28 Films That Inspired Barbie: The Wizard of Oz, The Godfather, Saturday Night Fever, Singing In the Rain, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Heaven Can Wait, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 2001: A Space Odyssey, All That Jazz, His Girl Friday, Mon Oncle, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), A Matter of Life and Death, The Earrings of Madame de..., The Red Shoes, Oklahoma!, Splash, An American in Paris, Wings of Desire, Grease, The Ladies Man, and the Ship Sails On, Rear Window, The Truman Show, Gold Diggers of 1935, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Modern Times, The Philadelphia Story Additional Movies Mentioned: Bringing Up Baby, Carole Lombard films, Rio Bravo, Red River, Dr. Strangelove

Greta Gerwig is such an inspiration to film fans and aspiring filmmakers. I agree with her completely about the great Katharine Hepburn. She really was such a trailblazing woman and one of the greatest actresses ever. And of course, Carole Lombard was also amazing. Greta is spot-on about Howard Hawks, he really understood dialogue so well and was a master of so many genres. He was equally adept at making comedy masterpieces like Bringing Up Baby, Ball of Fire, and Twentieth Century as he was at making some of the greatest adventure films of the classic era such as Red River, Rio Bravo, and Only Angels Have Wings. Hawks truly was one of the finest filmmakers of any era. Greta Gerwig is an encyclopedia of cinema knowledge, and that love of it really shows itself in her films. Thanks for the interview, TCM/Ben!

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10 ай бұрын

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10 ай бұрын

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@Garsons-oq4lh

10 ай бұрын

Katharine, whom Greta cites as inspiration, had this to say in 1979, and it speaks today as well "I'm disgusted with the movies. Disgusted. Because they're kidding themselves into saying it's a sort of intellectual pastime. Bunk. It's 42nd street filth. Filth being sold for too much. And now its respectable to go and see them. And the critics, I think, have lost their minds."

@japanjack62

10 ай бұрын

Greta Garbo, Irene Dunne, Rosalind Russell, Barbara Stanwyckwere better actors than Hepburn or Lombard. Gerwig is full of it...

Greta Gerwig is so awesome! Great interview Ben. I could listen to you two talk about movies for hours.

Wow I see her genius in all it’s glory now. She’s very inspired and that is inspiring to witness

@sayuas4293

7 ай бұрын

Lmao there's not even a tiny amount of genius in making anything related to barbies

Greta is such a loving, giving cinephile and it shows in her work. Saw Barbie last night and loved it. Big, beautiful, bright moviemaking that balances camp and a journey of self discovery.

@arnepianocanada

8 ай бұрын

Wonderfully stated!!

@theRealKelvin

8 ай бұрын

She reminds me of Carole

I"m a TCM fan. I'm a classic film fan. I'm a Greta Gerwig fan! Give this woman a chance and her due! She's got some scathingly brilliant ideas and "Barbie" is one of them! I hope she does great things throughout her career! She's young, brilliant and hungry -- a great combination!

@fickleflan

10 ай бұрын

The Trouble with Angels

Such a FUN movie 😃 and Margot Robbie is so beautiful & such PERFECT casting!💖 My all-time FAVORITE Barbie doll is Teresa. She’s absolutely breathtaking!💖 I also love Barbie nemesis, Raquelle.😂 I really hope we see them in the sequel!!😃 🎶come on Barbie let’s go party🎶😃

Out of all those films mentioned ive seen 18 of them i love Philadephia Story and Cukor is one of my fav and Hawks is such a great writer i can see the fast paced dialogue inspiration that Greta gets from Hawks. Greta is such a smart writer and director.

Katharine Hepburn had this to say in 1979 (the year she made The Corn is Green for television) to Morley Safer, and it speaks today: "I'm disgusted with the movies. Disgusted. Because they're kidding themselves into saying it's a sort of intellectual pastime. Bunk. It's 42nd street filth. Filth being sold for too much. And now its respectable to go and see them. And the critics, I think, have lost their minds."

@cherished_girl_7

10 ай бұрын

Her words are so true and still ring out high above the voices today that call themselves "fans" of classic films. Such a disgrace to actors and actresses of the past. Their works still hold steadfast amongst the so-called "movies" of today.

So thoughtful... both of you. Very good interview.

Greta is talking my language, so guess I've got to see Barbie for those Easter eggs🎉

@SamBryans128

10 ай бұрын

You won't be disappointed. They are everywhere!

