Kristen & Julianne To Participate in a Q&A Session During The AFI Fest

Wednesday, November 12th
AFI Festival: ‘Still Alice’ special screening.
When: 11pm (eastern)
Who is attending (Q&A): Julianne Moore & Kristen Stewart

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Kristen will attend Hollywood Film Awards, Nov. 14

The Hollywood Film Awards will air live from the Hollywood Palladium on Friday, Nov. 14, 2014 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS, with a half-hour red carpet show airing at 7:30 p.m. 

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New clip from 'Still Alice'

Kristen talks about Eddie Redmayne

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New clips from 'Clouds of Sils Maria' ( dubbed in Italian)

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HQ Scan of Kristen's interview with Hello Magazine

'Still Alice' poster is out!

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Added video of Kristen playing guitar with her friend

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'Clouds of Sils Maria' will be released in Romania next week

FOR ALL THE ROMANIAN FANS !!!!

'Clouds of Sils Maria' will be released next week, Wednseday, on the 29th of October at Cinema Patria from Bucharest during 'Les Films de Cannes a Bucarest' Film Festival. 
Who is interested in participating at the screening can get the tickets here

Kristen Will Participate In ‘The Indie Contenders’ Roundtable During AFI Fest On November 9th

An eclectic group of eight distinguished filmmakers who did celebrated work on independent films in 2014 will appear on the AFI Fest’s inaugural Indie Contenders Roundtable, presented by The Hollywood Reporter and moderated by yours truly, on Nov. 9 in Hollywood.

They are: writer/director J.C. Chandor (AFI Fest opener A Most Violent Year), writer/director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash), actress Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night), actor Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), actor Bill Hader (The Skeleton Twins), actress Michelle Monaghan (Fort Bliss), actress Kristen Stewart (Still Alice) and actress Tilda Swinton (Snowpiercer).

The 90-minute conversation — which will touch on the panelists’ 2014 performances, as well as their overall careers, influences and the challenges and rewards of working on indies — will take place at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel’s AFI Fest Cinema Lounge in front of a crowd of 200 AFI Fest badgeholders and ticketholders. (Tickets will be available Friday.)

As you know 'Still Alice' and 'Clouds of Sils Maria' will be both screen at AFI FEST. 'Still Alice' screening will be on 12th & 13th November, 'Clouds of Sils Maria' on 7th & 12th November.

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Full Kristen's quote from Jeff Vespa's The Art of Discovery book

Transcript:  "I always wanted to make movies like my parents, both of whom were hardworking crew members. I wanted to come home with hundreds of stories and plates of food nicked from craft services, looking like I had just been through absolute hell. I thought what they did for a living was awesome. I still do. They were like pirates or in a traveling circus. I, though, was too small to be a grip like my brothers were, so, I figured I'd act. It was my only option. The problem was getting a job. I was eight yers old, and wasn't very child 
actor-y.

After a year of failed auditions, which culminated in an emotional afternoon meeting for the film The Safety of Objects, I thought, 'Wow this isn't just a cool job like my parents have, this is who I am.' That was the day my dream of being a grip or a script supervisor shattered, and my life opened up beyond my wildest imagination."


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New/Old Sundance Portrait + New Quotes

When Kristen Stewart headed to a Los Angeles prison to shoot Camp X-Ray, she expected that her role as a soldier who befriends a detainee in Guantanamo Bay would be intense—but she had no idea that ghost hunting would be part of the job. Spending almost a month on the set of a deserted detention center, Stewart and her co-stars found themselves getting spooked more often than not when filming the powerful drama. We caught up with the cast at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where they filled us in on the most haunting behind-the-scenes moments from the movie, out now.

One night after filming, the creepy surroundings got the best of Stewart. “It was really late, and I needed to blow off steam and be alone for a second,” she recalled. “I walked back to my trailer by myself, and I started running. I think I was even saying, ‘Leave me alone! I don’t care!’ as I was running.”

The ghosts on set weren’t all scary, and Stewart believes that one of them even helped her impress her male co-stars on the basketball court during breaks. “I literally felt like the court was haunted, and some little boy [ghost] was like, ‘I’m gonna make the girl win and piss off all the dudes on set,” she says. And when they weren’t practicing their free throws, the cast took part in other (ghost-free) activities. “We went bowling a lot, and then we built a golf course in the prison,” said co-star Lane Garrison, who plays a prison guard in the film. “Kristen’s a great golfer!”

