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The Verge: Zoe Kazan
21 December 2009 8:30 AM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
Believe Zoe Kazan when she says she didn't mean to be so prolific. After first gaining notice last year in Revolutionary Road, the 26-year-old actress has appeared in film after film (after film!) this year, and this holiday season most of all. Kazan spent the early part of 2009 in I Hate Valentine's Day and the Tribeca entry The Exploding Girl, then sparked to Zac Efron in Me and Orson Welles and sparred with Robin Wright in Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. She'll next be seen as the youngest daughter of exes Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin in the Nancy Meyers comedy It's Complicated.
In the meantime, Kazan is busy writing and trying to line up her next theater role while scheduling a trip to Sundance in January to support another film she appears in. With all that on her plate, it's a miracle that she carved »
Daniel Day-Lewis talks about Nine (and acting, reluctantly)
10 December 2009 1:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Daniel Day-Lewis will live rough, break bones and work through pneumonia to get inside his characters. It may be absurd, he says, but then, he's in an absurd business. He talks about his latest film, Nine
The Daniel Day-Lewis interview is set for Friday and then it's set for Saturday. It's at 3.30pm; it's at 1.15pm; it may not happen at all. Inside the swish London hotel, the press handlers are all hunched over their clipboards while Italian journalists keep tripping over TV cables in the corridor. Eventually, a pair of publicists forge through the melee to assure me that yes, the interview will indeed take place – but not right now. "Can we bring you some food while you wait?" asks the first publicist. "There's no food," says the second.
By this point I'm starting to wonder whether the Nine press junket might be some ornate PR stunt by the Weinstein Company, »
- Xan Brooks
Morning Brew: Thursday, Dec. 3
3 December 2009 7:00 AM, PST | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
Happy Thursday!
Lesbian tennis champ Amelie Mauresmo has officially retired from the sport as of today. The 30-year-old said she doesn't want to train anymore. A Reuters profile of the French woman notes that she's been open about her sexuality since 1999, noting, "With admirable dignity, Mauresmo let her tennis do the talking and she became established as one of the biggest draws in the sport." Good luck with your future endeavors, Amelie. You know, if you're free, I've always wanted to learn French.
Model and alleged Ruby Rose gal pal Catherine McNeil graces the cover of this month's Vogue Australia. According to Pedestrian.tv, she was wearing a dog tag necklace with Ruby's name on it at a party, despite making the recent statement, "I have known her for six years and we are just friends." I love when my friends give me necklaces with their names on it and french me in public. »
- Trish Bendix
'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee' review (2/5) - Director Miller smothers it with numerous stereotypes of little invention.
2 December 2009 5:42 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Like its troubled heroine, 'Pippa Lee' lacks a creative spark. The Private Lives of Pippa LeeWriter and filmmaker Rebecca Miller stands in the face of countless superhero blockbusters and male-oriented comedies and delivers a rare big-screen feature, a character-driven, female-focused, ensemble melodrama. Sadly, "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee", the fourth feature from Miller, is not nearly as good as one would hope from the director of standout dramas "Personal Velocity" (2002) and "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" (2005). A drama about a woman facing middle- aged malaise (played subtly by Robin Wright Penn), "Pippa Lee" shares many of the same setbacks as its heroine. The film lacks creative spark and powerful drama. Despite its impressive cast and storytelling potential, Miller fails to deliver with "Pippa Lee". Talented as she may be, Miller is proof that sometimes a filmmaker stumbles even with a story that appears to be a perfect fit. »
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Movie Review
30 November 2009 8:40 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
A heart felt effort but too slow to be called completely entertaining. Plenty of time to think in between crises Writer director Rebecca Miller lays life bare in her latest film about a woman who has it all and sometimes wishes she didn.t. Following her successes in the introspective .Personal Velocity: Three Portraits,. .Angela. and .The Ballad of Jack and Rose. (starring her husband Daniel Day-Lewis) Miller has had the time and confidence to sit down and develop a substantial screenplay and deliver a demanding directorial effort. The result is an entertaining, if not engrossing, drama that is a heart-felt slice of life. The movie features a prestigious cast and crew that are a joy to behold. Robin Wright Penn »
- Ron Wilkinson
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
30 November 2009 4:35 AM, PST | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Release Date: Nov. 27 (limited) Director/Writer: Rebecca MillerCinematographer: Declan Quinn Starring: Alan Arkin, Robin Wright Penn, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Maria Bello, Blake Lively Studio/Run Time: Screen Media Films/98 mins. In The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Rebecca Miller adapts her own novel of the same name in order to tell the overly melodramatic story of its title character’s life. As she’s grown older, Lee and her husband have slowly been breaking down but in order to understand Lee’s current situation, we have to start at the very beginning of her life and learn about what it’s taken to end »
Robin Wright Penn Interview - The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
29 November 2009 7:11 AM, PST | movies.about.com | See recent movies.about.com news »
Robin Wright Penn stars in the title role in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, a moving tale of self-discovery. Rebecca Miller adapted her own novel and directed Pippa Lee, the story of a woman who marries a much older man (played by Alan Arkin), raises a family, and then embarks on a journey to confront her past and face the resentment she now feels over her seemingly perfect life and marriage.
