Category: La La Land

‘La La Land’ premiere in Paris – January, 10

‘La La Land’ premiere in Paris – January, 10

Hello! Yesterday, Emma was in Paris for the premier of ‘LA LA LAND‘!

74th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills – January, 08

74th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills – January, 08

Hello! Emma was at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills and she was so beautiful! It was a great night for Emma and La La Land’s cast! The movie awards was the critically-acclaimed musical La La Land, which broke the record for most wins by any one film. It won all seven of the categories it was nominated in! I’ve added 243 HQ pictures to the gallery.


Best Original Score
La La Land
Best Original Song, Motion Picture
“City of Stars,” La La Land
Best Actor, Musical or Comedy
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Best Screenplay
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Best Director
Damian Chazelle, La La Land
Best Actress, Musical or Comedy
Emma Stone, La La Land
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
La La Land

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Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling Share Their Personal Audition Stories in ‘La La Land’ – TIFF 2016

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling Share Their Personal Audition Stories in ‘La La Land’ – TIFF 2016

‘La La Land’ is about “two young artists in L.A. who fall in love and whose dreams sort of intersect, bring them together, and tear them apart

Summit Entertainment’s La La Land Premiere at the 2016 TIFF – September, 12

Summit Entertainment’s La La Land Premiere at the 2016 TIFF – September, 12

Emma was present to the Summit Entertainment’s La La Land Premiere at the 2016 TIFF

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La La Land reviews: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling musical dazzles at Venice Film Festival

La La Land reviews: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling musical dazzles at Venice Film Festival

La La Land had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, and it seems to have sang and danced its way into critics hearts.

The first reviews of the Los Angeles-set musical — the follow-up fromWhiplash director Damien Chazelle — are overwhelmingly positive, with high praise for stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, who play an aspiring actress and jazz musician falling in love as they struggle to make it in Hollywood.

Read on for takes on the film from those who saw it in Venice. Stateside, it’s set for a theatrical release on Dec. 2.

Pete Hammond (Deadline)
“Coming off the promise of the Oscar winning Whiplash, it will be no surprise that writer/director Damien Chazelle is a talented filmmaker, but that movie did not prepare me for the experience of seeing La La Land, his homage to the great screen musicals of French director Jacques Demy as well as MGM’s golden era. But this is too smart a movie maker to just do a simple tribute to a bygone era, his film starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone is a gorgeous romantic fever dream of a musical that should hit contemporary audiences right in their sweet spot.  It has been a very long time since we have seen something quite this lyrical, lovely, and most importantly, original on the screen, but at the same time it is a musical that has its feet firmly planted in the real world , even if the one up there on the wide Cinemascope screen is very stylized.”

Todd McCarthy (The Hollywood Reporter)
“Happily, the two leads are clearly entirely in synch with [Chazelle’s] objectives. Sebastian has a certain gruff impatience and short temper born of creative frustration, but the concern and love he feels for Mia doesn’t take long to well up. Gosling may not be a trained dancer or musician, but his moves are appealingly his own and months of piano practice have given him convincing style on the keyboards. Stone is simply a joy as the eternally aspiring actress it’s hard to believe is being passed over. Emotionally alive and able to shift gears on a dime, Stone is all the more convincing in this context as she has the kind of looks that would have been appealing in any era, particularly the 1930s and 1950s.”

Peter Bradshaw (The Guardian)
“It’s an unapologetically romantic homage to classic movie musicals, splashing its poster-paint energy and dream-chasing optimism on the screen. With no little audacity, La La Land seeks its own place somewhere on a continuum between Singin’ in the Rain and Woody Allen’s Everyone Says I Love You, with a hint of Alan Parker’s Fame for the opening sequence, in which a bunch of young kids with big dreams, symbolically stuck in a traffic jam on the freeway leading to Los Angeles, get out of their cars and stage a big dance number.”

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Eric Kohn (Indiewire)
“At its best, La La Land probes the irony of its existence, celebrating the greatness of a bygone era in the context of changing times. ‘That’s LA,’ Sebastian concludes. ‘They worship everything and they value nothing.’ But that doesn’t stop him from getting fired up about the underlying power of classic jazz. ‘You can’t hear it,’ he implores Mia. ‘You have to see it.’ To that end, La La Land succeeds in making its sweet imagery sing, particularly with the sensational finale. In a wordless explosion of lights and shadows, Chazelle reignites the movie with fresh context that forces it to get real. Here, he arrives at the wrenching conclusion that even the most vibrant fantasy eventually must fade to black.”

Alonso Duralde (The Wrap)
“TCM addicts will swoon over that traffic-jam number, not to mention a dance sequence that delightfully defies gravity. The vocal duets between Stone and Gosling are charming even though they both have singing voices that might diplomatically be called ‘naturalistic.’ (Similarly, the songs by composer Justin Hurwitz and Broadway lyricists Pasek and Paul aren’t traditional show-stoppers, but they sneak up on you by the second reprise.)  … Gosling and Stone’s powerful chemistry is as palpable as it was in Crazy Stupid Love — they were that film’s sole selling point — and each of them conveys their character’s love of the arts and drive to succeed.”

