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Tilda Swinton is developing an exhibition for the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam that will include new film projects she will create in collaboration with a series of filmmakers, including Luca Guadagnino and Joanna Hogg.

The exhibition will be titled Tilda Swinton – Ongoing and will be on view from September 28 2025 to February 8 2026. The full list of filmmakers she has tapped for the exhibition are Pedro Almodóvar, Luca Guadagnino, Joanna Hogg, Jim Jarmusch, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Swinton will also create two installation pieces with fashion historian and curator Olivier Saillard and photographer Tim Walker.

The work of Derek Jarman, the late filmmaker behind seminal works like Jubilee and The Garden, will also be celebrated as part of the exhibition, with Swinton presenting never-before-seen archival material from his 8mm oeuvre. Jarman and Swinton were longtime collaborators, with the actor making her screen debut in Jarman’s Caravaggio.

“With the honour of this extraordinary invitation,...

When the third annual Sunny Bunny Lgbtqia+ film festival opens in Kyiv on April 18, it will do so in the face of a severe funding crisis due to the cancellation of financial support from Usaid by US president Donald Trump.

Usaid’s ‘Transformation Communications Activity’ programme previously cooperated with the Ukrainian government, private sector and civil society to strengthen Ukraine’s democracy. One of the beneficiaries was Sunny Bunny, an event which evolved in 2023 out of the queer film strand of the city’s long running Molodist Film Festival.

“The main challenge has been the budget,” says festival director Bohdan Zhuk...

Could there be a better queen of the Berlinale than Tilda Swinton? The answer, obviously, is nein.

On a snow-blanketed Thursday night in the German capital, the Oscar-winning Scottish actress wowed the crowd at the Berlin International Film Festival with a powerful statement decrying the rise of authoritarianism around the world as she accepted the event’s Golden Bear for lifetime achievement.

A more deserving recipient of the festival’s top honor was hard to recall. Swinton has been a Berlinale regular since her screen debut, Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio, won the Silver Bear at the 1986 edition of the event. In the ensuing years, 26 of her films have screened across the Berlin festival’s various sections, including Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel and the Coen Brothers’ Hail, Cesar!, along with scores of artistically accomplished indie titles.

But when Swinton sat down with the press to discuss her 40-year career in the movies Friday morning,...

Tilda Swinton spoke about her decision to attend Berlin Film Festival despite calls for a boycott over the war in Gaza, saying it was “more useful to our causes” for her to show up.

On Thursday night, the Oscar winner received the festival’s honorary Golden Bear and made an impassioned speech in which she called out the “state-perpetrated and internationally-enabled mass murder is currently actively terrorizing more than one part of our world.”

During a press conference on Friday, Swinton — who has been a longtime advocate for Palestinians — was asked about the Bds Movement‘s call for a boycott of the festival over the treatment of filmmakers who spoke out against the war in Gaza at last year’s closing ceremony.

“I’m a great admirer of and have a great deal of respect for Bds and I think about it a lot,” Swinton said. “I am here today...

As Tilda Swinton accepted her Golden Bear Lifetime Achievement Award at the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday, the Oscar-winning actress called out the ongoing political extremism and inhumanity that is taking place around the world.

Before diving in, Swinton first praised the festival for being a “borderless realm” with “no policy of exclusion, persecution or deportation.” She then applauded the “great independent state of cinema” for being “innately inclusive — immune to efforts of occupation, colonization, takeover, ownership or the development of riviera property.”

Though the actress didn’t name anyone in particular, Swinton seemed to be making an indirect jab at President Donald Trump’s suggestion for a U.S. takeover of the Gaza Strip with plans to make it the “Riviera of the Middle East” after saying he would “temporarily relocate” Palestinians.

Swinton then began an impassioned speech alluding to a series of orchestrated, inhumane events of recent years.

A likely unexpected group was on the receiving end of Tilda Swinton’s Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement acceptance speech at Thursday night’s Berlin Film Festival opening ceremony, as the actress took to the stage to call out “war criminals, “state-perpetrated and internationally enabled mass murder,” and “greed-addicted governments.”

In her speech (via Variety), Swinton lauded the festival as “a borderless realm and with no policy of exclusion, persecution, or deportation.” She then acknowledged the rise of “entitled domination and the astonishing savagery of spite, state-perpetrated and internationally enabled mass murder… unacceptable to human society,” though she didn’t go into specifics or name current conflicts.

She continued, “These are facts. They need to be faced. So for the sake of clarity, let’s name it. The inhumane is being perpetrated on our watch. I’m here to name it without hesitation or doubt in my mind and to...

