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Scans: Photos of Kristen in the Chanel film, 'Once and Forever' in Harper's Bazaar (December 2015)
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Scans are from Harper's Bazaar's December issue.
Harper's Bazaar's Laura Brown appears in the short film which will premiere at the next
Métiers d’Arts show on December 1 in Rome.
Métiers d’Arts show on December 1 in Rome.
Transcript from Harper's Bazaar:
The call came early—4 A.M., in fact. Out of the sensory blur came the tinkling French accent of a photo producer who works with Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel. "Karl is making a movie," she said. "And he would love you to be in it. Playing a journalist. You'd need to get on a flight to Paris tonight and go straight to set tomorrow morning. What do you think?"
Um, let me think about that, oui. Like I wouldn't. Like anyone wouldn't. Having had the privilege of relatively recent entry into Karl's orbit, I'd quite honestly fly to Paris to clean out his fridge and recycle his Diet Coke bottles.
But as anyone who is a fan of Chanel and the man behind it knows, the madly prolific Lagerfeld—in between producing eight annual Chanel collections (often shown in exotic, far-flung locales), five for Fendi, and his own collection; shooting Chanel and Fendi campaigns, magazine covers, and fashion sessions; sketching; painting; and generally being the smartest man in the room—also likes to make movies.
Well, short films. But short films with a grand story—the story of Chanel. "The idea is this," Lagerfeld explains about his latest, titled Once and Forever. "The final image of Chanel is not her youth, her lovers, her beauty—it's the old lady." While Chanel's life and lovers are storied (her most famed, Boy Capel, died tragically in a car accident in 1919), he is, of course, absolutely right. The popular vision of Coco is not her great beauty, her Deauville stripes; it's the old woman, in pearls and a hat. "It's a visual impact you cannot miss," he continues. "People who know the history of fashion know, but the public doesn't see the woman, who she really was. That's the story of the movie."
But this story is markedly more meta. It's a movie about a movie: Kristen Stewart plays an actress preparing for the role of the young Coco in a biopic. (Geraldine Chaplin plays the older Chanel in alternate scenes.) But something's gone awry—the film has lost its director, some untested French enfant has been hired, and Stewart, well, she's in a mood. "She's not the nicest person," Lagerfeld says of Stewart's role. "She is quite condescending. [Stewart's character mocks her costars and snubs the press.] It's a modern woman, the way some modern movie stars behave with the red carpet, the paparazzi, all of that. If I had made image after image of Chanel's past, it would be boring." He shrugs. "I wanted, for example, to shoot a costume test, the way it's done today."
A Chanel ambassador since 2013, Stewart has been photographed by Lagerfeld numerous times, but this was her first moving Chanel picture. "His interest in cinema is clear," she says. "Working with him in that way was inspiring—to see him in yet another shade of light." It also required improvisation. "I didn't have much of a chance to approach it until it was upon us, as we didn't receive scripts," Stewart recalls. "From the outside, it looked as though Karl was making it up as we went." She laughs. "And maybe he was."
My role is basically to follow Stewart (a lovely, cool, sensitive girl who I've known since Twilight was but a sunrise) around—in hallways, on movie sets—and be yelled at and have doors slammed in my face. It is awesome. Why me? I ask Karl. "Because you are full of life!" he replies. "And maybe you've been in this situation." (Like when I was 22 and chasing Sylvester Stallone up a Hard Rock Cafe red carpet—those heady days.) "Also," he adds, "I like to make movies with only people I like."
On set, however, Stewart's character couldn't like me less. I tell her to conjure up every bit of rage she's ever felt against the media, and she nearly blows me off the soundstage. It's so much fun being a pariah!
As with any film—and especially a Lagerfeld production—we spend a lot of time waiting. But what a crew to wait with. Karl's constant collaborators: Eric Pfrunder, Amanda Harlech, hairstylist Sam McKnight, and makeup artist Tom Pecheux. Karl's handsome cohorts: Sébastien Jondeau, Baptiste Giabiconi, and Jake Davies. Also, model Jamie Bochert, who I didn't know was in the movie until I found her in the next dressing room. (Ah, spontaneity.)
This is a gang at the top of its game, and also one that drinks wine at lunch. I never want to leave.
But like all good stories, this too has to end. Lagerfeld has gotten such a kick out of this one—his energy is infectieux. "I wanted it to be modern," he says. "And to give some humor to it. If not, it would be totally humorless."
He takes off his glasses and fixes me with a look. "Which the French love, but not me."
