Vanity Fair

Disappointing screen adaptation lacks the novel's satiric edge.

"...every scene a welcome sight. This film adaptation of Vanity Fair (Hollywood has made several, the most famous being..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Valentino: The Last Emperor

The fashion designer Valentino is the subject of this intimate portrait.

"...first-time filmmaker who is an editor at large for Vanity Fair and the author of many a celebrity profile,..."

April 24, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

This comedy starring Simon Pegg is based on Toby Young's memoir about working at Vanity Fair.

"...brief stint as a writer and contributing editor at Vanity Fair, was celebrated as a snarky, pitch-perfect, borderline insufferable..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Proof of Life

"...the action-suspense realm. Adapted by Tony Gilroy from a Vanity Fair article by William Prochnau, Proof of Life explores..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

After a Fashion

Follow a local dress as it makes it way off the bolt, into an Austin boutique, and across the country to Hollywood for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Morton's!

"...AUSTIN GLAMOUR IN HOLLYWOOD Nobody knows Hollywood like Vanity Fair knows Hollywood. Their special issues dedicated to Hollywood..."

April 13, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

In Print

'Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties'

"...the photo's charm. Suffice it to say that the Vanity Fair editors selected a perfect photo to open their..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Short Cuts

A report from the Vanity Fair Oscars party and other film-related news and upcoming events.

"...great thong." If you're like me, your invitation to Vanity Fair's legendary post-Oscar shebang at Morton's the other weekend..."

April 6, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Penfold Theatre Gives Live Readings of Radio Plays in the Ransom Center Archives

The company has dusted off radio adaptations of Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, and Thackeray for the 21st century to hear – live

"...8, 1951, with Richard Widmark), and William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair (broadcast March 8, 1953, with Joan Fontaine). However,..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Devil and William Friedkin

The director's journey from The Exorcist to a real exorcism

"...it hadn't been for Graydon Carter, the then-editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Friedkin and his wife, legendary studio executive Sherry..."

Jan. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fluff and Stuff

If BuzzFeed's animal empire is trying to infiltrate hard news and traditional media outlets are still trying to get in on the cat cash cow, where does it all end?

"...Are Better Than Louis CK." Storied, established publications like Vanity Fair have taken to running attack posts ("40 Signs..."

July 26, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

The Real Stephanie Dupont

"...with Kinky. He then referred to a December 1999 Vanity Fair article, "The Miranda Obsession," about an overweight Baton..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Books Feature by Sidney Moody

Grizzly Man

This documentary reveals how Timothy Treadwell, the popular grizzly bear preservationist, may have needed the bears more than they needed him.

"...and tend to be shocked when nature doesn’t play fair. Veteran filmmaker Werner Herzog is someone who suffers from..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Outfit

Gangster flick is well-tailored but somehow still a little saggy

"...and I didn’t care for him much in 2018’s Vanity Fair. I did, however, love him in Emma. Okay,..."

March 18, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Late Night

Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling spark and bond in this timely and charming media satire

"...Remember the infamous, galling 2015 Vanity Fair cover with all the hosts of all the..."

June 7, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin at Large: Beto in the Fast Lane

O'Rourke bounces right back into an adoring, ambivalent Austin

"...viral video to heroic and notes-free stump speech to Vanity Fair cover and HBO doc...."

April 5, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Ring in the New Year With a Binge Watch

12 streaming shows to get you to midnight and beyond

"...wrapped its six-season run in May. (Which?) Period Piece: Vanity Fair (Amazon Prime)..."

Dec. 27, 2018 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Reminiscing With k.d. lang

Ingénue Redux tour revisits crooner’s spotlight moment

"...in 1993, which is the same year of your Vanity Fair cover with Cindy Crawford in the barbershop chair...."

Sept. 13, 2018 Music Post by Beth Sullivan

The Bling Ring

Sofia Coppola relates this true-life crime story about Hollywood teens who boosted things from celebrities' homes so they could walk a mile in their Louboutons.

"...Ring. Based on true events as told in a Vanity Fair article by Nancy Jo Sales, the film tells..."

June 21, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Restrepo

This documentary, which chronicles the 15-month deployment in Afghanistan of about a dozen U.S. soldiers, is an example of photojournalism at its finest.

"...their sleep. Journalists Hetherington and Junger, originally reporting for Vanity Fair and ABC News, keep their observation on the..."

July 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Into the Valley of Death, and Back Out Again

Filmmaker and war photographer Tim Hetherington talks about his yearlong embed in Afghanistan

"...The Austin Chronicle spoke to co-director and longtime Vanity Fair contributor/conflict cameraman Tim Hetherington about his experiences in..."

July 30, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Single Man

Tom Ford ditched fashion designing for filmmaking with this smart adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood story about a grieving gay man in 1962 California.

"...from the Gucci resurrectionist and onetime guest editor of Vanity Fair); it's that everything fits perfectly, from titles to..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Amelia

Hilary Swank stars as Amelia Earhart in Mira Nair's big-budget biopic.

"...In her past work, such as Monsoon Wedding and Vanity Fair, Nair has shown great talent for rooting out..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

After a Fashion

Stephen's calling the kettle black again. OK, these are some pretty black kettles.

"...'VANITY FAIR' ENOUGH I was transfixed by an article on..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Namesake

Mira Nair's complex meditation on family, relationships, and identity traces the saga of two generations of an Indian-American family, as outlined in Jhumpa Lahiri's bestselling novel.

"...and Jacinda Barrett. With her latest effort, director Nair (Vanity Fair, Monsoon Wedding) does not disappoint. Alternately vibrant and..."

March 30, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

After a Fashion

Tom Ford is creepy and Stephen travels to Houston for fabric

"...VANITY FARE Eeewww … am I the only one creeped..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Music for the Eyes

Annie Leibovitz's portraits of American musicians reveal her true oeuvre

"...Stones on tour. Moving to the then newly revived Vanity Fair in the early Eighties, Leibovitz continued the broadening..."

July 8, 2005 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Danny Deckchair

Aussie import is sweet but as emotionally ethereal as a Splenda meringue.

"...roles (Notting Hill, The Shipping News, and the upcoming Vanity Fair)) and the occasional co-starring turn (Michel Gondry’s willfully..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Give Them What They Want

An interview with Virginia Postrel

"...In 1999, Vanity Fair did a photo spread on the new generation..."

March 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Roger Gathman

Shattered Glass

Before Jayson Blair there was Stephen Glass, a fabricator of magazine stories, whose fall from grace is told here.

"...in this movie, which is based on a 1998 Vanity Fair article by Buzz Bissinger and not any of..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

News/Print

This humidity's making me hot.

"...for her work, including a 2001 all-expenses-paid trip to Vanity Fair's apparently coveted post-Oscars party. That, as Marc Savlov..."

May 23, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

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