The inimitable Tilda Swinton used her platform in Berlin Thursday night, where she received a Golden Bear for lifetime achievement, to call out political extremism, environmental degradation and the rise of authoritarianism around the world.

Without ever uttering the words Gaza or Palestinian, the Oscar-winning Scottish star also gave an impassioned speech in support of “the great independent state of cinema,” what she called “an unlimited realm, innately inclusive, immune to efforts of occupation, colonization, takeover, ownership or the development of Riviera property.” (The latter a clear reference to U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed plans for Gaza).

Swinton called out what she termed the “entitled domination and the astonishing savagery of spite, state-perpetrated and internationally enabled mass murder… unacceptable to human society. These are facts. They need to be faced. So for the sake of clarity, let’s name it. The inhumane is being perpetrated on our watch.

Tilda Swinton got political as she accepted Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement at its opening ceremony on Thursday night, saying “the inhumane is being perpetrated on our watch.”

In a poetic speech, the Oscar winner lauded the festival as “a borderless realm with no policy of exclusion, persecution or deportation.” The “great independent state of cinema,” she added, is “innately inclusive — immune to efforts of occupation, colonization, takeover, ownership or the development of riviera property.”

She then acknowledged that “state-perpetrated and internationally-enabled mass murder is currently actively terrorizing more than one part of our world,” though she didn’t go into specifics.

“These are facts. They need to be faced,” Swinton continued. “So for the sake of clarity, let’s name it. The inhumane is being perpetrated on our watch. I’m here to name it without hesitation or doubt in my mind and to lend...

Tilda Swinton certainly knows her way around Berlin.

In 1988, for example, filmmaker Cynthia Beatt followed her as she biked near the Berlin Wall for the short film Cycling the Frame. In 1986, she first appeared at the Berlin International Film Festival with her mentor Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio, winner of the Silver Bear Award. Since then, she’s starred in 25 more films that have played the fest.

And in 2009, she served as president of its international jury. Answering questions from her fans that year at a public talk at Berlinale Talents, she confessed: “For me, acting is dressing up and playing. It’s nothing more than that. I love to play. I don’t like to act, but I do like to play.… It’s a kind of aliveness.”

This year, Swinton will receive an Honorary Golden Bear at the opening ceremony of the festival’s 75th edition. In announcing the honor,...

Tilda Swinton is an Oscar-winning actress who has been a favorite of both the art house crowd and the multiplexes, consistently taking on challenging roles in both indie fare and box office hits. Let’s take a look back at 19 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1960 in London, England, Swinton got her start working with experimental filmmaker Derek Jarman, making her movie debut in the director’s “Caravaggio” (1986). She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress in his film “Edward II” (1991), kicking off a decades-long romance between the actress and awards groups. She also showed her willingness to push herself in offbeat projects with daring auteurs, an edict that would lead to collaborations with Luca Guadanigno, Jim Jarmusch, Bong Joon Ho, Sally Potter, Wes Anderson and the Coen Brothers.

She took home the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Michael Clayton” (2007), for which she also won the BAFTA and reaped Golden Globe,...

Even after achieving a modicum of mainstream recognition, Tilda Swinton has remained fiercely independent. Sure, she won an Oscar for Michael Clayton, joined the MCU with Doctor Strange, and even voiced an octopus in The Boys, but for the most part, Swinton has staked her fame on challenging films made by art-house auteurs, as evident most recently in The End and The Room Next Door. She's never shied away from risky roles, going all the way back to her very first movie, Derek Jarman's Caravaggio. Released in 1986, it's an unconventional biopic that upends audience expectations and posits provocative questions about the controversial Baroque painter. It also provided a model for the type of performances that would define Swinton's singular acting career.

The 75th Berlin International Film Festival is honoring Berlinale favorite Tilda Swinton with an honorary Golden Bear for her lifetime achievement. The award will be presented at the opening ceremony of the Berlinale Palast on Feb. 13, 2025.

“The range of Tilda Swinton’s work is breathtaking,” said Berlinale festival director Tricia Tuttle. “She brings so much humanity, compassion, intelligence, humor and style, and she expands our ideas of the world through her work. Tilda is one of our modern filmmaking idols, and has also long been part of the Berlinale family. We are delighted to be able to present her with this Honorary Golden Bear.”

Swinton has been a regular at the Berlinale for decades, starring in 26 films that have screened at the festival in various sections off the years. Highlights include Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio, which won the Silver Bear at the 1986 Berlinale, Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel, which...

Tilda Swinton, the Oscar-winning UK actress whose films includeWe Need To Talk About Kevin and The Room Next Door, is to receive the honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at the Berlinale opening ceremony in February.

