What a week! DIOR *GULP* I’m speechless. I was not expecting more Dior goodness, but seeing as Dior’s annual report for 2014 mentioned that Dior Homme had a boost thanks to Rob, it’s no surprise Dior signed him up to be the face of their Autumn ready to wear campaign.  Then to top that Rob’s the cover of Numero Magazine (only 2 issues per year) which is out on 2 March 2016. I can’t wait to see this photoshoot by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. I found that he directed Don Henley’s “Boys of Summer” and Madonna’s “Justify My Love”.  Holy Moly – he’s also the director behind the Johnny Depp Dior commercial. Dior do like to surround themselves with the best don’t they. Seeing as Rob’s making history by being the first Hollywood actor to be the face of Dior’s apparel, I decided to do an initial reaction post.  Unfortunately the only bummer to do with Rob and Dior was me finding out on Friday morning that Dior in Australia have no current plans to promote Rob *sniff*  GOOD TIME:  Always love listening to directors, even more so when they talk or mention Rob. Have to also thank @deesoonz for the heads up that @Robjectify came across a couple of instagram posts from Oscar Boyson, one of the producers of the film. He may very well be doing early preparation for the film since we spy Josh Safdie in one of the pics. THE TRAP:  Will he won’t he? I don’t know but I hope we find out one way or the other soon so that Rob can either be a uzi-wielding surfer or move on to something else to excite us with. However, for those who love listening to directors, I came across the BFI Q&A with Harmony from earlier this month.  LIFE: I think I may need to purchase the German DVD|Bluray just for the extras and how cool is the “Hometown Hollywood Film Series”. QUEEN OF THE DESERT:  Looks like Serbia and Lebanon are both releasing Queen of the Desert in March. And I know I’ve posted the still before, but don’t you just love seeing stills with the word “HQ” next to it, even better when it’s prefaced with BTS. THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER: Finally found out the screening times for the film at the 20th Sofia International Film Festival and in addition there is a second film festival in Sofia screening the film. Love that it’s “by the sea” or “on the beach” depending on who is promoting. Either way it’s playing somewhere and if you live in Sofia you have 4 opportunities to see the film. All of a sudden Sue flying to Bulgaria to watch a film has a little more incentive. And I updated our Lithuania post since Forum Cinemas have added to their “coming soon” as part of the Festival.  IN OTHER NEWS:  The Wrap posted an interesting article about Open Road Films and MadRiver Films stating “The non-exclusive alliance calls for Open Road to have a first-look on U.S. rights to MadRiver titles”.  It is interesting because two of MadRiver’s titles are Lost City of Z and The Trap. Cosmopolis is on Netflix in the US at the moment and thanks to Esquire we got the reminder that it’s expiring in March (18th to be exact).  Well we know that we will be getting a new interview from Rob next Wednesday when Numero magazine comes out. We will bring you that as soon as we can hopefully with a translation from French. Looking forward to some more photos that go with that article/interview. So until next week …

DIOR

*NEW* Rob Pics From Dior Homme Autumn 2016 Campaign Ads By Karl Lagerfeld

Numero Magazine Cover | Out 2 March 20126 | Online Purchase Details

  

