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The filmmaker Noah Baumbach can recall when he could have fallen out of affection along with his craft. He was capturing “White Noise,” primarily based on Don DeLillo’s novel, “on a abandoned freeway in Ohio at 4 A.M. with a rain machine.” “Oh, God, I don’t know that I like doing this,” he recollects considering. “Am I doing this”—making films—“solely as a result of I do it?” He channelled that angst into his new movie, “Jay Kelly,” a Hollywood comedy of manners starring George Clooney as a really well-known film star who all of the sudden wonders whether or not it was all price it, and why individuals preserve providing him cheesecake. In October, Baumbach spoke with The New Yorker’s articles editor, Susan Morrison, at The New Yorker Competition, about working along with his spouse, Greta Gerwig, on “Barbie,” and why the primary traces of his films can inform you every little thing.
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