“Do I look like a monk?” Chloë Sevigny asks the room.
We’re in the Lower East Side apartment of Chris Peters, the head designer of the fashion label Puppets and Puppets, and Sevigny is trying on the sequined gown she plans to wear at a fundraiser for Tibet House that night. But she worries the outfit’s long sleeve, which begins at the hem, drapes around Sevigny’s neck like a scarf, and extends to her left wrist, evokes the robes favored by the Buddhist figures whose traditions the organization highlights. As the sun beats through Peters’ window, cascading along the dress’s spangles and filling the room with reflected light, Sevigny is more reminiscent of a disco ball than the Dalai Lama.
Peters quickly reassures her. “I wouldn’t say it feels monastic. It’s an odd kind of ’30s glam. You look incredible.”
Sevigny tilts her head,...
We’re in the Lower East Side apartment of Chris Peters, the head designer of the fashion label Puppets and Puppets, and Sevigny is trying on the sequined gown she plans to wear at a fundraiser for Tibet House that night. But she worries the outfit’s long sleeve, which begins at the hem, drapes around Sevigny’s neck like a scarf, and extends to her left wrist, evokes the robes favored by the Buddhist figures whose traditions the organization highlights. As the sun beats through Peters’ window, cascading along the dress’s spangles and filling the room with reflected light, Sevigny is more reminiscent of a disco ball than the Dalai Lama.
Peters quickly reassures her. “I wouldn’t say it feels monastic. It’s an odd kind of ’30s glam. You look incredible.”
Sevigny tilts her head,...
- 3/13/2024
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Who better to play a New York high society socialite than Chloë Sevigny, the former club kid turned fashionista who was profiled by Jay McInerney for The New Yorker at 19?
In 1995, one year after that infamous piece hit newsstands, Sevigny would star as a Manhattan teen who discovers she’s HIV positive in Kids, written by her pal Harmony Korine. The film was almost immediately cemented as a cult classic, sending her down an arthouse-cinema path that’s included Gummo, Boys Don’t Cry (earning her an Oscar nomination), American Psycho,...
In 1995, one year after that infamous piece hit newsstands, Sevigny would star as a Manhattan teen who discovers she’s HIV positive in Kids, written by her pal Harmony Korine. The film was almost immediately cemented as a cult classic, sending her down an arthouse-cinema path that’s included Gummo, Boys Don’t Cry (earning her an Oscar nomination), American Psycho,...
- 1/31/2024
- by Marlow Stern
- Rollingstone.com
As the writers strike continues to dominate Hollywood discourse, Ted Sarandos has exited a planned appearance at a Pen America event next week that was set to honor him.
The literary organization announced Wednesday that the Netflix co-ceo will no longer attend their annual gala to accept the Pen America Business Visionary Award. The event will still take place May 18 in New York as planned with Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost as host, and Lorne Michaels remains scheduled to participate as an honored guest.
“We admire Ted Sarandos’ singular work translating literature to artful presentation onscreen, and his stalwart defense of free expression and satire,” Pen America said in a statement. “As a writers organization, we have been following recent events closely and understand his decision.”
The group added that the event will include a focus on the rise of book bans and the constraints surrounding comedy as it...
The literary organization announced Wednesday that the Netflix co-ceo will no longer attend their annual gala to accept the Pen America Business Visionary Award. The event will still take place May 18 in New York as planned with Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost as host, and Lorne Michaels remains scheduled to participate as an honored guest.
“We admire Ted Sarandos’ singular work translating literature to artful presentation onscreen, and his stalwart defense of free expression and satire,” Pen America said in a statement. “As a writers organization, we have been following recent events closely and understand his decision.”
The group added that the event will include a focus on the rise of book bans and the constraints surrounding comedy as it...
- 5/10/2023
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Netflix co-ceo Ted Sarandos will no longer attend a gala meant to honor him next week in New York. The decision comes as labor issues grab headlines across Hollywood.
Sarandos was set to accept the Business Visionary Award at the annual Pen American Spring Literary Gala, alongside fellow honoree Lorne Michaels and a host of literati including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Susan Choi, Jennifer Egan, Min Jin Lee, Jay McInerney and Gay Talese. He’s skipping the event, to be held under the blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History, as many industry celebrations weigh how to address the writers strike.
“Given the threat to disrupt this wonderful evening, I thought it was best to pull out so as not to distract from the important work that Pen America does for writers and journalists, as well as the celebration of my friend and personal hero Lorne Michaels. I hope...
Sarandos was set to accept the Business Visionary Award at the annual Pen American Spring Literary Gala, alongside fellow honoree Lorne Michaels and a host of literati including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Susan Choi, Jennifer Egan, Min Jin Lee, Jay McInerney and Gay Talese. He’s skipping the event, to be held under the blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History, as many industry celebrations weigh how to address the writers strike.
“Given the threat to disrupt this wonderful evening, I thought it was best to pull out so as not to distract from the important work that Pen America does for writers and journalists, as well as the celebration of my friend and personal hero Lorne Michaels. I hope...
- 5/10/2023
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
When Chloë Sevigny found herself walking the Oscars red carpet nominated for her work in 1999’s “Boys Don’t Cry,” it was surprising, to say the least. Her brand of indie film anarchy, which she shared with her sometime boyfriend Harmony Korine, wasn’t really Oscar material. “I remember like the year before Harmony and I watching and being like, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if we could like nuke the Oscars and like just wipe away all the status quo?,'” she told IndieWire during a recent interview.
Sevigny’s 1990s in film started with her breakout role in Larry Clark’s ever-controversial 1995 “Kids” and ended with her at the Academy Awards, nominated for Best Supporting Actress, playing the girlfriend of Brandon Teena. It was a journey from the sensational fringes of the avant-garde to the biggest platform imaginable. “I told my publicist that the minute I’m in People magazine,...
Sevigny’s 1990s in film started with her breakout role in Larry Clark’s ever-controversial 1995 “Kids” and ended with her at the Academy Awards, nominated for Best Supporting Actress, playing the girlfriend of Brandon Teena. It was a journey from the sensational fringes of the avant-garde to the biggest platform imaginable. “I told my publicist that the minute I’m in People magazine,...
- 8/19/2022
- by Esther Zuckerman
- Indiewire
Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter moves from Venice into 579 theaters this weekend — the first in a welcome stream of specialty films from the Lido, Telluride and Toronto that could, perhaps maybe, buck up the struggling arthouse market this fall. The film is 90% certified fresh and hails from Focus Features, which presented one of the rare specialty hits of recent months, Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain.
That film came out in mid-July before the Delta Variant reached full sweep. It was released on nearly double the number of screens.
