TheySentYou

can anyone recommend me some movies in a similar style and feel as Noal Baumbach's 1995 Kicking and Screaming?

i know of his other films.. but anything other than that?

i hear Metropolitan has a similar feel. thanks!

worrywort

the rest of Whit Stillman's movies, and even A Midnight Clear to some extent

TheySentYou

thanks!

Richard Malloy

I definitely recommend the Stillman flicks - Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco if you can find it - but they're a bit different in tone and subject matter than Baumbach's stuff. But I suspect that if you like the one, you'll like the other!

Baumbach based much of the narrative style (that rambling, one scene careening into the next sorta thing) on Louis Malle's "Murmur of the Heart". This might be a bit more of a stretch than the Whitman films, but it's an excellent film, and well worth your time. It's on DVD from Criterion, and looks and sounds phenomenal. The cinematography, particularly, during the second half of the film (at the spa), is captured wonderfully in this transfer.

Skipping well away from Malle, you might check out the recent low-budget American indie film "Funny Ha-Ha". I was gonna say it's shot on 16mm like "Squid", but it's possible it was shot on 8mm! At any rate, it's rough production-wise, but quite adept at capturing the latest generation on that cusp of adulthood much like "Kicking and Screaming". More of a mood-piece and certainly less quotable than "Kicking", but it certainly has its charms.

MrE

You might like some of Richard Linklater's films, too.

TheySentYou

i do like some of Linklater's films. i found a great deal of similarity between Kicking and Screaming and Dazed and Confused. i couldn't get into Slackers much though.

i've wanted to see Murmur of the Heart, as welll as other Louise Malle films.

i definitely will check out some Whit Stillman films and that Funny Ha Ha flick, for sure. thanks!