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Jon Mooallem met with the director Noah Baumbach to discuss his latest film, an adaptation of Don DeLillo\u2019s 1985 novel \u201cWhite Noise.\u201d\n\nThe pair explore the recent chain of personal and public events in Baumbach\u2019s life, including the toll of the coronavirus pandemic and the death of his father, and how this \u201croutine trauma\u201d has affected his work, and why it prompted him to create a discombobulated, \u201celevated reality\u201d for his film in the vein of David Lynch, the Coen brothers and Spike Lee.