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D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 9 I 5 9 DGA Screening Q&As Additional photos and podcasts are posted online at www.dga.org. photo by Elisa Haber photo by Marcie Revens 1 2 Noah Baumbach discusses Marriage Story A marriage disintegrates as a family tries to stay together in Director Noah Baumbach's new romantic comedy-drama, Marriage Story. Baumbach's film tells the story of a stage director (Adam Driver) and his actor wife (Scarlett Johansson) as they struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes. Following the DGA membership screening in Los Angeles on November 3, Noah Baumbach sat down with Director Peter Bogdanovich to discuss the making of Marriage Story. He also spoke about the film in a conversation moderated by Director Ben Stiller after the DGA membership screening in New York on November 9. In addition to Marriage Story, Baumbach's credits include the feature films The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) , Mistress America, While We're Young, Frances Ha, Margot at the Wedding, The Squid and the Whale and Kicking and Screaming. Baumbach has been a DGA member since 2004. Photos: 1. Peter Bogdanovich (moderator) and Noah Baumbach in LA. 2. Ben Stiller (moderator) and Noah Baumbach in NY. photo by Trixie Textor photo by Ryan Jensen 1 2 Robert Eggers discusses The Lighthouse Two men try to maintain their grip on reality while toiling on a remote and mysterious island in Director Robert Eggers' psychological thriller, The Lighthouse. Set in 1890s New England, Eggers' film tells the hallucinatory story of a grizzled veteran seaman named Thomas (Willem Dafoe) and a novice lighthouse keeper named Ephraim (Robert Pattinson), who are thrown together on a harsh assignment where isolation and alcohol begins to eat at their sanity to the point where they become threatened by their own nightmares. Following the DGA membership screening in New York on October 16, Eggers sat down with Director Cory Finley to discuss the making of The Lighthouse. Eggers also discussed the film in a conversation with Director Rian Johnson following the DGA membership screening in Los Angeles on October 20. In addition to The Lighthouse, Eggers' credits include the feature film The Witch and the short films Brothers, The Tell-Tale Heart and Hansel and Gretel. Eggers became a DGA member in 2018. Photos: 1. Rian Johnson (moderator) and Robert Eggers in LA. 2. Robert Eggers and Cory Finley (moderator) in NY.