ABSTRACT
The corpus of female auteur director Nicole Holofcener suggests the importance of an auteur director’s relations with particular actresses and actors in the genesis of her oeuvre. 2 Catherine Keener has appeared in all of Holofcener’s films between 1996 and 2015; however, the director’s most successful films, Friends with Money (2006) and Enough Said (2013), featured stars, notably Jennifer Aniston and James Gandolfini, who were significant celebrities working largely outside the independent sector—on television in these two instances. 3 A star such as Tilda Swinton takes an active role in promoting projects within the independent sector, including many new woman’s films, suggesting the relations between celebrity, especially that of the female star, and the new woman’s film as a significant dimension of this genre.
