The New York Observer » Penelope Cruz http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:00:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Opening This Weekend: A Little Something Called Avatar, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jeff Bridges Sing, and The Morgans Make Us Want to Enter Witness Protection With only thirteen days left in 2009—seriously, where did this year go?—it should come as no surprise that Hollywood is pulling out the big guns. Five films reach theaters today, but all everyone will really care about come Monday is the one with 10-foot tall blue aliens. As we do every Friday, here's a handy Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/culture/opening-weekend-little-something-called-avatar-daniel-day-lewis-and-jeff-bridges-sing-a Italian for Beginners NINERunning time 119 minutes Written by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella    Directed by Rob Marshall Starring  Daniel Day-Lewis, Penélope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson, Judi Dench, Sophia Loren, Stacy Ferguson

To the already overcrowded list of year-end disappointments bringing 2009 to a sorry close, you can add Nine. With a legendary Broadway score; Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/culture/italian-beginners Opening This Weekend: ZOMG New Moon! Plus Sandra Bullock Makes the Boys Cry in The Blind Side It might be just days before Thanksgiving (and, btw, when did that happen?), but if you head to a movie theater this weekend, don't be surprised if it feels a little bit like summertime. The box office is littered with big-ticket effects films (the second weekend of 2012), the return of a beloved franchise (New Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/culture/opening-weekend-zomg-new-moon-plus-sandra-bullock-makes-boys-cry-blind-side It’s Madtown! Gherardo Guarducci and Dimitri Pauli, the two handsome Italian owners of Sant Ambroeus in the West Village, were sitting recently on a spacious leather banquette in the dining room of their latest venture, Casa Lever, under the watchful Technicolor gaze of 10 original Warhol portraits (Bob Colacello, Robert Mapplethorpe, Giorgio Armani) on the opposite wall.

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]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/culture/its-madtown She’s So Bad, She’s Good! Broken EmbracesRunning time 128 minutes Written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar Starring  Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez, Tamar Novas

Broken Embraces, Pedro Almodóvar’s latest, is one of those happy moviegoing experiences where you get a bit of everything—love, sex, style, wit, thrills and mystery. And if you somehow weren’t already sold on Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/culture/shes-so-bad-shes-good The Week in DVR: Edward Norton is a Rock Star! Plus, Project Runway Finale, Penelope Cruz and The Notebook Monday: House

It’s been interesting to watch the writers on this show try different things to see if they can breathe new life into a program that is plagued by complaints that it's the same week to week. We understand the argument--there tends to be a fairly unbreakable formula (strange patient and symptoms/three or four Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/culture/week-dvr-edward-norton-rock-star-plus-project-runway-finale-penelope-cruz-and-notebook !Hola!Will Almodóvar Finally Make Movie in English? The New York Film Festival began very softly but ended with the sizzle of director Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces on Sunday, Oct. 13.

The film follows the tangled love story of a writer and his muse, played by Penélope Cruz, in what Mr. Almodóvar called “a love declaration to the cinema.” In signature Almodóvar style, Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/movies/holawill-almodovar-finally-make-movie-english Five More Oscar Hopefuls You Shouldn’t Count Out! There are just  too many promising-looking  films vying for Academy voters this year—don’t forget to factor in some of these pics:

Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos): This film pairs the great Pedro Almódovar with his favorite leading lady–muse Penélope Cruz in a thriller about a blind writer (Lluís Homar) who must heal his Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/movies/five-more-oscar-hopefuls-you-shouldnt-count-out Where’d All the Tough New Yorkers Go? Josh Brolin: ‘New York Critics Have Been Very Sweet to Me’ At the New York Film Critic's Circle Awards on Monday, Jan. 5, NYFCC Best Actor honoree Sean Penn offered early clues as to how he'll approach this year's awards: He hammed it up for the cameras with Milk co-star Josh Brolin before blowing off a lengthy line of eager journalists. (Interestingly, Mr. Penn is something Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/o2/josh-brolin-new-york-critics-have-been-very-sweet-to-me The Week in DVR: Cameron Crowe’s Maligned Masterpiece, Touch of Evil, Grace Kelly’s Last with Hitch Monday: Lost Long before the Dharma Initiative, Widmore Industries and The Oceanic Six, there was the first season of Lost. It was a simpler time, when Michael Emerson was just that guy from a few episodes of Law & Order and not a passive-aggressive criminal mastermind with a couple of Emmy nominations … but that Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/week-dvr-cameron-crowes-maligned-masterpiece-touch-evil-grace-kellys-last-hitch Penelope Cruz to Get Gotham Award Tribute There's been lots of chatter lately over Penelope Cruz's steamy kiss with Scarlet Johansson in the new Woody Allen film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which opened in New York last Friday—enough chatter that we almost missed the following tidbit yesterday in The Hollywood Reporter: Ms. Cruz, who's also enjoying critical praise for her role Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/penelope-cruz-get-gotham-award-tribute Woody’s Busty Muses Make Sweet Spanish Love VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA Running time 96 minutes Written and directed by Woody Allen Starring Penélope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem

Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, from his own screenplay, is close to his 40th feature film in an almost 40-year career that began in earnest in 1969 with Take the Money and Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/woody-s-busty-muses-make-sweet-spanish-love Morning Memo: Agyness Deyn Engaged; Mariah Carey Celebrates Her Marriage; Gossip Girl Identity Theft Agyness Deyn and Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. are engaged. [Us]

Woody Allen's new film Vicky Cristina Barcelona premiered Wednesday night at the Hotel Plaza Athenee on East 64th St.; stars Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall didn't show up. [WWD]

At the screening, Vicky Cristina Barcelona star Javier Bardem gloated over his sex scenes Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/style/morning-memo-agyness-deyn-engaged-mariah-carey-celebrates-her-marriage-gossip-girl-identi ScarJo Embarassed by Coverage of Obama E-mails; Ready to Tie the Knot? We sometimes long for the days when Scarlett Johansson was best known as one of the angsty, combat-boot wearing teens in Ghost World, or, a few years later, as the soul-searching former philosophy major-cum-sexy cigarette smoker who flirts with Bill Murray—cue Jesus and Mary Chain song—in Lost in Translation. Her career since then has had Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/scarjo-embarassed-coverage-obama-e-mails-ready-tie-knot Sir Ben Kingsley Plays Roth’s Concupiscent Kepesh as Cruz Nudes Up ELEGY Running time 108 minutes Written by Nicholas Meyer Directed by Isabel Coixet Starring Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard

Isabel Coixet’s Elegy, from the screenplay by Nicholas Meyer, based on the short novel The Dying Animal by Philip Roth, enters a metaphysical region between life and death that few films have Read More

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