De Palma a la Mod

According to the Huffington Post's Regina Weinreich, Brian De Palma was in attendance this past Thursday for a special screening of his friend Noah Baumbach's latest film, Frances Ha, which was written with Greta Gerwig, who stars in the film. The screening took place at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Others at the screening included Ben Stiller (a regular collaborator of Baumbach's), Mike Nichols, Diane Sawyer, Ann Roth, David Chase, and Sting (whose daughter, Mickey Sumner, plays Gerwig's best friend in the film). Baumbach and Gerwig have been doing a lot of print promotion for the film, with a big interview story in the April 29 issue of The New Yorker, as well as a New York Times article, and another profile in the May 17 issue of Entertainment Weekly.

Posted by Geoff at 10:52 AM CDT
Updated: Saturday, May 11, 2013 10:53 AM CDT
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

DE PALMA AT LOVE CHILD PARTY
FOR ALLEGRA HUSTON MEMOIR IN NY

Liz Smith spotted Brian De Palma at "a recent bash for the Literati and Glitterati downtown on the East Side" of New York City. The party was for a new memoir by Allegra Huston, stepdaughter of director/actor John Huston, called Love Child. Also attending, among many others, was novelist Salmon Rushdie, who was photographed with De Palma and Tom Tykwer last February at the New York premiere of Tywer's The International.

Posted by Geoff at 12:06 AM CDT
Updated: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:08 AM CDT
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

DE PALMA AT NY INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
PICTURED WITH TYKWER & RUSHDIE AT GUGGENHEIM

After all that talk comparing these directors' set pieces-- Pictured here from left-to-right are director Tom Tykwer, Brian De Palma, and novelist Salmon Rushdie at the Guggenheimer Museum afterparty which followed the New York premiere of Tykwer's The International on February 9 2009. Variety posted the photo, which was snapped by Dave Allocca for StarTraksPhoto.
(Thanks to Patrick for sending it along!)

I saw The International opening weekend and loved it-- a very satisfying motion picture with a poetic sense of paranoia and more than a few highly involving sequences of tense action. The ending is beautifully set up and executed (pun intended) as a dead perfect bit of irony. Tykwer has made a studio action picture that keeps his stamp and keeps us wondering what he will do next.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly's Chris Nashawaty, Clive Owen says that Tykwer had a "little film festival" of '70s conspiracy thrillers to get everybody in the right mood...

We watched those [The Parallax View and Three Days Of The Condor], The Conversation, The French Connection. When I did Inside Man, Spike Lee did this cool thing where he screened about half a dozen movies. It was a little film festival to get you inspired. Tom Tykwer loved that idea, so we did it on this.

Posted by Geoff at 1:16 PM CST
Updated: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:23 PM CST
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