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White Noise review – director Noah Baumbach skilfully captures Don Delillo's 'unadaptable' novel

Never one to downplay the power of film, Stanley Kubrick once said that “almost every novel could be successfully adapted”. He carried this confidence into his own filmmaking, working not from original screenplays, but from adaptations of novels as different as William Makepeace Thackeray’s historical romp Barry Lyndon (1844) and…

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New this week: 'White Noise,' 21 Savage and Kennedy Honors

This week’s new entertainment releases include a streaming concert from 21 Savage, a Netflix film starring Adam Driver made from Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel “White Noise” and a movie marathon on Turner Classic Movies featuring the martini-swilling detectives Nick and Nora Charles from “The Thin Man.”

The Independent UK

White Noise review – a Don DeLillo ventriloquist act with Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig

Noah Baumbach’s laboriously quirky adaptation of DeLillo’s 1985 book can’t break free of the author’s voice

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White Noise movie review: Noah Baumbach’s Don DeLillo adaptation finds the fun in fatalism

The take-away is: “Oh, we’re so doomed. Let’s dance!”

Evening Standard

‘White Noise’ adaptation plays like three movies, two of them great

Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig a wondrous couple in social satire that starts strong but loses steam.

Chicago Sun-Times

Movie review: 'White Noise' puts a loud, brash and enjoyable spin on a Don DeLillo classic

"White Noise," Noah Baumbach's jittery and inventive adaptation of Don DeLillo's 1985 novel, begins with what you might call a love letter to cinema. We've had a lot of those recently, but this one — a college lecture on car crashes in American movies — is appreciably sharper, funnier and…

Los Angeles Times

How a director known for drama made 'White Noise,' the strangest disaster movie of the year

If you were looking for a director to stage a spectacular cataclysm onscreen, Noah Baumbach would probably not be on your short list.

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Venice Film Festival: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig and Hillary Clinton among stars at glitzy opening

British talent including Jodie Turner-Smith and Pixie Lott were also pictured on the red carpet as the 79th annual festival kicked off on Wednesday.

Evening Standard

'White Noise' review: Noah Baumbach’s apocalyptic new movie is the most American film ever made

'White Noise,' Noah Baumbach’s black comedy about an "airborne toxic event," has plenty to say about death, family, and our addiction to spectacle.

Inverse

White Noise review – Don DeLillo adaptation is a blackly comic blast

DeLillo’s novel of campus larks and eco dread has long been ogled by Hollywood. Now it gets an elegant, droll treatment from Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig

The Guardian - UK

For Noah Baumbach, ‘White Noise’ is about life and death

Noah Baumbach's “White Noise” is opening the Venice International Film Festival, where it is among the films playing in competition

The Independent UK

Noah Baumbach’s ‘White Noise’ to Open Venice Film Festival

Director Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel “White Noise” has been selected to open the Venice International Film Festival in August, festival director Alberto Barbera said Monday. Baumbach wrote and directed the film, which looks at the contemporary American family through the lens of a professor, Jack Gladney,…

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