Archive for April 2012
from the Times:
Well, we’re in the unlikely position that the world’s premiere art-film festival may be mobbed by screaming Twihards, as Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are actors in the main competition. The former is a bored billionaire (pictured right, with Sarah Gadon playing his wife) in David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, the latter is On The Road, Walter Salles’s adaptation of the Jack Kerouac novel.
The two films are part of the North American indie wave hitting the beaches of Cannes, from Wes Anderson’s opener Moonrise Kingdom to Brad Pitt in Andrew Dominik’s Killing Me Softly. Zac Efron is in Lee Daniels’s The Paperboy, along with Matthew McConaughey, who also stars in Jeff Nichols’s Mud. Meanwhile, this year’s Sundance sensation, Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, is in the funkier Un Certain Regard competition, along with Brandon “son of” Cronenberg and his Antiviral. The film is about a man “who harvests viruses from sick celebrities and then sells them”. Like father, like son…
Cannes would not be Cannes without the art-house big hitters and, as in 2009, Michael Haneke and Jacques Audiard face each other for the Palme d’Or. Bets are on that Haneke’s Amour will lose out to Audiard’s Rust & Bone, which features Marion Cotillard, and killer whales. Other films are from Abbas Kiarostami, Matteo Garrone and Ulrich Seidl. But no women directors made the competition cit, much to the irritation of many on Twitter.
Cannes Film Festival, May 16-27
Here’s our weekly round-up of Robert Pattinson pics and quotes of the day that we post on our Tumblr
“It’s funny when you’re doing a sex scene and they’re screaming, “No, don’t actually look like you’re having sex. That’s terrifying!”
-Robert Pattinson (Metro UK – 2011)
Here’s great new Cosmopolis wallpaper made by Jules
Google Translation:
Could sign as “always known”. This year, in version 65 of the Cannes Film Festival, filmmakers were selected again usually awarded and praised by the most important meetings of world cinema. David Cronenberg, who has participated three times in 1996 and won the special award for Crash, is one of those who first meets the eye. The Canadian is in Cosmopolis,the film based on the novel by Don DeLillo.
Cronenberg’s film was one of the most anticipated and in accordance with the images of the official trailer is a return to aesthetics and some gore from tough beginning. Robert Pattinson, the actor in the Twilight saga, this is Eric Packer, a billionaire who rides in his limousine through the streets of Manhattan while looking where to cut his hair. The film depicts the odyssey of sex, drugs and lust for one day in the life of Packer. Cosmopolisalso has starring Juliette Binoche and Paul Giamatti, among others.
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I haven’t seen this one before and even though it’s small it seems like a new still to me:
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We posted loads of reactions HERE, but here are some more:
Despite my grievances, anger, and blind rage at my woman’s lust for you…dammit I respect you. I just saw the trailer for Cosmopolis and even though it has yet to hit theaters, bravo for doing something many men in your position never accomplished. You’ve succeeded where Hayden Christensen, Daniel Radcliffe (thus far), Mark Hamill, and Ralph Macchio never could. You became a sensation, an icon, the face of a franchise, and you still managed to land an acting role where you escape the role. Not just any role mind you, you’re working with David Motherf****** Cronenberg!
The Fly, A History of Violence, and Naked Lunch. Impressive, to say the least, that he found you worthy of a role in one of his films. Not to mention you look like a total boss in that short clip. It’s too soon to tell but I dare say you will become one of the greats in this industry. I have faith in it. Although I still dislike you…kind of.
May you always sparkle in the sunlight,
-GeekTyrant (thanks @vampirefreak101 for the tip!)
Seems like David Cronenberg is back to doing what he does best – creating sublimely weird nightmares and slipping them into the arena of mainstream cinema. It also looks like a peach of a role for Pattinson, who’s set to shake off his tween pin-up credentials as the film’s increasingly deranged protagonist.
-Total Film
For those who suspect the 69-year-old of mellowing with age, Cronenberg has one last word: Cosmopolis.
-Awards Daily
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Bel Ami’ will be shown at the Catalina Film Festival on May 5th, 2012.
From Catalina Film:
BEL AMI – West Coast Premiere!Directed by Declan Donnellan
Writers: Rachel Bennette. Based on a book by Guy de Maupassant
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci, Colm Meaney
Runtime: 102 min
Synopsis: BEL AMI is the story of Georges Duroy, who travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.
No Q&A
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Here’s the Italian Cosmopolis poster:
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