Swinton has been closely linked to the festival across her career. It was the first festival she attended, in 1986 with her first film role in Derek Jarman’s Silver Bear winner Caravaggio.

She served as the president of the international jury in 2009 and starred in 26 films that have been programmed at the festival, among them The Beach (2000), Derek (2008), Julia (2008), The Garden (1991) and Last And First Men...

Tilda Swinton will be celebrated by the Berlin Film festival with its Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement.

“The range of Tilda Swinton’s work is breathtaking,” said the festival’s artistic director Tricia Tuttle in a statement. “To cinema she brings so much humanity, compassion, intelligence, humour and style, and she expands our ideas of the world through her work,” Tuttle added.

“Tilda is one of our modern filmmaking idols, and has also long been part of the Berlinale family. We are delighted to be able to present her with this Honorary Golden Bear,” she went on to note.

The award will be presented to Swinton during the fest’s opening ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on Feb. 13, 2025.

“The Berlinale is the first film festival I ever went to, in 1986 with Derek Jarman and the first film I made, his “Caravaggio,” said Swinton.

“It was my portal into the...

The Berlin Film Festival is to fete Tilda Swinton with an Honorary Golden Bear for her career achievement. The award will be presented at the Opening Ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on February 13, 2025.

“The range of Tilda Swinton’s work is breathtaking. To cinema she brings so much humanity, compassion, intelligence, humour and style, and she expands our ideas of the world through her work. Tilda is one of our modern filmmaking idols, and has also long been part of the Berlinale family. We are delighted to be able to present her with this Honorary Golden Bear,” said Festival Director Tricia Tuttle.

Swinton commented: “The Berlinale is the first film festival I ever went to, in 1986 with Derek Jarman and the first film I made, his Caravaggio. It was my portal into the world in which I have made my life’s work – the world of international filmmaking – and I...

A costume exhibit dedicated to over four decades of costume designer Sandy Powell’s career has opened at Scad’s Museum of Fashion and Film in Atlanta.

Powell, whose credits include “Orlando,” “Shakespeare in Love” and “Far From Heaven” was on hand for the exhibit’s opening. “It been a very strange experience,” Powell told Variety. “It is an emotional one because I’m not just looking at the work. Each one of those pieces, each one of those vignettes brings me back to where I was in my life at those times. So it’s like I’ve seen the last 40 years of my life in one room.”

The exhibit titled Sandy Powell’s Dressing the Part: Costume Design for Film is curated by Rafael Gomes, creative director of Scad Fash museums. On display are a vast array of genres, periods, and realities, showcasing Powell’s dynamic work for films including “Shakespeare in Love,...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has amassed a great collection of actors to portray an assembly of characters from the comics and bring an interconnected universe to life. Various A-list performers and amazing character actors like Robert Downey Jr, Robert Redford, Christian Bale, etc have been a part of the franchise and contributed to the enormous success it has become.

Tilda Swinton won an Oscar for her performance in Michael Clayton | Warner Bros

One of the fascinating additions to the franchise was Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One in the first Doctor Strange film. The actress has had an interesting past where she crossed paths with Princess Diana, helped improve lives in Africa as well as graduated from one of the top universities in the world. The actress’ chameleon-like on-screen ability also led her to win an Oscar in 2008.

Tilda Swinton’s Interesting And Colorful Past Will Certainly Surprise Fans of...

Tilda Swinton shares anecdotes from her storied career with her co-star and friend, Julio Torres, who acted alongside her in his debut feature film Problemista.

Swinton is an actor who has run the gambit of blockbusters and indie films, from playing the villain in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and the Ancient One in Doctor Strange to co-starring in Torres' directorial debut film Problemista. Problemista is a surrealist-comedy film that follows Alejandro, an immigrant toy-maker from El Salvador played by Torres, who faces deportation after losing his job. He meets the eccentric art critic Elizabeth, played by Swinton, who hires him as an assistant for an exhibit of Elizabeth's husband's paintings of eggs.

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Sean Bean is known for his ability to sell a death scene and has died in 24 separate films and TV shows, comprising approximately a quarter of his on-screen catalog. Bean dies in each of the successful franchises he has appeared in, including James Bond, Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones, highlighting the high body count of his characters. His memorable deaths range from throat slashing to being crushed by a satellite dish, showcasing the diversity of his on-screen demises.

The number of Sean Bean deaths throughout the actor's long career has become so numerous that the Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones star is perhaps best known for his ability to sell a death scene. Bean is known for his tough demeanor and piercing performances, but his success as an actor has become somewhat overshadowed by his propensity for getting killed onscreen. Bean has died in 24 separate films and TV shows,...

