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Billie Eilish returned for her third Saturday Night Live appearance with a touching performance of “What Was I Made For?,” the acclaimed ballad from the soundtrack of this summer’s Barbie. The film’s director, Greta Gerwig, and Barbie co-star Kate McKinnon introduced the 21-year-old songwriter, who was joined on stage by brother and collaborator Finneas on piano. A 7-string ensemble filled out the performance. During the song, childhood home movie clips and photos of Eilish and current and former female SNL…

Billie Eilish returned for her third Saturday Night Live appearance with a touching performance of “What Was I Made For?,” the acclaimed ballad from the soundtrack of this summer’s Barbie. The film’s director, Greta Gerwig, and Barbie co-star Kate McKinnon introduced the 21-year-old songwriter, who was joined on stage by brother and collaborator Finneas on piano. A 7-string ensemble filled out the performance. During the song, childhood home movie clips and photos of Eilish and current and former female SNL…

Greta Gerwig's Barbie emerged as a record-breaking standout this year, earning a top spot on my list of the best comedies of 2023. However, its billion-dollar box office triumph wasn't always a certainty. According to the director, investors were apprehensive about the film's prospects due to concerns surrounding a banned Barbie-adjacent short film crafted by Todd Haynes over three decades ago.In a candid conversation, directors of some of this year's standout films, including Blitz Bazawule (The Color Purple), Bradley…

“A heroine of our modern times, Greta Gerwig shakes up the status quo between a highly codified cinema industry and an era that is demanding greater scrutiny,” Cannes said in its announcement Greta Gerwig will make history at the next Cannes Film Festival. On Thursday, the festival announced that the Barbie director will lead the jury next year, making her the first American woman to become the jury president. “As a cinephile, Cannes has always been the pinnacle of what the universal language of…

Greta Gerwig, fresh from her box office triumph Barbie, is to be president of the jury for the 2024 edition of the Cannes film festival.In a lengthy statement announcing Gerwig’s appointment to the role, the festival said: “Gerwig manages to combine what was previously judged to be incompatible: delivering arthouse blockbusters, narrowing the gap between art and industry, exploring contemporary feminist issues with deft as well as depth, and declaring her demanding artistic ambition from within an economic model that she…

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You might think Greta Gerwig an unusual choice to take on CS Lewis’s Narnia stories for Netflix. And at first glance, few would argue with you. Beginning her career as an actor in mumblecore movies such as Baghead, Hannah Takes the Stairs and Greenberg before transitioning into indie cinema as a film-maker with Lady Bird, Gerwig became a household name with this year’s $1.4bn-grossing, conservative-baiting, slyly subversive comedy fantasy Barbie, a movie that will be remembered as the most topically adroit cinematic event…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeGreta Gerwig has revealed a scene that ended up being removed from the final cut of Barbie. The filmmaker directed the hit film, based on the Mattel doll, as well as co-wrote the script with her partner Noah Baumbach. Starring Margot Robbie as the titular plastic figurine, with Ryan Gosling as her beach-loving companion Ken, the film has broken several box-office records since its…

Greta Gerwig, the director of`Barbie`, has ruled out a potential sequel to her fantasy-comedy film at the moment, stating that as of now she has no ideas about any sequel to the massively successful movie, saying that while she does not want to squash any fan expectations, at the moment this is all she`s got. As reported by Variety, speaking to the `New York Times` whether the success of `Barbie` could lead to the start of any kind of franchise, the director said: "At this moment, it`s all I`ve got. I feel like that at…

From acting to screenwriting to directing, Greta Gerwig is turning into an unstoppable force in Hollywood. Now, with the industry-redeeming release of Barbie continuing her streak of highly-acclaimed flicks, the Greta legion is asking the same question: Which movie in the director’s roster is her best work to date — the crème de la cinematic crème, if you will? Gerwig first gained acclaim in Hollywood by appearing in a number of high-profile movies — one of these, Frances Ha, which she developed alongside her real-life…