Is Lizzie a tragic love story ? A proto-feminist statement? A slow-burn historical drama? A lurid tale of sex and murder? Itâs all of those things, and none of them at the same time. Itâs a film thatâs very deliberate in its choices, but doesnât seem to have thought them all through. And itâs a shame, really, becauseâŚ
In her new film Lizzie, ChloĂŤ Sevigny stars as Lizzie Borden, the main suspect in one of the most infamous murder trials in American history, who was tried (and eventually acquitted) for the murder of her father and stepmother. Borden, after a lifetime of loneliness under the control of her austere, domineeringâŚ
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Elizabeth Banks has finalized the core cast of the Charlieâs Angels reboot sheâs directing. We already knew that Kristen Stewart would be playing one of the eponymous angels, and now we also know that sheâll be joined by Naomi Scott (Jasmine from the live-action Aladdin movie) andâŚ
Speaking at Cannes, Kristen Stewart has announced that sheâs planning to make her directorial debut with an adaptation of The Chronology Of Water, a 2011 memoir written by Lidia Yuknavitch. Stewart has a lot of positive things to say about Yuknavitch, saying âsheâs in my bloodâ and that âstarted this race without anyâŚ
Howâs this for apt casting? According to Deadline, Kristen Stewart has been cast as Jean Seberg in Against All Enemies, a âpolitical thrillerâ about the American actress and French New Wave icon whose ties to the Black Panther Party and other groups made her one of the most notorious victims of the FBIâs COINTELPROâŚ
The midnight movie slate at Sundance is always an uneven grab bag of red-meat offerings: a festival within the festival, one whose titles are selected less on the basis of quality, star-power, or prestige than on how much hooting and hollering they might provoke from a late-night, sleep-deprived crowd. This year, theâŚ
Elizabeth Banks has teamed up with Sony to reboot Charlieâs Angels, the campy TV series about beautiful and kick-ass detectives that spawned a film series which then led to another TV show. Hoping that the fourth time will be the charmâsince that Minka Kelly-starring show failed to really take offâthe film is alreadyâŚ
Bad acting is sometimes more memorable than good acting. Everyone remembers The Room, but nobody remembers, like, Lions For Lambs. A new video from Looper collects some of Hollywoodâs most legendarily terrible performances, with examples running the gamut from teen dreck (Twilight) to prestige indies (Dazed andâŚ
According to Consequence Of Sound, Creative Independentâs Brandon Stosuy recently shared a photo on Twitter of St. Vincent, John Legend, and Zach Galifianakis around a piano, along with a caption saying that they were âworking on something for Planned Parenthood.â He also teased that there are other people involved asâŚ
Haunted-house spookfest, stalking thriller, character study, mood piece: The different sides of Olivier Assayasâ bewildering but compelling Personal Shopper donât overlap so much as touch one another in passing. Its heroine, the insouciant American expat Maureen Cartwright (Kristen Stewart), makes her living pickingâŚ
In 2015, Kristen Stewart became the first American actress to win Franceâs prestigious Cesar Award for her role in Olivier Assayasâ Clouds Of Sils Maria. And this year, she is reuniting with the director for Personal Shopper, which debuted at Cannes last May. The film follows a young American woman in France who isâŚ
Now that itâs been well established that Kristen Stewart is a good actress, she was just bored out of her mind making the Twilight movies, itâs time for her to start dipping her leather-clad toe back into the world of blockbuster filmmaking. The Hollywood Reporter has the details on her first tentative step backâŚ
âIâm not an actor, Iâm a [former YA, current indie film] star!â
In all the years sheâs been famous, which amounts to quite some time now, Kristen Stewart has never taken to Studio 8H to host Saturday Night Live. That will change come February 4, when she appears alongside musical guest Alessia Cara. Stewart next stars in Olivier Assayasâ Personal Shopper, which is due out in March.
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Cool person St. Vincentâalso known as Annie Clarkâhas announced that she wrote the score for fellow cool person Kristen Stewartâs short film. The narrative piece called âCome Swimâ will premiere at Sundance, and is described in its official synopsis from the festival as âa diptych of one manâs day, half impressionistâŚ
Kristen Stewart retains her status as the queen of giving absolutely no fucks in the best possible way in the video for The Rolling Stonesâ song âRide âEm On Downâ off their new album Blue & Lonesome. Stewart picks up some suppliesâincluding a blue lollipop for tongue-dying purposesâand goes on a joyride in a metallicâŚ
Not every Ang Lee movie explores a facet of American history, but periodically he reaches into this nationâs past and delivers a fresh perspective on, say, â70s suburban ennui or â60s idealism. Billy Lynnâs Long Halftime Walk takes place in an era that for many will barely qualify as historical, signified by cruderâŚ
Four years ago, Kristen Stewart was doing press for the about-to-release final installment in the Twilight series, which would become her second title on the list of 2012âs 20 highest-grossing movies, vaulting over Snow White And The Huntsman. Meanwhile, the 2012 edition of the New York Film Festival was winding down,âŚ
Because of their manageable length and tendency to privilege evocative description over intricate plotting, short stories are arguably easier to transport to the screen than novels are. Rather than trying to condense a couple hundred pages into a couple hours, filmmakers can build out from a compact, rock-solidâŚ
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