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Josh Radnor Elizabeth Olsen Richard Jenkins
at the New York premiere of
a film by Josh Radnor
starring
Josh Radnor Elizabeth Olsen
Richard Jenkins Allison Janney Elizabeth Reaser
Monday, September 10th, 2012
7:30pm – Screening
Landmark Theatres Sunshine Cinema
143 East Houston Street
(between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
9:30PM – Party
Sons of Essex
133 Essex Street
(between Stanton and Rivington Streets)
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Bookish and newly single Jesse Fisher (Josh Radnor) is a university admissions counselor in his
mid-thirties living in New York City who returns to his Ohio alma mater for a retirement dinner
honoring Peter Hoburg (Richard Jenkins), his favorite English professor. A chance meeting
on campus with 19-year-old Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen) — a precocious undergrad who loves
classical music, improv and Twilight — awakens in Jesse long-dormant feelings of possibility
and connection.
Featuring a rich assortment of peripheral characters, including a mystically upbeat party
animal (Zac Efron), a brooding young depressive (John Magaro), and a feisty Romantics
professor (Allison Janney), LIBERAL ARTS explores the emotional tug-of-war between youth
and adulthood, as played out on a leafy Midwest campus that is both Eden-like and
tumultuous — and entirely unforgettable.
Runtime is 97 minutes
In Theaters September 14th
Elizabeth Olsen
Josh Radnor
John Magaro
Julia Jones
Arden Myrin
Ari Graynor
Richard Jenkins
Sia
Jason Ritter
Aimee Ruby
Brian Oblivion
Jennifer Missoni
Aleksa Palladino
Carlos Quirarte
Jeremy Strong, Jake Hoffman
Charlotte Ross
Justin Long
Savannah Wise
Kelli O’Hara
Kick Kennedy
Taran Killam
Mickey Sumner
Lily Rabe, Ari Graynor
Thomas Matthews
Nikki M. James
Oren Moverman
Todd & Megan DiCiurcio
Adam Leon
Brady Corbet
JC Chandor
Richard Jenkins, John Magaro, Elizabeth Olsen, Josh Radnor
Elizabeth Olsen on Her Siblings' Style, New Film 'Liberal Arts'
By: Erin Carlson, Tuesday, September 11th 2012
As the younger sibling of Mary-Kate and Ashley, Elizabeth Olsen has ventured into
territory that might cause even the most jaded fashionista to faint upon sight: the tiny
twin moguls' closets, no doubt stocked with designer labels and one-of-a-kind vintage.
"I steal a lot of their clothes. It's awesome. Ones that fit. They're very little," the 23-yearold actress and It Girl told THR on Monday at the New York premiere of her latest film,
Liberal Arts.
Olsen's cool-girl, casually glamorous style often mimics that of her sisters. But she
confessed, "I'm not as clever as they are. I just kind of steal things from what they
already do."
With New York Fashion Week in full swing, the former Full House stars-turned-fashion
darlings presented the latest looks from The Row, their upscale label, earlier Monday at
the posh Carlyle Hotel near Central Park.
"I've never been to a classier event in my life! I loved every moment of it -- at the Carlyle
(with) the tea and the pastries, and the clothes were insanely gorgeous," said Olsen,
looking ladylike in a sand-colored party dress with a full skirt. "It was ridiculous. MaryKate was, like, on my lap and we were watching it and it was really beautiful."
Olsen, meanwhile, is fast becoming as famous as her siblings. Her breakout role as a
cult escapee in 2011's Martha Marcy May Marlene won wide acclaim, leading to parts in
the upcoming films Very Good Girls (opposite Dakota Fanning) and Spike Lee's Oldboy
remake.
(The latter movie begins production next month, and Olsen teased: "It's gonna please
fans and people who've never heard of it." As for Lee, "I find him to be the most kind,
generous, funny person. I love being around him.")
In Liberal Arts, which opens Friday, Olsen portrays Zibby, a 19-year-old Midwestern
college student who falls for a 35-year-old admissions counselor (Josh Radnor) from
New York when he comes to campus to visit a former professor (Richard Jenkins).
Radnor, perhaps best known as Ted Mosby on CBS' How I Met Your Mother, also wrote
and directed the film, and cast Olsen soon after the two convened for a 90-minute readthrough of the script.
"I'm very happy and I feel fortunate to be able to have a choice of what I do next," she
observed. "And I know it's not going to last forever so I'm just like holding on to it when
it's happening now and for hopefully years to come. Good things never last forever
though."