Anna Hints, now co-directing with Tushar Prakash (The Karma Killings), returns to the elemental environment of a southern Estonian smoke sauna for her latest short. Swapping the female-centric documentary setting for a male-focused fictional one, while her feature was all about the secrets that are revealed in the shared communal space, this concerns those that might be concealed there.

Shot like a Caravaggio painting by Smoke Sauna Sisterhood cinematographer Ants Tammik - who has perfected the technique of shooting within the challenging environment that a working sauna presents - light shafts in as a group of men relax after coming together to raise a roof. Initially, this could be another documentary, not that the men are in the business of doing much chatting, focused instead on the sauna itself and the job they have just completed. Soon the camera moves, its focus as much on reaction shots as who is doing.

Tilda Swinton famously cut her acting teeth on the experimental films of late director Derek Jarman such as Caravaggio and The Garden as well as life-long friend Joanna Hogg’s debut short Caprice and Sally Potter’s Orlando.

Nearly 50 years later, she has continued to work with Hogg as well as in the experimental cinema arena, finding a new Jarman-esque kindred spirit in Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Speaking in an in-conversation event at the Marrakech Film Festival on Monday, the actress revealed how some of the big commercial studio pictures she has worked on across her career have felt personally more experimental to her than her avant-garde work.

“I’ve been really fortunate to have some adventures in worlds of filmmaking that I never thought I would be able to go into,” she said.

“When Derek died [in 1994], I was a bit high and dry… slowly… invitations came...

Screen legend Ron Perlman looks set to take a leading role in an adaptation of Carlos Augusto Casas’s award winning novel, ‘Ya no quedan junglas adonde regresar,’ whose big screen adaptation rights have been secured by producer Álvaro Ariza’s production company, Esto También Pasará.

The novel’s cinematic adaptation will mark the debut narrative feature film as a director of Gabriel Beristain, a seasoned Mexican cinematographer known for “Agent Carter” and his work with illustrious directors such as Guillermo del Toro, David Ayer and David Mamet. His early work with Derek Jarman on “Caravaggio,” won a Silver Bear at Berlin.

The agreement was struck with literary agency Editabundo. Cadiz-based Este También Pasará Productions, headed by Ariza, has a robust portfolio of successful films and series, including ‘¡Ay, mi madre!” from Frank Ariza, Macarena Astorga’s “The Snail’s House,” and “De Caperucita a loba,” directed by Chus Gutiérrez,...

Katherine Matilda Swinton, better known as Tilda Swinton, is a renowned British actress known primarily for her distinct roles in numerous independent films and blockbusters. She is best known for her inspiring performance as a merciless corporate lawyer in Michael Clayton, where she received the prestigious honor of earning an Academy Award for best supporting actress.

Tilda Swinton Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education

Tilda Swinton was born on November 5, 1960 (Swinton: age 62) in London, England. Her parents are Judith Balfour and Sir John Swinton, the Laird of Kimmerghame House. Swinton also has three brothers, Alexander, William and James Swinton.

Growing up in an artistic and cultured home, Swinton had become immersed in a world of creativity and innovation from a young age. She embarked on a powerful journey through the arts until ultimately uncovering something that sparked her interest and excitement.

In an exclusive video from SXSW in March 2023, Swinton...

Knights of the Zodiac is the 2023 live-action adaptation of the Saint Seiya manga filled with over-the-top action, vibrant special effects, and a talented cast to bring it all to life. Sony Pictures teams up with the anime powerhouse Toei to bring the story of Seiya and the Goddess Athena's Cosmo-Powered Knights to the big screen. While live-action anime films have a reputation for falling flat, Knights of the Zodiac goes all in on its flashy fight scenes and world-ending family drama.

The film features a young girl named Sienna (Madison Iseman) who has mysterious powers awakened inside of her that threaten the safety of the world unless she learns to control them. Her father, Alman Kido (Game of Thrones star Sean Bean), and his close friend Mylock (Mark Dacascos) work to protect her and attempt to find the Knights destined to protect the goddess Sienna is shaping into. They are pursued by her mother,...

When it comes to on-screen deaths, one man has had more than his fair share. Yes, it’s Sean Bean, the many who very rarely appears in a TV show or movie without his character meeting an untimely demise at some point. In fact, the actor has been meeting his maker for more than three decades, including in one of his first roles in the historical drama Caravaggio. Since then, Bean has gained such a reputation for being killed off in his movie and TV projects that it has become something of a infamous trend for the star.