The Card Counter stars Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish and Tye Sheridan. William Tell (Isaac) a military interrogator haunted by his past just wants to play cards. But his spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he’s approached by Cirk (Sheridan), a vulnerable, angry young man seeking help to get revenge on a military colonel (Willem Dafoe). Tell...
That film came out in mid-July before the Delta Variant reached full sweep. It was released on nearly double the number of screens.
The Card Counter stars Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish and Tye Sheridan. William Tell (Isaac) a military interrogator haunted by his past just wants to play cards. But his spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he’s approached by Cirk (Sheridan), a vulnerable, angry young man seeking help to get revenge on a military colonel (Willem Dafoe). Tell...
- 9/10/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The Capote Tapes director Ebs Burnough: “When you go back and think of Truman interviewing Marlon Brando. Marlon Brando was like, I’ll never give another interview, as a result.”
Ebs Burnough’s The Capote Tapes, co-written with Holly Whiston, features the interviews recorded by George Plimpton of Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer, Lee Radziwill, Slim Keith, and Gore Vidal, along with recent on-camera remembrances and interpretations of Truman Capote from Kate Harrington, Jay McInerney, Colm Tóibín, Dick Cavett, André Leon Talley, John Richardson, Dotson Rader, Lewis Lapham, Sally Quinn, and Sadie Stein.
Ebs Burnough with Anne-Katrin Titze on a Truman Capote Swan: “I have to say Slim Keith was the most gutsy, direct, honest of the group.”
Capote’s “Swans”, Babe Paley, Cz Guest, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Lee Radziwill, and Slim Keith, the stylish socialites who used him more or less for their amusement and to alleviate their boredom,...
Ebs Burnough’s The Capote Tapes, co-written with Holly Whiston, features the interviews recorded by George Plimpton of Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer, Lee Radziwill, Slim Keith, and Gore Vidal, along with recent on-camera remembrances and interpretations of Truman Capote from Kate Harrington, Jay McInerney, Colm Tóibín, Dick Cavett, André Leon Talley, John Richardson, Dotson Rader, Lewis Lapham, Sally Quinn, and Sadie Stein.
Ebs Burnough with Anne-Katrin Titze on a Truman Capote Swan: “I have to say Slim Keith was the most gutsy, direct, honest of the group.”
Capote’s “Swans”, Babe Paley, Cz Guest, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Lee Radziwill, and Slim Keith, the stylish socialites who used him more or less for their amusement and to alleviate their boredom,...
- 9/5/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Once you’ve worked out the big climactic twist after 15 minutes, you’ll know this story of a strictly amateur master assassin is firing blanks
This gloomy – literally so – thriller is set mostly over the course of one night, starting out with a big wodge of voiceover narration by the film’s unnamed hitman protagonist (Anson Mount), all of it using the second person voice with a cello sawing away in the background. For a minute your hopes are raised that this will be some kind of playful postmodern narrative, along the lines of Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Robert Coover’s Noir, or even a pleasingly lurid Gen X study such as Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City.
Alas, you are disappointed to learn this mystery story is much less clever than it thinks it is. Perhaps you should have twigged that earlier as the hitman,...
This gloomy – literally so – thriller is set mostly over the course of one night, starting out with a big wodge of voiceover narration by the film’s unnamed hitman protagonist (Anson Mount), all of it using the second person voice with a cello sawing away in the background. For a minute your hopes are raised that this will be some kind of playful postmodern narrative, along the lines of Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Robert Coover’s Noir, or even a pleasingly lurid Gen X study such as Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City.
Alas, you are disappointed to learn this mystery story is much less clever than it thinks it is. Perhaps you should have twigged that earlier as the hitman,...
- 4/29/2021
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
"'How could your friend do this to you?'" Altitude Films in the UK has released an official UK trailer for the documentary The Capote Tapes, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Ebs Burnough. This originally premiered at last year's Toronto Film Festival, and also played at the Hamptons and Rio de Janeiro Film Festivals. Using the tapes, animation, and new on-camera interviews with people who knew him, the film explores the impact of Truman Capote's explosive unfinished novel "Answered Prayers". TIFF adds: "He published three excerpts as magazine pieces that caused high scandals and recriminations, but no further manuscript was ever found. Plimpton's tapes shed new light on what happened. They are interwoven with Capote's notorious television appearances and insightful interviews with the likes of Dick Cavett and Jay McInerney." The doc film "delivers a fresh portrait that reinvigorates our understanding of this vital writer, much like I Am Not Your Negro...
- 12/28/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Altitude Films have debuted a new trailer for Truman Capote documentary ‘The Capote Tapes’.
In the 35 years since his death, Truman Capote has remained a source of curiosity to many. His works, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, have maintained their place in the literary canon of great twentieth-century American literature and still appeal to readers across the globe today.
Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote’s greatest masterpiece, an epic portrait of NYC’s glittering jet-set society. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through never before heard audio archive and interviews with Capote’s friends and enemies, this intimate documentary reveals the rise and fall of one of America’s most iconic writers.
With unprecedented access to access to George Plimpton’s taped interviews for his biography, Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career. The documentary features interviews with Dick Cavett,...
In the 35 years since his death, Truman Capote has remained a source of curiosity to many. His works, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, have maintained their place in the literary canon of great twentieth-century American literature and still appeal to readers across the globe today.
Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote’s greatest masterpiece, an epic portrait of NYC’s glittering jet-set society. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through never before heard audio archive and interviews with Capote’s friends and enemies, this intimate documentary reveals the rise and fall of one of America’s most iconic writers.
With unprecedented access to access to George Plimpton’s taped interviews for his biography, Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career. The documentary features interviews with Dick Cavett,...
- 12/18/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Greenwich Entertainment has secured North American distribution rights to The Capote Tapes, a documentary feature by first-time director Ebs Burnough. The pic, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and closed the Doc NYC event last week, will get a theatrical release in 2020.
The logline: Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote’s greatest masterpiece, an epic portrait of New York’s glittering jet-set society. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through never-before-heard audio archives and interviews with Capote’s friends and enemies, The Capote Tapes reveals the rise and fall of America’s most iconic gay writer.
“Truman Capote is one of history’s most prolific and mysterious writers, and we are thrilled to work with Greenwich to release The Capote Tapes so a wider audience can appreciate the essence of such a fascinating icon,” Burnough said.
The documentary features interviews with Dick Cavett, André Leon Talley,...
The logline: Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote’s greatest masterpiece, an epic portrait of New York’s glittering jet-set society. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through never-before-heard audio archives and interviews with Capote’s friends and enemies, The Capote Tapes reveals the rise and fall of America’s most iconic gay writer.
“Truman Capote is one of history’s most prolific and mysterious writers, and we are thrilled to work with Greenwich to release The Capote Tapes so a wider audience can appreciate the essence of such a fascinating icon,” Burnough said.
