A Hard Day's Knight: Somber Celebs Tread Black Carpet at Batman Premiere

Attending the premiere of Warner Brothers’ Batman: The Dark Knight at AMC Loews Lincoln Square on Monday, July 14: the film’s stars Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal (wearing charcoal Dries Van Noten splashed with flowers and accompanied by husband Peter Sarsgaard), Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman and Aaron Eckhart; actors Ethan Hawke, Edie Falco, Josh Hartnett, Seth Read More

Gyllen-hell! Movie-Star Maggie Stole My Dream House

I was in the elevator coming down from work. “How long have you been in a shed?” a young woman asked a middle-aged one.

“About ten years,” she said. “And it’ll probably be another ten.” She rolled her eyes.

“God!” I thought. “It wasn’t just a paranoid fantasy, people in New York actually do have Read More

Scott, Sarsgaard Tangle in Gaul

The Dying Gaul is Gaslight with e-mail. As a first-time directorial effort by writer Craig Lucas, it’s an imaginative, compelling and respectable failure, a psychological, postmodern film noir with plenty of conflict and no resolution, better suited to the stage than screen. But it says something about the dreams and disillusionments of Hollywood, and even Read More