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By Sarah Grothjan 8/09/12 1:45pm

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Jon Abrahams and Mickey Sumner. (Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

Love All Around at the GenArt Opening Night Screening of Missed Connections

“I knew of you,” Jon Abrahams admitted boldly to his Missed Connections costar Mickey Sumner, describing their relationship before making the indie romantic comedy. He turned nonchalantly back to The Observer. “I was stalking her.”

Last night, in a sea of swarming guests and red carpet entrants, The Observer snagged a short cocktail conversation with Ms. Sumner and Mr. Abrahams before they sashayed toward the packed screening at the School of Visual Arts Theater, the first of the week-long GenArt film festival. (Full disclosure: The Observer Media Group is a sponsor of the festival.) Waris Ahluwalia, who plays Pradeep in the film, mingled nearby with other movie patrons as we caught up with Ms. Sumner and Mr. Abrahams.

Though the pair displays palpable chemistry onscreen, we wondered aloud whether it transcended off screen as well. Read More

By Kristin Anderson 7/13/12 11:30am

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Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan. (Andrew Toth/PatrickMcMullan.com)

Paul Dano Too Nervous to Actually Watch Screening of His New Movie Ruby Sparks

Wednesday night at Sunshine Cinemas was another of the indie lovefests we’ve come to look forward to (and only partially thanks to the apple cinnamon popcorn dust they have at the concession stand). This time it was for Ruby Sparks, the latest from Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, the husband and wife director team behind our favorite cuteferno Little Miss Sunshine. Ruby Sparks is the story of a creatively anguished young writer (Paul Dano) who physically manifests and falls in love with one of his characters, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl of the title, played by Dano’s real life squeeze Zoe Kazan. Ms. Kazan also wrote the screenplay. Of its inception, Ms. Kazan (in a peekaboo Dolce & Gabbana number) told The Observer, “I was walking home from work one night, and there was a mannequin discarded in a trash can in our neighborhood. I thought it was a person, and it scared me! And I thought of the Pygmalion myth about the sculptor who falls in love with his statue. I had a flash of the sculptor alone in his studio, turning his head and thinking he sees the statue move. I thought, ‘Oh, I bet that’s sort of how that myth came to be!’” Per Mr. Dano, “When [Zoe] was about five pages in, she showed it to me, and I said ‘Is this for us?’” Read More

By Lindsey Cherner 7/11/12 2:00pm

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Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson. (Patrick McMullan/PatrickMcMullan.com)

Joshua Jackson Would Do a Dawson’s Creek Reunion If He Were “Out of Work for Enough Years”

At the North American premiere of uniFrance Films’s Farewell, My Queen, aptly held at the Museum of Modern Art, and presented by Peggy Siegal Company on Monday night, Joshua Jackson did his very best to let Diane Kruger, the star of the film and his girlfriend since 2006, have the spotlight. But we couldn’t help but wonder what was next for the Fringe actor. Perhaps a Dawson’s Creek reunion?

“We killed Michelle, so I don’t think that’s ever going to happen,” Mr. Jackson said candidly, referring to the death of cast mate Michelle Williams’s character on the show. Onlookers were crestfallen.

“But I would never say never. If I’m out of work for enough years, absolutely! I would be old, gray, and nasty by the time that would get done though,” he said.

With that important business out of the way, we asked the German-born actress what it was like to play infamous French queen, Marie Antoinette. Read More

By Jessi Rucker 6/26/12 5:30pm

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Alex Kurtzman, Elizabeth Banks, Chris Pine (Getty Images)

People Like Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks at the People Like Us Screening

You think you’ve had some wild nights, just try and top this: “When I was 30, I was at a party and a woman tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘Hey, I’m your sister,’” writer/ director Alex Kurtzman told The Observer.

Last night The Cinema Society, with Linda Wells and Allure, hosted a screening of  People Like Us, a film that is loosely based on and fully inspired by Mr. Kurtzman’s own journey starting a relationship with his sister at age 30. The film stars Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks who were both at Chelsea Cinemas to debut the drama/comedy. We’re not sure if it was the movie or something in the popcorn, but love and inclusivity was in the air. Read More