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Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig on Making Frances Ha, the Film's Fashion Choices, and the Best Dish on the Menu at Bar Pitti
After establishing herself in mumblecore films like Joe Swanberg's Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) and Nights and Weekends (2008) and Jay and Mark Duplass' Baghead (2008), Greta Gerwig significantly broadened her fanbase with her roles in Woody Allen's To Rome With Love (2012) and Greenberg (2010), director Noah Baumbach's follow-up to Margot at the Wedding (2007). As Gerwig and Baumbach's professional relationship took a turn for the personal (they're dating), the pair collaborated on a new venture, Frances Ha (in theaters May 17), which tells the story of a twentysomething aspiring modern dancer who vacillates between half-hearted dalliances and
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Breakout Actor James Badge Dale on Iron Man 3, The Lone Ranger, and Wild Horses
You may be seeing a lot of James Badge Dale this summer. In addition to playing one of the villains in this summer's blockbuster action movie Iron Man 3, he's starring opposite Brad Pitt in the zombie-apocalypse film World War Z, and in July he will play the Lone Ranger's older brother opposite Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp. Not bad company to share. Dale, 34, has spent most of his life living in Manhattan, where he cultivated a love of hockey before turning to acting. DETAILS spoke with him about why a film like Iron Man 3 is his own
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Watch Rectify One Week Before It Premieres on Sundance Channel
Sundance Channel and the producers of Breaking Bad are about to premiere the startling new drama Rectify—and you can see the first two episodes for free right now, by clicking here. Check out the extended trailer, below. If that doesn't entice you, our entertainment editor's review surely will.
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Celebrity
The Starlet: Adelaide Clemens
If you think Adelaide Clemens looks familiar—the blonde shag, the big, soulful eyes—you're not alone. "Even my mum is like, 'You know what? You look like Michelle Williams!'" The up-and-coming 23-year-old Australian has the same understated quality as her Oscar nominated doppelgänger, which lets her effortlessly inhabit her roles: the small-town church girl who befriends an ex-con in the Sundance Channel's Rectify, the damaged cynic who spews half-truths and lies in Generation Um..., in theaters this month. Yet she had to work her tail off to get her breakthrough part: Valentine, the scrappy suffragette in HBO's Parade's End.
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Max Irons and Jake Abel (of The Host) Discuss Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Follow Up, Men's Style, and Acting Advice
If The Host, based on Stephenie Meyer's novel, is really the new Twilight, then Max Irons (Red Riding Hood) and Jake Abel (I Am Number Four, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief) are the new Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner—two young, emerging actors whose characters are both pining after the same heroine. In this sci-fi soap opera, leading lady Melanie Stryder (Saorsie Ronan) proves more complex than Twilight's Bella Swan, as her dueling beaus are courting both her and the alien life form she's carrying. The heady premise called for young stars who could play lovestruck hunks in
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A Paranoid's Guide to The Shining
Rodney Ascher's new IFC documentary, Room 237, the latest in a wave of Kubrickphilia (make sure to see the exhibition "Stanley Kubrick" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art before it closes June 30!), obsessively explores hard-core fans' theories about the hidden meanings of The Shining. Here are three of the kookiest.
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Philip Roth on Literary Masturbation, Adultery, and Writing About Sex
Philip Roth at Yaddo artists' retreat, 1968. A Post-it on the recently retired Philip Roth's computer reads THE STRUGGLE WITH WRITING IS OVER. But as the new PBS documentary American Masters Philip Roth: Unmasked (airing March 29) shows, a fire still burns in the loins of the 79-year-old legend. Here, three Rothisms on matters of desire.
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Mad Men's Matthew Weiner Discusses Season 6's Surprises and the Thrill of Shooting His First Feature Film With Owen Wilson and Zach Galifianakis
Matthew Weiner was one of the first people I met when I moved to Los Angeles. Back then, he was working as a writer on the set of the television show Becker on the Paramount lot, but he would take me over to the nearby writers' bungalow of Frasier. "They had a way-better setup because they were already in syndication," Weiner joked. Recently I had the chance to sit down with him once again, this time to discuss his own landmark series, Mad Men, on the eve of its sixth season (which premieres April 7).
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Girls' Christopher Abbott on How to Be a Leading Man, His SXSW Success, and Not Overthinking Roles
As one of the boys on HBO's Girls, Christopher Abbott's depiction of the emotionally immature Charlie has been one of the show's breakout performances. But as audiences discovered at SXSW, it's only a hint of what the actor is capable of. In Burma, his latest project, he plays Christian, an aspiring tortured novelist with an unusually complicated family life and the chemical refuges that self-destructive writers in their twenties are often drawn to. On the heels of the film's Special Jury Recognition award for its ensemble cast, Details caught up with the 27-year-old actor to talk about his experience at
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Upstream Color Filmmaker Shane Carruth on the Trials of Making an Indie
In 2004, writer-director Shane Carruth released Primer, a mind-bending indie that won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and earned him comparisons to David Lynch. On April 5, he's back with the hypnotic Upstream Color, a surreal love story that almost defies description. Most Hollywood romances don't feature human-to-livestock soul transference, for starters—but maybe they should. Per Steven Soderbergh, who's sung Carruth's praises in more than one interview: "We should just give Shane Carruth $10 million and let him go make something." If only it were that easy. Here, Carruth talks about the hard work—and harder lessons—it took to get
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