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NYFF 2014 Panel Discussion with cast of While We’re Young<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

September 28, 2014<\/p>\n

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After so much speculation as to which film would be shown tonight at the 52nd New York Film Festival<\/strong>\u00a0at Alice Tully Hall, the secret screening turned out to be, and to no one’s surprise,\u00a0Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young<\/strong>. The film stars Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried<\/strong>, and Charles Grodin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The film had its World Premiere a few weeks ago at the\u00a0Toronto International Film Festival, where its US rights got picked by A24 for a 2015 release date.<\/p>\n

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Ryan Searchant, Adam Horowitz, Ben Stiller, Noah Baumbach, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Peter Yero, and Maria Dizzia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s film’s description from TIFF<\/strong> – Aging gracefully is never easy, and it may be worse for artists. Josh Srebnick (Ben Stiller) is a New York documentarian who never quite got his due. As he labours over the umpteenth edit of his cerebral new film, it\u2019s plain that he has hit a creative dry patch. Josh and his wife, Cornelia (Naomi Watts), tried to start a family and were unable \u2014 and have decided they\u2019re okay with that. Yet for Josh, there is something still missing.<\/p>\n

Enter Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), who approach Josh after a class he teaches. A young artist couple, they are spontaneous and untethered, ready to drop everything in pursuit of their next passion \u2014 retro board games one day, acquiring a pet chicken the next. For Josh, it\u2019s as if a door has opened back to his youth.<\/p>\n

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Ben Stiller, Noah Baumbach, Naomi Watts, and Adam Driver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s not long before the unhappy fortysomethings Josh and Cornelia throw aside friends their own age \u2014 including Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz in a sly supporting role \u2014 to trail after these young hipsters who seem so plugged in, so uninhibited, so Brooklyn cool. \u201cBefore we met,\u201d Josh admits, \u201cthe only two feelings I had left were wistful and disdainful.\u201d But is this new inspiration enough to sustain collaboration with artists twenty years his junior?<\/p>\n

In attendance were cast members Ryan Searchant, Adam Horowitz, Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Peter Yero, Maria Dizzia<\/strong>, and director Noah Baumbach<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After the screening, Adam Driver, Naomi Watts, Ben Stiller, director Noah Baumbach came on stage for a panel discussion with New York Film Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair, Kent Jones.<\/p>\n