Miller and Wright Penn worked together extensively to craft Pippa Lee, a 50 year old homemaker who examines her past and finds her own identity late in life, over the course of a year while the film was seeking funding. "I worked on the costumes, the sets and the script. And I was also able to talk to Robin for a whole year about it, much to the benefit of the movie. It was a wonderful collaboration," said Miller. »
Executive Producer Jill Footlick describes her role on the set of "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee"
25 November 2009 9:32 AM, PST | Makingof.com | See recent Makingof.com news »
Jill Footlick started out in the industry in the mid-90's as a New York based production manager and her work was a part of films like "Boy's Don't Cry." Her most recent job was the role of executive producer on Rebecca Miller's new film "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee". Footlick describes to MakingOf how she got involved in the project, her responsibility both creatively and financially and reflects on the film's premiere at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
click here to see the full interview. »
'Pippa Lee' Stars Keanu Reeves, Robin Wright Penn Talk Love And Loss
25 November 2009 12:16 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'It's like every seven years, turn over a new leaf,' Penn says of her character's changing life.
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Robin Wright Penn and Keanu Reeves
Photo: MTV News
Robin Wright Penn wasn't supposed to be in "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee," at least not in the way it was originally conceived by indie filmmaker Rebecca Miller ("The Ballad of Jack and Rose"). The writer/director conceived her newest movie's heroine as a 55-year-old woman coming to terms with her shady past and contending with her older husband's declining health.
But when Penn came into the picture, the story line stayed the same, while Pippa's age dropped 15 years. "Really and truly, age is just a number," the actress told MTV News. "I think we do it in stages in our life. It's like every seven years, turn over a new leaf. [Pippa's] at that crossroads. »
'The Princess And The Frog,' 'Me And Orson Welles' And 'The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee' In This Week's unLimited
24 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
It's another big holiday weekend with plenty of new releases to consider following your Thanksgiving feast this Thursday (and following your subsequent leftovers feasts through Sunday). In the same way that many Americans prefer alternatives to the traditional turkey and stuffing dinner on the day of gratitude, many moviegoers want something other than a studio tentpole release the day after Thanksgiving. Really, why would you want a popcorn movie when you're still full from the night before?
There are a couple of limited release options this week, including an important studio film getting a surprisingly soft opening, to appease such a film diet. Check these films out if you want something different as or additional to your main course this weekend:
What is is: Richard Linklater, director of "Dazed and Confused" and "School of Rock," returns with a fictionalized coming-of-age drama set during production of Orson Welles »
- Christopher Campbell
In Theaters: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
24 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
As the adult Pippa Lee, the comely, gracious, unfailingly appropriate wife of a newly retired New York publisher, Robin Wright speaks in a small, high voice that suggests a kind of atrophy. It's the kind of voice that might result from years of unuse, of sealing even the most meager opinions behind the warm but empty smile of a literary consort, and Pippa is the kind of woman who has endured countless cocktail party conversations without once being spoken to herself. In the opening scene of Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, she disappears into that smile when one of the guests at the dinner party she is throwing to celebrate her husband Herb's (Alan Arkin) new home in a Connecticut retirement community pays her a tribute that doubles as a dismissal: "You are the very icon of an artist's wife." This now-common misuse of the term »
Writer-Director Rebecca Miller opens up to MakingOf about her film "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee"
24 November 2009 7:48 AM, PST | Makingof.com | See recent Makingof.com news »
Rebecca Miller is an independent filmmaker whose latest work "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" opens this Friday. The movie is an adaptation of Miller's first novel that shares the same name and the title character is played by both Robin Wright and Blake Lively. The story focuses on one woman's journey and the timing jumps between the past and present throughout to show how past events form the foundation of who people become.
During this interview with MakingOf, Miller reveals her writing and directing influences, how she prepares for sudden changes on set and why her depth of knowledge is a key part of the production process. She also identifies the line of dialogue from this film that she feels is the driving force of the story.
To hear more about this personal adaptation click here.
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Blake Lively Comforting Maria Bello in New 'Pippa Lee' Clip
24 November 2009 1:02 AM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
Just few days before the film is released in limited U.S. theaters on Thanksgiving weekend, November 27, Screen Media Films has provided another sneak peek at "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee". Making its way out via Zap2it, the footage features Blake Lively as young Pippa Lee, who is calmly speaking to her mother Maria Bello's Suky Sarkissian, when she becomes emotional.
When she is a teenager, Pippa runs away from her rural home and seeks refuge with her father's sister Trish in New York City since she is nearly driven mad by her complacent pastor father Des Sarkissian and bipolar mother Suky. Falling under the influence of Kit, her aunt's lesbian partner, Pippa rapidly descends into an underworld of illegal drugs and promiscuous sex. She is rescued from her decadent lifestyle by Herb Lee, a charismatic publisher who is 30 years her senior.