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Vans Head Designer For Women Angie Dita Talks Kristen’s Personal Style

Kristen Stewart landed at LAX last week, sporting a pair of classic Vans “Era” skater kicks in black. She is known for often switching out her stilettos for sneakers on the red carpet, and we conjecture she is probably quite happy to see the shoe style spectrum swinging toward the latter. We caught up with Angie Dita, Vans head designer for women, who said, “It’s great to see a young talent who can mix high fashion with beloved laid back pieces and remain true to her personal style.” We couldn’t agree more.

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Full interview of Kristen with Tavis Smiley October 20th 2014

Kristen Stewart embraces the calm after 'Camp X-Ray' (USA Today)

NEW YORK — Almost precisely two years ago, Kristen Stewart was hunched in a dark corner of the Tribeca Grand Hotel's restaurant, sipping a glass of red wine and relentlessly scanning the room.

There was nothing she loathed more than people spotting her, gawping, and then pretending it hadn't happened. On the flip side, she also detested that feeling of being openly stared at, which accompanies most famous people when they're spotted out doing things like eating or drinking or pumping gas.

On this sunny, breezy afternoon, in the lobby of the Greenwich Hotel to promote her latest film, Camp X-Ray, 24-year-old Stewart also repeatedly glances around the room, but she's visibly more relaxed, easy, peaceful.

"I'm really happy right now, overly happy," she says. "I'm definitely not looking furtively — I like to look around at (things). I feel great. I'm not overcoming fear right now."

Back when she was last working the promotional circuit, she was on the tail-end of the century's Great Love Triangle, involving her, Robert Pattinson and then-married director Rupert Sanders, whom she'd been spotted kissing. Stewart never discussed what followed: the kind of public flaying usually reserved for wayward politicians, if anyone at all.

In those days, says Stewart, "I was scared of so many things. I was not overcompensating but just compensating. Now, I really have no apprehension about anything, which is great. I can get behind all of my creative endeavors more so than ever before. I'm super happy and challenged and inspired and relaxed."

She didn't explain or complain, just kept her head down and did interview after interview, craving a return to her day job just to retain some sense of balance and focus. But, as they say, be careful what you wish for. Now, with seven new films under her leather belt, Stewart feels the opposite: a deep, head-spinning need for a break.

'I still do this'

Financially, she's free to work if and when she wants, thanks to those years as Bella Swan, opposite Pattinson's Edward Cullen. And while she says she's never been "very business oriented" or "economically inclined," Stewart knows that going forward, she can pick and choose whatever she wants to do, based not on mortgage payments but on artistic desires.

"Everyone's like, 'You're back to doing indies.' I tried to do an indie between everyTwilight movie. I still do this," she says. "Plus, Twilight initially was a funky indie teen flick. There was something about it that I thought was really special and great. I'm not trying to make people think I'm serious or anything. The roles for women in Hollywood — they're very categorically narrow. When a good script sticks out as being unique, I jump on it."

And she has nothing but fond memories of Twilight, without any obvious resentment of any ensuing baggage.

"What did I take from it? I want to do good work. We all worked really hard on those movies, actually. Every moment and every day leads us to where we are now. Standing up to something so much bigger than me was a good test of my character and a good introduction to myself. It was an accelerated growing-up process," she says of being vaulted into superstardom as Bella.

This time, her main release is Camp X-Ray (out now in limited release), starring Stewart as a wide-eyed army private assigned to Guantanamo Bay.

Though at first she's faced with political prisoners who seem, to her, to pose little threat, she comes to understand just how complex the whole war on terror really is, and how devoid it is of easy answers or villains and victims.

"I'm definitely not one to get on a soapbox about things I care about. You can affect change in other ways. That's why doing interviews about it is funny for me. Dude, I did a movie. I thought it was a courageous reminder," she sighs. "It is not righteous in any way. ... I was really excited to play an essentially American girl who is so simple. Exploration for truth and discovery is not what we're known for. I know it sounds really negative, but I feel it's true. I thought it was interesting to have this girl, a good person, a sweet person, a positively inclined girl, who wants to forget herself and wants to be dignified by something. How do you condemn anyone who wants to serve our country? The denigration of that notion was really interesting."

