Maggie Gyllenhaal worried she would have to ignore her ‘Crazy Heart’ director. The actress stars in the movie with actor Jeff Bridges and admits she was delighted that Scott Cooper – who was helming his first film – surpassed her expectations. She explained: “I loved Scott. And I went into it… At this point, often, [...]

Updated the Media Archive with new videos from Golden Globe and other various Crazy Heart related interviews. Videos Links: Crazy Heart Interview (10) – Part1 Crazy Heart Interview (10) – Part2 Crazy Heart Interview (11) Late Night with Jimmy Fallon – 11th January 2010 Independent Lens – Music Month 2010 67th Annual Golden Globe – [...]

Maggie looked sheer perfection at the Golden Globes last night, showing off the figure and fashion sense in a beautiful mermaid dress from RM by Roland Mouret. A huge congratulation to Maggie’s Crazy Heart co-star Jeff Bridges for winning the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama. Crazy [...]

New York Times film critics A.O. Scott, Manohla Dargis and Stephen Holden have made their selection for potential Academy Award nominees. Including in the ‘And The Nominees Should be’ list are the films ‘Avatar’, ‘The Hurt Locker’, ‘Precious’, and ‘Up In The Air’. According to Dargis, James Gandolfini should earn a Best Supporting Actor nomination [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal is not just a lauded actress and an enthusiastic Brooklynite, she is also something of an expert on how indie movies get sold and marketed, as the Bagger discovered over a recent lunch (at a family-run restaurant in Brooklyn, of course). In Ms. Gyllenhaal’s latest, “Crazy Heart,” the directorial debut of Scott Cooper, [...]

NEW YORK — Maggie Gyllenhaal can’t imagine letting her daughter, Ramona, 3, hang out unsupervised with an alcoholic vagabond musician. But it’s what her character Jean does, with catastrophic consequences, in the drama Crazy Heart, now in theaters. “Being a mother forces me to be so responsible. I’m very protective, and I try to keep [...]

Before I went on christmas holidays I promised that I would upload all the Crazy Heart related videos to the media archive when I got back home. I’m home now and I have just uploaded 10 videos to the media archive. Enjoy! Video Links: Crazy Heart Interview (1) Crazy Heart Interview (2) Crazy Heart Interview [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal lives on Sesame Street, otherwise known as a Park Slope byway. The four-story brownstone she shares with husband Peter Sarsgaard and their 3-year-old, Ramona, has emission-free “fireplaces” and an overabundance of couches in the parlor, but the first thing you notice is a pile of well-loved paperbacks waiting to be deposited on the [...]