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Pablo Larrain mentions working on 'Spencer' with Kristen for The Leica Camera Blog + New Images
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Your film Spencer premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2021. Now you’ve just returned from the Oscars, where Kristen Stewart landed an Academy Award nomination for best actress. What did the nomination mean to you?
It’s been a great honor and great news all round. It’s always great to be nominated for best actress, particularly with a movie like this; it’s a movie centered around characters. Awards in general – not only the Oscars – make a movie more accessible to the people: its popularity rises.
How did you start out in the world of images?
I started as a still life photographer; that was my access to the image. Later I started working with movie cameras and film.
How do you come to combine these two professions?
I need to have my photo camera close to me. It makes me feel closer to the characters. I see things closer when I look through a lens.
What is different about a photo camera?
It’s a very private point of view, because nobody is looking at it, it’s hardly recognized. It’s very light and you can carry it around. You can go into places you can’t go with a film camera. It’s not in motion, it’s still. It’s like you’re stealing a piece of time. You capture something that never comes back, something unique.
What is the difference from the actors’ perspective?
When the movie maker is taking pictures instead of filming, the actors find it very private, it’s like you are a part of an intimate community that is part of the film. The actors do things they won’t be doing for a film camera. Every now and then, sometimes every day, I felt it was time for stills. I used the camera before takes and in between takes. The camera is always right by my side, either a Leica Q or a Leica SL.
Is this a common practice on set?
I think it’s quite unusual for directors to have a camera on hand.
Do the actors understand why you have the urge to take photographs?
I speak to them beforehand, so they know. I think they like it. I’ve never seen an actor being unpleasant in front of a camera. I guess it’s okay for them. You have to have a feeling for the right moment.
What is your main focus when taking photographs?
I want to capture the character and want to leave a trace of what the character does. My intention is to capture the movie in every single picture; the picture is a concentrate. Every picture holds a certain moment of the movie. I personally get to understand the character better through the process of doing stills. You could be standing in front of a person, an actor, and you realize there is a different emotion. There will always be an actor dressed in costume as long there is a movie camera. The photo camera I think defines the image, it makes the person in the costume complete.
Do you feel a connection to other art forms?
I love music, but can’t play an instrument. I love painting but can’t paint. But there are similarities between painting and taking photographs: it’s all about composition, lighting, color, texture and, last but not least, volume and emotion. There is a deeper dimension.
Speaking of light, how do you work with it?
It’s the most essential ingredient of photography. I like the winter sun in Germany. It produces a very soft light, very pictorial because the sun is very low. It brings a nice contrast to the image. The light is often filtered by fog and this too gives a very soft touch to the images. Also I needed to adjust myself: I come from the south. The light in the northern hemisphere is different to the light in the southern hemisphere. The sun rises and goes down opposite to what I’m used to in Chile. I had to get used to it, the sun is moving backwards to what I’m used to.
From your point of view, what else is different?
Trees are different and nature in general is different: the colors. You have to understand this and embrace it. Photography becomes an exercise where you have to get used to the new environment.
What features did you like about Kristen Stewart, whom the film revolved around?
She is a very versatile actress; she was very much on duty. Every day with her was a new experience, she is a beautiful actress in many different ways. Every day held a new situation. We were often in a new location, and there were new costumes. That would help create new images. Kristen was often in a new emotional state that the script required. You would have to perceive this and be able to capture that emotion, because you can’t create it. It’s all about feelings, especially in this film. If you aren’t able to capture them, the whole thing doesn’t work.
Friday, April 22, 2022
Thursday, April 14, 2022
'Crimes of the Future' will premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival on 23 May 2022
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE
In Competition
The Cannes Film Festival will run from 17 May to 28 May 2022.
'Crimes of the Future' will premiere on Monday 23 May.
The screening will start at 9.30pm CET.
12.30pm PT/ 3.30pm ET/ 8.30pm UK/ Tues 5.30am AEST
There is normally a YT live-stream of the red carpet. We will update this post and our scheduled appearances page with details.
A photo-call and press conference are normally held in the morning/afternoon of the premiere date.