Life in — and out of — the light

After rebuffing the drunk advances of her boss, Stewart's Amy Cole is trapped in a situation that slips out of her control, with both implied and obvious hostility directed at her. All the while, she has to be a pro with the condemned, loathed prisoners under her care.

As a famous person, has Stewart felt that judged herself?

"Actually, yeah," she says. "I never made that connection. Sure, I feel that. It's silly. (Outside judgment) is so transparently a projection. It's so insular. It has nothing to do with me. It's everyone else's hangups."

Dressed in a white crop top, which she repeatedly yanks down, ankle-length black pants and beaten-up sneakers, her sheared hair mussed, Stewart is a funny, self-effacing, yet totally earnest presence. It's hard to reconcile the diminutive brunette sitting across from you with the mammoth celebrity whose fans devour any and every detail about her life.

The fame thing, says Stewart, is what it is. "I'm also not that uncomfortable with it because I've gotten used to it. I am really traversing this and getting stronger every day. I'm better at this than I ever have been. I like being uncomfortable. I like standing up to things," she says.

Stewart just wrapped her latest film, the futuristic Equals, starring Nicholas Hoult and directed by Like Crazy's Drake Doremus. The project, she said, tore her up emotionally, and necessitated what she long thought she needed: a break to just be Kristen, the person. She won't read a single script.

"I'm taking some time off because I've been working for two years. I'm an actor and that's my art form, and because I started that so young, I've always felt intimidated and insufficient when I think about other forms of art I want to create. ... I'm going to buy a live-work space in downtown L.A. and I'm going to make some (stuff) with my hands. Literally, I made that decision a few weeks ago," she grins, adding that she's also "making a short film."

And she might even do the seemingly impossible: go out and hang out with friends without the paparazzi following her. She takes the good with the bad, knowing that having to hide in plain sight is simply part and parcel of being famous.

"One thing that will stay with me forever is, I really love work. I love hard work. I'm somewhat OK with the isolation. At times I realize, that's so not normal. It's weird, but it gives me the opportunity to do what I love," she says. "I do wish it was a bit more normal. Plans are just difficult. You have to be ready to change them any moment. If you walk into a place and there are weirdos there, you leave."

The other thing, admits Stewart, is that she's always looking over her shoulder. "I've gotten better about that. Whatever. If everyone is staring at me, that's fine."​

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NEW HQ Portrait + New Interview with USA Today

Kristen Stewart loves her cropped hairdo. And we do mean, loves it. It’s easy. It’s functional. And it requires minimal maintenance.

“I’m going to play with this for a while. At some point I’ll grow it out because then I have more options for parts. I don’t like wearing a wig. I hate wearing wigs in movies. It feels fake to me,” she told us.

In all, it’s been a pretty great few months for Stewart. While in New York promoting her drama Camp X-Ray, she met her icon, Patti Smith, at a party. And yes, even Stewart gets hugely star-struck.

“She walked up to the table. She’s so rad and completely open. I don’t think she’ll care. She was like: ‘It’s a full moon and I heard you’re in town and I really like you and I thought I’d come out and try to find you and here you are.’ And I was like, ‘Oh.’ She’s a huge inspiration to me. Her body of work is all over the map and I find that really inspiring. It’s like kismet. I can feel it. She was like, ‘What are you doing? Are you happy? What are you making?’ I was like, ‘Do you want to do something together?’”

Fittingly, Stewart is now re-reading Smith’s Just Kids.

“You read that book and all you want to do is go outside and forget you have a job and take a sketch book and a journal and observe,” she says

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Kristen Will Be On The Tavis Smiley Show Oct. 20th, 2014

Kristen will be on the 'Tavis Smiley Show' on October 20th 2014. The show will sir at 11PM 

Kristen & Peter Sattler's interview on 'The Leonard Lopate Show'

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New 'Camp X-Ray' still

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New/Old Photos from the 2013 Academy Awards

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Kristen's interview with Josh Horowitz

Kristen's interview with The Daily Beast

The Resurrection of Kristen Stewart

It’s been two years since the end of Twilight and that tabloid hullabaloo. Now, the actress is back with a trio of standout performances in indie films. She opens up about her latest chapter.

