Brilliant news!! Robert Pattinson will have TWO premieres at the Berlin Film Festival! Besides Queen of The Desert premiering, now the long awaited movie ‘Life’ by Anton Corbijn about the friendship between James Dean (Dane DeHaan) and photographer Dennis Stock (Robert Pattinson) will also premiere at the great Berlin Film Festival. WE ARE EXCITED!!
Read more about it on the site of the Berlinale HERE
We still shiver when recollecting the luscious monochrome of Corbijn’s Ian Curtis pic, Control. Interim efforts may not have packed so intense a punch but the legacy of his debut lives on. The Dutch photographer created the effect of characters moving through a world so textured that it seemed to have its own pulse. For Life — the story of a photographer and his relationship with James Dean, Dane DeHaan plays the original rebel without a cause opposite reformed heartthrob, Robert Pattinson. Let’s see what he makes of them. SMK
Did you know Anton Corbijn bought his first camera when he was 18.
For his latestprojectAnton Corbijnhas returned to theHanseatic city.InPostRepublicLifeiscurrently preparingthecolorgradingfor theAustralian-Canadian-German co-production.
“It’swonderful to behereagain,”saysAntonCorbijn. Dutch directorandphotographer hadlastA Most Wanted Manshot inHamburgandwas enthusiastic aboutthe locationsandthespecial atmospherein the Hanseaticcity.His latest filmLifetells the story ofHollywoodphotographerDennis Stock, gets to knowin 1955at a partythe still unknownJamesDean.A specialmeetingoftheaddition to theworld-famousportraits ofHollywood icon, a wonderful friendshipapparent.
The topicwasvery appealing tohim, toldAnton Corbijn, who became famous as a photographermainly by itsmusicians portraits .Alsoon film, he has workedwithartistsandpersonalities; hisfirst film ‘Control’, the lifeofIan Curtis, thelead singer of thebandJoyDevision.
Lifeis producedon the German sideofWolfgangMüller (Barry Films)andisexpectedto be released on the 60thanniversary of the deathofJamesDeanin 2015in German cinemas. The main roles play DaneDehaanandRobertPattinson. TheHamburg Film FundSchlesig–Holstein has supportedthe film with€250,000in production.
Anton Corbijn talks about LIFE and Robert Pattinson with ‘Dazed’ magazine
In your films you’ve portrayed talented men who burn out young – Ian Curtis in Control, and now James Dean and photographer Dennis Stock. Are you interested in the myth-making process that happens around these guys?
Anton Corbijn: If anything, it’s unmasking because I always bring it down to very normal life. In photography I can imagine that people think I make images iconic, but with films I don’t think that’s the case. The film with James Dean is actually about the photographer. He’s the lead role, they just share screen time. I had a similar experience when I was young in Holland. I became the photographer of somebody who became the biggest rock star we ever had there (Herman Brood), so it was interesting to see how that balance works when I thought I was helping him and he probably thought he was helping me. It’s the same with this story.
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Was it an easy process casting Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan in your upcoming film Life?
Anton Corbijn: Dane didn’t want to take a meeting with me initially, as he couldn’t see himself in James Dean’s shoes. But he was persuaded by a mutual friend, and said yes in the end. He’s fabulous, a very good actor. Rob was interested in the film because he really wants to prove himself and for me that was great for that role. If you look at the roles he’s taking on – like the ones withCronenberg – he really wants to do very different, non-mainstream films and get out of that pigeonhole.
Anton Corbijn talked a little about Rob and more about Life’s release a recent interview with The Playlist.
What about Robert Pattinson’s work in the movie?
Rob and Dan very different kind of actors. They’re very, very different kind of people in the film, so it was fantastic. They were so different naturally. For Rob to play a photographer is quite interesting because he’s being chased by photographers all the time. Rob is of course a film star, but he likes to be seen as an actor, so he works very hard to be an actor and be valued as an actor. And in the film he plays this photographer who wants to be seen as a great photographer. So I think there’s a parallel there that’s helpful.
He’s made a lot of interesting acting choices, “Cosmopolis”…
…Yeah, “The Rover.” I hear that “Map to the Stars” is a really great film. I am looking forward to seeing it.
I was hoping to see “Life” announced as part of the TIFF 2014 lineup.
Yeah, I was hoping that too, but we are too far from finishing, because we finished [shooting] in late October.
Will we see it at on the fall festival circuit anywhere?
I reckon it will be 2015.
ETA: One more interview of Anton Corbijn talks about Rob and LIFE
Like some of his recent films, it’s a very different movie for Pattinson.
The screentime is easily divided between Dane DeHaan and Rob, and they’re very different actors. Rob, I think he’s working to be seen as a proper actor and not as a movie star. He takes a lot of challenging roles, and tries to work with directors that are a bit away from the mainstream. The fact that he maybe wants to prove himself as an actor was very good for the role of Dennis Stock, who wants to prove himself as being a great photographer. Also, for Rob to be on the other end of the camera was quite interesting.
Did you give Pattinson advice on being a photographer?
I got a camera to him quite a few months before we started shooting. An old Leica so he could put film in it and get comfortable with it.
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