The two later wed and »
- AceShowbiz.com
Exclusive Video: Robin Wright Penn and Blake Lively Discuss The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
23 November 2009 12:47 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Robin Wright is best known for playing two highly iconic roles on the big screen. The first, was where she gained her fame as the title role in Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride, the second is where she earned her Oscar nomination as Jenny in Forrest Gump. Blake Lively is best known for her break-through roles on both the hit series Gossip Girl and in the movies The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and it's sequel. So it only makes sense that the two actresses would share the title role, playing the same character at different points of her life in the new film The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, opening in theaters on November 27th. We recently had a chance to sit down with both Robin Wright and Blake Lively to discuss their new film, how they went about playing the same character, working with director Rebecca Miller »
‘Gossip Girl’s’ Blake Lively talks nude scene in ‘Pippa Lee’
23 November 2009 10:30 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Alan Arkin, you luck sonofabitch. It’s not everyman that has a partially nude Blake Lively on him…or is it?
The Gossip Girl star has a revealing scene in the upcoming Rebecca Miller film The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. Lively insists that filming her nude scene with the 75-year-old Arkin “didn’t make it any weirder” than usual.
“Apparently naked, not fully naked. I was lying partially naked on Alan Arkin, but strategic body parts were covered,” says the 22-year-old. “It’s always scary when you’re in front of strangers half-naked, but the fact that it was with Alan, honestly, didn’t make it any weirder. I think being with a young dude would have been more awkward because I might have been like, ‘Well, does he think I look cute right now?’”
Speaking about her character, “young” Pippa, Lively says portraying her was “exciting.”
“Pippa does get very dark. »
- Reel Loop News Staff
Alan Arkin: 'I Think I Get a Lot of Applause Because I'm Not Keeling Over'
23 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
In Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Alan Arkin's plays Herb, a retiring Lothario who woos a beautiful wild child (played at two ages by Blake Lively and Robin Wright), then stands idly by as she becomes domesticized (and anesthetized) in an attempt to please him. It's the juiciest part he's had in quite a while, and as Arkin freely admits, he didn't want it. The 75-year-old is as prolific as he's ever been since winning the Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine, but he's also choosy, and he's got a very particular set of criteria for picking roles that Miller had to adapt to in order to win him over.
In a wry interview with Movieline, Arkin expanded on that criteria and also provided unexpected, helpful tips for bloodstain removal. Who says his range has to be saved for the screen? »
Ninjas, Princesses and Old Dogs
23 November 2009 7:30 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Families arriving at the multiplex for a little pre/post-turkey entertainment have two choices -- separate off into your respective age/gender demographics and indulge yourselves, or stick together in a tragic statement of family unity and purchase seven tickets for "Old Dogs." The choice, it is yours.
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A selection at Cannes 2008 and this year's Swiss Oscar hopeful, the sophomore feature from Ursula Meier centers on a middle class couple (Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet) that enjoys bringing up their children away from urban life in the French countryside. However, the construction of a highway near their home leads to a divide between the two on what's best for their family as the pollution from the cars and the incessant noise begins to drive them a little mad.
Opens in New York; opens in Los Angeles on December 18th. »
- Neil Pedley
Review | Wright and Wrong: Rebecca Miller’s “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee”
23 November 2009 7:10 AM, PST | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
One of contemporary cinema’s most graceful, taken-for-granted actors, Robin Wright, too long in the shadow of her ex-husband, would seemingly have finally found the perfect leading role in Rebecca Miller’s “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” in which she plays a graceful, taken-for-granted wife and mother. Onscreen, Wright imbues her roles with effortless compassion, which is always just barely peeking out from layers of weariness and insecurity. Her lack of actorly … »
criticWIRE This Week: “The Road” Leads Thanksgiving Offerings
23 November 2009 7:09 AM, PST | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
John Hillcoat’s “The Road,” Rebecca Miller’s “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” and Richard Linklater’s “Me and Orson Welles” mark a rather star-studded batch of specialty films making their way to theaters this Thanksgiving week. Generally regarded as one of the most potent filmgoing holidays of the year, Thanksgiving has a uncharacteristically weak duo of Hollywood films (James McTeigue’s “Ninja Assassin” and Walt Becker’s John Travolta-Robin Williams comedy “Old Dogs), making … »
Blake Lively Interview, Private Lives of Pippa Lee
22 November 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
MoviesOnline sat down recently with Blake Lively to talk about her role in “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” directed by Rebecca Miller. Adapted from writer-director Rebecca Miller’s novel of the same name, the film follows the adventures of Pippa Lee, a serene, beautiful, devoted wife and mother with a seemingly perfect life -- until her surprisingly volatile past crashes through her persona, forcing her to find her true sense of self. She begins to question the seemingly fulfilling life she’s made for herself by entering into a dialogue with the demons of her past.
With a film spanning a single character’s lifetime, Rebecca Miller planned from the onset for a second performer to portray the teenage Pippa Lee. What remained unclear was who was best suited for the part. Working with casting director Cindy Tolan, they considered nearly one hundred actors for the role before setting their sights on rising star, »
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