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Imagine Woody Allen directed a three-episode arc of HBO's "Girls" as a black-and-white homage to the French new wave.

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Hey, folks. Capone in Chicago here, with a few films that are making their way into art houses or coming out in limited release around America this week .

Early in his career, Noah Baumbach made the delightfully wry film Kicking and Screaming, which followed a group of college buddies who go through a sort of existential crisis upon graduating college and spend the subsequent year loitering around campus instead of leaping into adulthood.

From her earliest appearances in so-called "mumblecore" movies, something about Greta Gerwig didn't quite fit the scene.

Since December of 2010, the project While We're Young with director Noah Baumbach and star Ben Stiller has been gestating with fluctuating cast members.

More of the same: Fast cars, slow minds and bodacious babes on a collision course with a heap of cliches.

"Frances Ha" -- On paper it sounds unbearably precious and solipsistic -- a cliche, even.

F RANCES HA is a perfectly simple, straightforward little film, but there's an awful lot to say about it.

Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are an ideal match. His sophistication raises her up a notch above her Mumblecore roots, and in return she imparts a charm to his films that they never before possessed.

Exhilarating. Grand. Generous. None of those are words anybody would have previously associated with movies by Noah Baumbach, whose acerbic, sometimes brutal humor could verge straight into meanness in films like The Squid and the Whale , Margot at the Wedding and especially the recent Greenberg , which had me accusing Baumbach of being "nearly as ... (more)

IFC Films' Frances Ha had the last laugh this weekend, opening solid in a pair of theaters each in New York and Los Angeles.

Noah Baumbach is the dour, whipsmart filmmaker whose "The Squid and the Whale" was a merciless examination of upper-class divorce.

In Frances Ha, Greta Gerwig stars as a young dancer trying to find her way on her own in New York City.

Springtime in New York City can only mean one thing - the awesome Rooftop Films series.

In the film Frances Ha , Greta Gerwig stars as the title character, a 27-year-old living a good but not particularly successful post-college life in New York City.

In Frances Ha , a splendidly modest black-and-white film directed by Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig stars as Frances, 27, an idiosyncratic, free-spirited aspiring modern dancer living in Brooklyn.

Washington DC movie fans have a chance to attend a free advance screening of Frances Ha , the latest film from The Squid and the Whale director, Noah Baumbach ! The film stars Greta Gerwig as Frances, a New York woman in her 20s who is trying her best to figure out her place in life.

On Thursday evening, Examiner.com was on the red carpet for a New York special screening of IFC Films' "Frances Ha" at MoMA.

The carefree days of summer are just ahead, which means warm weekends, light traffic and vacation plans.