The documentary features interviews with Dick Cavett, André Leon Talley,...
- 11/19/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The Global Lyme Alliance (Gla), the leading 501c3 dedicated to conquering Lyme and other tick-borne diseases through research, education and awareness, today announced that its fourth annual New York City Gala raised over $2 million at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.
Sutton Foster Performs at Global Lyme Alliance Gala
Credit/Copyright: Rob Kim for Getty Images/Global Lyme Alliance
The money raised at the event will support the Gla’s mission to advance scientific research leading to a reliable diagnostic test, improved treatment options, and ultimately, find a cure for Lyme and other tick-borne disease. Ramona Singer and Erin Walker were honored at the gala while the audience was treated to a show-stopping performance by Tony Award-winning Broadway and television star Sutton Foster.
The gala experience was produced by co-chair and celebrated event producer Larry Scott of Lawrence Scott Events, who donated his event planning and design services towards...
Sutton Foster Performs at Global Lyme Alliance Gala
Credit/Copyright: Rob Kim for Getty Images/Global Lyme Alliance
The money raised at the event will support the Gla’s mission to advance scientific research leading to a reliable diagnostic test, improved treatment options, and ultimately, find a cure for Lyme and other tick-borne disease. Ramona Singer and Erin Walker were honored at the gala while the audience was treated to a show-stopping performance by Tony Award-winning Broadway and television star Sutton Foster.
The gala experience was produced by co-chair and celebrated event producer Larry Scott of Lawrence Scott Events, who donated his event planning and design services towards...
- 10/18/2018
- Look to the Stars
Global Lyme Alliance (Gla), the leading 501c3 dedicated to conquering Lyme and other tick-borne diseases through research, education and awareness, will hold its 4th annual New York City Gala on October 11th at Cipriani 42nd Street.
The event aims to raise Lyme disease awareness and research funds to improve diagnostics, treatments and ultimately find a cure for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.
Erin Walker will serve as the evening’s honored guest. As a mother, equestrian, business owner, and wife of 2016 PGA Champion Jimmy Walker, she is an active advocate for Lyme disease awareness and research. Both Erin and Jimmy Walker have been affected by Lyme, which is a global epidemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 329,000 new cases are reported in the U.S. alone every year.
“We are inspired by Erin and Jimmy’s stories,” said Gla CEO Scott Santarella, “and join them...
The event aims to raise Lyme disease awareness and research funds to improve diagnostics, treatments and ultimately find a cure for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.
Erin Walker will serve as the evening’s honored guest. As a mother, equestrian, business owner, and wife of 2016 PGA Champion Jimmy Walker, she is an active advocate for Lyme disease awareness and research. Both Erin and Jimmy Walker have been affected by Lyme, which is a global epidemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 329,000 new cases are reported in the U.S. alone every year.
“We are inspired by Erin and Jimmy’s stories,” said Gla CEO Scott Santarella, “and join them...
- 9/24/2018
- Look to the Stars
More than 20 years ago, the actor was anointed ‘the coolest girl in the world’. As her new film opens, she talks about A-list movie stars hogging the best TV roles and why she chose not to add her voice to #MeToo
Chloë Sevigny walks into the bar of a hotel in downtown New York like a discreet but still conquering hero: leather jacket, red lipstick, round John Lennon-style sunglasses and a laugh that draws the eyes of the room. She recently moved back to Manhattan from a far-flung neighbourhood of Brooklyn, where she had gone in search of a quieter life. For decades, the actor enjoyed the buzz of being a well-known figure, until suddenly, in her early 40s, she didn’t. “But it didn’t work out,” she says, drily. Brooklyn was too quiet, too far; not Sevigny’s style at all and now she is back – greeting people...
Chloë Sevigny walks into the bar of a hotel in downtown New York like a discreet but still conquering hero: leather jacket, red lipstick, round John Lennon-style sunglasses and a laugh that draws the eyes of the room. She recently moved back to Manhattan from a far-flung neighbourhood of Brooklyn, where she had gone in search of a quieter life. For decades, the actor enjoyed the buzz of being a well-known figure, until suddenly, in her early 40s, she didn’t. “But it didn’t work out,” she says, drily. Brooklyn was too quiet, too far; not Sevigny’s style at all and now she is back – greeting people...
- 5/6/2018
- by Emma Brockes
- The Guardian - Film News
Global Lyme Alliance (Gla), the world’s leading organization dedicated to the research and education of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, announced its third annual New York City Gala raised $2 million.
Rob Thomas and Chris Daughtry
Credit/Copyright: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
The funding will support Gla’s mission to advance scientific research leading to a reliable diagnostic test and better treatment protocols, as well as educate both the public and physicians about Lyme disease.
This year’s gala, produced by celebrity event planner Larry Scott of Lawrence Scott Events, was attended by more than 700 supporters at Cipriani 42nd Street and honored Marisol Thomas, philanthropist, animal rights advocate and wife of Grammy Award-winning musician Rob Thomas and Joseph Abboud, celebrated and award-winning menswear designer and author of Threads: My Life Behind the Seams in the High-Stakes World of Fashion and Fashion Designer Encyclopedia, for their active roles in driving awareness...
Rob Thomas and Chris Daughtry
Credit/Copyright: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
The funding will support Gla’s mission to advance scientific research leading to a reliable diagnostic test and better treatment protocols, as well as educate both the public and physicians about Lyme disease.
This year’s gala, produced by celebrity event planner Larry Scott of Lawrence Scott Events, was attended by more than 700 supporters at Cipriani 42nd Street and honored Marisol Thomas, philanthropist, animal rights advocate and wife of Grammy Award-winning musician Rob Thomas and Joseph Abboud, celebrated and award-winning menswear designer and author of Threads: My Life Behind the Seams in the High-Stakes World of Fashion and Fashion Designer Encyclopedia, for their active roles in driving awareness...
- 10/25/2017
- Look to the Stars
Amazon Studios is adapting Jay McInerney’s “Brightness Falls” book trilogy into a television series, a source close to the streaming service has confirmed. The trilogy follows a couple — Corrine and Russell Calloway — over the course of 30 years. Each novel is set against the backdrop of a major historical event. The first one, “Brightness Falls” sees the two meeting in college and getting caught up in the buyout frenzy of the ’80s. The second, “The Good Life,” takes place in the shadow of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The third, “Bright Precious Days” is during the 2008 recession. Also Read:...
- 6/19/2017
- by Carli Velocci
- The Wrap
Robert Longo: The Destroyer Cycle Metro Pictures Gallery, NYC May 3 - June 17, 2017
Looking at the career of the artist Robert Longo can be a philosophical meditation on style. Style, as opposed to stylization, is a key to understanding Longo’s importance as an artist, both at the beginning of his career with the Men in Cities drawings, through his large charcoal drawings of guns, to his blue-chip Abstract Expressionist paintings, and into this recent, powerful exhibition at Metro Pictures.