Taran Killam on
Robyn, SNL, and Joss Whedon
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Taran Killam has had a busy few days. Over the weekend, he married his longtime
girlfriend Cobie Smulders, just before heading back to work on the new season of
Saturday Night Live. Vulture ran into him at the premiere party for Liberal Arts, the new
movie from Smulders's How I Met Your Mother co-star Josh Radnor, and Killam filled us
in on 12 Years a Slave, his magical Robyn tribute, and how he's hoping to be in a Joss
Whedon venture one of these days.
Today was your first day back at SNL ...
Back at work at SNL, and it was great, really great!
You have three new cast members.
We do. I share an office with Tim [Robinson] now.
Do you haze them, or break them in?
No, no, no. The job is scary enough. I hand-massage them. Not literal hand massages,
but more like, "What poster should we put up?" I call poster decisions hand massages.
We're thinking Kathy Ireland is maybe the way to go, to decorate the office. We share
with [writer] Zach Kanin, who's from Harvard Lampoon, and it's a small office. All boys.
We sleep over on writing nights, so it's going to be tricky because there's only one
couch. That's where it'll get interesting — two on the floor, one on the couch. Unless we
get very close to each other.
Please tell me you'll still be able to do more of those Robyn-type videos.
That's the thing, because the new office will have more space now!
Oh, good!
So the next video could be bigger and grander. The pressure's on. I think there will be
more expected from me on the show. It was easy to do that in the downtime, but we'll
see. It was such a fun, last-minute, late-night, fun thing.
It couldn't have been completely last-minute, because it took a bit of planning.
That's the amazing thing about our costume department. You can call them at two in the
morning and they'll have a pink furry sweater ready for you in fifteen minutes. I just love
the video. I'm a Robyn lover. The week before, they played the video for me, and I was
like, immediately, "I love this." And then I was just watching it on a loop, and I would
interrupt other people's writing meetings by going in and starting the video on full
volume, and just through osmosis, I was able to get most of the dance moves down. I
was cheating a little bit. There was some watching the video as I danced.
So I just ran into Paul Feig and he said you guys wrapped on The Heat last week, on
Wednesday.
I love that project, and I love Paul Feig. Dan Bakkedahl from The Daily Show plays an
albino DEA agent, and I am his partner, and we keep crossing paths with the girls
[Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy], and we do not get along. And they're so funny
in this. I would have watched it anyway, and I can't believe they let me go play with
them in Boston. I'm more of a straight guy, because Dan is so funny in it. I'm more the
voice of reason, although I do partake in the misogyny from time to time.
How?
I need you to buy a ticket! I've already given you a whole bunch. What are you talking
about? [Laughs]
You also have a dramatic role in 12 Years a Slave.
As joyful a set as The Heat, but about really depressing material. As a white man in
that, I'm just bound to be evil. I can't be any good. But I like to think that maybe because
I'm getting the story out there, I'm absolving myself of it? That's not true. There's no
fixing this. We fucked up really bad. Really bad. But that was an incredible project.
Comedy, I can do every week, but such an opportunity to work with Chiwetel [Ejiofor],
and Steve [McQueen] in New Orleans, it was amazing. Have you gone? It's the best.
We just drove around and got food and it was amazing.
Who are the worst in this? Paul Dano said his character was pretty evil.
After [Michael] Fassbender, he's probably the worst. As one of the abductors, I start it
off, I'm the catalyst, but I do have a conflict of conscience. But I can't wait to see it. It's
fucked up. It's terrible. And it's based on a true story. Have you read it? There's some
levity, and Benedict Cumberbatch's character is some beacon of hope, and of course
Brad Pitt comes in and saves the day, that's pretty much typecasting, but it was
incredible. It's odd going from SNL, which is immediate — you write, you perform, and
you get a response — to this, which won't come out for a year? I'm not used to that, so
I'm putting it out of sight, out of mind.
Congrats on getting married this weekend, by the way ...
It's pretty awesome.
But where is Cobie [Smulders]? You're here ...
I just came out to support Josh [Radnor] and his movie, and it's weird, because we just
saw each other 48 hours ago in California. Yeah, it's a blessed life.
You must have had a tight schedule, what with the movie wrapping, then the wedding,
and then SNL starting up.
Yeah, and she had work, too.
So what about a honeymoon?
Every day with Cobie is a honeymoon! [Smiles]
Would you want to work in the Whedonverse? Because she's your in ...