In an interview with Screen Rant, Bean reminisced about his many years of dying on the big and small screen. As well as looking back fondly on his original dance with the Grim Reaper, Bean also named what be believes to be his best death due to its epic nature; the demise...

After over 30 years of meeting his maker, Sean Bean is looking back on his first onscreen death in the historical drama Caravaggio and his infamous trend of dying. Though having found larger success with the British war drama series Sharpe, Bean made his acting debut with the British procedural series The Bill and Caravaggio. The English actor has since become a household name thanks to his roles in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, Pierce Brosnan's first James Bond movie GoldenEye and HBO's Game of Thrones, all of which shared one unique element for the actor.

While speaking exclusively with Screen Rant to discuss the live-action manga adaptation Knights of the Zodiac, Sean Bean looked back on his infamous trend of dying on screen in movies and TV shows. In addition to reiterating his appreciation for his Lord of the Rings demise, Bean recalled his very first...

Tilda Swinton has an incredible filmography that ranges from mainstream movies to art-house productions, and it's not easy to select only her best without highlighting numerous films. Swinton has appeared in more than 60 movies since making her debut in Caravaggio in 1986. That same year, she starred in Joanna Hogg's graduation student film Caprice. The two would work together again years later in Hogg's semi-autobiographical featuresThe Souvenir and The Souvenir Part II, which are among the actress's best movies.

Swinton is a unique actress, one whom critics appreciate in nearly any role she plays. Swinton nails likable characters as well as terrifying villains. Because of her versatility, it's difficult to predict what kind of movie Swinton will star in next since she's taken part in heavy dramas such as We Need to Talk About Kevin and Orlando but also blockbuster franchises including The Chronicles of Narnia and the MCU.

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Renowned British costume designer Sandy Powell will be awarded a Fellowship at the upcoming Ee BAFTA Film Awards.

The award is the highest recognition given by BAFTA to an individual for their exceptional contribution to the film, games or television industry. Powell, who is the first costume designer to receive the Fellowship, has a three-and-a-half decade-long career that spans some of the most iconic films of the late 20th and 21st centuries. Her extensive body of work ranges from period dramas like “Shakespeare in Love” and “The Favourite” to fantasy productions such as “Cinderella” and “Mary Poppins Returns.”

Powell will be working with BAFTA over the next year to inspire and nurture aspiring costume designers through their learning, inclusion and talent programs.

“I am hugely flattered to receive the BAFTA Fellowship and especially proud to be the first costume designer,” Powell said. “I am lucky in that I love what...

Powell’s credits in her 40-year career include ‘The Favourite’, ‘Shakespeare In Love’.

Sandy Powell will become the first costume designer to be awarded a Bafta Fellowship, when she receives the award at the Bafta Film Awards on February 19.

British costume designer Powell will receive Bafta’s highest award, which is given ‘in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film, games or television’, according to Bafta.

The Fellowship will be presented to Powell as part of a special commemoration of her work during the ceremony, which will be held at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London.

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

All My Friends Hate Me (Andrew Gaynord)

Pete (Tom Stourton) hasn’t seen his university mates in years. Ten years to be exact. It happens. Life happens. We reach adulthood, mature, and set goals for ourselves that the people who were closest to us during that formidable period simply cannot follow—their own ambitions lie upon different forks in the road. So resentment shouldn’t factor in. Nor should jealousy. Yet Pete can’t help wondering about both. A little voice in the back of his head wonders if a decade was too long to pretend things could pick up where they left off. Would their very posh upbringing think he abandoned them to work with refugees? Do they think he thinks...

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Sky and Channel 4 in the U.K. are partnering to bring Sky Sports’ coverage of this season’s F1 final to the entirety of the territory on both networks simultaneously. It looks to be an historic night for F1 and the U.K.’s highest-profile racer Lewis Hamilton, who could clinch his eighth world title cementing his place at the top of the sport’s all-time winningest drivers. At present, the seven-time world chimp is tied on points with Belgian driver Max Verstappen, meaning that whoever finishes higher at Yas Marina will walk away with this year’s title. The historic race is being billed as Lewis v Max: Decider in the Desert.

“Sunday’s Grand Prix is one of the biggest sporting events in the last decade, and could be an historic moment for British sport,” said Sky executive VP and CEO for Europe and the U.

Three decades after her start in show business, Sandy Powell has made such a mark with her work, that “costume designer” is often not needed as a prefix because people know the name. And if they don’t, they know the Brit artisan’s face and her fiery orange hair.