A lot of art that we place in the category “Eighties Art” (see this year’s Whitney exhibition, a perfect collection of specimens) rested heavily on stylization, not style. Much of this type of work was paintings that came with pre-fab “movements,” object-sculptures allegedly imbued with some post-modern sensibilities, and, most especially, the adding of “neo-“ before any historical art movement to create a new category. At first, Longo’s...
Looking at the career of the artist Robert Longo can be a philosophical meditation on style. Style, as opposed to stylization, is a key to understanding Longo’s importance as an artist, both at the beginning of his career with the Men in Cities drawings, through his large charcoal drawings of guns, to his blue-chip Abstract Expressionist paintings, and into this recent, powerful exhibition at Metro Pictures.
A lot of art that we place in the category “Eighties Art” (see this year’s Whitney exhibition, a perfect collection of specimens) rested heavily on stylization, not style. Much of this type of work was paintings that came with pre-fab “movements,” object-sculptures allegedly imbued with some post-modern sensibilities, and, most especially, the adding of “neo-“ before any historical art movement to create a new category. At first, Longo’s...
- 5/23/2017
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
In the 90s she was dubbed ‘the coolest girl in the world’. Now happily reunited with Whit Stillman, she looks back at her rollercoaster career
One warm April weekend, Chloë Sevigny arranges a boot sale in the heart of Manhattan’s East Village. She empties her wardrobe, batches up her belongings and operates the cash register on the corner of Avenue C. Vintage clothes, hats and shoes: they all have to go. The actor is embarking on a spot of spring-cleaning, shedding some of the baggage from her own wild years. In so doing, she is maybe shedding a piece of New York history as well.
In the early 1990s, the grungy East Village was Sevigny’s natural habitat, her happy hunting ground. She first came here as a callow Catholic teenager and was adopted by the freaks, geeks and skaters who haunted the neighbourhood around Tompkins Square Park. These streets defined her and she,...
One warm April weekend, Chloë Sevigny arranges a boot sale in the heart of Manhattan’s East Village. She empties her wardrobe, batches up her belongings and operates the cash register on the corner of Avenue C. Vintage clothes, hats and shoes: they all have to go. The actor is embarking on a spot of spring-cleaning, shedding some of the baggage from her own wild years. In so doing, she is maybe shedding a piece of New York history as well.
In the early 1990s, the grungy East Village was Sevigny’s natural habitat, her happy hunting ground. She first came here as a callow Catholic teenager and was adopted by the freaks, geeks and skaters who haunted the neighbourhood around Tompkins Square Park. These streets defined her and she,...
- 5/14/2016
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
One of the highlights of this year’s on-stage conversations at the Tribeca Film Festival was this sit-down between Francis Ford Coppola and his unlikely interrogator Jay McInerney. For years now, Coppola has been kicking around the concept of a “live cinema,” which is tricky to define, but he gets down to brass tacks in this conversation, which lasts just under an hour.
- 4/27/2016
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
“We’re not gonna talk about wine,” legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola quipped at the Tribeca Film Festival where he sat down for a wide-ranging Storytellers talk moderated by author Jay McInerney. And it was an appropriate setting for the man who gave the world “The Godfather,” as he’s now embarking on another epic story. “Distant Vision” is a massive undertaking that Coppola has been working on for a while now. In 2014 he described it as "a multi-generational saga about an Italian-American family not unlike his own" and later explained the unique approach he was going to take with it. "It’s sort of like [Thomas Mann's] 'Buddenbrooks' because it’s about three generations of a family,” Coppola said in 2015. “It happens during the birth of television; the growth and omnipresence of television and finally the end of television as it turns into the internet. Then I decided that I wanted...
- 4/25/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Benedikt Erlingsson, Gréta Olafsdóttir and Margrét Jónasdóttir in the arms of Frédéric Boyer Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer met me for a conversation at Benedikt Erlingsson's The Show Of Shows at MoMA PS1's Vw Dome, where Michelangelo Frammartino's Alberi, Tsai Ming-liang's Journey To The West and Celia Rowlson-Hall's Ma premiered. Parents came to mind as a theme with Halkawt Mustafa's El Clásico, Lorene Scafaria's The Meddler, Robert Schwartzman's Dreamland, Jason Bateman's The Family Fang, Kadri Kõusaar's Mother, Bart Freundlich's Wolves and Christian Tafdrup's Parents (Forældre). Andrew Rossi's The First Monday In May, John Dower's My Scientology Movie, Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai's Reset, Benjamin Ree's Magnus, Ferne Pearlstein's The Last Laugh and Dylan Harvey and Ian Roderick Gray's The Banksy Job are some of the original documentaries of note.
Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer met me for a conversation at Benedikt Erlingsson's The Show Of Shows at MoMA PS1's Vw Dome, where Michelangelo Frammartino's Alberi, Tsai Ming-liang's Journey To The West and Celia Rowlson-Hall's Ma premiered. Parents came to mind as a theme with Halkawt Mustafa's El Clásico, Lorene Scafaria's The Meddler, Robert Schwartzman's Dreamland, Jason Bateman's The Family Fang, Kadri Kõusaar's Mother, Bart Freundlich's Wolves and Christian Tafdrup's Parents (Forældre). Andrew Rossi's The First Monday In May, John Dower's My Scientology Movie, Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai's Reset, Benjamin Ree's Magnus, Ferne Pearlstein's The Last Laugh and Dylan Harvey and Ian Roderick Gray's The Banksy Job are some of the original documentaries of note.
- 4/20/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Wong Kar Wai, Artistic Director of China: Through the Looking Glass says in Andrew Rossi's grand The First Monday in May: "The only way to move forward is not forgetting your past." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Patti Smith, Francis Ford Coppola, Tom Hanks, Tina Fey and Idina Menzel will be in conversation with Ethan Hawke, Jay McInerney, John Oliver, Damian Holbrook and Marc Platt respectively, in the inaugural Tribeca Talks: Storytellers at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
Opium perfume bottle drawings by Yves Saint Laurent in China: Through the Looking Glass Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The First Monday In May, Andrew Rossi's insightful look at the exhibition and gala for The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute China: Through the Looking Glass, features Andrew Bolton, Anna Wintour, Baz Luhrmann, André Leon Talley, Harold Koda, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, Riccardo Tisci, Guo Pei, Thomas Campbell, Maxwell K.
