Academy Award Nominated Filmmaker Nicole Holofcener

21st February 2019

Filmmaker Nicole Holofcener recently received a Academy-Award nomination for 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 filmmaking royalty.

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Writer and director Nicole Holofcener on her new film: ‘The Land of Steady Habits’
Filmmaker Nicole Holofcener recently received an Academy-Award nomination for best 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.”

Nicole is probably best known for her films “Friends with Money” and “Enough Said.” She’s also worked on TV shows like “Parks and Recreation,” “Orange is the New Black” and “Sex and the City.”

Nicole’s projects are intimate and always feature strong female leads. For the first time, her movie centers on a man. “The Land of Steady Habits” is about a middle-aged, retired finance guy, named Andres played by Ben Mendelsohn. Anders is going through kind of a late midlife crisis. He just left his wife, Helene, played by Edie Falco. And his relationship with his adult son is drifting away – Anders is losing him to drug use. It’s safe to say that Anders has trouble figuring out where he fits in these days.

Nicole will tell us how she adapted the novel by Ted Thompson into this very poignant film, and why she felt this was an important story to tell. Plus, she’ll reflect on her childhood – when she moved to Los Angeles as a early teenager she couldn’t believe that the guys on the Metro bus would be exactly like the jerks on the New York subway.

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