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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Noir fiction and modern femme fatales

Besides her role as adorable sister of Jake:
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal attending the premiere of "Mona Lisa Smile" (2003)
Maggie has displayed her seductress/femme-fatale side as well.

Katy Perry is one of the most visible modern starlets who combines femme-fatale/pin-up iconography in her photoshoots/videoclipsKaty Perry in GLAMOUR (UK) September 2010Katy Perry photoshoot by PHIL KNOTT for The Guardian (2010)Katy Perry in Zink magazineKaty Perry in FHM UK Shoot by Diana Scheunemann (2008)Katy Perry photoshoot for People magazine (2010) by Robert TrachtenbergKaty Perry in OUT magazine

Another sculptural redheaded actress (Mad Men) is Christina HendricksChristina Hendricks in GQ UK photoshoot by Miles Aldridge September 2010

Most of my favorite photoshoots deal with actresses showing their inner femme-fatale souls in fierce photoshoots as:
Emmy RossumKirsten DunstNaomi WattsJennifer ConnellyMarion CotillardKristen StewartLindsay LohanRose McGowanMary Elizabeth Winstead (Ramona in Scott Pilgrim vs the world)Zooey Deschanel (Summer Finn in "500 days of Summer")Paz VegaMalin Akerman in Vanity Fair (Outtake)Amy Adams

Maggie Gyllenhaal as Allison Jimeno in "World Trade Center"Maria Bello as Donna McLoughlin in "World Trade Center"
Maggie Gyllenhaal with Oliver Stone filming World Trade Center (2006)Maria Bello with Oliver Stone filming World Trade Center (2006)

"Born to working class parents in suburban Pennsylvania, the half-Polish, half-Italian Bello attended Villanova University with the intention of becoming a lawyer. The acting bug bit during an elective course and following graduation Bello bolted for New York City, toiling in telling off-Broadway fare like The Killer Inside Me, an adaptation of the Jim Thompson pulp noir, and the blissfully Belloesque Small Town Gals with Big Problems". Source: fest08.sffs.org

Ben Stiller and Maria Bello as Jerry Stahl and Kitty in "Permanent Midnight" (1998)

-Flavorwire: What’s been attracting you to the crime genre?

-Jerry Stahl: The word “genre” isn’t in my vocabulary. If you read the paper, you’ll come across a lot of crime. It doesn’t get much more noir than the New York Times. I don’t really buy into the notion of ‘crime’ fiction as opposed to fiction-fiction. Crime and Punishment is about a murder — but you won’t find Dostoyevsky in the same rack as Ellroy. There’s a kind of ghettoization involved in this kind of branding, but critics love to categorize. That being said, I love Chandler".
Source: flavorwire.com

Maria Bello as Rosie in "Payback" (1999)

Maria Bello and Mel Gibson as Rosie and Porter in "Payback" (1999)

"Gibson's Porter is a show-stealer to the highest order, which is par-for-the-course since he's the sun amidst these revolving acts. His natural charisma surfaces repeatedly underneath Porter's scruff exterior, lending an air of pleasant grit as he tears through the city. Most of the supporting cast trot along with him and his velocity; however, one truly stand-out performance from Maria Bello shines amidst the darkness Porter exhumes.

Payback jams together noir-ish grittiness with fantastically dark tongue-and-cheek humor".
Source: www.dvdtalk.com

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall inTo Have and Have Not (1944) directed by Howard Hawks

"Raymond Chandler, whose splendid prose illuminated his novels and stories, compared his private detective to a knight, describing his as someone who walked the mean streets but was not himself mean.
Gloria Grahame and Glenn Ford in The Big Heat (1953) directed by Fritz Lang

Furthermore, this rather cynical figure--underpaid, disrespected, threatened, shot at, beaten up--has a code of ethics that guarantees he'll do the best he can for his client, who's probably lying to him anyway. A heroic figure stands at the center of the private eye novel; there are no heroic figures in noir fiction".
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

The Switch of couples (from Jennifer Aniston to Jake Gyllenhaal)


Jason Bateman comes face to face for the first time with Jennifer Aniston's baby donor in this exclusive clip from The Switch.

