Vanity Fair

...expert opinion on his dreaminess. It's not all sunny tidbits: It shows that Rob was cast to play Reese Witherspoon's son in 2004's "Vanity Fair," but his scenes were -- gasp! -- cut out. And British film critic Kim Newman makes some...

In this article: Robert Pattinson, Bea Arthur, Edward Cullen, New Moon, and The Twilight Saga

ROB PATTINSON - PATTINSON WAS DUMBFOUNDED BY VANITY FAIR AXE PATTINSON WAS DUMBFOUNDED BY VANITY FAIR AXE ROBERT PATTINSON was left questioning his acting talent early on in his career when producers cut scenes he filmed for REESE...

In this article: Robert Pattinson, Tom Sturridge, Reese Witherspoon, Twilight, Vanity Fair, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

...ROCKED), and I'd actually unknowingly seen some of his previous work, including supporting roles in FAIRY TALE: A TRUE STORY; VANITY FAIR, directed by Mira Nair; BEING JULIA, opposite Annette Bening; and LIKE MIND, opposite Toni Collette.

In this article: Richard Curtis, Tom Sturridge, Nick Frost, American Graffiti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hot Fuzz, Where Angels Fear to Tread, and Beatles

...accent from a Ewan McGregor. Director Mira Nair brings none of the vibrancy of her breakout film Monsoon Wedding or even her exuberant Vanity Fair to Earhart's proto-feminist story. Detailing in flashback how she became the first woman to fly...

In this article: Amelia Earhart, Hilary Swank, Ewan McGregor, Mira Nair, Richard Gere, Oscar, and Monsoon Wedding

...self-help guru to put his life back in order. Pattinson has been making films only since 2004, when he had a bit part in Mira Nair's Vanity Fair, so everything about being a movie star is still fresh and not so terrible, all things...

In this article: Robert Pattinson, Twilight, Edward Cullen, New Moon, Cedric, Twilight, Little Ashes, and Kristen Bell

...such Bollywood movies as "Monsoon Wedding" and "Salaam Bombay!" -- Hyman had worked with her on other period projects, most notably "Vanity Fair," the Reese Witherspoon vehicle Nair made for Focus. Indeed, she had been his first choice to...

In this article: Mira Nair, Amelia Earhart, Amelia, Ron Bass, Ted Waitt, Electra Junior, Hilary Swank, and Hachiko: A Dog's Story

...the stance, everything from the old newsreels -- yet academic and a little bloodless. Director Mira Nair ("The Namesake," PG-13, 2006; "Vanity Fair," PG-13, 2004) has taken a rather staid approach here. Were she and her navigator, Fred...

In this article: Astro Boy, The Namesake, Amelia, Amelia Earhart, Darren Shan, Cirque Du Freak, and Where the Wild Things Are

...Nair, whose only qualification appears to be that she's a woman who has made others films about and with women ("Mississippi Masala," "Vanity Fair"), keeps a tidy screen - it's all very neat and carefully scrubbed. I don't recall a single...

In this article: Amelia Earhart, Mira Nair, Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Amelia, Amelia, William Cuddy, George Palmer Putnam, Ron Bass, and Gore Vidal

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In this article: Amelia Earhart, Amelia, Hilary Swank, Mira Nair, George Putnam, Atlantic, and Oscar

...ordinary for such an extraordinary subject. In everything from "Monsoon Wedding" to "Mississippi Masala" to the Thackeray adaptation "Vanity Fair," the director Mira Nair has dramatized and celebrated risk-taking women and lives lived...

In this article: Amelia Earhart, Amelia, Mira Nair, Hilary Swank, George P. Putnam, Ronald Bass, Richard Gere, and Fred Noonan