More details from Variety:
Karl Lagerfeld is likewise broadening his cast. Following in his grand tradition of directing films to accompany Chanel’s Metiers d’Art shows, the creative director’s newest short, debuting in Rome on Dec. 1, will feature “Twilight” megastar Kristen Stewart. Stewart, who’s appeared in Chanel print campaigns, will now play a fastidious actress impersonating the brand’s founder, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel. Geraldine Chaplin will revive the more mature Coco she’s played in previous films — taking over after Keira Knightley personified a younger version of the visionary, shown opening her first French shop in 2013’s “Once Upon a Time.”
Lagerfeld’s shorts have grown increasingly cinematic, 2014’s “Reincarnation” featuring original music by Pharrell Williams in the account of how Coco found inspiration from an Austrian resort employee’s jacket. As for why he continues to tell fashion stories through film, Lagerfeld explained to WWD: “It’s a modern way to communicate.”
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
Kristen to Star in Olivier Assayas' "Personal Shopper"
Kristen Stewart is set to star in Olivier Assayas’s “Personal Shopper,” a Paris-set English-language ghost story taking place in the fashion underworld.
Assayas previously directed Stewart in “Sils Maria” which world premiered in competition at Cannes and earned Stewart a best actress Cesar (France’s Oscar equivalent), making her the first American actor to win a Cesar.
Penned by Assayas,”Personal Shopper” brings back the “Sils Maria” team: Producer Charles Gillibert for CG Cinema, MK2 for international sales and Les Films du Losange.
Gillibert said “Personal Shopper” will feature some of same themes as “Sils Maria” and will also have a genre/fantasy dimension.
Shooting will start in the last quarter of 2015 in Paris.
More details on the project via Cineuropa:
Arte France Cinéma will also be backing Personal Shopper by Olivier Assayas. Announced at the Marché du Film at Cannes, this English-language project will star the young American actress Kristen Stewart (who won a Cesar for Best Supporting Actress this year for her role in Clouds of Sils Maria [+]) and will be filmed in Paris at the end of this year.
Produced by Charles Gillibert for CG Cinéma, the film will centre around a ghost story on the margins of the fashion world, borrowing from supernatural thriller codes and mixing spiritualism and omission to capture the fear and desire for ghosts, in an ultra-contemporary and materialistic world. Les Films du Losange will distribute the film in French theatres and MK2 will handle international sales.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
New Picture On Set of "American Ultra" (April 15)
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@mialouque123 I might go ride Main Street 965 more times just to watch Kristin Stewart ride around in this car
Sharon Stone Joins the cast of "American Ultra"
Stone takes over the role that Uma Thurman had been rumored for in the film, which Nima Nourizadeh (“Project X”) is directing from a script by Max Landis (“Chronicle”).
Sharon Stone has been cast as Victoria Lasseter who, according to THR when Uma Thurman was in negotiations, "will play a government worker who spearheaded a secret program to create sleeper warriors, and now that someone wants to kill her creation, she will fight back like a momma bear protecting her cub."
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Thursday, November 7, 2013
"The Big Shoe" in Pre-Production + more details on the project
New screening poster from Bankside Films: 7 July 2014
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(Via itsoktobeyou.org)
Update from a casting agency in South Africa: 5 June 2014
Steven Shainberg (Secretary, Fur) paid us [Cast Serve] a flying visit to "chat" to a selection of South African actors, then gave the go-ahead to cast about two dozen delightfully quirky character parts for The Big Shoe.
While "aarghrrr-arrghing" their way through two years of pirate auditions has been fun, many Cape Town and Johannesburg actors leaped at the chance to strut their stuff with characters from the hidden world of shoe-fetishists. Believe it or not, after our initial round of auditions, a healthy clutch of dead pirates have caught the eye of Mr. Shainberg!
Cast Serve also have "The Big Shoe" listed on their site as a being one of their 'Current Projects'.
(Via @flippysgardenia/ @Mel452)
Status: 18 October 2014
Location: South Africa
Producer: Andrew Lazar - Richard Middleton - Christina Weiss Lurie
Producer/Director: Steven Shainberg
Writer: Mickey Birnbaum - Steven Shainberg
Cast: Jim Sturgess - Kristen Stewart - Elizabeth Banks
Mad Chance/ Tango Pictures
VOX3 Films
Status: September 2014
Location: South Africa
Producer: Andrew Lazar - Richard Middleton - Christina Weiss Lurie
Producer/Director: Steven Shainberg
Writer: Mickey Birnbaum - Steven Shainberg
Cast: Jim Sturgess - Kristen Stewart - Elizabeth Banks
Mad Chance/ Tango Pictures
VOX3 Films
Hanway Films
( Via @Mel452)
Bankside Films has been confirmed as the new sales company for "The Big Shoe," now listed on their website in Pre-Production.
