In honor of White Noise, out in theaters today, we took a look back at Noah Baumbach's carefully observed and always neurotic filmography. Here's every Noah Baumbach movie, ranked:
, an iconic novel that opens on a highway crammed to a stop with evacuating families. But in writer-director Noah Baumbach’s screen adaptation, we begin somewhere else, a little further back, in a classroom submerged in lecture: “Look past the violence!” It’s a call to action from professor Murray Siskind to his students, and an invitation to satirical logic for us, the viewers, students in the art of DeLillian critique and maximalism for the next two hours and sixteen minutes.
Guns—and the violence inherent in them—are a huge topic of discourse, often academically discussed as so many things are in. They kick the film off through a distinctly non-Baumbachian introduction in style—a lecture on the brief history of the weapon, our mass philosophies around it and the violence that stems from it—cut with the zip and punch of a full-fledged action sequence.
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