangecamilien1879]

2:49 haha, I never thought of that...but I'm thinking about Marriage Story, and I think it did pretty say what the film is about at the beginning...and Kicking and Screaming I watched way back when, the opening part when the father takes that volley or soccer, or I don't know what ball from his son, shows what the whole film will be about, haha...I would never have thought of that...

[@archangecamilien1879]

Incidentally, haha, though I watched it several times back in the day, I only learned Noah Baumbach directed Kicking and Screaming maybe 2 months ago...so I had been watching his films since quite some time without knowing it...Frances Ha I only watched a little over a year ago, I think...

[@archangecamilien1879]

Now, I just realized it's not the Kicking and Screaming I thought that he directed, haha...I mean...I knew his films had an element of comedy in them, but I was surprised he had directed a film that was *that* comedic...he directed the 1995 one, not the 2005 one...I did like the 2005 one, at any rate, but perhaps my sense of humor is a little different than most people's...

[@archangecamilien1879]

So, really, I don't have that much to confirm the Gerwig-theory about his films, haha...I think that might be an example of seeing false patterns when you expect them...but that 2005 film does pretty much say what the whole film is going to be about at the beginning, even now that I realize he didn't direct it...

[@VivekKumar-rx3ss]

Ye hai.

[@Ella-gb7no]

53:30

[@sarahumlaut]

the way he's such a virgo

[@VivekKumar-rx3ss]

Bafta hammar Galti. Manne ki je tohar support karae Chau takkar Sab ke khilaf chiyae. Rau baehh

[@highdesertsunset3011]

the most ovverrated/undertalented writer/director out now.Everything he makes is clunky and amateur, all of his films feel like bad copies of Woody Allen, Charlie Kaufman, West Anderson, Coen brothers movies I think we can all say he's just not that good but for some reason all the media especially New York Centric Media keeps praising him I don't know why

[@rafamullermusic]

Charlie Kaufman? Bro I totally disagree with you, but I'm more curious about this "Baumbach being a Kaufman bad copy" theory than to actually argue

[@highdesertsunset3011]

@@rafamullermusic Baumbach just makes shitty copies of Woody allen Ect.

[@rafamullermusic]

@@highdesertsunset3011 ok i just cant relate him to Kaufman, but thats fine, its your opinion. My one is that I really like his movies and Allen's as well, I can see this relation. have a nice day :)

[@highdesertsunset3011]

@@rafamullermusic Baumbach is Seriously ovverrated thats all I am saying NYmag had him on the cover with wes anderson and Coen Brothers??? LIke no.....you dont belong here

[@judekristo]

fair enough. I feel like what people admire about him is his writing. And while Allen’s work is a jumping off point for him (and he would be the first to admit that) I think the people who admire him (actors, directors, audiences) admire him because he took that style and expounded upon it. for example, a lot of people, myself included, have almost never seen more realistic dialogue between a people and between a family than what he wrote in meyerowitz stories. The visual style isn’t quite there the way it is with a Scorsese or maybe the coens but I don’t think it can be denied that he’s a good writer. If it doesn’t suit you or you’re taken out of it for whatever reason then nobody can fault you, but that’s what a lot of people and myself can see and why so many great actors keep lining up to work with him... and probably in part why he was on that cover.