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

I Am Love at Berlinale

The Berlin Film Festival’s Culinary Cinema is to celebrate food, love and, of course, film for the fourth year next month under the motto In The Food For Love, organizers said Wednesday. Tilda, who was Berlinale Jury President in 2009, is to join Italian director Luca Guadagnino to present the film Io Sono L’Amore (I Am Love), that will kick off this year’s Culinary Cinema. “Food for Love” – that means ingredients that are good for love play a crucial role in this melodrama. Christian Lohse will cook a “Russian-Italian declaration of love” to honour the film, in which Tilda Swinton plays a Russian who marries into a rich Milanese family. Check out the official site for Berlinale: http://www.berlinale.de/

Tilda and Guadagnino discuss the new film, I Am Love

See Tilda Run aka. Pringle Of Scotland

Links worth checking out

• Tilda Talks Pringle: http://cli.gs/jXUSyE
• See Tilda Run – Interview Magazine: http://cli.gs/38YS2q
• Tilda for another Oscar? http://cli.gs/Pj7AYj

Happy Holidays!

December 23, 2009

TildaSwinton.Net wants to wish everyone happy holidays and thank your for the fabulous year of 2009. I also want to thank all the visitors, contributors and everyone else who have helped me to run and build this site – especially Tilda, you rock! See you all in 2010!

Sally Potter & Tilda Swinton BFI Q&A

December 15, 2009

You can now watch the full Q&A by Sally Potter & Tilda Swinton at BFI

Also available at SallyPotter.com

Thanks for the link to @sp_interactive!

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

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

Movies, festivals & magazines (December 3, 2009)

Tilda brought cinema back to Nairn (December 3, 2009)

Talking about “I Am Love” (November 3, 2009)

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