Olivier Assayas mentions watching 'Come Swim' and talks about Kristen from 9 mins (dubbed with English translation).
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
'Come Swim' BTS photos and camera details used in the production
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Camera details used to film "Come Swim”
Dir: Kristen Stewart, DP: John Guleserian
Arri Alexa XT, Red Dragon, and Phantom Flex 4K Cameras With Arri/Zeiss Master Primes and Ultra Primes
John Guleserian: “Primarily, we shot with the Alexa Mini because of its versatility in a studio and on location, but we required different camera systems for the underwater and ultra slow-motion work. ‘Come Swim’ had many different locations ranging from built sets on a stage, to deserts, beaches, highways, and an underwater tank. The Alexa Mini was the best camera for most of these situations. In general, I believe the camera you use is less important than how you use it and where you put it, but in this case we also had some very specific tasks to achieve. The Phantom was used for shooting ultra slow-motion shots, and the Red Dragon for various underwater scenes.”
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Melissa McCarthy mentions Kristen on SNL with THR
Melissa McCarthy, Guest Star: Back in February, I was on a plane with Kristen [Stewart] — she was coming out to host SNL; I was coming out to shoot a movie. She has a reputation for not loving to be interviewed, which I think becomes very funny, so I shamelessly pitched her [this monologue idea where she's] doing the worst opening ever.
Kent Sublette, Writer: That was around the time of Sean Spicer's first couple of press briefings, and they were just so insane. It was a Tuesday, and one of our producers, Erik Kenward, told me that Melissa had flown out with our host and had a monologue idea. That's when I just blurted out, "Melissa should play Spicer."
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Thursday, May 11, 2017
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Chanel has named Kristen the face of their new fragrance Gabrielle Chanel
PERFUME PERSONA: Chanel has named Kristen Stewart as the face of its upcoming Gabrielle Chanel women’s perfume, created by Olivier Polge and the house’s fragrance creation and development laboratory.
The actress will appear in September in the film campaign for the scent that was shot by director Ringan Ledwidge. The print ad was lensed by Karim Sadli.
Stewart has been a Chanel ambassador since 2013. She has been the face of campaigns for the Métiers d’Art collections — Paris to Dallas in 2014 and Paris to Rome in 2016 — and currently stars in the house’s ad for the Gabrielle bag.
Stewart was appointed Chanel’s face of makeup in February 2016, and appeared in its campaigns for the Eyes 2016 and 2017 color-cosmetics campaigns and the Fall 2016 Le Rouge Collection Number 1 advertisement.
She has starred in films such as “Personal Shopper,” “Café Society,” “Still Alice” and “Clouds of Sils Maria,” and in the hit TV series “Twilight.”
Next up, Stewart will feature in the movie “Lizzie,” directed by Craig William Macneill.
“Come Swim,” the short film that marks her first time directing, has been screened at the Sundance Festival and will be shown at the Cannes Film Festival later this month.
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Chanel has just announced the new face of their latest fragrance, Gabrielle Chanel. Kristen Stewart, the beauty muse for the rue Cambon house, has drawn the lucky straw, herself an embodyment of the sense of liberty in all its forms for which Coco was known before her. Ahead of the launch, Vogue.fr has an exclusive preview of the campaign.
With Chanel paying tribute with their latest perfume to Gabrielle Chanel, taking inspiration from Coco's mantra of "choose, want, be", it was only natural that the French house would opt for a mould-breaking muse to front the campaign. Who better than their ambassador since 2013, Kristen Stewart, with her unfaltering sense of freedom and her bold attitude, just like Coco herself? Ahead of the release of Come Swim, her first short film at Cannes this year, the 27 year old director and actress, shot an enigmatic campaign with Karim Sadli for the perfume. As we wait to try the much anticipated fragrance designed by Olivier Polge, though the fragrance is shrouded in mystery, we do know that the task of directing the video was given to the young British director, Ringan Ledwige. Expect big things this summer.
The Gabrielle Chanel perfume will be available this summer.
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Olivier Assayas talks 'Personal Shopper' and mentions Kristen with South China Morning Post
When the French writer-director Olivier Assayas first cast Kristen Stewart in a movie he had only seen a couple of the Twilight movies. Every accolade that has followed that inspired decision – including Stewart’s best supporting actress prize for her role in Clouds of Sils Maria at the 2015 Césars, as the first American actress to win at France’s most prominent film awards – is a pleasant surprise for Assayas.
