More Barbie Movie and Greta Gerwig Appreciation

If you listened to our Barbie episode, you know we are on board the Greta Gerwig train, ready to buy a ticket (even three tickets, for three consecutive days!) of whatever she directs next. Our Barbie episode’s Screen Time In the News segment focused on an article from Collider about Gerwig’s deal with Netflix to direct a couple of Narnia films.

Greta Gerwig and the Making of Barbie

When we’re preparing our reviews, we like to steer clear of media that might influence our feelings and reactions, but now that we’ve reviewed the film ourselves, we’re free to read all of the Barbie content we like. Here are a few articles worth sharing:

• A New York Times Magazine profile of Greta Gerwig and the making of Barbie and a breakdown of the mojo-dojo-casa-house scenes, replete with several photographs of Gerwig looking very Scorcese-Spielberg-y.
• A New York Times article by Maureen Dowd that explores Gerwig’s relationship with Noah Baumbach, her partner in life, parenting, and film making. Fun to read about, even if you agree with our guest Julia Washington, who wants Baumbach’s name removed from the Barbie writing credits! (Isn’t it fascinating that Baumbach used to write scripts with his first wife, Jennifer Jason Leigh?! And Gerwig used to work for Leigh’s mother? Someone write a script about these Hollywood family dynamics, please!)
• A fun People article about what inspired Gerwig to cast Ryan Gosling as Beach Ken.
• A Q+A-style interview of Gerwig in Rolling Stone.

As always, you can listen to our Barbie review and all of our reviews of the TV shows, movies, and YouTube shorts made for our kids on podcast apps like Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.