Camp X-Ray was shot on a shoestring budget of $1 million, but it looks much bigger than that.

It’s weird to say that the scope of it is pretty small considering what you see, but if you think about it, we had essentially three locations and shot it in 20 days. The key to the budget is it was so fast and we just gunned it.

It had been two years since you shot your last film, Snow and the Huntsman. Were you being extra picky in the wake of Twilight because you knew you were under the microscope?

I’m never really that precious about choosing projects that don’t have every sure element that is a guaranteed good experience and/or success. There’s a lot of risk involved in this job, and it doesn’t bother me. This could’ve been a terrible movie! It could’ve been awful. It’s with a first-time director. But I still would’ve gotten what I got out of it had the movie not turned out as well as it did.

You tend to take those leaps. I remember Leonardo DiCaprio once saying that he has a policy of never working with first-time directors.

It’s smart. I’ve had experiences that have made me go, “Ugh, I have to be careful and make sure that every part is sturdy and that I won’t be let down.” If I was a director, I would be extremely conscious of my filmography. It says so much about the difference between putting your name on something and owning it instead of being one tiny part of it. Actors get to work all the time. If I make a bad movie every once in a while, I don’t care. I didn’t work after Snow for about two years, but it’s because a lot of these projects didn’t come together. I’m decisive, but I’m definitely not a planner.

I have these talks with friends, and I’ll say, “Kristen Stewart’s a good actress,” and they disagree. Then I ask them what films they’ve seen of yours, and they just say, “The Twilight movies.” So, they haven’t seen, say, Panic Room, Speak, Into the Wild, Adventureland, etc. Do you feel like that series has unfairly colored people’s opinions of your acting ability? 

Honestly, I don’t care. It’s fine. I’m really happy doing what I’m doing. I’m sure there are a ton of people out there who would hate my movies even if they saw all those, just as I’m sure there are people out there who are obsessed with Twilight and say, “I watched the series, and she completely let me down, and then I watched every one of her other movies, and I fuckin’ hate her!” And that’s cool! Just don’t watch my movies.

With Camp X-Ray, this is pretty heavy subject matter here in Gitmo. President Obama promised to close the place down in 2009, but hasn’t done so yet. Was part of the attraction to the project shining a light in this bizarre blight on America?

I was forced to really investigate. I knew that Obama wanted to close it down, and I knew that everyone else wanted to, too. Most people you talk to in America have kind of put it out of their minds. I didn’t jump on this movie to make a huge political statement, but it’s such an interesting story within an interesting context, and it’s more of a poke on the shoulder to remind you that this thing is here.

Your character’s relationship with Peyman’s detainee reminds us of the humanity of these people. We tend to view suspected terrorists as this nameless, faceless “other,” when they’re human beings, too.

As Americans, we should absolutely aspire to more than that. If you label something “bad,” people will justify the most terrible things. Just because you’re following a greater whole, suddenly you take the individual out of it and no one bears responsibility for anything.

The film doesn’t show any of the more controversial practices at Gitmo—like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, force-feeding, etc.

It alludes to it. But if we showed all that stuff, people would instantly demonize the film. You see something like that and it becomes so polarizing. Yes, it was cool to be in a Gitmo movie, it was cool to play a soldier, and it was cool remind people that this still exists, but I also thought it was cool to play a simple, American girl who wanted to find her line and aspire to something bigger than her—only to find that things aren’t so simple. Most people in every state think, “Well, of course it’s a great thing to sign up for the Army,” and there’s no question asked beyond that—ever.

She really gets swept up in all the post 9/11 patriotism and signs up for Gitmo duty, only to find that it isn’t what she thought at all.

She’s simple, not very smart, and really socially inadequate—but a good person. So, if you can sign up, put a uniform on, and erase yourself, you don’t have to consider yourself anymore. You can take the individual out of it and say, “Well, this dignifies me. I’m good because of this.” And when that doesn’t end up being true, you actually have to contend with who you are. All she wants is to think, “They did 9/11, they’re bad, fuck that, I’m going to do my job and I’m going to do it well.” But then she gets down there and just can’t accept it; she can’t conform to that.

