Kristen Stewart wasted no time making her presence felt as jury president of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival. Screendaily reports that Stewart had some cutting things to say about the state of the film industry at the festival’s Competition press conference, particularly its obsession with money over artistic merit.
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Following up comments by her fellow juror Radu Jude, who evoked Isidore Isou‘s 1951 avant-garde film “Venom And Eternity” and its credo that “cinema is the industry of money and stupidity,” Stewart called the filmmaking world’s current situation “stupid and embarrassing.” “How we [make films,] who consumes it, how much it costs — we’re heading towards oblivion on that level,” said the actress.
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Following up comments by her fellow juror Radu Jude, who evoked Isidore Isou‘s 1951 avant-garde film “Venom And Eternity” and its credo that “cinema is the industry of money and stupidity,” Stewart called the filmmaking world’s current situation “stupid and embarrassing.” “How we [make films,] who consumes it, how much it costs — we’re heading towards oblivion on that level,” said the actress.
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- 2/16/2023
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Stewart spoke at the jury press conference at the opening of the 73rd Berlinale.
US actress Kristen Stewart said “we’re living in the most reactive, emotionally whiplashed time” when speaking at the Competition jury press conference for the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival.
Responding to a question about whether the festival’s reputation for political statements affected her decision to take on the role of head of the jury, Stewart said, “It’s such a rare indulgence to be able to talk about the thing you’re obsessed with, which in my case is movies, when you’re not promoting it or making one.
US actress Kristen Stewart said “we’re living in the most reactive, emotionally whiplashed time” when speaking at the Competition jury press conference for the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival.
Responding to a question about whether the festival’s reputation for political statements affected her decision to take on the role of head of the jury, Stewart said, “It’s such a rare indulgence to be able to talk about the thing you’re obsessed with, which in my case is movies, when you’re not promoting it or making one.
- 2/16/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The new issue of Senses of Cinema features a good handful of pieces on Michelangelo Antonioni and two on Paul Thomas Anderson. Also in today's roundup of news and views: A new short film from Jean-Luc Godard; Martin Scorsese on John Ford's The Searchers; an issue of Criticism devoted to Andy Warhol, desistfilm on Alfred Hitchcock, Isidore Isou, Peter Tscherkassky, Michael Robinson and David OReilly; an interview with Terence Stamp; articles on Thom Andersen's The Thoughts That Once We Had, Richard Linklater's Boyhood, Lisandro Alonso's Jauja and Alain Resnais—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/16/2015
- Keyframe
The new issue of Senses of Cinema features a good handful of pieces on Michelangelo Antonioni and two on Paul Thomas Anderson. Also in today's roundup of news and views: A new short film from Jean-Luc Godard; Martin Scorsese on John Ford's The Searchers; an issue of Criticism devoted to Andy Warhol, desistfilm on Alfred Hitchcock, Isidore Isou, Peter Tscherkassky, Michael Robinson and David OReilly; an interview with Terence Stamp; articles on Thom Andersen's The Thoughts That Once We Had, Richard Linklater's Boyhood, Lisandro Alonso's Jauja and Alain Resnais—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/16/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The new issue of Senses of Cinema features a good handful of pieces on Michelangelo Antonioni and two on Paul Thomas Anderson. Also in today's roundup of news and views: A new short film from Jean-Luc Godard; Martin Scorsese on John Ford's The Searchers; an issue of Criticism devoted to Andy Warhol, desistfilm on Alfred Hitchcock, Isidore Isou, Peter Tscherkassky, Michael Robinson and David OReilly; an interview with Terence Stamp; articles on Thom Andersen's The Thoughts That Once We Had, Richard Linklater's Boyhood, Lisandro Alonso's Jauja and Alain Resnais—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/16/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The new issue of Senses of Cinema features a good handful of pieces on Michelangelo Antonioni and two on Paul Thomas Anderson. Also in today's roundup of news and views: A new short film from Jean-Luc Godard; Martin Scorsese on John Ford's The Searchers; an issue of Criticism devoted to Andy Warhol, desistfilm on Alfred Hitchcock, Isidore Isou, Peter Tscherkassky, Michael Robinson and David OReilly; an interview with Terence Stamp; articles on Thom Andersen's The Thoughts That Once We Had, Richard Linklater's Boyhood, Lisandro Alonso's Jauja and Alain Resnais—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/16/2015
- Keyframe
'The wildness of the avant-garde is never pure. But that's no reason to reject the category entirely'
I suppose I should worry that the French and military codeword avant-garde still seduces me. This word, after all, can conceal so much snobisme. But then: there's no reason to dismiss something just because it's impure, and this idea of the avant-garde, in its essence, is a noble ideal. The avant-garde is wildness: a wildness of content, and a wildness of form.
And this is one reason why I harbour another complicated attraction. My idea of the avant-garde is so often Parisian.
This isn't, of course, entirely a form of romance. In the bourgeois 19th century, Paris was where the avant-garde was invented. But even then, the ideal of wildness was precarious. It was Walter Benjamin who observed how the association of art and isolation was "all the more dangerous because, as it...
I suppose I should worry that the French and military codeword avant-garde still seduces me. This word, after all, can conceal so much snobisme. But then: there's no reason to dismiss something just because it's impure, and this idea of the avant-garde, in its essence, is a noble ideal. The avant-garde is wildness: a wildness of content, and a wildness of form.
And this is one reason why I harbour another complicated attraction. My idea of the avant-garde is so often Parisian.
This isn't, of course, entirely a form of romance. In the bourgeois 19th century, Paris was where the avant-garde was invented. But even then, the ideal of wildness was precarious. It was Walter Benjamin who observed how the association of art and isolation was "all the more dangerous because, as it...
- 3/26/2011
- by Adam Thirlwell
- The Guardian - Film News
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