Archive for January, 2010
January 10th, 2010 | Author: Maia
Things get a little more international in the BAFTAs’ acting categories. Talent in non-Hollywood films include Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish (Bright Star, above), Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina, Emma Thompson, and Dominic Cooper (An Education), Andy Serkis (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll), Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer (The Last Station), Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall (The Damned United), Penelope Cruz (Broken Embraces), Audrey Tautou (Coco Before Chanel), Anne-Marie Duff (Nowhere Boy), and Katie Jarvis (Fish Tank).
But where’s Michael Fassbender? He’s nowhere to be found for his work in Fish Tank, but Zachary Quinto is in there for Star Trek.
A few of us at Alt Film Guide have wondered why BAFTA hasn’t changed the name of their trophies to The Hollywood Europe Awards.
The BAFTA nominations will be announced on January 21. The BAFTA ceremony will take place on Feb. 21.[...]
LEADING ACTRESS
Abbie Cornish (Fanny Brawne) – Bright Star
Amy Adams (Julie Powell) – Julie and Julia
Audrey Tautou (Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel) – Coco Before Chanel
Carey Mulligan (Jenny) – An Education
Emily Blunt (Queen Victoria) – The Young Victoria
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) – Precious
Helen Mirren (Sofya Tolstoy) – The Last Station
Katie Jarvis (Mia) – Fish Tank
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Jean Craddock) – Crazy Heart
Marion Cotillard (Luisa Contini) – Nine
Melanie Laurent (Shosanna Dreyfus) – Inglourious Basterds
Meryl Streep (Jane) – It’s Complicated
Meryl Streep (Julia Child) – Julie and Julia
Penelope Cruz (Lena) – Broken Embraces
Saoirse Ronan (Susie Salmon) – The Lovely Bones
Source: Alt Film Guide
January 9th, 2010 | Author: Maia
Finally I’ve finish to upload the new Audrey’s layout!
I hope you like it!
January 2nd, 2010 | Author: Maia
Alexa Chung has been named the most stylish woman of 2009.
The British television presenter, who moved to New York this year to work for MTV, topped Vogue magazine’s Best Dressed of 2009, with French actress Audrey Tautou coming in second.
Alexa is a well-known lover of British fashion labels, often wearing Burberry and Mulberry and previously modelling for Vivienne Westwood.
Commenting on their decision to crown Alexa best dressed, Vogue said: “She won over the US style pundits with her quirky style and kept us on side by staying true to the formula that won her our approval in the first place.”
Sex and the City actress Sarah Jessica Parker came third in the list, followed by X Factor judges Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue in fourth and fifth place.
Kate Moss came in the list at 10th, just ahead of Lady Gaga in 11th. Other notable inclusions include Michelle Obama, Anna Friel and Beth Ditto.
Vogue’s Best Dressed of 2009:
1. Alexa Chung
2. Audrey Tautou
3. Sarah Jessica Parker
4. Cheryl Cole
5. Dannii Minogue
6. Emma Watson
7. Sienna Miller
8. Diane Kruger
9. Freida Pinto
10. Kate Moss
11. Lady Gaga
12. Lily Donaldson
13. Leighton Meester
14. Michelle Obama
15. Angelina Jolie
16. Georgia May Jagger
17. Anna Friel
18. Olivia Palermo
19. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
20. Beth Ditto
January 2nd, 2010 | Author: Maia
In Anne Fontaine’s admiring but not uncritical “Coco Before Chanel,” Audrey Tautou plays an iconic designer who was also a kind of philosopher.
She wanted to liberate women from their crushing corsets, peel away their suffocating veils and let them move freely. In the process, she designed an adventurous life for herself.
Although sumptuously produced, the film is a staid account of her early years. We meet Gabrielle Chanel as her father dumps her at an orphanage with hardly a backward glance. The nuns’ black habits make an impression on the aspiring seamstress but don’t influence her adolescent wardrobe choices. Performing a saloon cabaret act with her sister, “Coco” dresses in French can-can froufrou.
Fontaine films with a romantic eye and moments of inspiration. In a ballroom scene, women in stuffy formal attire swirl and part until Tautou is revealed dancing in an evening gown of elegant simplicity. At that moment you can appreciate how radical her vision was.
Tautou makes Chanel crafty, sometimes unsympathetic, but always restlessly intelligent. But the film glosses over her complex, sometimes unpleasant personality, and skips the heart of the story: her growth from a designer of hats to a visionary entrepreneur.
“Coco Before Chanel” is exquisite on the surface but barely peeks behind the seams.
Source: theday.com
