#102: (Pt. 1) Lady Bird / Ghost World (2001)

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greta Gerwig’s fantastic directorial debut LADY BIRD is set in 2002, when its protagonist might have recognized a contemporary kindred spirit in Enid, the protagonist of Terry Zwigoff’s 2001 coming-of-age comedy GHOST WORLD: Both characters are creatively minded outcasts who are leaving high school and facing uncertainty about their futures. In this half of our pairing of the two films, we focus on the prickly and not-quite-lovable iconoclasts who populate GHOST WORLD, discussing its garish version of the turn of the millennium, how it translates Danial Clowes’ comic of the same name for movie screens, and whether it contains the best existential fart joke ever committed to film. Plus, feedback from our recent episodes on MOTHER! and THE GRADUATE. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about GHOST WORLD, LADY BIRD, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Outro music: “Devil Got My Woman” by Skip James Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.4	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:20.1	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:26.9	We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:33.2	Welcome to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film
0:37.3	and how it shaped our thoughts in a recent release.
0:39.6	I'm Scott Tobias here with...
0:41.1	Genevieve Kosky.
0:42.3	And...
0:42.5	Joshar Robinson.
0:43.5	Keith Phipps is at home listening to his 78s, but he'll return for the next pairing.
0:47.8	Here on the next picture show, we believe that no film exists in a vacuum and that all culture is more interesting in context. So every other week,
0:54.6	we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates to a current movie.
0:59.5	This week, we're looking at two coming-of-age films set in the early aughts about creatively
1:04.6	minded outcasts who are leaving high school and uncertain about what the future holds for them.
1:09.4	One of them is a semi-autobiographical period piece about the Catholic schoolgirl from Sacramento.
1:14.5	The other is a contemporaneous film that she probably would have liked a lot.
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1:24.6	and revisiting the early 2000s, with two coming-of-age comedies
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