Yes! I'm so proud of her. And I'm a big Joss fan. I was a fan before she was even
connected to him. Picture a 15-year-old Taran Killam being in his grandmother's
television room, watching Buffy have to send Angel back to hell, just as he got his soul
back, because Xander wouldn't tell her that Willow was working on a plan. Weeping.
Sitting on the floor, watching that by myself, weeping. And then going back and realizing
he's responsible for Toy Story, and the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, which I
love, and Firefly. I'm a big Firefly fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of Firefly. I would
love to do [the sequel] to Dr. Horrible. I know Joss has seen my Robyn video, so if
there's any big dance number in it, have him give me a call! [Laughs]
Kick Fired Upth
Friday, September 15 , 2012
Kick Kennedy needs more than just a light. The daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who
was with new beau and castmate from “The Newsroom” Thomas Matthews, was
spotted outside the Quintessentially party at Sons of Essex for “Liberal Arts.” “She was
asking around for a cigarette,” said a spy. “Someone finally rolled one for her.”
Josh Radnor, who wrote, directed and stars in the flick, brought “Twilight” actress Julia
Jones, who introduced herself to everyone as “Josh’s girlfriend.”
QUINTESSENTIALLY AND THE PEGGY SIEGAL COMPANY
PRESENT THEth NEW YORK PREMIERE OF LIBERAL ARTS
Tuesday, September 11 , 2012
"The thing, for me, that started it was I went back to my college to show my first movie,
and I was shocked at how much older I was all of a sudden than everyone there," Josh
Radnor said last night at the Peggy Siegal Company premiere of his new film, Liberal
Arts. "I was thinking like, 'Surely, I wasn't as young as these people when I was in
college.'"
That feeling gave rise to Liberal Arts, written and directed by and starring Radnor. He
plays Jesse, a 35-year-old bibliophile living in New York who goes to visit an old
professor at his alma mater and there meets Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen), a 19-year-old
sophomore with whom he strikes up a not-quite-relationship. (The film also features
especially entertaining turns by Allison Janney and Zac Efron.)
For Olsen, now 23, one of the challenges of playing Zibby was getting back in touch
with that particular brand of stubbornness that comes from being 19. "Where I am now,
I'm very happy not knowing what's going to happen next," she said. "But there was
definitely a point, when I was 19 or 18, when I felt, definitely, more self-assured, and like
no one could change my opinions on anything."
After the film, friends and supporters including the recently-wed Taran Killam, Ari
Graynor, Kick Kennedy, and Lily Rabe all decamped to Sons of Essex to eat truffle
pizza and, presumably, talk about books.
OLSENS’ OLD HABIT
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Wednesday, September 12 , 2012
Like sister like sister. Elizabeth Olsen plays a 19-year-old who is dating a 35-year-old in
the movie “Liberal Arts.” And she says there’s nothing wrong with that. At the
Wednesday premiere, sponsored by Quintessentially, the 25-year-old told us, “I would
... I think it makes perfect sense.” Her approval must come as good news to sister MaryKate, who is dating 42-year-old Oliver Sarkozy, half-brother of former French President
Nicolas Sarkozy.
Elizabeth Olsen on Reservation Name-Dropping and Informal
Restaurant Consulting
Tuesday, September 12, 2012
Actress Elizabeth Olsen is probably best known for her breakout role in Martha Marcy
May Marlene, but in the year since the movie blew up and made people realize she's
more than just the other Olsen sister, we've also learned that Olsen is one of the biggest
food-loving celebrities in the city. So, when we spoke with her at last night's premiere for
her latest film, Liberal Arts, we asked her if it's gotten any easier to snag a reservation
and if she'd ever take a cue from other actors (like Channing Tatum) and get into the
restaurant biz herself.
So, I saw the thing you did with Alyssa Shelasky about how you don't usually use your
name to get reservations.
Oh, I just hope that they'll call me back and I'll get the reservation I want. Normally, I
get, "We have a waiting list," and I go, "That's cool!" But maybe if I give my name, you'll
get me in. It actually only works at one restaurant, Il Buco, because they know me there,
not for any other reason.
I try to be a regular there, very hard. Anywhere you're a regular, they'll make
accommodations for you. It's one of the perks of living in New York, to get your spot.
Would you ever consider investing in a restaurant?
Yeah, I would do that in a heartbeat. I actually have a few friends who work in
restaurants right now, and I can't actually invest in it, but they use me as someone to
look at a menu, because they know I look at every restaurant's menu in my free time.
