August 07, 2009

"Julie (Powell '95) and Julia" opens today

We’ve been following the trajectory of Julie Powell ‘95 from her blog, to her book, to her Blooker Prize, and to the announcement of a new film based on her book.

Well, a year and a half later, the film is finally out in theaters, and as the first film by Nora Ephron in a few years, and the first cinematic treatment of the late culinary icon Julia Child, it’s getting quite a bit of press.

• First, a New York Times review.

• Powell’s Books interviews Powell

• Nina Metz of The Chicago Tribune interviews Powell, getting her thoughts on “Julie Powell” in the film:

She’s a Nora Ephron character who shares my name and my history and some of the details of my personality, but she’s different. She’s nicer than I am. She’s sweeter. I feel uncomfortable saying this without sounding self-aggrandizing, but with the blog I realized that I could write funny. And I don’t think the Julie Powell of the movie is a funny person. Funny things happen to her. But she’s very sweet and a little more earnest than I am.

Amy does such a lovely job and she’s such a lovely woman and a great actress. But she’s definitely softer. You know, not as much cursing. Not as much screaming and throwing things.

• Roger Moore of The Kansas City Star discusses the reaction to the film among the food blogging community:

…being that first blogger to have her online musings converted into a hit book and now a movie is earning mixed notices among her fellow foodie bloggers, who are legion.

• Powell gives her thoughts on the process in The Atlantic Monthly:

Ephron’s Julie, adorably depicted by Amy Adams, shares with me some traits, history, and relationships, but is emphatically not me. For one thing, I was never editor of the Amherst College literary magazine when I was there. I do not have friends buying up parcels of Manhattan real estate or writing Showtime-series-inspiring blogs about having sex with billionaires in private jets

• An on her blog, Julie reflects on the end of her “stint in LaLaLand.”

Brian Meacham '97 | August 7, 2009 01:22 AM | Alumni

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