THE SWITCH is based on the short story Baster by Jeffrey Eugenides and stars Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman in an offbeat comedy about Kassie, a smart, fun-loving single woman who, despite her slightly neurotic best friend Wallys’ objections, decides its time to have a baby even if it means doing it by herself with a little help from a charming sperm donor (Patrick Wilson). But, unbeknownst to her, Kassies’ plans go awry because of a last-minute switch that isn’t discovered until seven years later when Wally finally gets acquainted with Kassies’ precocious though slightly neurotic son.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Jennifer Aniston in "The Good Girl" (2002)Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston filming "The Switch" (2010)
Ellen Page and Jason Bateman in "Juno" (2007)Patrick Wilson and Ellen Page in "Hard Candy" (2005)Emmy Rossum and Patrick Wilson in "The Phantom of the Opera" (2004)
Emmy Rossum and Jake Gyllenhaal in "The Day After Tomorrow" (2004)

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Jake Gyllenhaal in "Rendition" (Eye of Fatima)

New stills of Jake Gyllenhaal in Rendition (2007) added by Iheartjakemedia

A musical video featuring scenes from the film "Rendition" (2007) starred by Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard, J.K. Simmons, etc. Song "Eye of Fatima" by Camper Van Beethoven

Lindsay Lohan by Ellen Von Unwerth for Vogue

Lindsay Lohan for Vogue Italia, August 2010, photoshoot by
Ellen Von Unwerth

Lindsay Lohan: Maxim and Marc Ecko photoshoots

Lindsay Lohan wearing orange sandals by Christian Louboutin:




Lindsay Lohan 'Marc Ecko' Fall 2010 Collection BTS Video

Lindsay Lohan Maxim photoshoot
Scan of Lindsay Lohan in Maxim (September)


Lindsay Lohan shot an inside look at her upcoming film, Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story, in which she plays the late porn star.

In this exclusive, behind-the-scenes video, shot in a Burbank hotel in May, Lohan's character is forced into prostitution by her husband, Chuck Traynor. Photographer Tyler Shields captured the scene, and those images became the movie's poster.

Of her character's intial reaction to Traynor, Lohan says he was "dark and mysterious and rough, and different from anything she had experienced in life. Girls like that kind of stuff."

As for her own character, the actress, who was interviewed in the video by MSN's Kim Morgan, describes Lovelace as "an innocent girl who got trafficked into a situation."
Inferno director Matthew Wilder tells PEOPLE that while shooting this footage Lohan had the ability "to go in and out of very extreme emotions in a blink."

The film will resume production in mid-November, following Lohan's release from a court mandated stint in a treatment facility.

"I hope Lindsay's stay in rehab will soon be in the rearview mirror," says Wilder, "and we will be able to move on and just make something really good."

Robert Pattinson at Teen Choice Awards 2010

Robert Pattinson (in absence of Kristen Stewart) was sitting next to Ashley Greene and Taylor Lautner
Teen Choice Awards 2010 for Twilight New Moon casting:

Choice Movie: Fantasy: The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Choice Movie Actor: Fantasy: Taylor Lautner, The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Choice Movie Actress: Fantasy: Kristen Stewart, The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Choice Movie Actor: Drama: Robert Pattinson, Remember Me
Choice Movie: Villain: Rachelle Lefevre, The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Choice Movie: Liplock: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Choice Movie: Chemistry: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Choice Movie: Male Scene Stealer: Kellan Lutz, The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Choice Movie: Female Scene Stealer: Ashley Greene, The Twilight Saga: New Moon


Robert Pattinson @ Teen Choice Awards 2010 in LOS ANGELES

Monday, August 09, 2010

Ashley Greene and Jackson Rathbone video From The Teen Choice Awards









Alex Meraz hit the red carpet for the 2010 Teen Choice Awards in Universal City where he tells AccessHollywood.com’s Laura Saltman when, where and how filming will start for “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.”









Ashley Greene and Jackson Rathbone chat with AccessHollywood.com’s Laura Saltman about “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.” Also, why do they like coming to the Teen Choice Awards?


Katy Perry geeks out with Robert Pattinson while playing host at Sunday's Teen Choice Awards in Universal City, California

Maggie Gyllenhaal with Emma Thompson at the Hollywood Walk Of Fame

Emma Thompson receiving a Star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame in Hollywood, CA with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Laurie on 6th August 2010
Maggie Gyllenhaal wore a red dress by Lanvin - Spring 2010:

Maggie Gyllenhaal in Angeleno photoshoot, May 2010.

Maggie Gyllenhaal having lunch at Cafe Montana in Santa Monica on 5th August 2010