So they'll ask me what I think they should change or whatever, so I feel like I'm
contributing in that department. I could put that on my résumé.
Elizabeth Olsen & Josh Radnor: 'Liberal Arts' Screening!
TUE, 11 SEPTEMBER 2012
Elizabeth Olsen and Josh Radnor attend a screening of their film Liberal Arts on
Monday (September 10) at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema in New York City.
The film follows 30-something Jesse (Radnor), who returns to his alma mater for a
professor’s retirement party, where he falls for Zibby (Olsen), a college student, and is
faced with a powerful attraction that springs up between them.
Liberal Arts hits theaters on October 5.
Also pictured inside: Lizzie leaving her hotel the next morning in Soho.
FYI: Elizabeth is wearing a Dior dress, Stella McCartney shoes, Joan Hornig earrings,
and Melinda Maria and J/Hadley rings.
“Last Night’s Parties”
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Where: Sunshine Landmark and Sons of Essex
Who was there: Guests included Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins, John
Magaro, Ali Ahn, Justin Long, Ari Graynor, Jason Ritter, Taran Killam, Lily Rabe,
Thomas Matthews, Kick Kennedy, Sia, JC Chandor, Brady Corbet, Todd DiCiurcio,
Megan DiCiurcio, Aubrey Dollar, Tim Hamilton, Randy Harrison, Jake Hoffman, Nikki M.
James, Julia Jones, Alexandra Kerry, Adam Leon, Jennifer Missoni, Brian Oblivion,
Aleksa Palladino, Carlos Quirarte, Charlotte Ross, Aimee Ruby, Savannah Wise, and
Helene Yorke.
Snapshots from
Last Night’s Liberal Arts Screening
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At Sons of Essex last night, stars of the new independent comedy Liberal Arts as well
as downtown habitués toasted the film’s release at a screening party hosted by
Quintessentially and the Peggy Siegal Company.
Quintessentially, The Peggy Siegal Company host NY
Premiere of 'Liberal
Arts'
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Tuesday, September 11 , 2012
Last night, Quintessentially and The Peggy Siegal Company hosted the NY Premiere of
IFC Films’ Liberal Arts. From the film, Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins,
John Magaro and Ali Ahn all walked the red carpet. The screening was held and
Landmark Sunshine.
Bookish and newly single Jesse Fisher (Josh Radnor) is a university admissions
counselor in his mid-thirties living in New York City who returns to his Ohio alma mater
for a retirement dinner honoring Peter Hoburg (Richard Jenkins), his favorite English
professor. A chance meeting on campus with 19-year-old Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen) — a
precocious undergrad who loves classical music, improv and Twilight — awakens in
Jesse long-dormant feelings of possibility and connection. Featuring a rich assortment
of peripheral characters, including a mystically upbeat party animal (Zac Efron), a
brooding young depressive (John Magaro), and a feisty Romantics professor (Allison
Janney), the film explores the emotional tug-of-war between youth and adulthood, as
played out on a leafy Midwest campus that is both Eden-like and tumultuous — and
entirely unforgettable.
Additional guests that we spotted at the premiere included Justin Long (Movie 43), Ari
Graynor (For a Good Time, Call…), Jason Ritter (Parenthood), Taran Killam (SNL), Lily
Rabe (American Horror Story), Thomas Matthews (Newsroom) & Kick Kennedy, Sia
(musician), JC Chandor (filmmaker, Margin Call), Brady Corbet (Simon Killer), Todd &
Megan DiCiurcio, Aubrey Dollar (Weeds), Tim Hamilton, Randy Harrison (Queer as
Folk), Jake Hoffman (The Wolf of Wall Street), Nikki M. James (Book of Mormon), Nick
Jarecki (filmmaker, Arbitrage), Julia Jones (Twilight), Alexandra Kerry, Adam Leon
(filmmaker, Gimmee the Loot), Jennifer Missoni (Gossip Girl), Oren Moverman
(filmmaker, The Messenger), Arden Myrin (Bachelorette), Kelli O’Hara (Blue Bloods),
Brian Oblivion (musician, Cults), Aleksa Palladino (Boardwalk Empire), Carlos Quirarte,
Charlotte Ross (Glee), Aimee Ruby, Kate Lyn Sheil, Alise Shoemaker, Jeremy Strong
(Robot & Frank), Mickey Sumner (Imogene), Nico Tortorella (Make it or Break it),
Savannah Wise (Smash), Helene Yorke (Legally Blonde).