Well … QUEEN OF THE DESERT:  The Philippines has a distributor and we didn’t have to wait too long to find out it was being released on 2 March 2016 exclusively through Ayala Mall Cinemas. Strangely I came across 2 screenings of the film in Mexico this week. For those interested in the copyright case, I tweeted a link to an article that also attaches a copy of the initiating pleading. Lebanon seems to have pushed back the release date to a date yet to be determined. There seems to be a big demand for the screening at the Belgrade FF so if you haven’t got your tickets and you want to go, better get a wriggle on. Thanks to @QueenfilmFan we know about a screening in Germany for International Women’s Day. Fitting don’t you think. I came across the trailer posted on YouTube by Vodafone Television (Iceland) and Cambodia is having an exclusive screening on 28 February 2016. Israel looks to have pushed back the release .. again. LIFE: UniversCine (VOD in France) has the film listed as “coming soon” along with a few other of Rob’s films – The Rover & Cosmopolis.  Maps to the Stars is currently available if you are able to access.  Another great DVD review where they state “Pattinson is the main reason to seek this film out”. Taiwan is releasing the film on 11 March, it was confirmed to me by the distributor and then Sally found the trailer with Chinese subtitles that has been posted to coincide with the Taiwenese release. The official poster has now also been unleashed too. Looks like Germany has to wait a week or so to get their hands on the bluray|DVD, but I don’t think anyone will complain about that. HIGH LIFE: We kicked off the week with me finding a mention of Wild Bunch selling the film at EFM, which I tweeted.  The Playlist interview gives us a little insight into the mind of Claire Denis and also what we might expect from the soundtrack. Such an intriguing storyline so I cannot stress how much I’m looking forward to this film. Front Row Filmed love to distribute Rob’s films and they haven’t disappointed by adding High Life to their slate. LOST CITY OF Z: How about that glorious pic of beardy Rob on the set with the producer. See there is a God. Earlier in the week Aaron Williamson posted a pic of himself with James Gray with the quote “At the hockey game with my big brother, James Gray. His movie this fall is going to blow you away. #TheLostCityOfZ #LCOZ #JMFG”. He then responds with “It was a blast but when this hits theaters it’s going to be something epic.” For those unaware, Aaron was the fitness trainer on LCOZ. I think his use of “brother” is just a term of endearment. DIOR:  Dior have finally welcomed DiorIntenseRob to their Tumblr account *heavenly*. THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER: When you read a review that states “We are witnessing the birth of a great filmmaker” you know you are in for something special with a film. I’m thrilled for Rob that he is involved with Brady from the get go. Hopefully Brady is the type of director who likes to stick with actors he has worked with before especially given that he’s friends with Rob already. IN OTHER NEWS: This has nothing to do with Rob other than I tweeted a pic of him with Spencer Susser who was one half of the duo that won Tropfest. You may all recall him as a member of BlueTongue. Talented bunch – remember Rob really wants to be part of that group #ifonly. The Playlist posted an article about Harmony Korine and The Trap – I know which movie I want made first.  Jules edits are amazing amazing aren’t they. I sound like a broken record but her work is out of this world.  Lucky people in Geneva who can spend the weekend watching Rob on the cinema with Maps to the Stars and then Cosmopolis.  And to wrap this all up this week – Owen Laukkanen, who wrote The Professionals, cheekily asked Rob to crowdfund the making of his book into a movie. Which might sound strange, but Rob has spoken about the project before and The Professionals was one of his favourite books. Interested to see if this ever eventuates. Can’t wait to see what next week brings … until then.

DIOR

Robert Pattinson ‘Dior Homme Intense’ Now On Dior Official Tumblr

QUEEN OF THE DESERT

Distributors, Release Dates and Film Festivals:  Philippines | Mexico | Germany (Int’l Women’s Day) | Cambodia | Israel

Vodafone Television (Iceland) posts Trailer

 