Was SO sad this was a reupload -- was hoping we'd get more of Greta

This episode is fantastic, tcm fan would like to illustrate great grace to tcm and Greta Gerwig

Love Carole Lombard in TO BE OR NOT TO BE and MY MAN GODFREY.

Uh Greta, Don Lockwood meets Debbie Reynolds' character in her car as Don is trying to escape his rabid fanbase at the premiere. They banter, argue, and it ends with Don accidently slamming the door on his coat jacket, ripping it in half and her laughing at him for it.

Character driven Dialog: hello , Ken ! Hello, Barbie! The Main influence was Cleo 5 to 7. An old french movie, where WE See a Woman só Young And beautiful faces and think about death for te First time. Better than Barbie because Agnes Varda didn T want us to buy dolls

Barbie is a must-see for any fan of cinema. It is a wonder.

@goldenvulture6818

10 ай бұрын

No thanks

@marvel096

10 ай бұрын

@@goldenvulture6818you’re not a cinephile I see

@goldenvulture6818

10 ай бұрын

@@marvel096 LMFAO! Cleverness isn't you.

@ChrisWolff2013

2 ай бұрын

Yeah no. Come on, man.

CORECT INTERESANT INTERVIU SI PLACUT .

The end; and i mean the last approximately ten minutes or so of said film - was rather impressive. But it was unfortunately too little too late to save what was sadly mostly a farce if not an embarrassment.

Great inspirations, but inspiration only counts for so much. Nickelback may be inspired by Mozart, but that doesn't make their music good.

@unknownwake

10 ай бұрын

things that are for women aren't inherently worse.

@joe_rockhead

10 ай бұрын

So, you saw the movie and didn't like it?

@AGirlofYesterday

10 ай бұрын

​@@joe_rockheadBy today's standards, I felt Barbie succeeded in being a fairly clever battle-of-the-sexes social satire. But imho the films today are too slick, dumbed down and corporatized to hold a candle to the films of Golden Age Hollywood. (And no, I'm not a Boomer.)

@AGirlofYesterday

10 ай бұрын

​@@unknownwakeOf course they aren't, who said they were?

@cherished_girl_7

10 ай бұрын

Definitely not seeing the Barbie movie. As someone who has been watching movies from the 1930s-1950s since I was a young kid, the movies out there now are, in no comparison, worth watching. Where are the good story lines and wholesome dialogue?

If she says that Carole Lombard and Katherine Hepburn inspired the movie "Barbie" then that is an insult to Lombard and Hepburn's acting ability, true talent, and careers. Those actresses should not be related to the "Barbie" movie in any way or compared to any "movie" they make now. Those women had character and respect for themselves and others. The class and gracefulness of women in films now, has gone out of the window!

@SpiritsOfAnotherDay

9 ай бұрын

100% - Its just a lot of words.

@cherished_girl_7

9 ай бұрын

Yes, it is!@@SpiritsOfAnotherDay

@arnepianocanada

8 ай бұрын

Wow, you're like meeting Scrooge at a Christmas party. Hepburn is not Mother Mary! Get a grip.

@clayson-7

2 ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more🖐🏼👏🏼

When did young Americans start talikng like that? With respect,a whole generation now do a whining jerkey upward inflection. Sound awful. They could take a leaf from the older stars mentioned here. In Greta's case she goes in and out of that sort of speech.

Great Gerwig's voice is annoying.

@65g4

5 ай бұрын

Please explain how you find her voice annoying i find her voice very pleasant

@newyorkcitydisciplinarian3270

5 ай бұрын

@@65g4 she sounds like a mouse-squeeky toy who a stuffing nose.

@christopherallen9580

24 күн бұрын

I love her voice and speech patterns

Barbie... What a complete waste of time

@arnepianocanada

8 ай бұрын

c$1.5 Billion ticket sales - so far - show that your view is not predominant.

@nutauf7587

5 ай бұрын

I mean I saw it and thought it was awful- sales doesn’t make a film good

@65g4

5 ай бұрын

​@@nutauf7587your saying over a billion dollars in sales doesnt make it good. That many people seeing a film i beg to differ

@ChrisWolff2013

2 ай бұрын

​@arnepianocanada How much movies did the Transformera movies make? Doesn't mean they are good movies.

@ChrisWolff2013

2 ай бұрын

​@@arnepianocanada The movie sucks.

Ben Mankiewicz has ruined TCM.

@sj4632

9 ай бұрын

TYT graduate. They all suck.