Right. The mistake we make is not viewing these detainees down there as people, too. We’re all people. 

That is essentially so fucking evil, it’s crazy. It’s a ridiculous idea for you to think that you know anything for sure in life—other than to take care of your fellow people. Where the fuck do you get off thinking otherwise? These two people couldn’t be from more different worlds and perspectives, and probably disagree fundamentally on most things, but there’s a through-line for all of us—and that’s what people forget, and that’s what makes people capable of doing terrible things to each other. What makes you different from any other person that walks the earth?

This is a pretty ripped-from-the-headlines film. What issues are you passionate about in the news?

I don’t want to talk about that shit at all. Trust me, I’m only asking for it. When it comes time to stand up and affect change, I’m not the type of person to shout from the rooftops. Just because you’re an actor and in the public eye, people think that’s how you must be. But there are other ways to do that. That’s not me.

When you talk about Camp X-Ray, Still Alice, and Clouds of Sils Maria, these are three films anchored by strong, flawed, complex women. These films tend to be a rarity in Hollywood, and usually come in smaller indie packages.

Me and Juliette [Binoche] were talking about it because this question does come up, and she said, “Oh, I don’t answer that question anymore. It’s so cliché.” And I said, “Well, it’s so cliché because it’s entirely true.” And she said, “Yes, maybe in Hollywood.” Because in France, due to the history of French directors having romantic relationships with their lead actresses, they tend to tell more female-centric stories. In America, there are way more male filmmakers than female ones, and they want to tell more masculine stories. Most of our great films that we’re proud of, you’ve got Bob De Niro, Jack Nicholson, and the bravado is overwhelming. And that’s still going on. I read a million scripts and people say I choose my scripts carefully, but it’s just so obvious when the role is different, and complex, and not some typical, archetypal girl, because they’re so rare. Not to sound cliché, but it’s a male-dominated and driven business.

“It’s A Man’s World,” to quote James Brown.

[Laughs] Yeah. But that’s OK, because it’s fun to be the underdog.

There just needs to be more female filmmakers

Exactly! That’s it. I’ll do it.

A case study would be your Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke. This is a very accomplished filmmaker and, five years after directing that hit, her latest film basically went straight-to-video. That has to be indicative of some problem the industry, that she was basically give one Red Riding Hood before her power was stripped away. A male director is given a lot more chances.

Yeah, that’s true. That’s a thing that women have to do—you must persevere. That’s what we’ve been doing. You need to make something that’s undeniably good. If a woman makes a bad movie, or does something stupid, then the door just slams shut. It’s fucked up.

A lot of young actresses these days are coming out against being labeled a feminist. It seems to be a generational thing, where people from the older generation see it for its definition—equality for men and women—while the younger generation for some reason view it as a more divisive term.

I know what you mean. That’s such a strange thing to say, isn’t it? Like, what do you mean? Do you not believe in equality for men and women? I think it’s a response to overly-aggressive types. There are a lot of women who feel persecuted and go on about it, and I sometimes am like, “Honestly, just relax, because now you’re going in the other direction.” Sometimes, the loudest voice in the room isn’t necessarily the one you should listen to. By our nature alone, think about what you’re saying and say it—but don’t scream in people’s faces, because then you’re discrediting us.

Relating it to my one little avenue, people say, “If you want to make it in the film industry as a woman, you have to be a bitch.” No, you are going to ruin any chance you have and give us a bad name. It’s the overcompensation to where our generation goes, “Relax.” Because it’s been easier for us, and because we don’t have as much of the anger, so it’s like we can’t get behind it and it’s a bit embarrassing. But that being said, it’s a really ridiculous thing to say you’re not a feminist.

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Kristen's interview with Popsugar at the special screening of 'Camp X-Ray' in NYC

Full video of the Q&A from New York Film Festival with Kristen, Juliette and Olivier

Full video of 'Meet the Filmmakers' with Kristen Stewart and Peter Sattler

Kristen at the premiere of 'Clouds of Sils Maria' at NYFF

HQ Red Carpet pictures 

HQ Pics of Kristen heading to the premiere

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