Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'focusfeatures'
October 2, 2006
New York Magazine reports that Jim Carrey is renting an apartment near Lincoln Center for the smokin' figure of $45,000 a month. The apartment is for sale - if you have $11,800,000 to spare - and has a 2,000 square foot living room! We saw Carrey on a Barbara Walters special, and he was talking about being all Zen and we think took her to his meditation retreat for the weepy part of the interview;......
Continue Reading "Jim Carrey Renting $45,000/Month Apartment"January 16, 2006
Gothamist was a bit underwhelmed by this year's Golden Globe nominees, and we were thinking of not liveblogging. But, gosh darn it as we watched the E! preshow and saw the starlets sparkle their way down the red carpet, we realize it was hopeless, so here we are. Let it be known that: - Keira Knightley looks gorgeous in her white Valentino - and there's something surprisingly youthful about the dress, even though there's that......
Continue Reading "Blogging the Golden Globes 2006"December 8, 2005
Here we go: it's a huge weekend for year-end Oscar-bait and questions abound. Will audiences flock to see the "forbidden" love of Brokeback Mountain? (And was anybody else as disturbed at Focus Features' obvious attempts to downplay the male love story as much as possible and feature the relationships with the respective wives in every trailer?) Will fans who made worshipped the bestselling novel approve of Chicago director Rob Marshall's retelling of Memoirs of a......
Continue Reading "Weekend Movies: Happy Birthday Anthology Film Archives"November 17, 2005
The holidays are upon us. Tomorrow sees the release of two of the more eagerly awaited films of the season, and we haven't even hit Thanksgiving yet! We've been hearing fantastic things about the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. It wowed audiences at the Toronto Film Festival in September, and now critics are talking about Joaquin Phoenix's performance as they did last year about Jamie Foxx. One huge difference: Foxx lip-synced everything in Ray;......
Continue Reading "Weekend Movies: Potter's back, with Cash at his heels"August 20, 2004
The pairing of Indian director Mira Nair with up in coming American starlet Reese Witherspoon for an adaptation of a 19th century novel sounds like a bizarre cinematic combination. However, the strength of the contributors and material in Vanity Fair has Gothamist intrigued. Witherspoon plays Becky Sharp, a young woman of good education who has the distinct misfortune of being born without high rank. But she's not about to let that stop her from living......
Continue Reading "Vanity Fair - Now With More Elephants!"December 16, 2003
The New York Film Critics' Circle has announced its picks for the year in film, with many smaller films getting kudos, but studio epic Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was called best picture. Lost in Translation was recognized with Sofia Coppola as best director and Billy Murray as best actor (from indie major Focus Features), and indie Secret Lives of Dentists emerging with best actress Hope Davis (earning the award for......
Continue Reading "NYFCC Film Nods for 2003"March 10, 2003
Adrien Brody's and Focus Features' publicists are working overtime to make sure Adrien Brody is a contender in the Oscar race. An article in the Post yesterday, going to his alma mater, Fiorella H. LaGuardia High School last week to inspire the kids. The Post article mentionsis rather famous mother, photographer Sylvia Plachy, who photographed not only her son while in Summer of Sam gear for a recent book but Jake's aunt as well.......
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