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I’ve added DVD captures from ‘World Trade Center’ & ‘Trust The Man’ to our gallery. I really love Maggie’s facial expressions in ‘Trust The Man’

The Woodstock Film Festival is set for Oct. 10-14 in one of the world’s most famous towns, with screenings in Rhinebeck, Rosendale and Hunter. The festival’s full schedule will be announced this evening in New York City. Set to be screened is “High Falls,” which stars Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard. “I’m Not There,” a film by Todd Haynes that explores several incarnations of Bob Dylan, will close the eighth edition of the festival. Information is also available at www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

You can view the High Falls trailer here.

From her award-winning turn as a shy self-harmer turned provocateur in Secretary to her recent role as a recovering junkie in SherryBaby, Maggie Gyllenhaal has long been the poster girl for disenchanted heroines, wowing the critics and attracting a legion of fans.

As she sits coyly twisting her hair in a plush penthouse, just blocks away from where she resides in downtown New York with her actor partner and new baby Ramona, the pretty actress freely admits that her extra-curricular credentials are in pretty good shape too.

But even as model for some of the world’s top fashion houses, sister to one of Hollywood’s hottest actors and with a slew of awards to her name, it is her role as Rachel Dawe’s in Batman: The Dark Knight that has whetted the appetite of fans and critics alike, paving the way for maintream superstardom.

If Gyllenhaal has any qualms about the transition, she shows little sign of it. Nor does she show any concern about picking up the reigns from one half of star-studded couple Tom-Kat. “I’m not walking into Katie’s [Holmes] performance,” she explains. “I’m thinking of it as an opportunity to play somebody who’s alive and smart. Chris [Nolan, the director] asked me to do this because he wanted me, not because he wants some generic lady in a dress.”

Continues the actress: “The part came up and something about it just appealled to me. It was just well written and fun. And the opportunity to work with director Christopher Nolan and an actor like Christian Bale was just to good to pass up.” Read the rest of this entry »

Maggie attended the Miss Sixty fashion show at New York Fashion Week Spring 2008 on September 6th. She was spotted front row along side Hilary Swank and Demi Moore. Photos can be seen in the gallery.

The co-founder of Agent Provocateur, Serena Rees, Britain’s most famous lingerie company talks the The Telegraph about there new ad campaign:

There’s never been a hint of “Hello Boys” in the marketing, which the latest campaign, featuring the quirkily alluring Maggie Gyllenhaal, star of Secretary, demonstrates beautifully. The star, trussed up in suspenders and basques plays a kind of lingerie tutor in the ads.

“Maggie is not an obvious sex symbol and she has a particular quality that lends itself to the ‘mistress’ role,” says Rees. “She is a strong, intelligent and beautiful woman. She is confident and in charge of her own sexuality, and this makes her appealing to both men and women.”

Rees, though tall and slender, likes to promote models of all shapes and sizes, but says that advertising watchdogs are not always helpful. “We like to show curvy bodies. Annoyingly, we are often censored when we try to advertise our lingerie on fuller-figured girls.”

Earlier this year, a poster featuring a well-endowed model that was destined for a London Underground station had to be airbrushed before it was deemed acceptable.

“We had to reduce a woman’s bust size significantly. It is a pity. The fashion industry is often met with criticism for promoting size-zero models, yet when we try to promote our products on buxom beauties we are told to alter their body shapes to make them less provocative… It’s a no-win situation.”

You can read the full article at The Telegraph

Elle UK reports that hot on the heels of Kate Moss’ starring role in last year’s sensational Agent Provocateur campaign (yes the one of Kate in four steamy Mike Figgis films which crashed the AP website!) Today Maggie Gyllenhaal is revealed as the new star of Agent Provocateur’s ‘The Adventures of Miss A.P’ - the lingerie label’s sexy new ad campaign. It’s a series of four stories that will be released throughout the coming year, and each episode will star a different Miss A.P. At the end of the year all four will be available to collect in a glossy box set. First up is Maggie, and her ‘book’ (as A.P explained to us) is entitled ‘Lessons in Lingerie’. It’s a cheeky-sexy collection of images of Maggie’s adventures in Agent Provocateur ’s latest designs, shot by photographer Alice Hawkins. You’ll see the new images nationwide from today or you can collect them for free from A.P stores or at www.agentprovocateur.com now.

Look at the winsome lady to the right. It’s the actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jake’s big sister, and doesn’t she look pretty? All knowing smile and dancing eyes, she’s like that sixth-former you used to see parading around school like she owned the place, trailed by an army of adoring minions. But what’s Maggie, a bluestocking type, doing modelling satin basques? If you asked the average bloke in the street who they would want to see in their undies, she wouldn’t be top of the list. She’s comely but somewhat unconventional, and even Agent Provocateur – for which she is appearing in a new book of erotic fiction – admits she isn’t obvious man-magnet material. “We’ve always been mindful to create a brand that appeals to both men and women,” says Serena Rees, the co-founder of Agent Provocateur. And so they have. These pictures acknowledge the fact that girls fancy girls.

Oh, ladies – but we do, don’t we? We don’t talk about it much – even to our closest friends. But most of us, and I speak here of girls who generally like boys more, have, at some point, harboured a furtive crush on another woman. Read the rest of this entry »