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Friday, October 3, 2014
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
'Still Alice' & 'Clouds of Sils Maria' at the Hamptons International Film Festival in October
'Still Alice' will have its US Premiere at the Festival and will close it.
'Clouds of Sils Maria' will be screened in the "Spotlight Films" category.
Screenings:
- October 11 at 07:00 PM (Clouds of Sils Maria)
- October 12 at 11:45 AM (Clouds of Sils Maria)
- October 13 at 07:00 PM (Still Alice US Premiere)
- October 13 at 07:30 PM (Still Alice)
David Cronenberg Talks About Rob, Cosmopolis and Maps To The Stars
David Cronenberg's Hollywood-centered family melodrama Maps to the Stars marks the veteran director's second straight film with Twilight alum Robert Pattinson after 2012's Cosmopolis.
Although many still see Pattinson as vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen, Cronenberg told The Hollywood Reporter he could easily look past that.
"I have no problem ignoring that," the director said of Pattinson's Twilight past. "Of course I watched the first Twilight movie just to see what he was like and get a feel for his screen presence and so on and so on…by the time you're on the set, it's just the two of you making movies. You forget your own movies too.'"
Speaking to THR ahead of Saturday night's New York Film Festival screening of Maps, Cronenberg explained that he wanted to work with Pattinson (who wasn't in attendance at the New York event) on this movie not only because the director thinks of him as "a wonderful actor" and they "had a good time on Cosmopolis" but also because it provided the opportunity for Pattinson to participate in the sort of ensemble film he'd told Cronenberg he wanted to do.
"He told me that he was scared about Cosmopolis because he had not really wanted to do a movie where he was the lead and had the whole movie on his shoulders," the director explained. "And of course in that movie he's in almost every scene. He said, 'One day I'd love to do an ensemble piece where there are a lot of good actors and [he's] just one of them.'"
When Cronenberg was putting together Maps, he thought of his Cosmopolis star.
Read the full article at the source
Via RPLife
Lizzy Pattinson Talks About XFactor, Rob's Support, and Fame
On her brother’s support of her entering the show
“He is really excited about it all and he likes hearing about the behind the scenes detail, all the craziness of it all. I sent him a link of the song I am performing for Judges’ Houses and he said ‘that sounds really cool’. It was quite an obscure choice and he thought it was a really good song.
On whether she is prepared for the level of fame her brother enjoys?:
“I have seen the great side of things through my brother but also the other stuff that comes with it. There are so few people who have that level of fame, I know my life wouldn’t be the same as his. I don’t think any girls are going to be throwing their knickers at me.
Read her full interview at the source
Via RPLife
Rob Interview with The Province from TIFF
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TORONTO – For a man who emerged as the fully formed and fully fanged vampire heartthrob in the Twilight saga, Robert Pattinson almost seems too fully dimensional, too human, too real to be locker pin-up material. But he’s managing.
The British actor who played Edward opposite Kristen Stewart’s Bella Swan says he’s learned to adapt to a complete lack of control when it comes to public perception, which is one reason why he loves working with David Cronenberg so much.
Pattinson played the lead in Cronenberg’s 2012 outing, a limo-bound narrative about greed, corruption and self-contained narcissism called Cosmopolis. And he returns to Cronenberg’s bizarre landscapes in Maps to the Stars, a truly odd Oedipal yarn woven through a Hollywood loom.
Pattinson plays a limo driver to various celebrities in this new effort that also stars Mia Wasikowska, Julianne Moore and John Cusack, and while he says his character, Jerome, was relatively blank on the page, he knew he could trust Cronenberg to let him grope for a while, and get a good feel for what was needed.
“David is very funny,” Pattinson says. “I just like him as a person, and it helps that I really like his work. I like the way he runs his sets: They are so comfortable and I feel more confident on them.”
Pattinson says Cronenberg never panics when faced with the unknown. He allows the story and the characters to evolve organically.
“On Cosmopolis, I was terrified because it was such a wordy script and I hadn’t done any rehearsals, and I hadn’t had any talks with him about the character until the Sunday before the Monday we started shooting. And I tell you I nearly had a nervous breakdown because I assumed he thought I knew exactly what I was going to do and just pull it out…. “ Pattinson laughs, with a sweet little twinkle.
“So I called him up to ask one question…. just to ease my way into telling him that I didn’t know what I was doing. Then he just explained his way of working, which is he doesn’t know what is going to happen until you are on set doing it in its final stage, so there is no real point in rehearsing and no point in even discussing it that much unless you have a massive problem.”
Pattinson says he had no problems on Maps to the Stars, only massive amounts of fun, thanks in large part to Julianne Moore — who emerges as the central character in this multi-pronged narrative about show business, identity and one aging actress’s bid to play the part of her own Golden Age actress mother in a new biopic.
“Julianne was so into it,” Pattinson says. “I think it’s one of the best things she has ever done. I love what she is doing in it and I didn’t have to think at all, it was totally reactive, she was a virtuoso.”
Pattinson says even the sex scene he shares with Moore in the limo felt entirely fresh even after the raunchy limo sex scenes in Cosmopolis, “I don’t think I have laughed so hard in my life. All her coverage, I was laughing my head off.”
Pattinson admits he has a slightly warped sense of humour that aligns with Cronenberg’s, but he believes it’s a healthy coping mechanism for the craziness that is show business.
