'Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy' closing the Melbourne Queer Film Festival and the London LGBTQ Film Festival in March

Melbourne, Australia:

MQFF Kristen Stewart is at her charismatic best in this wilder than fiction true account of the infamous literary scam that fooled Hollywood. Stewart plays the androgynous Savannah Knoop who spent six years pretending to be the celebrated male author JT LeRoy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law Laura Albert, played here by Laura Dern at her prickly best. Featuring Courtney Love, Jim Sturgess and Diane Kruger and directed by Justin Kelly (I Am Michael, King Cobra, MQFF 2017), Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy is an intriguing and provocative tale on the slippery nature of celebrity, gender and sexuality.

The film festival runs from 14-25 March. 'Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy' will therefore screen on 25 March.

London:

The BFI is also thrilled to announce that the Closing Night Gala is the European premiere of Justin Kelly’s JT LEROY. Powered by superb performances from Laura Dern and Kristen Stewart, the film is adapted from Savannah Knoop’s memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy and tells the captivating real life story of the most compelling literary ‘hoax’ of our generation. With a screenplay written by Justin Kelly and Savannah Knoop, JT LEROY also stars Diane Kruger and Jim Sturgess. Fortitude International is handling international sales.

Justin Kelly, Director, JT LEROY says:

“Having opened 2015’s BFI Flare with my first film, I AM MICHAEL, I am beyond honoured to return to close this year’s festival with my new film, JT LEROY, the fascinating true story about two women whose lives forever change when they bring to life the fictional boy-wunderkind author JT LeRoy.”

The BFI Flare: London LGBTQ film festival runs from 21-31 March. The film will therefore screen on 31 March.

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If you are in Melbourne, Australia - tickets can be purchased here.

If you are in London, England - tickets will go on sale at the end of February here.

'Personal Shopper and 'Certain Women' will screen at the Melbourne International Film Festival

Certain Women

Kelly Reichardt (Night Moves, MIFF 2014) continues her love affair with the American landscape and those who linger within its midst in her sixth feature. Across a triptych of vignettes, the writer/director examines small-town traditions and troubles, following three women finding their way forward through trying circumstances.

In the sleepy foothills of Montana, a lawyer (Laura Dern) juggles personal turmoil, a tense hostage situation and a difficult worker's compensation case. Nearby, a couple (Michelle Williams and James Le Gros) build the foundation for a new home while shattering the basis of their marriage, and a rancher (Lily Gladstone) bonds with a law-school graduate (Kristen Stewart).

Observed with Reichardt's usual empathy and incisiveness, their tales capture everyday moments, choices and encounters that seem insignificant but slowly prove otherwise. Boasting cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt's distinctive documentary-meets-arthouse aesthetic, as well as subtle yet powerful performances from the all-star cast, Certain Women doesn't just offer a slice of Midwest life; it presents a simmering insight into the physical isolation and male domination of rural existence.

Check out the Certain Women page for more details and tickets.

Personal Shopper

Co-winner of the Cannes Best Director gong, French auteur extraordinaire Olivier Assayas' (Demonlover MIFF 2002; Irma Vep, MIFF 1997) brand new film is an unconventional ghost story.

Maureen works by day as a personal assistant for a celebrity, picking up – and, against instructions, trying on – extravagant dresses for her boss. She is also grieving her twin brother, who she recently lost. When she tries to make contact with him in his deserted mansion, something far more menacing and ungovernable is unleashed.

Featuring an idiosyncratic, virtuoso star turn by Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper juxtaposes high fashion with a foreboding atmosphere – a sly exercise in genre subversion by Assayas that will keep viewers on the edge of their seats.

Check out the Personal Shopper page for more details and tickets.

The film festival runs from 28 July - 14 August 2016.

The full schedule should be out around 6 July.

'Certain Women' and 'Personal Shopper' will screen at the Sydney Film Festival

Certain Women 
Official Competition

Described by Variety as ‘the quietest of great American filmmakers', Kelly Reichardt has distinguished herself as a director able to convey deep emotion and meaning through her concise, atmospheric storytelling. Her new film, based on Maile Meloy's short stories, tells three connected stories of independent Montana women trying to understand and shape the world around them. Attorney Laura (Laura Dern) is pestered by a client eager to have his case reopened and things quickly escalate to a hostage crisis. Meanwhile, on an elderly family friend's property, Gina (Michelle Williams) and her husband find the ideal sandstone for the dream home they're building on the outskirts of town. They convince him to part with the stone, but it's unclear that he's aware of what he's promising. In the third story, a young woman (Lily Gladstone) who works as a ranch hand becomes fascinated with Elizabeth (Kristen Stewart), a lawyer who runs legal workshops in the small town. Reichardt uses the landscape and its stillness as a spectacular backdrop to these melancholic, transcendent tales. Leaving much unsaid, she vividly creates a unique and mesmerising world that is a pleasure to enter.

• Thursday 9 June 6:10pm 
• Friday 10 June 11:35am 
• Friday 17 June 6:15pm

Personal Shopper

Kristen Stewart shines in this spooky ghost story by Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria, Clean), which earned him the Best Director prize at Cannes 2016.

Stewart (who also stars in Certain Women, which screens in Official Competition at SFF this year) plays Maureen, a young American woman living in Paris and working as a personal shopper for a celebrity. She spends her days perusing the city’s luxury designer stores, collecting fabulous pieces that she is forbidden from wearing and could never hope to own. Alongside her isolating job, Maureen pursues her psychic ability to communicate with spirits. All the while, she longs for a sign from her recently deceased twin, Lewis, who promised to send her a message from the other side. Stewart gives a commanding performance, subtly shifting between certainty and fragility. Things become stranger and stranger as it becomes apparent that an unfriendly spirit is pursuing Maureen. Following their successful collaboration on Clouds of Sils Maria, Assayas and Stewart reunite to create a daring, provocative and creepy existential drama.

• Wednesday 15 June 9:15pm 
• Friday 17 June 8:15pm  

If you're in Sydney Australia, you can purchase tickets here for 'Personal Shopper' and here for 'Certain Women'.

The Sydney Film Festival runs from 8 June - 19 June.

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New/old photo of Kristen with her brother & mom (Australia 1995)

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Jules shared this photo taken in the state of Queensland, Australia in 1995.
Kristen with her brother Cameron and mom...so cute!

Source: @RealJulesStew