Baumbach had his own fling with cinematic youth—he was one of the producers of Joe Swanberg's 2009 film "Alexander the Last," and there's an odd detail reflecting this connection: Darby is an artisanal ice-cream maker, as is Swanberg's wife, Kris (who is also a filmmaker). Baumbach is similarly squeezed, generationally, between the elder colossi, whether Martin Scorsese or Terrence Malick, with their titanically inventive daring, and young independents such as Swanberg and Andrew Bujalski...
Richard Brody
March 28, 2015