Esquire Magazine pick up 75 women in history, among politicians, pop stars and other female personalities. Winona Ryder got placed at 58. ♥

We prefer to remember early-’90s Winona. Edward Scissorhands, Mermaids, Dracula, Reality Bites Winona. Charming Winona.

Winona Ryder in Heathers

First of all, the precocious Winona Ryder of four years ago gets credit for having the nerve and intelligence to go after this role to begin with. She knew that the subversive, satirical and blackly humorous script for this film would indeed play on-screen and that she could play in it. So far, it’s the best of the movies she’s been in—and that includes Bram Stoker’s Dracula, folks.

As the disgruntled Veronica in a band of hilariously vicious high-school cliquettes, the other three of whom are all named Heather, Ryder gave a performance that took her out of the screen corps of resonant, prepubescent ducklings and put her in a league of her own, as a smart, unexpectedly beautiful young woman sporting an unearned but charming irony. Hitting upon the perfect strategy for carrying an ultrasurreal girl-coming-of-age story, she plays Veronica as if she were just your average popular girl in a fairly realistic story about the vicissitudes of teen life. Ryder was perfectly aware of the filmmakers’ concept, which was that only the blackest surrealism could get at the reality of teenage humiliation and despair. She knew that if she brought only a normal quantity of sneering, eye-rolling and glaring to the plot points it would all come off as fabulously weird and true. So, as Veronica gets happily seduced by the literally devilish Jason Dean (Christian Slater) and turns semi-wittingly homicidal, Ryder becomes increasingly believable within a revenge fantasy of deliberately increasing unbelievability.

The more outrageous the proceedings (Veronica and Jason knocking off one of the Heathers and two jocks), the more crucial Ryder’s grounded performance becomes, and the more consistently she keeps us involved in Veronica’s confusion and emerging strength of character. None of the actors in this film plays for laughs, which is why it succeeds in making us laugh, but the underlying sincerity in Ryder’s performance is especially important because it is the key to the film’s moral center (and, while making jokes about teen suicide, it does have one). Heathers sets out to redeem teen mentality in the only way possible, by mercilessly eradicating the sentimentality with which its fucked-up cruelties and quests are habitually viewed. Ryder’s vanity-free, dignified take on her ridiculous, conflicted character—whose moment of triumph is to watch her ex-lover blow himself up—serves this purpose well and raises Heathers to the level of a minor classic.

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Old photos, old magazine, but new addition to the gallery. Thanks to GinAndTonica we have scans of July 1994 issue of “The Face”.

Enjoy!

Winona is in the latest issue (5-11 november 2009) of “L’express Styles”, the supplement of L’Express, a very well known magazine in France.
Michael Futura has translated the article for us, so take a minute, click on “read more” to read it.

A big thanks to Mel for scanning it for us.

3 reasons to (re) discover Winona Ryder

At 37 years, the actress made her comeback in The Private Lives of Pippa LeeA moving film by Rebecca Miller, daughter of playwright Arthur Miller. Exclusive for L’Express Styles, it is revealed in privacy. (more…)

Winona is cover of November issue of C Magazine, in an absurd stunning picture. The cover is part of her come back, since Pippa Lee is being released on November 27. Click on the thumbnail to see the full cover, and if you’re on USA and have access to this magazine and can scan it to us, PLEASE! I don’t have access to it here in Brazil. Thank you.

As promised, added scans of Elle UK to the gallery. The magazine is out now, so run to get your own copy. The pictures are SO beautiful and I loved the article.

“Winona Ryder is one of the most TALENTED actresses of her generation. She is ICONIC and a little unusual. On the eve of her much antecipating comeback, writer and director Rebecca Miller talks to the reclusive star.

(…) It’s my hope that, if Winona continues to get the part she deserves, she’ll be remembered as one of the best. She has sweetness and a humility about her that are endearing. She exposes her most vulnerable self again and again for the rest of us to consume.

Magazines: Elle UK – July 2009

Thanks Vogue28 for the scans and ChrisB for the heads up.

There was an article on Winona at May 25 issue of People Magazine, and Simon was kind enough to scan it and let us post here. Thanks!

I had so great feelings about the article, it looks like the old days, when we could find her pictures in magazines and be happy for her.

“Everyone has their up and downs in life, and hers were in the public eye. But she is in a good place in her life, now” – Mark Polish

• Magazines » 2009 – People, May 25, 2009

Winona is cover of UK Elle Magazine, issue of July. The picture is from Matthias Vriens McGrath and I can’t wait to see the whole set.

I’ll post scans as soon the magazine is out.

The ’90s pin-up girl hits the red carpet in NYC Monday night as she jumpstarts her career with a bunch of new movies!

WINONA RYDER has been popping up in the public eye more and more lately — the star just hit the premiere of her new flick, ‘The Ten,’ in the Big Apple Monday night.

Winona, who bundled up in a black knit cap and cream-colored coat for the NYC red carpet premiere, is also talking about her past — she says she was embarrassed by the media coverage of her arrest for shoplifting in 2001, after security cameras caught her attempting to pocket merchandise from the Beverly Hills Saks Fifth Avenue.

“The attention was what was embarrassing,” she says in Vogue magazine’s August issue.

The story attracted worldwide attention in the news for months due to her subsequent trial, generating a great deal of negative publicity for the successful actress.

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Uploaded the scans from the latest issue from Vogue. Winona is stunning.

She was the most alluring actress of her generation. Then she disappeared. Winona Ryder talks to Sally Singer about family, fraught times, and being just fine with turning 35.

Enjoy the pictures!