Elle Fanning Gossip

How to Talk to Girls at Parties played Cannes last year, the second of the Elle Fanning/Nicole Kidman movies (along with The Beguiled), and it still hasn’t got a North American release date, though indie distributor A24 has picked it up, so it’s coming. This is one you definitely want to see. Full Story

And what it is, is a dreamily rendered impressionist drawing room drama, a psycho-sexual thriller buttoned up in a prim and proper façade. Sofia Coppola’s latest meditation on privileged femininity is an adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s novel of the same title, and it’s a beautiful idea of a terrible time, stirringly acted and flawlessly shot. Full Story

Scarlett Johansson and the cast of Rough Night were at the premiere last night in New York. And over in LA, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst Full Story

You know what makes me crazy? When people make fashion calls without considering what the event is. An outfit for the Oscars is not an outfit for the VMAs. The Emmys and the MET Gala are not the same. You can wear the most beautiful classic ball gown but if you see one at the MET Gala when the theme is in honour of Rei Kawakubo and you tell me it’s your Best Dressed, I will not want to talk fashion with you ever again. Full Story

The first trailer for Sofia Coppola’s remake of The Beguiled dropped yesterday and her two muses, Kirsten Dunst Full Story

Unlike The Accountant, which is dumb in a coked-up Eighties action movie way, Live By Night is dumb in a self-important Oscar bait kind of way. Ben Affleck Full Story

Sight unseen, Annette Bening was hailed as a Best Actress contender (and possible frontrunner) for her work in 20th Century Women, which premiered on Saturday at the New York Film Festival. The same hype followed Viola Davis for her work in Fences, and coincidentally, the trailers for both of these films dropped on the same day last month Full Story

Nicolas Winding Refn is a filmmaker who lives on the line between art and trash, and his new film, The Neon Demon, is built firmly on that line. A horror movie in the giallo tradition, The Neon Demon is equal parts art film and B-movie schlock, with the dreamlike underpinnings of a fairytale. Full Story

Nicolas Winding Refn talks about seventeenth century Italian art, and next to him, Elle Fanning listens intently. With his glasses and suit, he looks like a hip professor, with Fanning as his star pupil. They’re in town to promote their new movie, The Neon Demon, a giallo-inspired horror movie set in the world of high fashion (full review on Friday), which Refn co-wrote and directed. Full Story

I feel bad sh*tting on About Ray, but…I’m going to sh*t on it—it’s not very good. Starring Elle Fanning as transgender teen Ray and directed by Gaby Dellal (Looking), About Ray is more about everyone else talking about Ray than Ray himself. It’s a standard wacky family coming of age story, except the quirk is that Ray is transitioning from female to male, which sends his flighty mom into a panic as he needs both parents signatures before beginning the medical process of transitioning, and they haven’t seen or heard from Ray’s dad in a decade because of something his mother did. Full Story