The after-party was held at downtown hotspot Sons of Essex where guests sipped on
Redbull cocktails and Stella.
Elizabeth Olsen In Christian Dior – ‘Liberal Arts’ New York
Screening
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Elizabeth Olsen illustrated her ongoing love of horizontal stripes and flared skirts at the
screen of her film ‘Liberal Arts’ in New York City on Monday.
The actress wore a grey, cream and pink leather dress from Christian Dior’s Resort
2013 collection.
This look is not a huge departure from the Antonio Berardi dress she wore last week,
but the Dior creates a more pleasing silhouette and is an easier look to pull off in front of
the papparazzi.
You may remember that Kerry Washington and Jessica Biel donned the original scoopneck look book version of this dress earlier this year.
I’m liking this look on Elizabeth right down to her ankles. The hair are makeup are on on
point, but the shoes are a mismatch in my book.
Joan Hornig earrings and a Melinda Maria and J/Hadley ring completed the look.
Elizabeth Olsen: I Have Never Read Any ‘Twilight’ Books
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley revealed she is not interested in reading
any young adult fiction!
Read on to find out what she said. Breaking Dawn Part 2 hits theaters in November, but
don’t expect to see Elizabeth Olsen at the premiere. In fact, the 23-year-old actress has
never read any of the Twilight books! HollywoodLife.com caught up with Elizabeth at
The New York movie premiere of Liberal Arts on Sept. 10, sponsored by
QUINTESSENTIALLY and The Peggy Siegal Company.
Although her character in the film, 19-year-old Zibby, has a slight obsession with
vampire fiction, the actress herself does feel the same way. “If I have the opportunity to
read that’s not a script or prepping for a movie, I read things that I think are on my list of
books that I have to read before I die,” she said, “I’ve actually never read Harry Potter,
or any type of fun, adventure anything, or young adult anything.” But, she’s not knocking
people who enjoy in a little guilty pleasure fiction now and then “If people want to do it,
by all means, I’m not going to judge them,” she added. With such a busy schedule, we
don’t really blame her.
WATCH: Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins and Josh Radnor
Talk Reading, Writing,
Romance At Liberal Arts Premiere
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May-December romances "can be creepy" says Richard Jenkins, who's part of the cast
of Josh Radnor's Liberal Arts, a movie about what might more appropriately might be
termed a May-October romance on a college campus.
In this particular case, Jenkins adds, "it isn't." The carefully groomed Radnor, who you
may recognize from the TV sitcom How I Met Your Mother plays a guy in his 30s who
goes back to his alma mater — the movie is set at Kenyon College in Ohio which
Radnor actually attended — for a professor's retirement party and ends up falling for a
much younger student there played by Elizabeth Olsen. Movieline pal Grace Randolph
talked to Radnor, Olsen and the always excellent Jensen about the fundamental of love
at the Quintessentially-sponsored New York premiere of the film on Monday.
After the screening, premiere goers headed to Sons of Essex on the Lower East Side of
Manhattan to engage in some college style drinking.
TWEETS:
Todd DiCiurcio (@oddDC) tweeted at 2:00am on September 11, 2012 to 291
followers: @oddDC: “Liberal Arts Night @weareexitmusic @sybilsteele @taylorsteele
@bradgerlach check out the shoes @ NYC http://instagr.am/p/PbEms9SsFD/”
Ari Graynor (@AGraynor) tweeted at 8:30pm on September 10, 2012 to 6,466
followers: @AGraynor: “At movie theater to see Liberal Arts and heard people go up
to buy tickets for #foragoodtimecall. I thanked them. It was awkward 4 everyone”
Douglas Marshall (@dougalmarshall) tweeted at 8:00pm on September 10, 2012 to
815 followers: @douglamarshall: “My New favorite Olsen! @OlsenElizabeth is so pretty,
sweet, funny and real! Premier for #LiberalArts #DailyNewsDoug
pic.twitter.com/W08NyMan”
Chloe Melas (@CMHollywoodLife) tweeted at 7:15pm on 9/10/2012 to 860 followers:
@CMHollywoodLife: “From a fashion show to the Liberal Arts premiere!
http://yfrog.com/g0ekqthj”
Charlotte Ross (@charlotteross) tweeted at 1:30am on September 11, 2012 to 296
followers: @charlotteross: “Had a great time at the "Liberal Arts" premiere in NYC
starring Elizabeth Olsen tonight... Wonderful film...”