where the wild things are Amy Sacco and Euan Rellie
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MARA SIEGLER
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ue the Spice Girls. This month’s screenings brought a whole new class of smart, hilarious women primed to take over the entertainment world. Forget what the co-creator of Two and a Half Men thinks about having too much of Eve Ensler’s favorite body part on screen, ladies are having a moment and it’s set to last. No neon sign Mélanie Laurent needed, get ready for girls, girls, girls (!!!). and Dave Franco Kicking off the femme fest was a Cinema Society event for Mélanie Laurent Laurent’s Les Adoptés. The petite French actress, who is familiar to American audiences for her roles in Inglourious Basterds and Beginners Beginners, wrote, directed and starred in the film that brought out an audience of Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher and Mark Ruffalo. Laurent, looking très chic outfitted in a quintessentially French LBD by Dior, wasn’t too busy soaking up the praise to gush to me about meeting Patti Smith—whose book Just Kids the actress is “obsessed” with—at the Hunger Games premiere Terry and inviting her to the screening. Despite having a personal Richardson invite, Smith was a no-show. C’est la vie. Instead, Dave and Harry Danielly Silva, Billy Beee Franco, Amy Sacco and Dylan McDermott turned up. Not bad. Magnussen and Emily Fardo Woody Harrelson Harrelson, covering his bald head with a baseball cap and seemingly unimpressed with the stacked guest list, left the roped off section to venture into less VIP spaces. We spotted him trying to make his return via the back entrance, a few very well-dressed and very new friends in tow. This month’s female-centric screenings But there would be no party offer a new generation of power women crashing. Stopped by security, Harrelson tried for two minutes, arms gesticulating as animatedly as a proponent of 420 can muster, to gain them entrance. Denied, he returned to the party solo. Brian Williams and Allison Whit Stillman’s first film in 14 years, Damsels in Distress, also Williams got a screening from The Cinema Society with Town & Country Kelly Rutherford and Brooks Brothers followed by another party at the Tribeca and Matthew Settle Grand that brought out the elusive director and the cast of pretty young things including Adam Brody and Analeigh Tipton, all wide eyes and big lips, who told us Stillman, ever the gentleman, wouldn’t allow anyone to cuss on set. Being known to mutter a few four-letter words at times (by accident, of course), I figured it had to be hard to keep things so squeaky clean. “No, it actually made me appreciate when I could use them. So when I wasn’t filming I was a sailor,” she told me, unashamed. “It was great. It was like a release. I would just cuss my head off when I wasn’t working so I was fine when I got on set.” Analeigh’s costar Greta Gerwig spent most of the night on a couch chatting with her boyfriend, director Noah Baumbach as Chloë Sevigny Sevigny, Andie MacDowell, Chace Crawford, and Almost Famous star Patrick Fugit (whose girlfriend is in the film) milled about the room. When we finally caught up with the mumblecore darling Gerwig, who is quickly evolving into a marquee name, Analeigh she told us about the noisy Halloween party she’d thrown for Tipton the cast at her apartment. Shut down by the neighbors, they tried a bribe. “I remember one of my roommates trying to give her cash and she was really mad. We were just really drunk Dylan and like, ‘how do you feel about Benjamin Franklin McDermott making a lot of noise?’ And she was like, ‘you are holding
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