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Movie Premiere Travel: Who Cares about the Dark Knight? (We Do!)

July 15, 2008 at 11:05 AM | 0 Comments

Christian Bale and Michael Caine posed with Gary Oldman and Maggie Gyllenhaal on the red carpet at New York's AMC Lincoln Square for the premiere of "The Dark Knight" last night. Jaunted faves Lauren Conrad and Blake Lively were able to finagle invitations to mingle with Bale, who plays the caped crusader for the second time, aided by an uncorrupted police buddy (Oldman), his butler (Caine) and the assistant DA (Gyllenhaal).

Absent, as reported weeks earlier, was Michelle Williams, walking the red carpet for Heath Ledger, although the actor's parents and sister made an appearance. Ledger has been getting Oscar buzz from the likes of TIME and Rolling Stone critics--and Bale himself said his costar "steals the movie"--but we hear he's not in the flick as much as DA Harvey Dent, played by Aaron Eckhart.

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· The Dark Knight Blows Up Brach's Candy Factory [Jaunted]
· Remembering Heath Ledger [Jaunted]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: JustJared]

Classic NYC Movies

Reader's Choice NYC Movie: "Trust The Man"'s Village Fantasia

March 27, 2008 at 3:30 PM | 0 Comments

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This week we took a hint from reader Eva, who recommended the 2006 movie "Trust the Man." On her blog Eva described "Trust the Man" (as well as another romantic comedy, "Prime") as potential successors to former Classic Movies topics "Annie Hall" and "When Harry Met Sally," calling them "smart movies about the way people really relate to each other." So how do people really relate to each other? No surprise: Dysfunctionally.

"Trust the Man" opens with a montage of stage-setting, Allenesque New York  locales -- Washington Square Park, Abingdon Market in the West Village, East 10th Street and Stuyvesant Place. By luxuriating over these places, even with no apparent characters in them, writer-director Bart Freundlich is connecting the well-off, Village-dwelling characters in this world to their filmic predecessors.

These people have money, but it doesn't make them happy: Tom (David Duchovny) is not adjusting well to being a stay-at-home dad while his wife Rebecca (Julianne Moore, who happens to be Freundlich's wife) opens a play at Lincoln Center, so he cheats on her and doesn't seem to feel guilty about it. Meanwhile, Rebecca's younger brother Tobey (Billy Crudup) is feeling the pressure from girlfriend Elaine (Maggie Gyllenhaal), an aspiring children's book author, to settle down. As someone wise described "Hannah and Her Sisters," people meet, people cheat, people love and people leave.

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