Noah Baumbach's latest film, “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),” can be thought of as both a remake of and a sequel to his 2005 film, “The Squid and the Whale.” As in the earlier film, the children of a frustrated artist have their lives screwed up by their father's egotism, and Baumbach displays in his own ...

Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson in "The Meyerowitz Stories." Hoffman's character is inspired by Baumbach's grandfather, Harold Baumbach, who was an abstract painter. He died when I was in my 20s but I grew up knowing him. He and my grandmother lived in Brooklyn Heights.