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Tilda Swinton In Haider Ackermann at Terry Gilliam Honorary Dinner

Tilda Swinton attended the Terry Gilliam honorary dinner at the Istancool Festival in Turkey. The British actress continued to show her love for the designer Haider Ackermann by wearing another look from his Fall 2011 collection.
Source: Red Carpet Fashion Awards

Photoshoot: Village Voice

Eighteen years after their breakout success—and they’re back in theaters, too.

Links worth checking out

• Exclusive interview with Tilda Swinton as the Serpentine Gallery partners with Pringle of Scotland – Tilda was interviewed by Nicholas Smirnoff at the Serpentine Gallery. Hinted by: @ArtisAliveBlog
• Photos: ISTANCOOL 2011 – Festival Panel Discussion with Tilda Swinton & Serra Yilmaz

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A collective of film professionals and media artists from across Ontario are currently readying the inaugural Picton Picturefest, a film festival and “cinephile retreat” to be held in Prince Edward County from July 7-11, 2011. The festival is inspired by “A Pilgrimage,” an August 2009 event in which actress Tilda Swinton and filmmaker Mark Cousins gathered together 50 people from around the world to help them physically pull a mobile movie theater through the Scottish Highlands. Consisting of four days of films, workshops and outdoor fun with community and youth education the common threads throughout, Picton Picturefest will provide a unique showcase for artists’ work and offer an experience that will alter the way participants engage with cinema (fyi to those unaware: Prince Edward County is roughly a 2 hour drive east of Toronto; and a 4 hour drive west of Montreal).

The festival will kick off on Thursday, July 7th with a tribute to its own inspiration, “A Pilgrimage.”  Preceded by a fantastic short film by director Matt Hulse that highlights that very event, Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins have themselves chosen French comedic icon Jacques Tati’s charming and hilarious classic M. Hulot’s Holiday to open the festival at Picton’s historic (and newly renovated) Regent Theatre.  The screening will be followed by a festive reception inside the theater.

Check out the entire programme, at their official website.

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Tilda lined up for Jarmusch’s vampire story & “Sisters”

Jim Jarmusch is set to make a vampire movie starring Tilda Swinton, Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska as his vampires, with John Hurt in a featured role. Jarmusch describes the project as a “crypto-vampire love story”, set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangiers. The as-yet-untitled film will shoot in Germany, Morocco and Detroit in early 2012. Jarmusch said: “I’ve been imagining this film for years. I can’t wait to now realise it with these remarkable collaborators.” Source: Screen Daily

Also straight from the mouth of Cannes comes a new project starring the always great Tilda Swinton and Ciarán Hinds (”Life During Wartime,” “There Will Be Blood”), a film directed by Terry Loane (”Mickybo & Me,” “Goal 2”) simply titled “Sisters.” The plot follows Swinton as an Irish nun in the 1960s that becomes a teacher and changes the lives of her deprived students. Source: Indiewire

Third time for Pringle of Scotland

Tilda makes her third appearance as the ‘star’ of the Scottish luxury brand, Pringle’s autumn/winter campaign. This time the ethereal beauty has a new sharply scissored 1960′s-style ‘basin cut’, which she calls her ‘warrior girl fringe’, specially styled by Duffy, and two new co-stars – her beloved English springer spaniels, Rosy and Dora.
“Tilda is a force of nature and full of energy—an inspiring personality to collaborate with,” the Swiss photographer told Style.com. “She will never be an object for the camera but always plays with it.” The actress herself, along with the Art Deco buildings of the Glasgow School of Art, provided the inspiration for the shoot. Her dramatic new look owes much to a new blunt, front-combed shag, with heavy bangs she called a “warrior girl fringe.” “We looked for a modern romantic gesture in my look,” Swinton said. “I love it.” Nothing like a little warrior chic to get into character, we’d say. But asked about her preparation for the shoot, Swinton noted that for her, it is no different from preparing for a film role. “[It’s] the same way,” she said. “Choose clothes. Dress up and play.” And did she bring her own ideas to the set as well? “Certainly,” Swinton replied. “And my own dogs.” Sources: Telegraph & Style.com

Another clip from We Need To Talk About Kevin

"We Need To Talk About Kevin" Clip 5 by ThePlaylist

Links worth checking out

• Article: Lionel Shriver talks about Kevin (guardian.co.uk)

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First pictures of Tilda at Cannes are hovering over the internet. Will update this post with more bigger & better pictures, so keep checking back! View video of the photocall.

Update 13th of May: I’ve added now over 100 pictures from We Need To Talk About Kevin photocall & premiere at the Cannes Film Festival to the gallery. Go check them out!

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On May 5th the Fragrance Foundation France announced the laureates of Les Parfums 2011 awards. Six awards were given out by the public. Like This by Etat Libre d’Orange won the Specialists’ Award of the Fragrance Foundation France. Mathilde Bijaoui (creator of the fragrance) confirmed that Tilda Swinton had indeed been genuinely and deeply involved in the development of the perfume.