Owen Gleiberman (Variety)
La La Land isn’t a masterpiece (and on some level it wants to be). Yet it’s an exciting ramble of a movie, ardent and full of feeling, passionate but also exquisitely — at times overly — controlled. It winds up swimming in melancholy, yet its most convincing pleasures are the moments when it lifts the audience into a state of old-movie exaltation, leading us to think, ‘What a glorious feeling. I’m happy again.’”

Source: EW

Venice Film Festival – “La La Land” Press Conference & Photocall – August, 31

Venice Film Festival – “La La Land” Press Conference & Photocall – August, 31

Given the occasion it was a suitably elegant Emma Stone who made an appearance in Venice Film Festival for La La Land press conference and photocall on August 31 (today).

The actress looked every inch the Hollywood star in a tasteful floral print dress that showed off her legs and as she signed autographs for fans in the picturesque Italian city.

Strappy orange heels gave the ensemble an added splash of colour, while an evident lack of accessories ensured its busy pink and green pattern was not overburdened.

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‘La La Land’: Emma Stone, Director Talk Bringing Back Hope in Films

‘La La Land’: Emma Stone, Director Talk Bringing Back Hope in Films

The actress who appears opposite Ryan Gosling in the musical, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, said the point of the film is to “let go of cynicism.”

Damien Chazelle’s new film La La Land is a welcome respite for moviegoers lamenting the general dark and dreary plots hovering over the general state of studio films. The young Oscar-nominated director (best adapted screenplay for Whiplash) has delivered a tour de force that pays tribute to European musicals of the ‘60s and ‘70s in his third feature film.

Emma Stone stars as Mia, a barista working on a studio lot in Los Angeles trying to make her way as an actress through humiliating audition after humiliating audition. She meets Sebastian, a down and out pianist who can’t find anyone who appreciates his love for jazz history. Over the seasons and sites of the city they falls in love, while breaking into classical song and dance, struggling to keep their relationship together over career difficulties and successes.

Even the most cynical audience member will have a hard time not smiling at the opening number, which turns a traffic standstill into a multi-car song-and-dance number on an extended city off-ramp. Indeed, both early morning press screenings caused journalists to burst into applause 10 minutes into the film. Early reviews and warm praise are already generating Oscar buzz.

At the press conference Chazelle, who arrived a week early to travel around, proclaimed his love for Italy and said before starting any questions, “I heard last week about the earthquake that hit and I want to say that on behalf of the film, our thoughts and prayers go out to anyone affected by it.”

Earlier in the day festival director Alberto Barbera and Jury President Sam Mendes kicked off the press activities, where it was announced that the Biennale was setting up a fund for the earthquake victims and La La Land studio Lionsgate would be the first to donate. It was announced last week that the opening night gala for the film would be canceled out of respect to the victims and that proceeds from the Architecture Biennale tickets for select dates would be donated to relief efforts. The central Italy earthquake claimed almost 300 lives.

Chazelle, whose first feature Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench was a musical, explained why he loves the genre so much. “Now more than ever we need hope and romance on the screen, and I think there’s something about musicals that just get at something that only movies can do,” he explained. “That idea of movies as a dreamland, movies as the language of our dreams and movies as a way of expressing a world in which you break into song, that emotions can violate the rules of reality.”

He admitted that it was a challenge to place a musical in today’s world, but he was able to fall back on the timelessness of classical musicals to find his way.

“I think there’s a way that the older musicals are timeless and it has a way to do with their simplicity,” he explained. “How do you justify a musical today? The way to justify it today is actually going back to a lot of those traditions. No one breaks into song unless it’s emotionally justified in some way. But once you allow yourself that possibility, then you have a responsibility to go all the way.”

For Stone, who has always loved musicals, it was a perfect fit for her. “I went and saw Les Miswhen I was eight on stage. So bursting into song has always been a real dream of mine.”

She was also very much drawn into the film by its pointed hopefulness. She referenced Conan O’Brien urging audiences to “let go of cynicism,” she paraphrased. “I think something about Damien and what Damien created, and the hopefulness and the joy and the beauty of this medium, is that this story is in no way cynical.”

“It’s about dreaming and hoping and working towards something to achieve something,” she continued. “And I think young people have fallen into a lot of cynicism and making fun of things and pointing out the flaws in everything. And this movie is anything but that and it’s a huge joy to be a apart of it.”

Stone said it was also a pleasure to work with her friend Gosling again. “Once you’ve learned to ballroom dance with someone, you’ve learned everything you need to know,” she said. “He’s very good at leading.”

But that was nothing compared to her praise for Chazelle, who she compared to her character Mia as “being a young person that’s putting yourself out there, creating something from scratch with all your heart, he’s doing that.” She also said that the fame hasn’t gone to his head and called him easily the most collaborative writer-director she has ever worked with, while staying true to his vision.

“That’s just rare of anyone of any age who has made a jillion movies,” she said of the 31-year old director. “He’s truly extraordinary.”

Chazelle also explained his idea of romance. “A lot of things can happen after ‘happily ever after.’ But when you have two people who share a memory, there is something very pure and nothing an taint that memory,” he said. “The idea was to take the old musical but ground it in real life where things don’t always exactly work out.“

Source: Hollywood Reporter