Frances Dodds
Bio:
Frances Dodds is the Senior Editor at DuJour Magazine, where she covers culture and style. She has her MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn.
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Sheila Nevins Reveals Scenes from Her Life
One of the most influential documentary film producers flips the script on herself in her new book
In the nebulous territory between fact and fiction—a dark wilderness we wander with increasing frequency—Sheila Nevins has long shone an unwavering light on the hardest of facts. At 78, Nevins has worked at HBO Documentary for nearly four decades (she’s been president there since 2004) during which she has produced ... More
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The Spiritual Sounds of London Grammar
The band who gives lessons in musical meditation reveal they have a few prayers of their own
It’s been said that listening to British trio London Grammar is something of a spiritual experience. Were this listener to wax lyrical, she might say that lead singer Hannah Reid is like a cathedral choir of one—her ethereal voice soaring over aching electro beats, up into the rafters and out ... More
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Puerto Rico’s Hottest Hotel is Back in Business
The El San Juan Hotel puts the final polish on its renovation with the Memorial Day weekend debut of its Beach Club
Perhaps the greatest marker of a true vacation destination is its capacity to transport you—body and mind—to somewhere wholly different. And when you walk out of the torrential Puerto Rico sunshine into the lobby of the El San Juan Hotel, as your eyes adjust to the sultry light, ... More
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Bill Nighy Plays the Dapper Dandy
Ever suave and self-deprecating, the English actor discusses his love for the cinema, suits and aging in Hollywood
Bill Nighy is in California, and he has his eye on a banana. He arrived in L.A. the week prior (positively “a treat, coming from snowy, ice-bound London”), drove down to Santa Barbara for the film festival, ... More
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A Visit to West Virginia’s Crown Jewel
Take in the grandeur and glamour of The Greenbrier Hotel
It’s nearly midnight, and I’m in an empty ballroom ... More
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This Streaming Service Will Make You Cooler
Walter Presents makes a TV binge as sexy as a French girl with a cigarette
Three years ago, Walter Iuzzolino—an excitable, sprightly Italian man with black frame glasses and a passion for sweater vests—locked himself inside, and turned on the TV. For the next nearly two years, for eight to ten hours a day, Walter watched TV. And now, Walter would like to present the fruits ... More
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His Holiness, Jude Law
The actor on becoming The Young Pope, his New Year's resolutions, and the compliment he won’t pay Donald Trump
There is a scene in The Young Pope, about halfway through the series, in which we watch Jude Law’s character get dressed in his formal papal costume—gold embroidered robes, jeweled rings over red velvet gloves, the tiered papal tiara—to the groin-thrusting soundtrack of “Sexy and I Know It,” by LMFAO. Girl ... More
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Why Joel Edgerton’s Time Is Now
The actor on his Oscar-ready role in Loving, and why the Hollywood set should tread carefully with their political views
When it came to casting the leading man in Loving, writer and director Jeff Nichols says simply, “It was Joel’s time.” Loving is Nichols’ fifth movie, the latest in a lineup of complex, genre-toppling films that garnered fervent critical applause, if tepid mainstream momentum. But it’s Nichols’ time, too, and ... More
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Jeff Nichols is Changing Hollywood
The director behind Loving talks jumping the hurdle from indie to mainstream and the kinds of conversations he hopes his new film will inspire
For nearly the past decade, the writer and director Jeff Nichols has been playing hard to get. Granted, it’s left him hungrier than the movie studios he’s flirting with, but the 37-year-old filmmaker—whose latest work, Loving, premieres in November—has a notion he can’t shake: that studios should invest in films ... More
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Natalie Portman Gets Dressed Up
The actress on her Oscar-contending role in Jackie, and the split selves of fame
There was something endearing about the statement dress that Natalie Portman wore to a press day in New York this October, puffed dramatically at the shoulders and tenting over her pregnant belly. In a suite buried deep in the Peninsula Hotel—with large cardboard Jackie cutouts scattered around the premises, and ... More
