Tilda gets her own fragrance

March 2, 2010

État Libre D’Orange is launching “Like This” by Tilda Swinton. Notes include Moroccan neroli, rose, vetiver, heliotrope, musk, mandarin, ginger and pumpkin. The perfume’s maker, État Libre D’Orange, is known for ground-breaking scents like Incense, Bubblegum and Fat Electrician so you know that Tilda won’t be deviating from her classic kookiness too much. Tilda Swinton herself turned for inspiration to Sufi philosophy and poet Rumi also called Jalal Ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi and Mevlana to chant the meaning of her perfume,

“Like this.
What does your fragrance smell like? Like this.
What does your fragrance feel like? Like this.
What do I do with this fragrance? Like this.
It’s an idea that makes me very, very happy.”

Excerpts chosen by Tilda Swinton from The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne accompany the perfume.  The composition is signed by perfumer Mathilde Bijaoui. Perfume will be launched March 13th, 2010. Check out the official site too: Like This.

Source: Bellasugar

Sweden, get ready for I Am Love

Perhaps inspired by Tilda’s A Pilgrimage, Sweden takes films on the road too. Sweden’s film distributors and exhibs are organizing a touring film festival to give rural auds a chance to see arthouse movies, including Tilda’s film “I Am Love”, which wouldn’t normally be released outside the larger cities. The tour will start in April, taking eight films to 12 rural areas before their regularly skedded local preems.
Source: Variety

Fashion and even more festivals

March 1, 2010

London Fashion Weeks

Pringle is returning to its more traditional roots, and this was clear from a distinctly Scottish autumn/winter 2010 collection. The fashion heavyweights were all in attendance at Monday evening’s show at the Serpentine Gallery including Tilda in the front row.

Dallas International Film Festival

The re-branded Dallas International Film Festival (formerly AFI Dallas) has announced ten films that will screen at this year’s festival, running April 8 – 18, 2010. The initial batch includes Tilda’s “I Am Love”. The first 10 selections are indicative of the great variety of films we will offer Dallas audiences at this year’s film festival. They represent the latest work from Academy Award winners, inspiring films found already at the latest film festivals, and a return to Dallas by some of our favorite filmmakers. Check out the other films and schedule at the official festival site: Dallasfilms.org.

The Jameson Dublin Film Festival

The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival was held 18th-28th of February. Film Festival hosted a public interview with Tilda, February 28th, at 12.15pm in the Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield (podcast/video of the interview will be posted when/if it’s released). “I Am Love” was also featured at the festival.

Links worth checking out

• Art Is Alive short interview by nicolasmirnoff: part 1, part 2.
• Tilda at Berlinale 2010: video (shot by a fan).
• “Flick” presenting I Am Love.

Berlinale 2010 started!

February 12, 2010

The Berlin International Film Festival celebrated its 60th birthday with an opening bash and stylish flairs. Instead of the all-star lineup many had expected for the anniversary fest, for 2010 the Berlinale has gone back to its roots. The opening film, Wang Quan’an’s “Apart Together” is a reminder of Berlin’s groundbreaking role as an international platform for Asian cinema. Tilda Swinton attended the ‘Tuan Yuan’ (Apart Together) Premiere, wearing a gorgeous midnight blue dress by Haider Ackermann, during day one of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival at the Berlinale Palast.

More pictures at the gallery!

WNTAK and Invisible Frame

February 8, 2010

We Need To Talk About Kevin (WNTAK) casting news

Lynne Ramsay is returning to feature film direction this time, the source novel is Lionel Shriver’s We Need To Talk About Kevin. The novel is about a school massacre, told from the perspective of the killer’s mother in a series of letters to her apparently estranged husband. Tilda is to play Eva Khatchadourian, the mother/protagonist, and it’s just been announced the comic actor John C. Reilly is in talk to play her husband, Franklin. There’s no word yet on who’ll take the lynchpin role, sociopathic kid Kevin. Distribution rights to the film have already been sold and the film is set to start shooting later this year. So what can we expect to see when this film comes to the big screen? First off, author Lionel Shriver has reportedly expressed concern that the film won’t be able to accommodate the novel’s angle – the story is recounted by an unreliable narrator. Eva Khatchadourian is a travel writer who’s away from home a lot. She vacillates between believing that there has always been some key empathetic element missing in her son Kevin’s personality to blaming herself for his crimes. She also withholds the extent of his actions until the novel’s end.
Source: IndieMoviesOnline

Invisible Frame at Glasgow Short Film Festival

GSFF is packed with experimental offerings and boasts some of the most exciting new voices in the film world. Opening the weekend of events are two films by Cynthia Beatt: Cycling the Frame was filmed in 1988 shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall and was a recording of a trip made by the director, Tilda Swinton and sound artist Simon Fisher Turner as the three cycled along the Wall. In 2009 the three returned to retrace the route and capture the transformed landscape in The Invisible Frame (both will screen on 19 Feb at 19.30).
Source: The Skinny

Links worth checking out!

• The Full Sundance Interview with Tilda Swinton
• Invisible Frame website

First looks

January 21, 2010

For Pringle

First look of the Pringle of Scotland ad campaign SS2010 and apparently Tilda went “wild” at the shoot photographed by Ryan McGinley and if this picture is anything to go by can’t wait to see the rest of this campaign.
Source: Shinystyle

Poster premiere

Premiering at Sundance this Friday is Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love, which follows the wealthy Italian Recchi family as they celebrate the birthday of their patriarch, Edoardo Sr., who surprises them with his pick to succeed him as head of his industrial company. Tilda is starring as Emma, a Recchi by marriage, who falls in love with her son’s business partner. Movie hits American theaters on June 18, and above is a first crack of the poster.
Source: New York Maga

Berlinale 2010 & Pringle (January 18, 2010)

Happy Holidays! (December 23, 2009)

Sally Potter & Tilda Swinton BFI Q&A (December 15, 2009)

Bid for a poster signed by Tilda! (December 14, 2009)

I Am Love to JDIFF and Sundance (December 14, 2009)

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