Melissa Block talks to indie actor Catherine Keener about her latest movie Please Give, a comedy about a couple planning to expand their Manhattan apartment into the one next door as soon as their ...
In Catherine Keener, writer-director Nicole Holofcener has found a warm, throaty, appealingly bedraggled agent for expressing her up-to-the-minute confusions. Their fourth collaboration is Please Give ...
You always know where you are in a Nicole Holofcener film, and that’s the here and now. No American writer-director has her exact sense of the way some of us live today, not to mention her ability to ...
Filmmaker Nicole Holofcener burst onto the independent film scene in the mid 90’s with her critically acclaimed dramedy Walking and Talking. The film garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination ...
In "Please Give," Sundance regular Nicole Holofcener has made perhaps the ultimate New York movie. By Kirk Honeycutt, The Associated Press More Sundance reviews PARK CITY — In “Please Give,” Sundance ...
The opening salvo of “Please Give,” Nicole Holofcener’s latest indie dramady, confronts the viewer with a montage of female breasts – small, large, flabby, old – that, in one darkly ironic stroke, ...
Writer-director Nicole Holofcener has a gift for converting small, everyday situations into the kind of gentle comedy that some viewers relate to easily, and others find too subtle by half. In ...