London-based sales outfit Bankside Films is the new sales company on board Steven Shainberg’s comedy-drama The Big Shoe.
Jim Sturgess, Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Banks and Klaus Maria Brandauer are set to star in the story of a gifted shoe designer (Sturgess) forced to break free from a family who want to cheapen his art for their own commercial gain. Stewart will play the designer’s muse.
Written by Shainberg and Mickey Birnbaum, new backing for the film comes from Bankside and South Africa’s Azari Media. The shoot is planned for April 2014.
Andrew Lazar (I Love You Philip Morris) of Mad Chance Productions produces, while executive producers are Christina Weiss Lurie, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross and Anton Ernst.
CAA is packaging and reps North American rights.
Bankside’s head of sales and marketing Stephen Kelliher, said: “We are huge fans of Secretary so when the opportunity to be involved in Steven Shainberg’s next feature arose, we knew that we had to do it. It is a highly original story from an extraordinary director who has attracted a sensational cast to the project. We know that international distributors are going to be as excited about this film as we are and we look forward to presenting the film to them here at the AFM.”
More details via Bankside Films:
THE BIG SHOE is a daring and comedic romance about an unusual, creatively stifled shoe designer, Nate and his newfound muse, Delphi, who inspires him to resume his brilliant designs. Denied the chance by his family to design high-end women's shoes, Nate Arbinger, 34, refuses to have anything to do with the family’s industrial footwear business while his father is still alive. Following his death, Nate returns home for the funeral, knowing that his mother, Irene, and older sister, Ellen, 30s, desperately want him to revive and revamp the company but he has little interest in fulfilling their wishes.
His lack of engagement prompts Irene to hire MK, 50s, a therapist who specializes in treating foot fetishists, in order to woo Nate back to work. MK, in turn, hires Delphi, 20s, a foot model and sex worker to act as Nate’s muse. Inspired by the beautiful Delphi with whom he is clearly falling in love, Nate begins to create his most beautiful work. But when the family seizes control of his new line of shoes and separates him from his muse, he suffers a breakdown until MK intervenes to restore an unexpected and surprising harmony to his life and helps him to find Delphi again.
(Via @KstewAngel)
Synopsis via Production Weekly:
A gifted shoe designer, Nate, is forced to break free from a family who want to cheapen his art for their own commercial gain. “The Big Shoe” is a touching an sexy love story and a classic boy-to-man coming-of-age tale, with the colorful backdrop of the fashion/shoe industry. When a muse is strategically ‘planted’ along Nate’s path by his mother, he begins to embrace the mad “logic” of the creative drive, allowing his own deep impulses and wishes to finally be expressed and experienced. He’s revealing to her and to the world his secret. And, while it may make no real practical“sense” to do his art (shoemaking), Nate must.
(Via @Mel452)
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Kristen Talks "Sils Maria" at PFW
Shakespeare wrote: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” Karl Lagerfeld took the adage literally, setting his Chanel haute couture show in Paris on Tuesday on a crumbling theater set.
His front row was fittingly churning with thesps, with Kristen Stewart, Rose Byrne, Michael Pitt, Vanessa Paradis and Bobby Cannavale taking in the display. Earlier,Rihanna — who wore her cream Chanel maxi-cardigan with nothing but pearls — had joined Carole Bouquet, Virginie Ledoyen and Cécile Cassel for the first of two shows.
Stewart was flanked by French director Olivier Assayas, with whom she is preparing to shoot “Sils Maria,” a drama set — as luck would have it — in the world of theater.
“I play a personal assistant to an actress. It takes two very particular people to have that relationship be functional – one that services the other — because Juliette Binoche is playing the actress that I assist, and she is one of the most powerful women I think I've ever seen in film,” said the “Twilight” star.
Noting that her character is no pushover, Stewart said she would have to hold her own against the Oscar-winning Binoche. “I’m going to try desperately to not be squashed by a woman like that, and it’s not going to be an easy thing,” she said with a nervous laugh.
Assayas said he had written the movie around Binoche, with whom he previously worked on his 2008 film “Summer Hours.”
“I wanted to do a sort of portrait of an actress in her 40s, and I thought it would be more interesting to set it in the theater, because it gets rid of the material constraints of cinema,” he explained. “It’s about that very fine line between reality and imagination — actors are always somewhere in between.”
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Fan & Press Pics of Kristen at AFI Film Festival's Gala Screening of "On The Road"
Getting Ready w/Jillian & Adir:
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