“I think the collaboration with Kristen has been extremely inspiring for me,” says the 62-year-old art-house director. “I think it’s the way we function together. Kristen inspires me to go in different directions and function in slightly different ways; I suppose I also give her space she doesn’t really have in her other movies.”
The excitement from that 2014 film was enough to convince both to swiftly reunite for Personal Shopper, which premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where Assayas shared the best director prize with Cristian Mungiu. “You never really write a movie for an actress – but I certainly had Kristen in mind for this one,” he says.
“This film started pretty much with the idea of this character of a girl who is torn between the very mundane job she does in the fashion industry, and her inner life – she has bigger hopes, dreams and longings. I wanted to make a movie [set in] a world that is increasingly materialistic, where individuals can be easily crushed. A way to protect oneself is sometimes to be more on the spiritual side. There is some healing, some protection somehow, in accepting that we have a complex inner life.”
In Personal Shopper, a the grief-tinted supernatural drama, Stewart plays a fashion shopper who also happens to be a medium waiting for a signal from her recently deceased twin brother. An American in Paris, her character, Maureen, would go through a series of genre-based situations that, in the hands of Assayas, turn out to be consistently refreshing.
With apologies to the Twilight set, Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper are now commonly regarded by film critics as the films which made the mega-popular Stewart a bona fide movie star. The irony that she plays a celebrity assistant in both films is not lost on Assayas.
“I’ve been lucky to be the one filmmaker who was able to say to Kristen, ‘It’s okay to be yourself in the film. You don’t have to pretend you’re some other character. It’s a movie that tries to capture something of real life. So I’m not interested in your market value, I’m not interested in your fame. I’m interested in you as a person.’
“It’s a way to present Kristen stripped of that layer of celebrity and to allow the viewer to see her as she is, as a person, and somehow to be closer to her,” he says.
Stewart isn’t the first actress to have starred in two Assayas films: the others are Virginie Ledoyen (1994’s Cold Water, 1998’s Late August, Early September); Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (1996’s Irma Vep, 2004’s Clean ), to whom Assayas was married between 1998 and 2001; and Juliette Binoche (2008’s Summer Hours , Clouds of Sils Maria).
Incidentally, that list could also include Mia Hansen-Løve, Assayas’ wife since 2009. Although she has appeared in small parts in Late August, Early September and 2000’s Sentimental Destinies, Hansen-Løve has rapidly become one of France’s best directing talents with her first five features, including the engrossing middle-age drama Things to Come (2016).
“When we first got together, she was not a director, and she hardly was an actress,” says Assayas with a big chuckle. “I’ve seen her evolve from a would-be filmmaker to a filmmaker to a great filmmaker. It’s been a fascinating process. … It’s a surprise how fast it has happened.”
The sudden rise of Hansen-Løve is mirrored in the acclaim that Assayas and Stewart have received for their collaborations: the two are already talked of as one of the most interesting auteur-muse pairings working today. “I’ve been very privileged in the sense of working with great actresses,” says the director.
“Usually, after two movies, we ended up becoming friends; we don’t necessarily have to work again because we’ve already covered a lot of ground. With Kristen it’s a bit different: we’re not exactly friends. We very dearly love each other, but it’s not like we hang out together. We’re from very different generations, and we live in two cities that are very far apart. But something happened when we’re together on the set. So now, I really do want to make another movie with Kristen.”
While his next project with the actress remains an idea that’s still “too abstract right now”, Assayas is having a hard enough time picking between two projects for his next directing gig: one is a “very French”, as-yet-untitled film for which he’s about to finish writing and hopes to shoot in the autumn; the other is Idol’s Eye, a true-crime thriller set in 1970s Chicago that, while slated to star Robert Pattinson and Rachel Weisz, was abruptly called off in 2014 after the production lost its financing.
“Now it’s kind of happening again,” Assayas says of the project, which has reportedly replaced Robert De Niro with Sylvester Stallone for the leading role of mobster Tony Accardo. “But I’m keeping my fingers crossed because this movie has fallen apart once already.”
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