Source: Grain De Musc & Ca Fleure Bon

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First teasers are here straight from Cannes! Check out the interview with Lynne Ramsay: Lynne Ramsay talks about ‘Kevin’ on the eve of Cannes

Pictures from Ebertfest

Latest gallery additions

Links worth checking out

• Tilda will win an Oscar for Kevin (New York Post)
• Tilda at Ebertfest #1 (video)
• Tilda at Ebertfest #2 “I Am Love Q & A” (video)

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The first images from Lynne Ramsay’s indie drama “We Need to Talk about Kevin” are now available. The movie will play in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 11 – 22nd.

Tilda at Celtic Media Fest

the second day of the Celtic Media Festival, Tilda arrived in Stornoway along with Peter Mullan to share their passion, knowledge and know-how with festival-goers who have travelled the globe to celebrate the very best of film, television, radio and digital media to emerge from within the Celtic nations within the last year. Tilda Swinton’s 8½ Foundation brought world cinema to the island yesterday, offering local children the chance to experience the wider power of film. The Foundation aims to create a new birthday – a film birthday, at the age of 8 ½ – that celebrates cinema’s ability to expand children’s horizons. The project welcomes children into the wider world of movies, beyond what is normally available to them at the multiplex or on their TV screens.
Festival Director, Donald Campbell said: “The Festival has gotten off to a great start and we’re truly excited at the talent, creativity and innovation displayed throughout. We’re honoured that both Tilda and Peter were able to join us here, it is especially fitting that such prolific Scottish stars revisit their Celtic roots here in Stornoway.”

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A forthcoming movie “Moonrise Kingdowm” expected to include Bruce Willis and Bill Murray along Tilda is set to be filmed in Rhode Island. Steven Feinberg, executive director for the Rhode Island Film and Television Office, says on-site work on the film is scheduled to begin this spring. Feinberg says the film will be shot in several locations in Rhode Island. The movie also stars Ed Norton, Frances McDormand and Jason Schwartzman and is set to be directed by Wes Anderson. Source: Boston.com

Tilda & 8 ½ foundation at Celtic Media Festival

The Celtic Media Festival, which will begin on 13th April (that’s today!) in Stornoway, Scotland. There will also be a full schedule of free screenings including a special event for children in association with the 8½ Foundation introduced by Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton.

Tilda Swinton: I was never curating Edinburgh film festival

Tilda Swinton has stepped in to explain the extent of her involvement in this year’s Edinburgh film festival after it emerged that she was playing no further part in planning for the event. Last December the actor, alongside former festival directors Mark Cousins and Lynda Myles, was announced as part of a team of “dreamy outsiders” who would provide creative vision for the reinvention of the festival.
Swinton said it had never been the plan for her to take a prolonged or official role in the organisation of the Edinburgh festival. She said the Centre for the Moving Image (CMI), the company in charge of this year’s event, had simply asked her for suggestions as to how it might be curated. The actor said: “Lynda Myles, Mark Cousins and I have not ‘parted company’ with plans for the EIFF, because we were never – in fact – officially engaged with them. We were certainly never paid or made responsible in any way [for] the festival’s organisation. Read the full arcticle Source: Guardian.

Links worth checking out

• Fanart by Karolina Burdon (flickr)
• Fanart by Harley-Quin (Deviantart)
• Tilda Swinton front row @ Pringle of Scotland | London Fashion Week 2011
• Photo: “The Tilda Swinton we all know & love” by Robert Ebert
• Article: Tilda not attending EIFF at all?

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Lineup announced for 2011 Ebertfest. Roger Ebert is bringing some big names to his 2011 Roger Ebert’s Film Festival at the Virginia Theatre: Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton. Director-producer-actor Norman Jewison. Director-writer Richard Linklater. And director, writer, singer and actor Tim Blake Nelson. Ebert will open the festival the evening of April 27 and “I Am Love” will be shown on Saturday, April 30. Ebertfest passes are sold out but individual tickets go on sale April 4th!

Tilda back as Jadis?

The makers of the Narnia films are to head back to the start of the story in their efforts to carry the series forward. Prequel novel The Magician’s Nephew will be the next CS Lewis children’s story to be adapted for the big screen. The move would mean a return for the White Witch, played by Tilda Swinton in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, since Lewis’s later novel explains how she came to settle in Narnia. Even though her character was destroyed in the first film, The Magician’s Nephew goes back to a time before the first film and tells the story of how the White Witch originally came to Narnia. It is expected that Tilda will reprise the role. Source: Guardian

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The Royal Mail has launched eight stamps celebrating British magical figures like Harry Potter and stamps are including Tilda Swinton’s White Witch from CS Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia.

Source: BBC Entertaiment

Links worth checking out

• Art Talks | Sandro Kopp: Not A Still Frame – article about Sandro Kopp’s exibition by AnOther Magazine