Noticing - Greta Gerwig, director

This afternoon I took myself out to the movies: Little Women. I enjoyed it. I don't think it was great,  but it was very good—certainly entertaining—and I enjoyed reencountering Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth. I also recognized a few of the actors: Laura Dern, Bob Oudenkirk (though I kept thinking Kevin Costner), Chris Cooper, Meryl Streep. And that dark-haired, pretty young man—Timothée Chalamet. This evening I looked him up, and saw that he was in Lady Bird. As I was discovering that, David had brought up Netflix: and what was there on the screen, but . . . Lady Bird. David said he hadn't seen it. So that became this evening's fare. And it turns out, not only with Timothée Chalamet in it, but also the star—Jo—of Little Women, Saoirse Ronan; and Tracy Letts, who plays the publisher, Bradstreet, in LW, and the long-suffering, patient, loving dad in LB. And both movies are directed by Greta Gerwig.

So I've had a huge dose of GG, SR, TC, and TL today. Most enjoyably.

And what's more, the lead actors—SR and TC most notably—are all of 24, 25 years old. I look forward to seeing where they go.

Here are the trailers for the two movies:

Greta was passed over this year on the Oscar nominations for best director. All the nominees are men. She was nominated in 2017—only one of five women ever nominated for that award in the history of the Academy Awards. Only one woman has ever won: Katheryn Bigelow, for The Hurt Locker (2008). Here is Gerwig talking about the award. Surely it's time to change this sorry record.