Are you looking for a little culture in addition to whatever you're going to do to your liver on St. Patrick's Day? And you want to call in sick at work? Then head to the Film Society of Lincoln Center's "Growing Up Noah Baumbach" series on Tuesday, which includes screenings of Kicking and Screaming (the post-college one, not the Will Ferrell one), The Squid and the Whale and Baumbach's latest film, the utterly hilarious While We're Young. And Native New Yorker Baumbach himself will be there for a Q&A after the Young screening—ask him whether Park Slope is still "Division II Manhattan."
The Film Society calls the selections a "sort-of trilogy:"
[H]is acclaimed 1995 debut, Kicking and Screaming, and 2005’s The Squid and the Whale, perhaps the film that best encapsulates his signature blend of acidic wit, sardonic tone, and thinly veiled autobiography. Baumbach ranks among the funniest and most perceptive filmmakers of our time, a director whose work has always treated the consequences of growing up a member of the creative class with sensitivity, bone-dry humor, and a commitment to honesty at any cost. The release of While We’re Young marks both the 20th anniversary of Kicking and Screaming and the 10th anniversary of The Squid and the Whale, so it seems only right to present these three films (all selections of the New York Film Festival) as a suite.
Kicking and Screaming (with Josh Hamilton, Chris Eigeman, Parker Posey) is showing at 4 p.m.; The Squid and the Whale (Jesse Eisenberg, Laura Linney and a truly great Jeff Daniels) at 6 p.m.; and While We're Young (Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as a couple whose comfortable life seems boring after meeting hipsters Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried) is at 7:45 p.m.
