Here is a short interview from Matthew McNulty about Little Ashes (Cilla I know you will be happy).  Matthew gives us a little more insight into his character, Luis Buñuel, and provides an explanation of his reaction to Lorca and Dali’s relationship.  He also talks briefly about Rob and Twilight.  We also get to see a couple more scenes with Rob that we haven’t (or at least I haven’t) seen before, which is such a tease, but hey – it’s just over 7 weeks before the DVD release so I guess we shouldn’t be complaining.  Thanks to our affiliate Little Ashes Promo Blitz

I am so very excited to see that another clip from Little Ashes has been released. Seeing these clips makes the wait until July 6th just that little bit easier. Am still finding myself wishing the months away though. Cannot be helped lol

I really enjoyed watching this clip. Rob is really amazing in this one as is Matthew McNulty. It is great that we get to see more of Matthew in this clip (I know this will make you very happy too Cilla) I just cannot wait to see the film. Roll on July 6th.

Now I know Cilla is going to be happy to hear this.  Apple (the company, not Chris & Gywnnie’s daughter) has the “swim” scene from Little Ashes available for download through iTunes.  It’s available for your iPod and also in HD480, HD720p and HD1080p and the best thing about it is it’s FREE!  Click here to download.  For some reason, our site wouldn’t let me upload my version (because I was quick to download to make sure it was available here), so thanks to YouTube user 1Loony8 – here’s a HD reminder.

Here’s what Roger Ebert (from Chicago Sun Times) had to say about Little Ashes:

Little Ashes” is absorbing but not compelling. Most of its action is inward. The more we know about the three men the better. Although the eyeball-slicing is shown in the film, many audiences may have no idea what it is doing there. Perhaps Dali’s gradual slinking away from his ideals, his early embrace of celebrity, his preference for self-publicity over actual achievement, makes better sense when we begin with his shyness and naivete; is he indeed entirely aware that his hair and dress are those of a girl, or has he been coddled in this way by a strict, protective mother who is hostile to male sexuality?

Whatever the case, two things stand out: He has the courage to present himself in quasi-drag, and the other students at the Students’ Residence, inspired by the fever in the air, accept him as “making a statement” he might not have been fully aware of.

Click here to read the whole review.

And here’s another review, from E!Online:

Vampiric hottie Robert Pattinson trades bloodlust for boylust, playing bi-curious surrealist Salvador Dali, who has a romance with revolutionary author García Lorca. Sounds smokin’, right? It should’ve been. But soggy plotting and Pattinson’s tepid turn keep Ashes from catching fire.

A drably scripted indie with Merchant-Ivory aspirations (see its gay-themed Maurice instead), scattered Ashes can’t rise above the tortured-artist and tortured-closet-case clichés, and despite all its big themes and chatter about art and religion and revolution and death, ends up saying very little.

Click here to read the entire review.

As you all know, Little Ashes will be officially released in the US on the 8th of May and reviews of the movie are starting to emerge.

Here’s a snippet from the  Entertainment Weekly review:

Little Ashes tells the tale, largely speculative, of Dali’s student romance with the budding leftist poet Federico Garcia Lorca (Javier Beltran), and the movie has the dubious distinction of using their moony homoerotic love affair didactically, as a way to trash Dali the artist. The relationship, which climaxes with a midnight swim that looks like an outtake from an 
 Esther Williams water ballet, is supposed to express the “real” Dali. Whereas the raging, antibourgeois, satirically mad surrealist he becomes is treated as a fraud — a cover-up 
 for his tender self. Even if you buy that (and I didn’t — I love Dali’s visionary vulgarity too much), Pattinson and Beltran are stuck with a rudderless script, and they make a soft, dull pair. I wish the film had more of Matthew McNulty’s firebrand performance 
 as Luis Buñuel, whose collaboration with Dali on the revolutionary short film Un Chien Andalou comes off here as an arty caprice that interrupted the cause of true love. I can’t imagine what Dali or Buñuel would have made of such bourgeois sentimentality. C–

C-??? Well, the only thing I agree about this article is how the reviewer wishes that there’s more of Matthew McNulty on this film.

Please click here to read the full article.

Amanda Bell from Examiner  has been fortunate enough to interview Paul Morrison, the director of Little Ashes.  There have been quite a few interviews of late given that the movie is being released in the UK and US tomorrow, but I never tire of reading articles about this film.  Especially Paul Morrison’s comments about Rob:

For Lorca and Dali, I must have seen every up-and-coming young actor who was available in both Spain and the U.K. Originally, Rob read for Lorca, and I was going to cast Dali in Spain. But Rob felt so much more a Dali – the combination of acute intelligence and vulnerability and self-consciousness that the part demanded – that I switched, and brought him back to read for Dali. He was perfect. I never saw anyone in Spain who felt right for Dali, by the way.

Paul mentions that Rob’s current fame is good for the film and seems to take a jab at the media by saying it is irritating when they see Rob misquoted or taken out of context (did you take notes there Amanda).  You can read the full article here.