Patti Smith, Francis Ford Coppola, Tom Hanks, Tina Fey and Idina Menzel will be in conversation with Ethan Hawke, Jay McInerney, John Oliver, Damian Holbrook and Marc Platt respectively, in the inaugural Tribeca Talks: Storytellers at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
Opium perfume bottle drawings by Yves Saint Laurent in China: Through the Looking Glass Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The First Monday In May, Andrew Rossi's insightful look at the exhibition and gala for The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute China: Through the Looking Glass, features Andrew Bolton, Anna Wintour, Baz Luhrmann, André Leon Talley, Harold Koda, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, Riccardo Tisci, Guo Pei, Thomas Campbell, Maxwell K.
- 4/8/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Breaking news! Apparently, not everyone has a deep obsession with Jennifer Lawrence. Shocking, we know. Chloë Sevigny—actress, model, fashionista, and once described as "the coolest girl in the world" by Jay McInerney in The New Yorker—has never been one to shy away from speaking her mind. And when the 40-year-old star sat down for an interview for V magazine's Spring issue, such was the case. Sevigny, who was also promoting her upcoming coffee book, wasn't afraid to tell it like it is on a variety of topics—including her unpopular view of one of America's sweethearts. It all started when she was asked whether she worries about being typecast, and Sevigny...
- 3/10/2015
- E! Online
On June 16, 54 Below will present an all-star concert version of Paul Scott Goodman's rock musical Bright Lights, Big City, based on the novel by Jay McInerney.Bright Lights, Big City follows a week in the life of Jamie, a successful young writer who loses himself in the chaos of 1980s New York City. The concert will star Colin Donnell, Matt Doyle, original cast memberAnnMarie Milazzo, Natalie Cortez, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Alice Ripley. The musical's original director, Michael Greif, will be at the helm.
- 5/14/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
An all-star concert version of Paul Scott Goodman's rock musical Bright Lights, Big City will play two performances at NYC's 54 Below on Monday, June 16, 2014 at 7pm amp 930pm. Based on the novel by Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City follows a week in the life of Jamie, a successful young writer who loses himself in the chaos of 1980s New York City.
- 4/28/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
You’re not the kind of guy who would be looking at an art auction website like this at this time of the morning. But an editor at the magazine where you work passed along a link to an auction of Marc Tauss's iconic cover artwork for Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney’s 1984 debut novel, with a note that said, "Hey, John, this seems like your kind of thing." He knows me well, maybe as well as the baby in that book knows a coma. Wasn’t Bright Lights, Big City partly why you ended up where you ended up? You can admit that now. You can admit now that, in the lonely junior-year dorm room at the large Midwestern university, you read the Vintage Contemporaries paperback and watched the movie adaptation multiple times, even though you knew that Michael J. Fox, one of your favorite actors at the time,...
- 1/8/2014
- by John Sellers
- Vulture
While David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" will always stand proudly as the moment the distinct filmmaker freaked out America on national network TV, once the show was done, he was finished working on the small screen format. Less known among his filmography is a detour to HBO in 1993 for the three part miniseries "Hotel Room." Well, thanks to the glory of the interwebs, you can now spend the rest of the day hiding out from your boss and watching it in full. Penned by Barry Gifford ("Wild At Heart" author, "Lost Highway") and Jay McInerney (“Bright Lights, Big City”), the miniseries chronicles the lives of folks passing through a hotel in 1969, 1992 and 1936 (in that order). It's apparently more straightforward than the kind of stuff Lynch is usually known for, but it's also touched by the director's unique sensibility. And the cast? As usual, a fantastic array of support with Harry Dean Stanton,...
- 11/8/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Gwyneth Paltrow has been stealing literary thunder at a public event. How are plainer writers to take it back?
What's a jobbing author supposed to do when overwhelmed at a library book signing by the fragrant Gwyneth Paltrow? After an attempt to claim that she was an up-from-size-zero Gwynnie herself had failed, novelist Christina Oxenberg knew what to do: first waft "stinky steak sandwich" fumes in her direction, then take to one's blog to let off steam.
The signing in question, the ninth East Hampton Library Annual Authors Night fundraiser, had been hailed as New York's literary event of the summer and was crammed full of the great and good from literary circles including Robert Caro, Pulitzer prize-winning biographer of Lyndon Johnson, heavyweight economist Joseph Stiglitz and acclaimed New York novelist Jay McInerney.
All were eclipsed by Gwyneth's glow, and her crowds of fans, as she signed copies of It's...
What's a jobbing author supposed to do when overwhelmed at a library book signing by the fragrant Gwyneth Paltrow? After an attempt to claim that she was an up-from-size-zero Gwynnie herself had failed, novelist Christina Oxenberg knew what to do: first waft "stinky steak sandwich" fumes in her direction, then take to one's blog to let off steam.
The signing in question, the ninth East Hampton Library Annual Authors Night fundraiser, had been hailed as New York's literary event of the summer and was crammed full of the great and good from literary circles including Robert Caro, Pulitzer prize-winning biographer of Lyndon Johnson, heavyweight economist Joseph Stiglitz and acclaimed New York novelist Jay McInerney.
All were eclipsed by Gwyneth's glow, and her crowds of fans, as she signed copies of It's...
- 8/15/2013
- by Liz Bury
- The Guardian - Film News
Gwyneth Paltrow was one of the main draws to an authors' festival in the Hamptons over the weekend, but she -- or rather, her entourage -- did not make new fans among her fellow writers.
Paltrow was one of about a hundred writers who gathered for the East Hampton Library's Authors Night on Saturday (Aug. 10), and she was seated -- "due to the inflexibility of the alphabet" -- next to writer Christina Oxenberg at the fund-raising event. Paltrow was signing her cookbook "It's All Good," Oxenberg her latest book "Life Is Short: Read Short Stories."
Paltrow was a little bit late, Oxenberg writes on her blog, and while that was fine at first, eventually "a line began to form in front of my section of table. These folks were hushed and reverential and had a particularly earnest and focused demeanor and casting furtive eyes around, clearly single minded and clearly...
Paltrow was one of about a hundred writers who gathered for the East Hampton Library's Authors Night on Saturday (Aug. 10), and she was seated -- "due to the inflexibility of the alphabet" -- next to writer Christina Oxenberg at the fund-raising event. Paltrow was signing her cookbook "It's All Good," Oxenberg her latest book "Life Is Short: Read Short Stories."
Paltrow was a little bit late, Oxenberg writes on her blog, and while that was fine at first, eventually "a line began to form in front of my section of table. These folks were hushed and reverential and had a particularly earnest and focused demeanor and casting furtive eyes around, clearly single minded and clearly...
- 8/13/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
It's been more than a decade since the 1990s ended, yet the Internet can't seem to go a day without a reminder of the neon slap bracelets that may have been banned from your school.
Yes, we get it. Times are tough and there's comfort in reflection, but enough is enough.
Below, a final goodbye to the 90s to end the nostalgia once and for all. (We're not kidding. There are 1990 items below.)
