recent posts
- Audra McDonald and “Original Nepo Baby” Gwyneth Paltrow: Honorees at the NYWFT Muse Awards 23 March 2026
- Zach Bryan Buys the On the Road Scroll/ Happy Birthday, Jack Kerouac!
- William S. Burroughs/ Nova ’78 at MoMA/ Remembering James Grauerholz
- Jacob Elordi in Wuthering Heights: Monster Mash
- Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent: A Cool Brazilian Gets an Oscar Nod
Category: Events
-
Of all the movies at holiday time, Up in the Air, seems poised for the most lofty awards as well as commercial success. A luncheon at 21 was planned for the movie prior to the announcement of its Golden Globes nominations. Before, we were talking about an exceptionally sophisticated indie film with a big star, George Clooney,…
-
If The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is the new Wizard of Oz, as one fan enthused at the Closing Night screening at this year's Hampton's International Film Festival in October, then filmmaker Terry Gilliam is indeed the man behind the curtain. “To make a film,” he said looking wizard-like in a loosely fit colorful coat…
-
At 94, the irrepressible Eli Wallach tells a good story. Of the film clips shown in the “Tennessee Williams on Screen and Stage” evening at the Times Center, part of the Museum of the Moving Image Series, the one of Baby Doll was the most provocative. A young sly Eli Wallach seduces a naive Carroll…
-
En route to the premiere afterparty in a cab, we were debating: which production number in Nine was best. Kate Hudson in white fringe doing go go (this is the '60's), a boa clad Judi Dench reminiscing about the Follies Bergere, kittenish Penelope Cruz making love to hot pink satin crooning “My Darling, whose afraid…
-
The real-life tragedy of Adrienne Shelly’s murder in a botched apartment robbery hangs over this, her last completed screenplay lovingly made into this sinister romantic comedy produced by her husband Andy Ostroy and directed by her co-star in Waitress, Larry David’s television wife, Cheryl Hines. Louise (Meg Ryan), a highpower uberwoman will do anything-yes, anything-to…
-
Quips comparing the Gotham Awards with the Oscars ran rampant last night, so Academy Awards hovered in the cavernous Cipriani Wall Street air. Mostly, speakers agreed, the Gothams, honoring indie films, are like a younger, cooler brother: acting out, presenters feel free to speak their minds in whatever non-prime time terms. Focusing on Willem Dafoe…
-
The affable Jim Sheridan held court at the Monkey Bar last Monday, talking about his new movie, to open this Friday. Given that the first rate Brothers is a redo of a 2004 Danish film directed by Susanne Bier, now set in the America that continues to deploy troops to Afghanistan, you would not necessarily…
-
Herbie Hancock remembers Pannonica, the Rothschild heir who so loved American jazz that she abandoned an aristocratic European life of castles where royalty dined, to live in New York, surrounded by cats (felines and players), and make her rounds from club to club in pursuit of the music. Driving her Bentley, she chauffeured Hancock and…
-
Pedro Almodovar's love affair with his leading lady is legend, as is his romance with movie stars of old. In his new movie, Broken Embraces, the Closing Night feature of the recent New York Film Festival that will open this Friday, he casts Penelope Cruz as a call girl/ actress in a movie within the…
-
This is not a movie for sissies! Based on Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Road is a road movie on a landscape, barren after some unnamed cataclysmic event. Typical of the genre, this is also a buddy movie, father (Viggo Mortensen) and son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) make for a duo set on survival, foraging…
-
As the voice of Mr. Fox in the movie version of Roald Dahl's classic, George Clooney reprises his role as Danny Ocean, a wily schemer in good suits. Maybe that's why dioramas of his woodsy world adorn the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's Men's Store on Fifth Avenue. Ophelia Dahl greeted guests at last night's Paris…
-
Werner Herzog's sequel to an Abel Ferrara film starring Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes belongs to the genre of drug fueled fantasies like “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:” the imagery is just laugh out loud. We've never seen Cage like this, at times channeling James Stewart, which, when you consider the plot of solving…
-
The iconic and infamous cover the walls at the Brooklyn Museum's fine exhibition (on view till January 31, 2010), “Who Shot Rock & Roll.” Yes you will see many old favorites, like John Lennon wearing a New York City sleeveless tee in Bob Gruen's contact sheet from the familiar 1974 shoot. You will see him…
-
What can you say about a woman who vanishes in the proverbial thin air? The mysteries about the remarkable Amelia Earhart and her disappearance in 1937 with her navigator Fred Noonan (Christopher Eccleston) over the Pacific Ocean persist and make ideal fodder for biographies and biopics. As Amelia, in the new movie directed by Mira…
-
The Oak Room at the Plaza was chockablock with funny women, celebrating Joy Behar's new television show on HLN, to premiere on September 29, where this funny woman will opine on pop culture to politics. It's a yenta convention, observed one partier. Introducing Joy, Barbara Walters quipped that she thought it would be Star Jones…
-
Filmmaker Michael Moore apologized for being late to the premiere of his new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story. President Obama, a guest on David Letterman, was clogging traffic and Moore got caught up in his motorcade. “We could have just kept going,” said Moore from the stage of Alice Tully Hall before a packed and…
-
The actor Ben Whishaw has that dying poet thing down. In Jane Campion's new movie Bright Star, he is a tender presence, portraying the ill-fated John Keats who dies at age 25 before fulfilling the bright future suggested by the poetry that survives him, including “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” “Endymion,” “Lamia,” and his famous…
-
On the final evening of Guild Hall's superb film series programmed by Gavin Wiesen who also led the Q&A, the actress Candice Bergen introduced her late husband Louis Malle's masterpiece about growing up during the German occupation of France. The events take place in a convent school outside of Paris where Julien and his older…
-
Women of the 1950's were transitional-that is, they were betwixt what Richard Pryor referred to as the “Great Pussy Drought” and the era of sexual liberation of the 1960's and beyond. One such woman, Ann Devereau, the actor George Hamilton's mother, fled her philandering husband in 1953 in a baby blue Cadillac Coupe de Ville…
gossipcentral.com 