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 ...

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” is all but indescribable, and what a good thing that is. Like the best of personal, independent cinema--terms that too often provide cover for a multitude of sins--it is both ...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- "Lovely & Amazing," a comedy about the relationship among a mother and her three daughters, led the field with six nominations as the IFP Independent Spirit Award ...

Nicole Holofcener’s sharp and delicate observations of relationships are the antithesis to that so-synthetic-it-causes-skin-rash stuff out of which most movies about women are spun. In those ...

Nicole Holofcener’s sharp and delicate observations of relationships are the antithesis to that so-synthetic-it-causes-skin-rash stuff out of which most movies about women are spun. In those ...

HOLLYWOOD — In the nominations for the 2003 IFP Independent Spirit Awards, the pickings were slim for “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.” The most financially successful independent film in history received ...

With 'The Lovely Bones,' her wildly popular tale of a young girl's murder, Alice Sebold ignites her career--and realizes her dream. A young woman hovers near a table in a Manhattan restaurant. ”Excuse ...