The Masterful New York Story Teller that is Noah Baumbach for the New York Times Magazine this weekend. I’m always so inspired by these portraiture commissions 🙏🏽 @davidcarthas @kathyryan Repost from @nytmag • Until now, the most actiony thing that’s ever happened in a Noah Baumbach movie has been Ben Stiller running down a street in Brooklyn because he thinks someone has mistakenly left a restaurant with his father’s coat. But to make his adaptation of Don DeLillo’s “White Noise,” Baumbach would have to shoot a miles-long traffic jam, an attempted murder; a station wagon jumping through the air, Evel Knievel-style; and a mammoth C.G.I.-enhanced toxic cloud swallowing the sky. He was drawn to “White Noise” amid a “feeling of total uncertainty: Are movies going to get made again? Are people going to come? Are we just going to live off the fumes of the world that used to be? It allowed him to write something that, in other circumstances, would feel too big, too scary, too unwieldy, too much. It was almost like this dare: If they ever let us do it again, this is the one I want to do.” During the early days of the pandemic, in spring of 2020, Noah Baumbach reread Don DeLillo's "White Noise," became obsessed with it (he frequently read passages out loud to his partner, Greta Gerwig) and decided to make the novel (widely considered unadaptable) into a film. He couldn’t stop fantasizing about how great it would be to one day make something like it. And now, his finished film based on the novel comes out this month. Read our profile of the director at the link in our bio. Photographs by @sharifhamza.