We have posted a version of this still before, but this is full still in glorious HQ

 

Thank you Posh

Note: if using for edits please thank Posh for the still

 

Filmhouse has listed screening dates & times for Robert Pattinson “The Childhood of a Leader”  from 19 to 25 August 2016 and a link for tickets.

 

Wishing you the MOST wonderful birthday Maria, hope it’s all you wish for today AND for the year ahead. You deserve the very very best!  I can’t thank you enough for your friendship and all you do so tirelessly for RPAU, you’re freaking amazing. Just a little something – and since The Childhood of a Leader seems to be front and centre at the moment I thought I’d give our Charles a whirl as a desktop….a couple of edits underneath because I can’t help myself at times.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVELY!!

Wallpaper – click for large:

And because I realised late on that none of the above are happy and smiley – here’s Rob smiles for your birthday too!!

Brady Corbet talked with Filmwax Radio about The Childhood of a Leader.   Click on the pic below to listen to the podcast.  The Childhood of a Leader section starts at 5.14 - Conversation with Brady Corbet starts at 9.23 and ends around 40.19. Fascinating background into how Brady started writing the script, working with Mona Fastvold, difficulty finding producers and financing for the film and talks cast including Tim Roth, Juliette Binoche, Robert Pattinson and more.  Brady mentions how this film really needs to be seen in the cinema but if you are watching online make sure you don’t have glare on your screen for first 30 minutes of film! Great in depth interview especially for those of us who haven’t been lucky enough to get a Q&A with Brady.

via Rooftop Films

 

The Knockturnal attended the special preview screening and Q&A with Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold at the IFC Center on 20 July 2016.  Below is an extract from the Q&A (there is no mention of Robert, but the article is a great read):

So what was the actual shoot like? Where did you shoot? How long was the shoot?

BC: It was 24 days in Hungary. We shot in Hungary for two reasons, one was that to shoot in France with a child is virtually impossible because you can only have three hours with the child per day, so obviously that didn’t work for us. And then the other reason was there was not just a film lab, but two film labs. That meant that we could shoot on celluloid and it would not be particularly expensive.

The child that you mentioned [the film’s young lead, Tom Sweet], how did you cast him and was he the first character you felt like you needed to cast?

BC: Actually he was the last character we felt we could cast because kids grow so fast and the movie was constantly falling apart, so we had to cast him just about three and a half months before we knew the film was actually happening, because we thought the film was actually happening many many times before it was actually ready to go in terms of all of the money being released, so we cast him last. And our casting director spotted him on a soccer field playing soccer and then we saw him and we knew.

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BC: The music was made by a guy named Scott Walker, who is a very, very, very brilliant composer and pop artist, and I still think its appropriate to call him a pop artist because he still actually makes very melodic music. He used to write and sing ballads, which he no longer does. But he kind of constructs songs now as if they’re three acts and so the idea was that we would hire someone, he had written a lot of music on themes of tyranny, and we thought that would be an interesting element to incorporate. And then also because we knew what the scope of what we would be able to pull off visually, that we needed something to counteract that aurally, so we decided to hire someone that would make something gargantuan

What was the process like? Was he already composing from a script stage or did he compose after he saw a first cut of the film.

BC: He started the overture from the script stage, so that was the sound of the film. And then he built on that for a year and a half and developed the 36 minutes of music that’s in the film.

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The Playlist shared one of Robert Pattinson and Liam Cunningham’s scenes from The Childhood of a Leader:

“… in this scene from the film, family friend Charles Marker, played by Pattinson, expounds on the tragedy of Pontius Pilate, and the courage that people lack in order to be good. It’s an interesting slice of a film that seems to look directly at the warring natures of good and evil.”

Thanks Posh for the heads up.