EIFF 2009

June 22, 2009

EIFF

The 63rd Edinburgh International Film Festival, opened 17th of June, will bring a host of stars to the Capital. Among them will be Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes, who won an Academy Award for American Beauty in 1999. He will attend the festival’s opening night gala at Cineworld tonight – Away We Go – along with stars Maya Rudolph, John Krasinski and Maggie Gyllenhaal, pictured right. The festival will also welcome back three of its four patrons: actors Sir Sean Connery and Tilda Swinton, and cinematographer Seamus McGarvey.

Tilda talks about Julia

Thanks to Jonathan Crocker for sending me this info about him interviewing Tilda!
“Cameras love Tilda Swinton – and she loves them back. Standing against a white screen as i-D photographer Alistair McClellen frames in on her face, it’s little surprise to see Swinton taking charge of her own shoot. She decides on a striking double make-up contrast: one spare and stripped-down, one full and dramatic. “Would it help if I put my hand here?” she asks, scooping a flame of strawberry hair off her cheekbone. Of course, it does.”… Read the entire interview here!

Glass house, mobile cinema & biking at Berlin

June 22, 2009

Tilda ready for Glass house

In 1995 Tilda slept in the clear container for eight hours a day, seven days a week as an exhibition piece at the Serpentine Gallery and although she got shingles because of the stunt, she would love to do it again. She said: “I still want to make that piece again. I was very ill for five months after it. And I do think it had something to do with the strain of endurance… of being looked at by 22,000 people over the course of a week.” Tilda had wanted to return to the box when she was pregnant with her 11-year-old twins, Xavier and Honor, but ruled it out after deciding it could be “a little dicey”.

Mobile cinema in Scotland

Tilda will lead a 70-strong team of film fans pulling a 37-ton mobile cinema across Scotland this summer, showing road movies in stops along the five-day route.
The Scottish Road Movie Film Festival – organised by Swinton and the film-maker and writer Mark Cousins – is an off-beat film festival they organised in the actress’s home-town of Nairn last year. They estimate it will take 70 volunteers manning ropes to take the Screen Machine – a mobile cinema on a lorry that opens out from its container – along minor roads from the west coast of Scotland to Nairn. The “movie pilgrimage” will take in scenic villages and towns and iconic sites such as Loch Ness. The cinema will also take to the water at one point, Mr Cousins said, and will play music like an ice-cream van. Tilda issued an invitation to “adventurers of every age” to help pull or escort the lorry. She will be pulling with other volunteers for about three hours a day. The cinema will be driven at major junctions and up hills where necessary, and stop to show about three films a day. “Along the highways and byways, through the hills and valleys, beside the exquisite and varying countryside of the Highlands, we will pull our magic box from the Atlantic to the birthplace of our Cinema of Dreams in Nairn,” Swinton said. In the Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams last year, audience members sat on cushions in an exotically decorated cinema. EventScotland , the events agency, is backing the mobile festival, between 1 and 9 August, with £9,000. Updates at www.a-pilgrimage.org.

Biking at Berlin Wall

Tilda is getting back on her bicycle to travel along what used to be the Berlin Wall. Tilda along with filmmaker Cynthia Beatt, biked the length of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Beatt filmed the journey, which will also be released together with the new documentary, since the pair plan to retrace their trip this month. The title refers to the fact that most of the wall has been torn down, though many Germans still speak of an invisible “wall in the minds” dividing east and west Germany.

ETA: Thank you to Cynthia Beatt for correcting the info regarding the documentaries.

Sources: Reuters, Scotsman

Cannes 2009

May 26, 2009

On Wednesday 13th of May, Tilda led the A-list arrivals, hitting the red carpet for animated film Up in a full-length burgundy gown that focused attention on her elegant silhouette, ensemble by Haider Ackermann, whom she also accompanied (view pics at the gallery!).

Another movie for Tilda!

Tilda Swinton has signed on to star in a big screen adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s popular novel We Need to Talk About Kevin. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lynne Ramsay is set to direct the drama, with Jennifer Fox producing. The original source material follows an educated New York mother that is forced to raise a son she never wanted. When the teenager becomes extremely difficult to content with, her marriage breaks down and she goes on a killing spree at his high school with a crossbow. The film will begin shooting before the end of the year. Source: Movieweb

indiewire/Apple Talk: Tilda talking about Julia

May 8, 2009

At an indieWIRE/Apple Talk at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.

4 more videos under the cut!
… read the full story

The Limits of Control – clips (April 27, 2009)

Julia promotion at Tribeca Film Festival (April 24, 2009)

No Cannes for “Limits of Control” (April 24, 2009)

Benjamin Button on DVD (April 15, 2009)

Tilda & other celebs donate underwear for auction (March 28, 2009)

“Dreams” brought to Beijing (March 21, 2009)

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