Perhaps the most remarkable thing about “Lady Bird” — a film with no shortage of remarkable things — is how Greta Gerwig manages to pack so much life into such a condensed stretch of time. A ...

Kyla Burmester, left, and Isabella Garibaldi, right, both juniors at Sacramento’s St. Francis High School, pose with a cutout of alum Greta Gerwig, writer and director of “Lady Bird,” at an Oscars ...

“Dear Lady Bird, when I got pregnant with you, it was a miracle.” The letters that Marion (Laurie Metcalf, “Roseanne”) writes to her daughter are never read aloud. She never gives them to her because ...

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Greta Gerwig, the Oscar-nominated director of the film Lady Bird about teenage friendship and complex, sometimes messy, female characters. Among the Oscar nominees for ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. Today's first guest, Greta Gerwig, is an actress who starred in the films "Frances Ha" and ...