Oscar nominated filmmaker Nicole Holofcener

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 22 February 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Filmmaker Nicole Holofcener, one of our favorites, is up for an Academy-Award nomination. It's for the adapted screenplay. and won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film "Can You Ever Forgive Me?." We'll revisit our conversation with Nicole – when she stopped by we talked about another one of her recent projects, "The Land of Steady Habits." She'll also discuss her childhood growing up among Hollywood royalty.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.6	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:22.4	My guest is Nicole Holliff Center.
0:24.3	She and I talked last year.
0:26.0	She's a writer and director.
0:27.0	She makes quiet films.
0:28.7	She's a production by Sad Melancholic.
0:31.7	Her protagonists are usually female, almost always complex and flawed.
0:36.8	And if you haven't seen her work before, it is brilliant.
0:39.4	She was profiled recently in the New Yorker and I think this line sums up her work pretty
0:43.7	well.
0:44.7	Often, movies are about people confronting extraordinary problems and overcoming them.
0:50.5	Holliff Center's films tend to be about people confronting ordinary circumstances and
0:55.2	falling short.
0:56.8	They're afraid of getting hurt or of getting old or simply of changing.
1:02.0	She's worked with some truly great actors.
1:04.7	Julia Louis Dreyfus and James Gandalfani and enough said, Katherine Keener and Frances
1:09.6	McDormand in Friends with Money.
1:12.0	Her latest film is called The Land of Steady Habits.
1:15.5	It's based on the novel by Ted Thompson.
1:18.0	It centers on a guy named Anders.
1:20.3	He's middle-aged, retired from finance.
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