We are very excited to announce that Little Ashes will be screening at the Brisbane Powerhouse Theatre on Saturday 10th April at 6.00pm & Tuesday 13th April at 5.00pm as part of the 11th Annual Brisbane Queer Film Festival. I am so thrilled that the film is receiving more screenings – such wonderful news.  Brisbane fans, if you have not yet seen the film or haven’t seen it on the big screen, do yourself a favour & head along to one of these sessions. I cannot put into words how much I adore Rob as Dali & this beautiful film. His performance is just truly brilliant.  Can never ever say that enough.  To book your tickets for either session all you need to do is visit here & scroll down to find the Little Ashes listings. Thanks so much once again to the absolutely awesome Paul Brennan & thanks also to Georgie for the website link. Oh how I love the scene the pic above is taken from.
I’m loving that Little Ashes is having more screenings across Australia. Paul Brennan let me know of a great review by Andrew L Urban of Urban Cinefile
“An intriguing film about an intriguing subject, Little Ashes is filled with marvellous cinematic images and a complex mood of socio-political revolution, artistic longing and considerable tenderness. It’s as complex as its subject matter, the artist Salvador Dali (Robert Pattinson) as a young man, an emerging artist forged – like his friends the writer Federico Lorca (Javier Beltran) and Luis Bunuel (Matthew McNulty) – in the fire of rebellion against the oppressive and rigid social, religious and political climate of Spain at the time.
Early in the film, Dali declares that he’s decided that if he is to succeed at art he must go to extremes; ‘no limits’ becomes his mantra. The film traces almost 20 years (jumping 8 of them) as Dali goes to Paris and becomes a success. But unlike many biopics of artists, we don’t follow him through his work but through his relationships with his early friends, relationships which are turbulent, but lasting. The 8 year jump dislocates us from Dali as we meet his new self – it’s like seeing a friend after 8 years without having any contact, without photos, without context. It slices the film in two, like the razor that slices through the eye in his famous first film collaboration in 1929, The Andalusian Dog, made with Luis Bunuel (a clip of which is shown).
Robert Pattinson is an unexpected choice to play Dali, though he does it well and with absolute commitment. Perhaps it was a commercially driven choice, part of the process that sees the film made in English, with the Spanish cast doing their best to make their lines understood through often heavy accents. But this is sometimes a necessity and one that can work well, as it does in the acclaimed The Last Station (2009), a partial biopic of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. The difference is that in The Last Station the cast was naturally English speaking, unlike here.
Language aside, Little Ashes is a snapshot of an insight into the life of one of the most complex artists in history and it intensifies rather than satisfies our curiosity about him. It is, however, revelatory about Dali’s relationship with Lorca.”
If you haven’t seen this film, please go along to one of the screenings because I totally agree with Andrew about Rob’s performance as Dali “he does it well and with absolute commitment” – that is 100% evident. I understand that it’s being shown in Brisbane from 1 April 2010 not 25 March as I previously said. Oh and Michelle I’m just waiting for confirmation that it’s definitely also being shown at The State, Hobart from that date too. For those interested in current screening times – there’s a widget on the side bar or you can go here.
The wonderful Paul Brennan has told us that Blue Room Cinebar ( 8/151 Baroona Road, Rosalie QLD 4064 / phone (07) 3876 4566) will be screening Little Ashesfrom 25 March 2010 too! This is awesome news since there has never been a screening in Queensland. I noticed that if you click on the link it says screening from 1 April, but Paul advised that it’s screening from 25 March and so as soon as we know definite screening times we will add this to the post in the sidebar widget. So that’s screenings in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane – fingers crossed Hobart comes through – for you Michelle since I know you are yet to see on big screen.Â
Please everyone go along and support Rob because if you enjoyed his performance in Remember Me and you haven’t seen him in Little Ashes, then I urge you to go along. Personally these arthouse films allow Rob to shine. Rob I hope there are some more like this in the tonne of movies you said you are doing over the next 2 years “a little dark, a litte funny”.   If you are reposting this fantastic HQ, please credit Paul Brennan and Robert Pattinson Australia.
The Chauvel Cinema in Paddington, The Palace George Cinema in St Kilda & Blue Room Cinebar in Rosalie will all be screening Little Ashes from Thursday 25 March 2010. This is such exciting news for the film & a wonderful opportunity for us to see this brilliant film on the big screen. As we have said many times before, cannot express how fantastic this film & Rob’s performance as Dali is. Please do yourself a favour & show Rob & Little Ashes some love by heading to one or more of these screenings. This post will be where we update you on the screening times which we will know next week & also any other screening info. We are also hoping for a screening in Hobart & will keep you posted if this comes through. Fingers crossed everyone.  We have placed a widget on the sidebar that links back to this post & as you can see, we also now have the film’s trailer on the sidebar. Thanks so much to the wonderful Paul Brennan who as we mentioned before, is doing all the marketing for the Little Ashes screenings. Paul has also advised us that Margaret & David of At The Movies will be reviewing the film on Wednesday 24 March so make sure you tune into ABC at 10pm to watch.  If you wish to re-post the awesome HQ pic above please do credit Paul Brennan via Robert Pattinson Australia.
Session Times
Chauvel Cinema, Sydney – click here for session times (choose venue and then date)
Palace George Cinema, Melbourne – click here for session times (choose venue and then date)
Blue Room Cinebar, Brisbane – click here for session times
We were contacted today by the wonderful Paul Brennan who is doing all the marketing for both the Sydney and Melbourne screenings of Little Ashes and he let me know that The Georges Cinema in St Kilda was also screening Little Ashes twice daily from 25 March 2010 for 2 weeks.  The screening times will be released next Tuesday and so I will do a post updating you all when you can see this wonderful film.  I cannot stress enough how fantastic this film is. If you were blown away by Rob’s performance in Remember Me then you really DO need to see this film on the big screen.  Again the entire cast of this film is fantastic and although I love all of Rob’s performances, I really do have a soft spot for his Salvador Dali. Please Melburnians will you show Rob some love and attend at least one if not more of the screenings. We are working on some more screenings in different States and will let you know if they come to fruition. Oh and thanks Paul for some of the HQ pics you sent to us like the one above.  If you want to repost the photo please credit Paul Brennan via Robert Pattinson Australia.
This morning thought I would share some more of my fave gorgeous pics we have received over these past couple of weeks in B&W. Just couldn’t resist including one of the Bel Ami set pics from this morning. Those pics are just too too gorgeous. Thanks once again to Popsugar, our affiliate MrPattinson for the tagged pics & also ljmd, littlemonalisa & Neesie31.
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