The Academy Award-winning costume designer of such films as “The Aviator,” “Shakespeare in Love” and “The Young Victoria” is the recipient of Variety’s Creative Impact in Costume Design Award at the 24th annual Scad Savannah Film Festival on Oct. 29. Although she will not be present in person for the honor.

Straight out of college, Powell worked on music videos. Her first job, when she was 21, was with choreographer Lindsay Kemp, who had taught David Bowie, but the aspiring costume designer’s life would change when she met filmmaker Derek Jarman.

It was Jarman who introduced Powell to set life...

Italy’s Lux Vide, which has been pushing into the U.S. and international markets with high-end shows such as “Medici” and “Leonardo,” recently appointed former Warner Bros. Italy senior exec Barbara Pavone as its chief marketing and sales officer.

As part of her job Pavone, who is attending Mipcom, is dealing with Lux’s international co-productions and partnerships. Not surprisingly, one of her biggest challenges is retaining IP when she negotiates with streamers such as Netflix.

“It’s a privilege to work with global streaming platforms,” says Pavone who recently helped seal Lux’s first deal with a major streamer, details of which are being kept under wraps.

“For Lux it’s a priority to really act as a media company and retain as much as possible [of] the rights,” she notes.

But “with the streamers it’s a constant negotiation: they want them [the rights] all” Pavone adds, proudly pointing out...

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Tilda Swinton in "Caravaggio"

1986 was, from the digging I've done, a fascinating year for queer cinema. Some of the films originated in '85 but belatedly hit the US in 1986, disparate efforts such as Desert Hearts, My Beautiful Laundrette, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, and What Have I Done To Deserve This?!. Meanwhile, Working Girls premiered at that year’s Cannes but didn’t get a US release until February 1987. All of these films showed up in one form or another alongside pure-cut ‘86 releases like Parting Glances and Caravaggio, indicating a shifting tide of indie and mainstream cinema with vested, complex, even sympathetic interests in LGBT themes and characters, often made by queer filmmakers. Not only that, but the films themselves are risky and provocative. Save for the deeply unpleasant Mala Noche, all are worth real engagement, and you couldn’t go...

Tilda Swinton is sitting cross-legged on a couch in her Highlands home, wearing heavy black specs and an army green Nine Inch Nails T-shirt, surrounded by her trio of spaniels.

The Oscar-winning actor recently returned to her native Scotland after working “almost nonstop” for the past 18 months, at the same time the entertainment business was largely shut down by the coronavirus pandemic.

An Instagram post of Swinton brandishing an appropriately funky face shield with Pedro Almodóvar on the sanguine Madrid set of “The Human Voice” became a viral sensation last summer. In the fall, after accepting the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival, she, alongside her dog Louie, starred in a Wales-set film called “The Eternal Daughter” directed by her oldest friend, “The Souvenir” helmer Joanna Hogg. This year, she celebrated Mardi Gras in Sydney with “Luther” star Idris Elba on her first trip to...

Optimistic New Yorker Frances’ journey of self-discovery begins, like so many others, with a single step. Or more of a stomp, really, a proper rib-crushing stomp straight to her soul delivered by a trio of art critics before an audience of her peers. Then, before a summer of love in The Hamptons can soothe her scarred psyche, her boyfriend dumps her too. Leaving her to ride the Jitney home alone, hair still soaked with the water from his decadent pool.

Neither her single bunk in the cramped apartment her family shares nor the fragment of studio space her dad allots her leave Frances (Jenny Slate) room to grieve. Her sister just got engaged, her parents’ marriage is falling apart and her dreams are crumbling. So she heads to Norway to work as an artist’s mentee, to sleep in a caravan at the edge of a fjord and paint a...

Tilda Swinton is basically the David Bowie of film, a multi-faceted, eccentric chameleon who is equally comfortable in experimental, art house cinema, character driven indies and massive blockbusters. It helps that she’s a spitting image of Bowie too. In a 30+ year career between acting, performance art, theatre and more, it’s less that Swinton has gotten increasingly adventurous and more that now even mainstream audiences have come to accept her frequent innovations and daring transformations. She’s pulled her biggest gambit yet in Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria,” opening Oct. 26. Here’s how Swinton has evolved up till now.

Caravaggio (1986)

Tilda Swinton’s first film was the experimental drama “Caravaggio,” kicking off a long, working relationship with director Derek Jarman. It’s a fictionalized look at the life of Michelangelo and also is the film debut of actor Sean Bean.

Orlando (1992)

Tilda Swinton landed the lead role in Sally Potter’s Elizabethan-era drama “Orlando,...

Filmmaker Ann Hui and actress Tilda Swinton are each to receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 77th Venice International Film Festival (2 September – 12 September, 2020).