So here we are week 2 of February and WOW.  HIGH LIFE: We have been given a longer synopsis for the film both in the articles earlier this week and the most detailed on Wild Bunch’s website. I won’t discuss what has been revealed to respect those who don’t want spoilers. But holy hell I can’t wait to meet Monte. One thing I will say is that I love Rob’s film choices and cannot wait to see what else he has lined up to unleash this year for us.  I also love that Des Hamilton used Jules’ #TCOAL wallpaper on his casting call tweets for this film. Truly amazing especially when you consider that he cast TCOAL. THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER: I love listening to directors talk about their films. Who knew Brady had been working on TCOAL for so long.  Every little bit of information just gets me more excited to see this film.  No doubt as excited as the UK & Ireland who has found a distributor and will be seeing the film in August 2016! I’ve updated the international review roundup – there’s some great comments being said about Brady’s directorial debut. Good on him. So excited that Rob’s involved with this film.  LIFE: At first I really thought that Russian theatrical poster was an edit, but then I realised why would they do that. Also there appears to be a new Russian Life FB page - Capella Films is somehow involved with distributing the film. They’ve also uploaded a Russian trailer to their YouTube.  Sitges is screening Life again in Spanish and then with subtitles. I know I’d be watching both if I spoke Spanish that is. The Netherlands has a great idea – Pathé cinemas has included the film as part of it’s 50plusbio and it will be screening from 18 February through to 19 July at various cinemas. I came across another great DVD review which said “Robert Pattinson … in his best and most mature performance to date” so I’ve updated the review roundup. LOST CITY OF Z:  Australians have to wait until early 2017 to see this or late this year if we’re lucky. QUEEN OF THE DESERT: Looks like straight to DVD is happening for Sweden, Italy and Finland.  Shame they may not see it on the big screen since the cinematography is beautiful. Israel will be fortunate enough to see it on screen as part of the Women’s Festival in Holon. I also tweeted that the producers have filed a copyright lawsuit and I say good on them. Never have I searched for a Rob film and come across so many sites for illegal download.  It’s absolutely ridiculous. You know what else is ridiculous? How ridiculously good looking Rob is as T E Lawrence – keep those stills coming please. Also, I came across the film rating for the US – PG13, I’m not sure if we knew that. The official site states it still hasn’t been rated. THE TRAP:  Harmony gave us a little update via his interview with Dazed magazine in light of his art exhibition in London. Not going to lie – I was a little disappointed that the interview seemed slightly negative about The Trap going forward. Thankfully a more positive interview was provided by Amuse. I like that he’s still going to make it and explains why he wrote the other script. Not sure I like the “dig” at the actor that had to be recast because it’s not like we can’t deduce who he is talking about. IN OTHER NEWS:  I loved our flashback to Berlinale 2015 and TIFF 2014, but I don’t love how difficult Michelle makes our choices for 12 months of Rob.  What I do love is birthdays at RPAU. I’m also very much in love with Jules’ edit above. I think it’s my favourite to date – the shade of blue – Rob’s profile. It’s what dreams are made of. We celebrated Vertigo’s this week and I hope she has many many more fabulous Rob celebrated ones to come. So on that note, let’s see what next week brings – hopefully some news of more distribution of TCOAL seeing as it’s being screened at EMF2016 today.  Until then …

THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER

Release Dates, Distributors & Special Screenings:  UK & Ireland

VIDEO INTERVIEW: Tiger Report Talk #TheChildhoodofaLeader with Brady Corbet and Liam Cunningham .@IFFR

VIDEO: Brady Corbet Presents The Childhood Of A Leader In Lisbon

International Review Roundup *Updated 12 Feb ’16*

Well we kicked off this week with some pretty exciting film news for France and then Tuesday spoilt us so let’s get into it. LOST CITY OF Z:  France confirmed it will release the film in December. Makes me curious if they think this might be an academy award consideration or one of the Christmas blockbusters. Time will tell I guess. HIGH LIFE: *twirlsthroughweekinreview* Claire Denis received the most amount of funding out of 44 projects at 1.2 million euros so all systems go. May cannot come soon enough. Nice little 30th birthday present for Rob don’t you think. Also @deesoonz alerted me to a tweet about Stuart Staples (he has composed some Claire Denis film soundtracks individually and with The Tindersticks) composing score for the film. QUEEN OF THE DESERT:  Looks like Norway is getting the film straight to DVD rather than cinema. Belgrade (Serbia) is having 2 screenings as part of their film festival and Chantier Films (Turkey) has included the film in their video of upcoming 2016 movies. Germany is still screening the film in cinemas, which I’m totally jealous of as it has been doing that since September. Great support for Werner as I’ve said before and Poland has now confirmed a new April release date. THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER: Lucky people who attended the closing event at Rotterdam as Brady Corbet, Liam Cunningham and it was suggestged Stacy Martin would attend.  We now know Tom Sweet was there instead. Speaking of Brady, he will be at a special screening of the film in Portugal next week where they will also present him with his TAP Revelation Award from LEFFEST. Can you see how green I am … lucky peeps attending that event. The film may not have made the cut for Berlinale, but Protagonist will hold a market screening for it during the European Film Market at the festival. I tweeted a sneak peek at the Codarts Symphony Orchestra rehearsing for closing night at Rotterdam and thanks to Brady Corbet and David Jansco I posted another sneak peek of the rehearsal which I added to the same post as the video interview of Brady talking about the film. I’ve also found another great interview from Brady at Rotterdam where he gives great insight into how the whole film came about. Composers Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans mention Brady and Scott Walker in one of their interviews “Our friend Brady Corbet made a film last year, The Childhood of a Leader (2015), and the score [by Walker] is phenomenal … DB: Tons of double basses. It’s really interesting – what can you do with a bunch of double basses? We love that.” I’ve also updated with a few more great reviews to the roundup. LIFE: I updated the international review roundup with a great DVD review “Robert Pattinson has been making films that are completely different … a success in highlighting the brilliant acting he has”. See we are not the only ones who see it.  I also provided more links for the DVD release in Italy including Amazon. I’ve also updated the Anteo Spazio Cinema (Milan) post with screening times for 11 Feb 2016 and posted about a screening in Barcelona on Monday and Tuesday. IN OTHER NEWS:  How great was it to finally get a larger version of a pic from the Hackett photoshoot and we have to thank Posh again for those gorgeous HQs from the Eclipse promo. No wonder Jules was inspired to use it for our week in review. THINGS I TWEETED: Came across a classic 2008 Twilight Q&A “Q: For Rob, do you use gel, hairspray, or just the natural oils for your hair? RP: What are natural oils? [Laughs] I just use natural oils for my hair – yup. [Laughs]”  How bloody gorgeous is that Ceddie figurine *covetsit*.  Vilinius FF tweeted a great pic of Tom Sweet who we all know from TCOAL.  I also love how Luke Buckmaster (Aussie critic for The Guardian) is guest curator on Dendy Direct this month and has included Cosmopolis as one of his film choices. Well next week we will hopefully hear that Rob’s on set for Good Time and selfishly I’m hoping we don’t get too many pics because I prefer being surprised with Rob’s characters much like The Rover and The Childhood of a Leader. I know I’m in the minority there but that’s just me. On the upside Robjectify found a great little intro vid the Safdies did with Buddy Duress (for French distributor of Heaven Knows What – Carlotta Films) where they mention they can’t be in France for the premiere because they are in the production office and Buddy is also in their next film. Some of you will know that I loved his performance in Heaven Knows What and was disappointed when he said during the Chillin Island interview he wasn’t involved.  Now I’m curious to see how it changed and hopefully will see him on screen with Rob.  Until then …