1. Scrunchies
2. "The Wild Thornberries"
3. Dawson and Joey
4. "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys"
5. Mr. Feeny
7. MTV playing music videos
8. Snick
9. The premiere of "Freaks and Geeks"
10. Levar Burton
11. "Daria"
12. "Arthur"
13. "The Powerpuff Girls"
14. "Smart Guy"
15. Comedy Central globe logo with buildings
16. "The X-Files"
17. Rosie O'Donnell
18. Bill Nye
19. "Dawson's Creek"
20. The Mighty Ducks"
21. "Are You Afraid of the Dark"
22. Cornholio
23. Rachel Green
24. Tim Allen
25. "All That"
26. "Beverly Hills 90210"
27. "Step by Step"
28. "The Ren & Stimpy Show"
29. "The Famous Jett Jackson"
30. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
Yes, we get it. Times are tough and there's comfort in reflection, but enough is enough.
Below, a final goodbye to the 90s to end the nostalgia once and for all. (We're not kidding. There are 1990 items below.)
1. Scrunchies
2. "The Wild Thornberries"
3. Dawson and Joey
4. "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys"
5. Mr. Feeny
7. MTV playing music videos
8. Snick
9. The premiere of "Freaks and Geeks"
10. Levar Burton
11. "Daria"
12. "Arthur"
13. "The Powerpuff Girls"
14. "Smart Guy"
15. Comedy Central globe logo with buildings
16. "The X-Files"
17. Rosie O'Donnell
18. Bill Nye
19. "Dawson's Creek"
20. The Mighty Ducks"
21. "Are You Afraid of the Dark"
22. Cornholio
23. Rachel Green
24. Tim Allen
25. "All That"
26. "Beverly Hills 90210"
27. "Step by Step"
28. "The Ren & Stimpy Show"
29. "The Famous Jett Jackson"
30. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
- 7/29/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
“We all like a mystery,” says a voice in the just-released trailer for Salinger, the first major documentary that attempts to illustrate Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger’s life after he retreated from the public eye in 1965.
Directed by Savages scribe Shane Salerno, Salinger promises revealing, never-before-seen photographs and interviews with people close to the late, reclusive author. It’s also sprinkled with celebrity interviews as well, including Martin Sheen, Danny DeVito, Edward Norton and John Cusack.
Over nine years in the making, The Weinstein Company released the first trailer for the documentary on Thursday. Its tense style...
Directed by Savages scribe Shane Salerno, Salinger promises revealing, never-before-seen photographs and interviews with people close to the late, reclusive author. It’s also sprinkled with celebrity interviews as well, including Martin Sheen, Danny DeVito, Edward Norton and John Cusack.
Over nine years in the making, The Weinstein Company released the first trailer for the documentary on Thursday. Its tense style...
- 6/13/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
DVD Release Date: May 7, 2013
Price: DVD $14.98
Studio: BBC Home Entertainment/Warner Home Video
With Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby in theaters, BBC explores the man behind the novel in the documentary film The Great Gatsby: Midnight in Manhattan.
The movie was produced as part of BBC’s acclaimed art series Omnibus in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the classic novel, which has continued to gain in popularity since it was first published in 1925.
The Great Gatsby: Midnight in Manhattan looks at the story’s origins, the roaring 1920s and F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s interest in writing. It looks at the life and dark creative side of Fitzgerald, his disappointing college days at Princeton, his difficult relationship with fellow author Ernest Hemingway and his turbulent last days in Hollywood.
The Great Gatsby: Midnight in Manhattan is narrated by British actor Tara Fitzgerald (TV’s Waking the Dead), no relation,...
Price: DVD $14.98
Studio: BBC Home Entertainment/Warner Home Video
With Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby in theaters, BBC explores the man behind the novel in the documentary film The Great Gatsby: Midnight in Manhattan.
The movie was produced as part of BBC’s acclaimed art series Omnibus in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the classic novel, which has continued to gain in popularity since it was first published in 1925.
The Great Gatsby: Midnight in Manhattan looks at the story’s origins, the roaring 1920s and F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s interest in writing. It looks at the life and dark creative side of Fitzgerald, his disappointing college days at Princeton, his difficult relationship with fellow author Ernest Hemingway and his turbulent last days in Hollywood.
The Great Gatsby: Midnight in Manhattan is narrated by British actor Tara Fitzgerald (TV’s Waking the Dead), no relation,...
- 5/2/2013
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
With The Spy Who Loved Me, Ian Fleming took an ambitious gamble: abandoning Bond for much of the book in favour of a female narrator. As Skyfall opens, Richard Williams remembers a surprising heroine
Vivienne Michel is perhaps the least well-known of the women for whom Ian Fleming arranged assignations with James Bond, and yet none of her more celebrated sisters, from Vesper Lynd through Tatiana Romanova and Pussy Galore to the Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, succeeded in engaging the author's interest to the same extent. To her alone is accorded the honour of a Bond book written entirely in her voice, with 007 making a late appearance in a supporting role. And although, unlike some of the others, she survived to tell the tale, she was destined to suffer a different kind of literary death.
Few novelists in Fleming's position, riding the public's voracious appetite for the adventures of a fictional hero,...
Vivienne Michel is perhaps the least well-known of the women for whom Ian Fleming arranged assignations with James Bond, and yet none of her more celebrated sisters, from Vesper Lynd through Tatiana Romanova and Pussy Galore to the Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, succeeded in engaging the author's interest to the same extent. To her alone is accorded the honour of a Bond book written entirely in her voice, with 007 making a late appearance in a supporting role. And although, unlike some of the others, she survived to tell the tale, she was destined to suffer a different kind of literary death.
Few novelists in Fleming's position, riding the public's voracious appetite for the adventures of a fictional hero,...
- 10/26/2012
- by Richard Williams
- The Guardian - Film News
Since 2003, Josh Schwartz has helped turn, among others, Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Mischa Barton, Rachel Bilson, Adam Brody, Penn Badgley, Zachary Levi and Chace Crawford into television stars. Now 36, the writer-producer behind "The O.C.," "Gossip Girl" and "Chuck" -- as well as, perhaps, the mid-decade success of Death Cab For Cutie -- has taken his talents to the multiplex for the teen comedy "Fun Size."
Out on Oct. 26, "Fun Size" is a one-crazy-night movie about what happens when a high school senior named Wren (Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice) loses her kid brother on Halloween night. Aided by a snappy best friend (Jane Levy, doing her best Summer Roberts impression) and a love-lorn nerd (Thomas Mann), Wren must find her brother before her mother (Chelsea Handler) gets home for the night. "Fun Size" is a bit like "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" mixed with the Halloween party from "Mean Girls," but scored...