The decision was made by the Board of Directors of the Biennale di Venezia upon the recommendation of Venice Film Festival Director, Alberto Barbera.

Accepting the award, Swinton said: “This great festival has been dear to my heart for three decades: to be honored by her in this way is extremely humbling. To come to Venice, this year of all years, to celebrate immortal cinema and her defiant survival in the face of all the challenges that evolution might throw at her – as at us all – will be my sincere joy.”

Swinton started making films with the director Derek Jarman in 1985 with Caravaggio. They made seven more films together including Edward II for which she won the Best Actress award at the 1991 Venice International Film Festival.

Exclusive: Jeremy Thomas’s Brit sales and production firm HanWay is rebranding catalog label HanWay Select to The Collections as part of a drive to highlight and propel its significant library of more than 350 movies.

HanWay has struck a deal with UK distributor Arrow Films to handle distribution and restorations in the UK of the Jeremy Thomas collection, with films including multi-Oscar winning epic The Last Emperor, John Malkovich-Debra Winger romance The Sheltering Sky and David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch. Arrow recently re-released HanWay’s David Bowie-starrer Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence.

HanWay is currently restoring around five titles a year with recent updates including David Cronenberg’s Crash, which screened at Venice. Upcoming is Gary Oldman’s Nil By Mouth.

We also understand the company is close to striking a deal with a well known filmmaker to bring around 20 movies into The Collections fold.

The catalog drive...

‘The Truth’ was the most-viewed title on Curzon Home Cinema from March 20-22.

Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s English and French-language drama The Truth was the most-streamed title on Curzon Home Cinema (Chc) last weekend (March 20-22) according to a top 10 of the most-viewed titles revealed by by the UK platform.

The Truth was set for theatrical release on March 20 via Curzon’s distribution arm but pivoted to an early digital release in the wake of cinema closures. Its release beat the previous best three-day figure on the platform by 66%. No further details of the numbers involved were given.

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Tilda Swinton, an actor whose eclectic career has included both Derek Jarman arthouse movies and Marvel universe blockbusters, is to receive one of British film’s highest honours.

The British Film Institute on Wednesday announced that Swinton would be given a BFI fellowship at an event on 2 March. It will be accompanied by a Swinton season, which will include her first film role in Jarman’s film Caravaggio.

Oscar and Bafta-winning actress to be honoured at BFI Chairman’s dinner.

Oscar and Bafta-winning UK actress Tilda Swinton is to receive a BFI Fellowship.

She will be honoured at the BFI Chairman’s dinner in London, hosted by BFI chair Josh Berger on March 2.

The London-born actress is known for roles in both independent and studio features, and won the Oscar and Bafta for best supporting actress for Michael Clayton in 2008.

Swinton began her career in experimental films such as 1986’s Caravaggio, directed by the late Derek Jarman, who was made a BFI Fellow in 1990.

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Tilda Swinton will receive a British Film Institute (BFI) Fellowship this year, joining the likes of Martin Scorsese and Akira Kurosawa, in recognition of her “her great contribution to film culture, independent film exhibition and philanthropy”.

Swinton will be awarded the prize at the BFI Chair’s annual dinner, hosted by BFI Chair and Warner Bros UK chief Josh Berger on March 2.

The Fellowship will be accompanied by a Tilda Swinton season at the BFI’s Southbank venue in March, featuring screenings of her work and inspirations, alongside an in conversation event on March 3.

Swinton has had an eclectic and international career, working regularly with directors including Luca Guadagnino, Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, Joanna Hogg and the Coen brothers. She was an Oscar winner in 2008 for her supporting turn in Michael Clayton.

Coming up this year, she has the second part of Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch,...

Three-time Oscar winner Sandy Powell is the rock star of costume designers, known for her eclectic and adventurous sense of style. Powell earned her cred with the breakout “Velvet Goldmine,” the 1998 musical drama from Todd Haynes, where she got to channel David Bowie by way of her pre-teen idol worship of glam icon Marc Bolan. But her previous work with Derek Jarman and Sally Potter (“Orlando”) showed flashes of her iconoclastic signature.

“It’s this mix of her punk nature and this instinctual approach she has,” said costume designer Christopher Peterson, who started with Powell as her assistant costumer 15 years ago, and recently co-designed “The Irishman” with his mentor. “We research what the period sillhouette is and she looks at it, and she keeps looking at it, until she decides, and then she pounces, and sometimes it’s the period sillhouette, absolutely textbook, and other times she flips it on its head,...

