Thursday Night Ciné

Marion Cotillard chatting away.

No Bones About It!

Just when we were sick and tired of cinema screenings and movie premiere parties (Hello nomination-baiting season!), The Cinema Society alongside Dior and Vanity Fair hosted one of its best shindigs yet, at the legendary Indochine restaurant following a showing of the Rust and Bone, Jacques Audiard’s 2012 French-Belgian film, which stars Marion Cotillard and dizzyingly sexy Matthias Schoenaerts.

“I’m gonna need eight glasses of Champagne to lift myself up from that one!” one power publicist bellowed to The Observer over the roaring crowd.

“But Marion Cotillard was just amazing!”

This writer unfortunately missed the screening in order to support wounded U.S. servicemen and women uptown for Stand Up For Heroes event, which featured performances by John Mayer, Roger Waters and Bruce Springsteen.

We were hoping for a sighting and perhaps to bavarder with the Oscar-winner.

“Marion had to immediately catch an international flight,” one social stalwart dutifully informed us. Of course she had plenty of time to pose for the cameras in her Dior couture, flashing her wondrous baby-bump. Read More

A Former Model Finds Beauty on the Other Side of the Camera

Maybe it’s because she worked as a circus girl when she was a teenager in Germany–in fishnet stockings, she circled the ring after each act. Or because she had to survive a childhood of certain hard knocks–she was orphaned by age 2. Whatever the inspiration, photographer Ellen von Unwerth’s pictures, which appear mostly in Vogue Read More