For all the movies being made today, it’s almost shocking how few of them populate the gulf between flashy, huge-budget Hollywood pictures and small, well-intentioned but inept indies, the latter ...

LOVELY & AMAZING: Comedy-drama. Starring Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn and Emily Mortimer. Directed by Nicole Holofcener. (R. 92 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) In "Lovely & Amazing" ...

For six minutes, an eternity on film, the actress Emily Mortimer stands naked in front of the camera. She’s playing an insecure actress who wants her one-night stand to list what’s wrong with her body ...

The nominating committee for the 2003 IFP Independent Spirit Awards found Nicole Holofcener's "Lovely & Amazing" to be just that, honoring the Lions Gate Films release with a total of six nominations, ...

In Nicole Holofcener’s film Please Give, a buyer and seller of rare and valuable furniture surveys what’s been left behind by a deceased mother whose son just wants to get rid of everything. Along ...

Nicole Holofcener is laughing at her Caesar salad, a sparse, pathetic-looking thing she ordered with no croutons and dressing on the side. "I’m nuts," says the writer-director of the breezy new comedy ...

Lions Gate's comedy Lovely& Amazing led the field with six2003 IFP Independent Spirit Awards nominations today (Dec 11) while FocusFeatures' 1950s drama Far From Heaven weighed in with five including ...

Like the 1996 film "Walking and Talking," the title of Nicole Holofcener's second movie, "Lovely & Amazing," is poised on a small but powerful conjunction. That grammatical construction aptly conveys ...

"Lovely & Amazing" is scarcely how the principal characters regard themselves in Nicole Holofcener's second feature, a comic take on female insecurity in general and modern American women's ...

In Nicole Holofcener’s first feature, 1996’s Walking and Talking, the writer/director warmly portrayed an adult female friendship, nudging at emotional issues without resorting to shtick or melodrama.

Lovely & Amazing The two adult sisters in Lovely & Amazing both carry the gene of perfectionism — the compulsive tendency, that is, to view everything around them as imperfect, most painfully and ...