“I never wanted to be an actor as a kid…. And I’m pretty good at taking roles in stuff that nobody sees,” he says, laughing. “But there are a lot of egomaniacal psychopaths out there.
“But I have met a lot of actresses who are like Julianne’s character. Their sense of self is so caught up in something that is dictated by an audience and an audience of people they do not know and will never meet. And when they stop having success, their sense of self disappears.”
Pattinson says you can be a huge star and still face a major career stall. “People can just get bored of you.”
The only way to maintain some sense of personal integrity is to make movies that feel purposeful, and embody characters that speak to the human condition with some sense of internal truth. But those are getting harder and harder to find, Pattinson says.
“I don’t know if people want to have flawed heroes, to be honest… The good guy has to be raised by fishermen peasants who are entirely pure people, and the bad guy is raised from broken despair in hell. There’s this reductive approach to narrative right now that I don’t understand,” he says.
“We’re getting cartoon characters, basically. And I think it makes people frustrated and annoyed. But at the same time, if the audience is consistently fed cheeseburgers all the time you can give them the nicest piece of sushi and they’ll still be, like, bleh.”
RPLife | Source
Friday, September 26, 2014
New Rob Interview With The Independent UK
Maps to the Stars is the title of the new David Cronenberg film starring Robert Pattinson. It refers to the Hollywood cartography that informs tourists where to find the homes of their favourite actors. Anyone buying one of these plans will be disappointed if they are looking for the home of Britain's mosy famous vampire. Last Year the actor sold his masion in Griffith Park, near the Hollywood sign in central Los Angeles, saying he was too young to be tied to such a lavish property and instead wanted to lay low and live life to his needs rather than his means. "The house was so amazing, he says of the abode he sold for $6.37m (3.9m. "I wasn't really thinking when I got it. I had been living in and out of hotels, and you have money for the first time." When he says money, he means a mind boggling amount. He reportedly received $20m for the final part of Twilight, the vampire saga that made him a global name, and made his private life public fodder. Pattinson says selling the house is part of a general disassociation with Hollywood. "If you are the kind of person who needs to be pushed into doing something, Hollywood is not the right place, so I think I might be done with Los Angeles.”
We meet on the day of the Toronto Film Festival premiere of Maps to the Stars and there is a yearning for Barnes, west London, where he grew up. His dad imported vintage cars from America, and his mother worked for a modelling agency, a profession Pattinson entered just before he hit his teens. “I think I need to spend more time in London, or just move around a bit more. I’ve been in LA for six or seven years and it’s weird. The more you stay, especially as an actor, the more you think that you’ll be missing out on something by leaving, but you are not really. It’s a fun city, but you are permanently on holiday. I feel like I’ve been on holiday since I was 22.”
It seems the 28-year-old has had enough of the focus being on his romantic life rather than his career. His relationship with Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart dominated headlines before a very public split, and now there’s endless speculation that he’s going out with every girl who just happens to be in the same room. The fascination with his love life must be frustrating because, since Twilight ended, not many column inches have been expended on the impressive résumé he has been building.
In addition to twice working with Cronenberg, he gave one of his best performances as a left-for- dead armed robber in David Michôd’s Australian outback thriller The Rover and he’s just finished playing T E Lawrence for Werner Herzog and photographer Dennis Stock for Anton Corbijn. On the horizon is an adaptation of The Lost City of Z, to be directed by James Gray.
The impressive list has come about because Pattinson has been seeking out auteurs: “In the past two years, I’ve done stuff just for the director and not really thought that much about the script,” he says. “Now I’m swinging it back a little, trying to get a medium between the two.”
He’s thankful to Cronenberg for taking a chance on him, especially when people wondered if all he had to offer was a blank stare. “Working with Cronenberg just opened stuff up. People approach you in a different way. Now I’ve done a few other things and it kind of works on a bit of a roll, working with auteur-y guys.”
Maps to the Stars is about the oddballs that populate Hollywood. Pattinson has an affair with a PA (Mia Wasikowska) and then memorably has sex in a car with her boss, Havana – Julianne Moore won the best actress gong at Cannes for her portrayal of an actress whose best days are behind her. It’s a Hollywood that Pattinson knows all too well; “I’ve met characters that are pretty similar. Everyone is saying the film’s biting, but I think it’s sympathetic to a host of characters. Women like Havana: in reality people would despise her, they don’t have friends for a reason, but I don’t think anyone comes out of the movie hating her and that’s testament to Julianne. It’s a bunch of weirdos who spend a lot of time self-obsessing and talking about it afterwards.”
The actor says he’s not exactly in a position to talk: “I self- obsess a lot. When I’m doing interviews I’m always waiting for some stupid remark to come out.” When he first entered the room, his opening gambit was, “I’m so bad at doing press junkets,” said with a glint in his eye that gave the impression he thinks much of it is a charade.
“I used to be so dumb in interviews; try to make jokes all the time and everyone is thinking, ‘this guy is a moron, he’s just been saying dumb stuff for years and years’.”
Herzog is a director he has long admired and he jumped at the chance to play T E Lawrence in his Gertrude Bell biography Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman as the British archaeologist who helped draw the Iraq/Jordan border at the turn of the 19th century. “It’s sort of close to the real guy, it’s certainly not Lawrence of Arabia- like,” he says. “It’s a small part as well,” which suits him just fine: “It’s quite nice doing small parts. The film isn’t totally reliant on what I do, so I get to work with who I want to work with and it’s not my fault if it doesn’t make any money.”
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014
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