Additional screening:
- Tuesday 24 May - 12.00pm CET
Press screenings:
- Monday 23 May - 11.30am CET
- Monday 23 May - 10.00pm CET
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Kristen features with Tara Swennen in The Hollywood Reporter's Power Stylist 2022 issue
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It has been 17 years since Swennen started working with Kristen Stewart and went on to dress her for her first major red carpet collaboration during the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. “She is family,” says Swennen, who had an exceptionally busy year with the Spencer star’s jam-packed awards season calendar. “It was particularly fun because we had so many opportunities to play. Kristen is an ever-changing fashion chameleon, and we love to push boundaries.” The L.A.-based stylist, who also dresses Matthew McConaughey, estimates that they put together 50 looks for Stewart’s press tour, including casual outfits for Zooms and countless Chanel samples for the longtime face of the brand. Says Stewart: “We both love the ease that our history gives our work.” Most memorable? The Oscar nominee eschewed a traditional ball gown in favor of Chanel short-shorts, rewriting the rules of appropriate attire for Hollywood’s biggest night. “I had a very specific way I wanted to feel that night,” says Stewart. Adds Swennen: “It made waves simply because it was original and unprecedented; I’m glad it was well received.” The stylist kicked off Stewart’s press at the Venice Film Festival with a similarly short tweed Chanel romper. “Kristen’s red carpet style is uniquely hers. She is always unapologetically authentic and carries a confidence that is magnetizing.”
“It is a fun and collaborative process that develops and unfolds as we grow together,” says Swennen. Adds Stewart: “We started working together when I was 14! She has a wealth of experience that informs her eye and her taste. Tara’s loyal and she enjoys helping people feel their best.”
New Project: Kristen will star in 'Love Lies Bleeding' directed by Rose Glass
Kristen Stewart has boarded Love Lies Bleeding, a romantic thriller set in the world of bodybuilding that will be directed by Rose Glass, the filmmaker behind the acclaimed British film Saint Maud.
A24, which just released the multiverse action movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, is backing the movie along with Film4, the feature division of the U.K.’s Channel 4.
Glass co-wrote the script with Weronika Tofilska, with sources saying the story is centered on the extreme qualities it takes to succeed in the competitive world of bodybuilding.
Stewart is playing the co-lead of the story, the protective lover of a female bodybuilder.
The companies are, at this stage, describing the project as a romance fueled by ego, desire and the American dream.
A24 will produce alongside Andrea Cornwell for Lobo Films and Oliver Kassman for Escape Plan Productions.
Film4 developed the film alongside the filmmakers and will co-finance with A24. The filmmakers are hoping to cast the lead as authentically as possible, with the search currently underway.
A24 will handle the global release of the film. The company is coming off the March opening of X, the new horror from Ti West, and last week’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, from the directing duo known as the Daniels. The movies have generated outstanding reviews and are seen as a welcome influx of original movies into theaters.
On tap next is Men, the latest movie from Ex Machina filmmaker Alex Garland, in May, followed by the whimsical adventure Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, which is out in June.
Glass directed several shorts before bursting onto the feature scene with Maud, the 2019 psychological horror centered on a nun obsessed with a patient. The movies earned her the Douglas Hickox Award for best debut director at the British Independent Film Awards, on top of 15 other nominations. It was also nominated for a BAFTA for outstanding British film of the year as well as outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer. She is repped by Casarotto Ramsay.
Stewart landed her first Oscar nomination earlier this year for portraying future Princess of Wales Diane Spencer in the biopic Spencer, directed by Pablo Larrain. Prior to that, she starred in the holiday rom-com Happiest Season. She is repped by WME and McKuin Frankel.
Update: 'Love Lies Bleeding' is scheduled to start filming in Albuquerque, New Mexico US, from 13 June to 1 August 2022 (via Prod Weekly thanks to TeamK_1)
Saturday, April 9, 2022
Kristen's friends and fiancee Dylan share new/old photos on her 32nd Birthday - 9 April 2022
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Source CJ Romero | Suzie | Ashley Benson | Dylan Meyer | Jillian | Foxy and Fierce | Rita Ora | michael | Lindsey Byrnes
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