Vanity Fair 2011: "The Young and Beautiful"

Cover shot by Norma Jean Roy

The annual Hollywood Issue cover of Vanity Fair has been revealed with. It's called "The Young and Beautiful"

After the jump I've broken it down into sections so you can see it more clearly... still waiting for a super hi-res version though you can see a fairly good image at Vanity Fair's site. But nothing hi-res enough to print or see faces beautifully large. VF's site links are  malfunctioning so you can't yet read about the making of the cover just yet.

But here's blown up images for you... I'm a giver.

Click to read more ...

Curio: American Psycho Squared

Alexa here.  As a follow-up to Nathaniel's Birthday Bale post (and all the American Psycho love shown in the comments) I had to share these wood panels by artist Kelly Puissegur, a.k.a. retrowhale.  I've blogged about Kelly's work before; she has a wonderfully artful take on some famous directors, and she's also made panels illustrating other films (I love her sweet 80s movie set).  You can check them all out at her shop.  As you can see, her detailed style is perfectly suited to Patrick Bateman's world.

January. It's a Wrap

The first month of 2011 has already wrapped... not to mention the first month of this BRAND NEW SITE. Can you believe? The big welcome was only one month ago. Here are ten highlights from the month in case you're just joining us or you happened to miss any of them:

Big Hair. Big Diva. Big Musical.

• Truth in Advertising - rejiggering some FYC ads.
• Overheard and Illustrated -How Black Swan is just like Donnie Darko.
• Red Carpet at the Globes - so much green. so much shoulder pad. so much saloon girl.
• Nathaniel's Top Ten List -from Viking Islands to Harvard Final Clubs to Italian Estates.
• Donna Murphy as Mother Gother in Tangled - a vocal appreciation.
• What If There Were Five? - a comment discussion.
• David O. Russell a few interesting anecdotes from the great director's Museum of the Moving Image interview with Spike Jonze.
• Clint & Beyoncé the weirdest movie new of the month -- maybe even the year within the first month.
• Streisand for Gypsy the second weirdest movie news of the month -- also a musical remake.
• Jacki Weaver Interview Epilogue: Thrilled she was nominated. What a relief.

Coming in February: Pixar retrospective, romantic moments in the movies, interviews with Oscar nominees, BAFTA blogging...  and we'll also finish up the FiLM BiTCH Awards... pinky swear!

True Clinch

Mattie & Rooster ReunitedAwwwww. Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) and Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) didn't wait a quarter century to see each other again. All it took was awards season hustle and bustle.

I'm growing fonder of Jeff Bridge's Rooster weekly and I'm usually the opposite with awards season performances. Every time I see a clip of that courtroom scene I giggle.

Get Back to Work!

Confession: Every time I see a picture of a director Baz Lurhmann or Quentin Tarantino at a party I want to scream "Get back to work, you!" If I were the boss of great directors they'd have terrible vacation time eligibility benefits. I'd maybe give them two weeks off a year. Maybe. I'd work the great ones 'round the clock. They'd surely unionize.

Baz Luhrmann, Tom Hooper, Quentin Tarantino

Here Baz and QT party post-SAG Awards with man o' Hollywood's hour Tom Hooper (The King's Speech). Hooper has won more Director's Guild competitions than either of them.