The Marrakech Film Festival kicked off Friday with a bevy of filmmaking talent on the red carpet and an inspiring speech by the jury president Tilda Swinton.

Ever since its launch in 2001, the festival has used Morocco’s strategic and historic position as a crossroads between different world cultures, to bring together different filmmaking talents from the four corners of the world, and movies ranging from Hollywood blockbusters to ambitious art movies.

This spirit was highlighted in the opening ceremony on Friday evening, in which clips from the 14 films screening in Official Competition offered glimpses of the different voices and visions on show, including 12 first films and two second films.

Before Swinton took the stage, clips were shown from her films that underline the breadth of roles and film genres she has embraced in her career, including films as different as “Orlando,” “Snowpiercer,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “I am Love,...

Tilda Swinton celebrates her 59th birthday on November 5, 2019. The Oscar-winning actress has been a favorite of both the art house crowd and the multiplexes, consistently taking on challenging roles in both indie fare and box office hits. In honor of her birthday, let’s take a look back at 15 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.

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Born in 1960 in London, England, Swinton got her start working with experimental filmmaker Derek Jarman, making her movie debut in the director’s “Caravaggio” (1986). She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress in his film “Edward II” (1991), kicking off a decades-long romance between the actress and awards groups. She also showed her willingness to push herself in offbeat projects with daring auteurs, an edict that would lead to collaborations with Luca Guadanigno, Jim Jarmusch, Bong Joon Ho, Sally Potter, Wes Anderson and the Coen Brothers.

Tilda Swinton, the iconoclastic British actress and producer, is set to preside over the 18th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival, succeeding to American director James Gray.

Swinton, who won an Oscar and a BAFTA award for best supporting actress for “Michael Clayton,” has been leading an eclectic acting career. She has collaborated with prominent directors from different countries, for instance Bong Joon Ho on “Snowpiercer,” and “Okja;” Lynn Ramsay on “We Need to Talk About Kevin;” Jim Jarmusch on “Broken Flowers,” “The Dead Don’t Die” and “Only Lovers Left Alive;” the Coen Brothers on “Hail, Caesar!” and “Burn After Reading;” Luca Guadagnino on “I Am Love,” “A Bigger Splash” and “Suspiria;” and Wes Anderson on four films, including “Moonrise Kingdom” and the upcoming “The French Dispatch” which she recently wrapped shooting. She also starred in the Marvel Studios blockbuster “Doctor Strange.”

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No stranger to the world of prestigious film festivals, Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard drew notice almost from the very beginning of his film career when he won the best actor award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1982 for his role in Hans Alfredson’s “Simple-Minded Murderer.” Next stop for the Emmy-nominated star of HBO’s “Chernobyl” is the Venice Film Festival, where Skarsgard co-stars with Harvey Keitel, Barry Pepper, Julian Sands and Udo Kier in Czech writer-director Vaclav Marhoul’s adaptation of the classic Jerzy Kosinski novel “The Painted Bird.”

“The Painted Bird” was an unusual production as Vaclav Marhoul shot across Eastern Europe for several years. Did you know the unorthodox filming plan when you signed on?

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Judi Dench has defended the work of Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein. The veteran British actress has previously condemned the behavior of Spacey and Weinstein, who have both been accused of sexual harassment, but she told UK publication The Radio Times that the men’s screen and stage work should not be diminished.

In reference to Spacey being removed from Ridley Scott’s 2017 film All the Money In The World, the Oscar-winning actress said, “What kind of agony is that? Are we going to negate 10 years at the Old Vic and everything that he did [as artistic director] – how wonderful he’s been in all those films? Are we just not going to see all those films that Harvey produced?”

“You cannot deny somebody a talent,” continued the Skyfall actress. “You might as well never look at a Caravaggio painting [the Renaissance painter was also a murderer]. You might as well never have gone to see Noël Coward [the Brit playwright was accused of predatory behavior].”

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Italy’s Nexo Digital has teamed up with the Anne Frank Fonds foundation to produce a high-end documentary that tries to imagine what Anne Frank’s life would have been like if she had survived the Holocaust.

Shooting started in January, which marks the 90th anniversary of Anne Frank’s birthday. Nexo is kicking off pre-sales at the Efm in Berlin.

Titled “#Anne Frank Parallel Stories,” the unconventional doc will focus on the stories of five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of “deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence,” according to promotional materials. The intent is to “be able to render/reveal that desire for life and youth that was also Anne’s and that allowed her to fight fear and resist, even under the most inhumane conditions.”

Directed by prizewinning Italian TV journalists Sabina Fedeli and Anna Migotto, the “#Anne Frank...