Movie premieres

Michelle Williams and Luke Kirby, stars of Take This Waltz.

Chatting Up Michelle Williams at a Screening and Party for Take This Waltz

Thursday night’s Sunshine Cinema screening of Sarah Polley’s film Take This Waltz was sponsored by Forevermark and Crystal Head vodka. A romantic tale of infidelity and emotional rubble sponsored by diamonds and booze? By that same token, does there somewhere exist an all-you-can-eat pig roast underwritten by wet naps and burning shame? It all seemed a heartbreakingly serendipitous manifestation of the universe’s fuzzy feelings for humanity.

The film, Ms. Polley’s sophomore effort, tells the story of a young wife (Michelle Williams), lured away from her happy marriage to cookbook writer Seth Rogen by a rickshaw driver (Luke Kirby). We won’t spoil the ending for you, but Michelle Williams really is terrific, and we’re pretty sure there exists an entire market of people wanting to see Mr. Rogen emotionally decimated. Read More

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Michelle Williams.

To Do Thursday: My Michelle

For a person who’s so delicate and shy and soft-spoken, Michelle Williams sure makes the scene a lot! Whether it’s long magazine interviews about how private a person she is or promoting her latest project, we can’t escape her—not that we’d ever want to! Ms. Williams leaves Brooklyn tonight to attend the premiere of her Read More