LOST CITY OF Z

Release Dates, Special Screenings and Film Festivals: France

LIFE

Release Dates, Special Screenings and Film Festivals: Italy DVD updated | Anteo Spazio Cinema (Milan) | Multicines The Punt (Barcelona)

International Review Roundup Updated *3 Feb 2016*

 

So here we are one month down and how spectacular has the introduction to 2016 already been. Dior, old photoshoot pics we hadn’t seen and … THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER: We started off this week with exciting news for those in Montreal and the Phi Centre screening the film. I’m jealous.  Then I came across a podcast of Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold talking about the film during #Venezia72. It’s really interesting to hear how the film came about. Brady Corbet and Berenice Bejo will walk the red carpet at Rotterdam too. The film will also be included at the Sofia International Film Festival and the 21st Vilnius International Film Festival. Dates for both screenings are yet to be advised, but I’m loving that it’s doing the Film Festival circuit. Gives me hope we might see it here in Oz. LIFE: I tweeted a link to Télérama Film Festival which allowed you to locate a cinema screening the film near you (obviously in France). I also tweeted Flickering Myth’s list of contemporary films that highlight the Golden Age of Hollywood.  No guesses for which film was included.  Italy may finally be getting the DVD. I’ll wait to see it happen before I get too excited. I will however be excited for South Africa since they are getting Life next week on DVD. If you’re in Patra (Greece) you can watch Life at Ster Cinema on Monday and Tuesday.  Brazil should also get excited because Life is coming – no confirmed date as I type this, but I’ll keep you posted. QUEEN OF THE DESERT: So thrilled we finally got that still in better quality – that’s part of the opening scene of the film that was shown here in Australia – sorry is that a spoiler? Who knows what version will be unleashed this time around though.  I also posted that new photo but I’m pretty sure it’s a screencap. On a sad note, I tweeted the obituary for Georgina Howell – for those who have read up on Gertrude Bell they will know that Georgina had written the most thorough biography on Bell – in fact I bought it as a Christmas present. I also tweeted a great interview with Werner about his upcoming film on social media and technology in case you’re interested. GOOD TIME: I am intrigued by the makeup artists being used by the Safdie Bros. I am expecting blood and guts – there’s prison scenes after all, but I’m still curious because – well – it’s the Safdie Bros and anything goes right. THE TRAP: Richard Pis who is cast in The Trap as a “cuban pilot” posted a photo of Benecio Del Toro on his instagram and mentioned he would be shooting #TheTrap with him some time after March. I also tweeted an article where Harmony Korine mentions his next film and says “Korine is planning on making a new film later this year. “It will be the best one yet. It is ambitious. Only now am I able to make it.” Speaking of Korine, for those interested in his artwork and living in London his #Fazors artwork will be on exhibition and Harmony is giving a talk at BFI Southbank on 10 February 2016. Information here  THINGS I TWEETED:  A Hong Kong Bluray|DVD version of The Rover was apparently released on 31 December 2015.  And how about that review for The Rover – so good to see someone really understand the film. What a fabulous thing that people are still commenting and recognizing it in 2016. Maybe it’s a sleeper. The Netherlands are hosting their first Corporate Bodies Film Festival and Cosmopolis, unsurprisingly, has made the cut of the 10 films which they will be screening in February.  Rob is in New York, and no sorry I still won’t post paparazzi pics even when they show photos of Rob’s apparent “perm” (looks like a weave perm to me *shrugs*), but in any event we know Good Time is supposed to start shooting on about 8 Feb so now we wait. Looking forward to seeing what next week brings … until then.

