Keira Knightley as Sabina Spielrein in David Cronenberg’s forthcoming <i>A Dangerous Method</i>.
Erykah Badu at the Rock the Bells Festival in New York. Badu performed her Baduizm album in its entirety. (photo by Karsten Moran/NYT)
Throwing Muses around the time I first discovered them, with Tanya Donelly on the left. I used to have this picture up on my bedroom wall.
United States Women’s National Team goalie Hope Solo makes a save during the team’s World Cup win over Brazil. (photo by Jens Meyer)
True Blood star and Oscar winner Anna Paquin, photographed by Kevin Scanlon for the New York Times. Article here.
Mae Whitman, whose credits run from Independence Day to the TV series Parenthood, photographed by Logan Lerman. Lerman and Whitman will appear together in the forthcoming film The Perks of Being A Wallflower.
I was going to use one of these photos of Carey Mulligan to illustrate a blog post, but Blogger’s photo uploader screwed me. Mulligan is currently appearing in a stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Through A Glass Darkly.
Mariel Hemingway as Tracy in Woody Allen’s Manhattan.
Melanie Griffith in Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild (1986), just rereleased on Criterion Blu-Ray and DVD. I barely remember this film yet I do remember how Demme’s humanism and egalitarian taste appealed to me as an young movie buff. The worlds that Demme’s characters lived in seemed impossibly colorful and more cosmopolitan, to say nothing of being filled with great music. I wonder if Demme’s Stop Making Sense (1984) didn’t light some fire in me to be a performer (though you wouldn’t like me as a musician). Is there a better film about the joyous interplay of performers on a stage?
Michelle Williams in Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff. I can’t call Williams my “favorite” actress in a personal, subjective way, but she is rising fast. Williams should have won the Oscar for Blue Valentine (over my “favorite”, a worthy winner too); she’s the best we’ve got and it’s telling that studio movies can’t hold her.