Out on Oct. 26, "Fun Size" is a one-crazy-night movie about what happens when a high school senior named Wren (Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice) loses her kid brother on Halloween night. Aided by a snappy best friend (Jane Levy, doing her best Summer Roberts impression) and a love-lorn nerd (Thomas Mann), Wren must find her brother before her mother (Chelsea Handler) gets home for the night. "Fun Size" is a bit like "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" mixed with the Halloween party from "Mean Girls," but scored...
- 10/23/2012
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
The trailer for newcomer Alexander Poe's "Ex-Girlfriends," which premieres this month at the Austin Film Festival, opens with a second-person greeting reminiscent of Jay McInerney's famed first sentence from his '80s novel of 20-something New York, "Bright Lights, Big City." Like that book, "Ex-Girlfriends" plumbs the often-comic fallout of young urban romance in various states of disintegration. Having bumped into his former-girlfriend Laura (Kristen Connolly) at a party, Graham (Poe) struggles to win her back even as he discovers her involvement with the same man his friend Kate (Jennifer Carpenter) -- another ex -- is pursuing. The film's trailer yields a melange of sweaters, irony and twee acoustic rock that will be familiar to fans of indie comedy, as well as the mix of knowing barbs and hard-won empathy that has lately made the genre fertile territory. "Ex-Girlfriends" comes out in New York and...
- 10/10/2012
- by Chris Pomorski
- Indiewire
It's Sunday afternoon — your last chance to read all that stuff you meant to read last week before Monday brings a new deluge of things you will want to read. Below, some of our recommendations: "Factory Girls" by John Seabrook (The New Yorker): This is how your K-pop gets made. "Will & Grace changed nothing" by Christopher Kelly (Salon): TV's use of gay characters hasn't evolved as much as Modern Family's producers would like you to think. "The Solitude of Invention" by Stacy Kors (Columbia Magazine): Author Paul Auster opens up about his life and work. "John Cale" by Mark Richardson (Pitchfork): The founding member of the Velvet Underground talks about his favorite albums, from Vivaldi to Snoop Dogg. "Jay McInerney, the New York Fantasy, and Wine" by Tom Dibblee (The Los Angeles Review of Books): A chronicle of one writer's complicated relationship with Jay McInerney.
- 10/7/2012
- by Andre Tartar,Caroline Bankoff
- Vulture
F Scott Fitzgerald's novel set amid the riotous frivolity of the jazz age defines the American psyche, says author Jay McInerney
The Great Gatsby seems to be enjoying a moment, what with the success of the New York production of Gatz, opening in London (described by America's leading theatre critic Ben Brantley as "The most remarkable achievement in theatre not only of this year but also of this decade"), and the release later this year of Baz Luhrman's $120m film version. The book was little noticed on your side of the Atlantic on its initial publication. Collins, which had published the English editions of F Scott Fitzgerald's first two novels, rejected it outright, and the Chatto and Windus edition failed to arouse much enthusiasm, critical or commercial, when it was published in London in 1926. To be fair, the novel hadn't been a smash hit in the States the year before,...
The Great Gatsby seems to be enjoying a moment, what with the success of the New York production of Gatz, opening in London (described by America's leading theatre critic Ben Brantley as "The most remarkable achievement in theatre not only of this year but also of this decade"), and the release later this year of Baz Luhrman's $120m film version. The book was little noticed on your side of the Atlantic on its initial publication. Collins, which had published the English editions of F Scott Fitzgerald's first two novels, rejected it outright, and the Chatto and Windus edition failed to arouse much enthusiasm, critical or commercial, when it was published in London in 1926. To be fair, the novel hadn't been a smash hit in the States the year before,...
- 6/9/2012
- by Jay McInerney
- The Guardian - Film News
New York, May 16: Singer Courtney Love has rubbished reports that she is suffering from a panic attack.
It was reported that the singer suffered a panic attack due to which she was forced to pull out of a reading event in New York City. She was due to read a short story by writer Jay McInerney in Manhattan.
However, Love revealed she left early to meet her new boyfriend.
"I came in and had to go uptown to meet my boyfriend. I swear I didn't say or do anything, I was in a hurry to get uptown. I did zero, I turned up to be supportive, had a water and left..
It was reported that the singer suffered a panic attack due to which she was forced to pull out of a reading event in New York City. She was due to read a short story by writer Jay McInerney in Manhattan.
However, Love revealed she left early to meet her new boyfriend.
"I came in and had to go uptown to meet my boyfriend. I swear I didn't say or do anything, I was in a hurry to get uptown. I did zero, I turned up to be supportive, had a water and left..
- 5/16/2012
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
Courtney Love 'flipped out' and at a hotel in New York on Sunday (13.05.12). The Hole singer was disturbed as she took part in interactive play 'Forgotten', and had to run for the exit, according to the New York Post newspaper. Courtney was at the city's McKittrick Hotel, where she was immersed in a dramatic rendition of writer Jay McInerney's new play. According to sources, the immersive experience started with Courtney and other guests walking 'down a long hallway.' They then proceeded into 'different rooms with nearly identical blond models in pink nighties' who were 'taking pills, writhing on a couch or smoking cigarettes'. Even though the people in the rooms were all actors, this quickly became too much...
- 5/15/2012
- Monsters and Critics
Christopher Smith Kwame Dawes at the Poets & Writers gala dinner.
At the Poets & Writers gala benefit dinner last night, before the glass doors to Capitale’s large hall were opened, we found ourselves squeezed into a roped-off cocktail reception with writers, publicists, agents and lawyers. This mirrored the packed subway car that we took during rush hour to get there, and even the packed sidewalk in Chinatown we negotiated on our way to Bowery Avenue.
It made for many quick,...
At the Poets & Writers gala benefit dinner last night, before the glass doors to Capitale’s large hall were opened, we found ourselves squeezed into a roped-off cocktail reception with writers, publicists, agents and lawyers. This mirrored the packed subway car that we took during rush hour to get there, and even the packed sidewalk in Chinatown we negotiated on our way to Bowery Avenue.
It made for many quick,...
- 3/30/2012
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Reuters Author Salman Rushdie poses for a photograph after an interview with Reuters in central London in this October 8, 2010 file photo.
Salman Rushdie was skeptical when a digital start up approached him about creating a soundtrack for one of his short stories. “I had to be convinced this was a good thing,” he said. “Normally when I read, I don’t like music playing.”
He agreed to give it a try. This week, Booktrack released a digital version of Mr.
Salman Rushdie was skeptical when a digital start up approached him about creating a soundtrack for one of his short stories. “I had to be convinced this was a good thing,” he said. “Normally when I read, I don’t like music playing.”
He agreed to give it a try. This week, Booktrack released a digital version of Mr.