QUEEN OF THE DESERT

BTS still now larger

New Photo | Screencap

I’m beginning to wonder how the other months are going to outdo January. So before I focus on Dior, let’s see what has happened in Rob’s film world.  QUEEN OF THE DESERT:  Germany still has screenings of the film. Love how they support Werner Herzog. Lebanon and Jordan have pushed back their release dates, and I’m still checking to see what is happening with Iraq, Oman and Bahrain. LIFE: France is gearing up for screenings and  Cinema Des Cineastes has added additional screenings of the film amongst others. I’ve also added a link to Télérama Festival’s website which allows you to enter your region and county to find a cinema screening Life near you. Arp Selection also confirmed the French Bluray|DVD release date on twitter. Russia is finally getting LIFE in cinemas (and possibly VOD) on 24 March 2016.  Swiss (French) has pushed back their DVD/Bluray release and the UK and Ireland can now watch LIFE on iTunes prior to the DVD release in February. I tweeted about a competition to win a LIFE Bluray before the UK release at run by @whatculture. Don’t forget Japan, there are still cinemas screening Life. Check out the official Japanese website for more info. Italy seems to be dragging it feet with the DVD release. First BIM Films shows it being released on January 21 on its website but can anyone find it?  The answer is no. Then they mention coming soon on their Facebook, but all I could find was the June release on iTunes. Guess I’m adding that to the list of films to keep an eye on. So now I can talk about DIOR: The fragrance that keeps on giving. And I finally got a larger version of Rob in that polo sweater. Is it greedy to ask for UHQ. The other BTS photos are divine too as is the photoshoot. And wowza Jules’ edits that she’s been tweeting – holy moly. Have you seen them? You can check out some of them on our Instagram or our Twitter timeline on our sidebar. And how freakin amazing is our new banner. Love love love. Thank you Jules *mwah*. I love that we’ve almost been getting a new Dior Intense photo daily. A girl could get used to this. IN OTHER NEWS:  You knew there are more outtakes from Norman Jean Roy’s photoshoot for Details, so I was happy to see those two to start off the week and then we got a few more and if that’s not enough we got larger versions of L’Uomo. Thanks Posh … again.  We were also spoilt with that James White EW photoshoot from 2008 in UHQ. I know that shoot is divisive. Michelle spoilt us with Jerome Fontana for Movie Monday and it must have been an omen since I came across it screening in Romania.  And speaking of Jerome, David Cronenberg spoke to Voici (France) and was asked why he chose Rob for Cosmopolis and Maps to the Stars. Love the respect Rob gets from his directors. Smart people.  Speaking of smart, I retweeted Sally’s tweet of Cahiers du Cinema’s including Lost City of Z as one of the most anticipated films in 2016. Fingers crossed we hear some news next week about LCOZ or TCOAL or something … until then.

LIFE

Screenings, Release Dates & Film Festivals:   Cinema Des Cineastes (France) | Salerno (Italy) | Russia | Various cinemas re #‎FestivalTélérama‬ (France) | UK & Ireland Digital | Swiss (FCH) DVD & Bluray | Italy iTunes