- 2/9/2012
- by Alexandra Alter
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Perhaps it's fitting that talking about I Melt With You means talking about all the things it tries -- and fails -- to be. The story of a boom-and-bust weekend shared by four reuniting college cronies, I Melt With You is driven by music from its title on, setting the perennial crisis in middle-aged masculinity to glittery eighties beats. An industrial grade melodrama with more cuts than a pound of Bolivian marching powder, the movie aspires to all sorts of aesthetic heights -- from Reagan-era reckoning to Iron John implosion to feature-length video for a Jay McInerney cover band. That might make it sound like more fun than it is: Although a stark performative moment here and a cold, sexy shot there slip through, all of the film's lesser ambitions are undone by its most risible one -- to be serious, and thus be taken seriously.
- 12/8/2011
- Movieline
Reuters Greek protesters scuffle with policemen as they demonstrate against austerity policies during a students parade at central Syntagma (Constitution) square in Athens October 28, 2011.
Do you need a shorthand guide to Greek politics? What does a “Daily Show” commentator have to say about the end of the world? And when can teens stay home alone? A look at the most interesting stories in the Wall Street Journal blogs.
Hitchhikers’ Guide To Greek Politics: It’s possible that you already know...
Do you need a shorthand guide to Greek politics? What does a “Daily Show” commentator have to say about the end of the world? And when can teens stay home alone? A look at the most interesting stories in the Wall Street Journal blogs.
Hitchhikers’ Guide To Greek Politics: It’s possible that you already know...
- 11/2/2011
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Many of you know that trailers are the new promo tool for books. The hilarious trailer for Russia-born Gary Shteyngart's third novel Super Sad True Love Story boasts James Franco, Jay McInerney, and others. Here's the Nyt review. This must-read witty dystopian novel was a huge hit with my book group this week. Like all good sci-fi, it's a super-prescient portrait of not where we will be, but where we are now. Here's a Shteyngart interview. Trailer below.
- 11/2/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
I will always have fond memories of Andy Rooney. He offered to sit down for a dual interview with Conan O'Brien. I thought two cantankerous comedians would make a good, interesting interview. I had interviewed Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer together for Esquire and went on to do Joseph Heller talking to Kurt Vonnegut for Playboy, then Erica Jong and Jay McInerney, followed by Jesse Jackson and Brooke Astor. This all began with Jerry Lieber chatting with Mike Stoller for Los Angeles Magazine. Well, Rooney was a class act. Not true with O’Brien, who initially agreed then kept stalling...
- 10/3/2011
- by Carole Mallory
- The Wrap
This week's news in the arts
London Fashion Week drew to a close yesterday, leaving us with only memories and a thousand photographs. But while fashion and photography have long been soul mates, the catwalk has also made a strong showing across film, music and literature – well beyond Naomi Campbell's classic Swan, and Lauren Weisenberg's seminal The Devil Wears Prada. Eighties sparring partners Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney covered the territory with Glamorama (1998) and Model Behaviour (2007) respectively. A portrait of the empty world of the catwalk, Easton Ellis's anti-hero keeps himself entertained by joining a male model terrorist group.
In fact, the model caught up in world events is a recurring theme. As Zoolander's Derek Zoolander says: "I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good-looking." It turns out that more is saving the world from the evil Mugatu during the course of a fashion show.
London Fashion Week drew to a close yesterday, leaving us with only memories and a thousand photographs. But while fashion and photography have long been soul mates, the catwalk has also made a strong showing across film, music and literature – well beyond Naomi Campbell's classic Swan, and Lauren Weisenberg's seminal The Devil Wears Prada. Eighties sparring partners Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney covered the territory with Glamorama (1998) and Model Behaviour (2007) respectively. A portrait of the empty world of the catwalk, Easton Ellis's anti-hero keeps himself entertained by joining a male model terrorist group.
In fact, the model caught up in world events is a recurring theme. As Zoolander's Derek Zoolander says: "I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good-looking." It turns out that more is saving the world from the evil Mugatu during the course of a fashion show.
- 9/21/2011
- by Lauren Cochrane
- The Guardian - Film News
Ying chee Chui This house, with the roof removed, was designed by Ying chee Chui as a part of MIT’s “1K House” project.
Is it possible to build a house for $1,000? Are college athletes students or labor? And will the next ironman triathlete be a robot? A look at the most interesting stories from the Wall Street Journal blogs.
Is It Possible to Build a Home for $1,000?: In some cities — New York, for example — many buyers think nothing...
Is it possible to build a house for $1,000? Are college athletes students or labor? And will the next ironman triathlete be a robot? A look at the most interesting stories from the Wall Street Journal blogs.
Is It Possible to Build a Home for $1,000?: In some cities — New York, for example — many buyers think nothing...
- 9/16/2011
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
A tourist on a tour bus finds a dressed up skeleton. First on the scene is Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) with lame joke in tow and Mac (Gary Sinise). Stella "How long was that soda?" That was meant to be funny. Mac on the other hand comments it's a "new take on a bitch ride to hell." Wouldn't expect to hear something like that from Mac. Stella thinks perhaps it's an urban legend or a joke shop gag to scare tourists and the skeleton was probably bought from a store. Mac has to describe to her the difference between store bought and an actual skeleton and she's come across how many skeletons during her career that she can't tell the difference. A store bought skeleton would be bleached, have drill marks when assembled. This is brown with no such marks. Mac: "This is a joke I'm not laughing. These bones are real.
- 9/14/2011
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
It was an affair that looked could have been plucked straight out of, well, a Ralph Lauren ad. Lauren Bush, the niece of former president George W. Bush, and David Lauren, son of iconic designer Ralph Lauren, celebrated their engagement Saturday in the Hamptons. Guests included the entire Lauren clan, Paris Hilton's parents Rick and Kathy Hilton, Lauren Bush's mother, Sharon Bush, and designers Cynthia Rowley and Douglas Hannant. Everyone stuck to the all-white dress code at the fete, hosted by Hearst heiress Anne Hearst and her husband, author Jay McInerney, on their sprawling farm in Water Mill, N.
- 8/10/2011
- by Jeffrey Slonim
- PEOPLE.com
Associated Press Janet (Susan Sarandon) faints into the arms of Brad (Barry Bostwick) as Riff Raff (Richard O’Brien) and Magenta (Patricia Quinn) dance to “The Time Warp” in a still from the movie “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” in 1975.
Were Hungary’s communist leaders “Rocky Horror Picture Show” fans? Can being out help your career? And why is Bollywood taking on affirmative action? A look at some of the most interesting posts on the Wall Street Journal’s blogs.
Were Hungary’s communist leaders “Rocky Horror Picture Show” fans? Can being out help your career? And why is Bollywood taking on affirmative action? A look at some of the most interesting posts on the Wall Street Journal’s blogs.
- 7/20/2011
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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