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| | Angelina Jolie wore a trench at her Venice arrival & she?ll be honored at TIFF | | Added 112 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Angelina Jolie arriving in Italy ahead of the Venice Film Festival premiere of Maria. She stars as Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain?s latest biographical film. Angelina wore a ?short-sleeve trench coat? as she arrived in Venice, and Vogue is obsessed with the summer trench and her Mulberry boots. Fingers crossed that Angelina doesn?t promote this film in a variety of sack dresses. Meanwhile, it?s looking pretty certain that Angelina will also go to Canada for the Toronto Film Festival. Not for Maria, but for the film she directed, Without Blood. Not only will she premiere Without Blood at TIFF, she?s also receiving the TIFF Tribute Award. Good!
Angelina Jolie is set to receive the TIFF Tribute Award in Impact Media at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival.
The Oscar-winning actress will be honored on Sept. 8 at the TIFF fundraiser, while also bringing her latest film, Without Blood, to Toronto for a world premiere. Written, directed and produced by Jolie, Without Blood is a war drama based on the Alessandro Baricco novel of the same name and tells the story of a girl?s quest for revenge and healing during a time of conflict. Salma Hayek Pinault and Demin Bichir have lead roles.
Jolie will be feted alongside fellow trophy winners Amy Adams, Jharrel Jerome, Cate Blanchett, Mike Leigh, Durga Chew-Bose, David Cronenberg, Clment Ducol, and Camille and Zhao Tao. TIFF Tribute Award honorees tend to have films in Toronto?s official lineup.
Jolie also brought her earlier films First They Killed My Father and The Breadwinner, which she executive produced, to Toronto for launches.
[From THR]
Jolie fans, I really hope that we have an amazing fall and an amazing awards season. I don?t have a sense of how Without Blood will be received, but the early buzz on Maria is that it will be an awards contender. I think Angelina will probably promote both films concurrently, and it will help if Without Blood gets some critical buzz too. So many red carpets! So many capes and sack dresses! I?m so excited. As for this TIFF award? yeah, they pass these out like candy, but still, it?s nice. I?m glad she?s being honored.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | VF: Angelina Jolie gives a 'defining, crowning, staggering performance' as Maria Callas | | Added 112 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Pablo Larrain?s Maria will premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week, reportedly on Thursday. This is Angelina Jolie?s first starring role in several years, and her first period drama in more than a decade. Maria also marks the third film in Larrain?s trilogy of ?tragic and famous women,? following Jackie and Spencer. Angelina plays Maria Callas, the American opera singer who mostly worked and lived in Europe as an adult. Callas also famously had an affair with Aristotle Onassis and he treated her very badly. Well, Vanity Fair had a great ?awards insider? exclusive with Larrain, and this is doing so much to get people hyped for the film. Some highlights:
How Larrain approached Angelina: Pablo Larran had met Angelina Jolie a few times over the years, and hoped one day to make a movie with her. In 2021, just as he?d wrapped post-production on Spencer, his disorienting portrait of Princess Diana, the Chilean director had found just the project?his next English-language movie. ?I talked to Angie and said, ?Look, I?d like to make a movie with you. I won?t tell you what it is, but please go and see Spencer,?? he tells me. Larran rented out a screening room on the Paramount lot for Jolie to see the movie, featuring Kristen Stewart in an Oscar-nominated turn, and awaited Jolie?s reaction. She watched, called him up, raved and raved, and told him she wanted to work together. Larran did not hesitate in his reply: ?Would you play Maria Callas??
She took a few days to decided to do it: Jolie was taken aback. She took a few days to think about it. She had just been asked to portray one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century by a filmmaker known for creating emotionally intense, unrelenting, and dreamlike character studies. By the time she said yes, though, she?d fallen in love with the idea?. Larran, who grew up going to the opera in Santiago with his mother, immersed himself in Callas?s voice and devised a ?musical map? for the film, with her work providing the movie?s entire soundscape. And Jolie began her own training, which lasted over six months in total?and resulted in a defining, crowning, at times staggering performance.
The bulk of the movie is set in ?70s Paris near the end of Callas?s life: ?She became the sum of the tragedies that she played on stage,? Larran says. ?The movie is about someone who, after dedicating her life to the audiences around the world that would listen to her, decides to find her own voice, her own identity, and finally do something just for herself.?
Jolie?s performance: Jolie?s approach to her character is simultaneously heartbreaking, erratic, and imposing, displaying a cellular kind of understanding of Callas?s desperation to reclaim herself before it?s too late. ?This is the greatest diva of the 20th century, and who could play that?? Larran says. ?I didn?t want to work with someone that didn?t have that already. I needed an actress who would naturally and organically be that diva, carry that weight, be that presence. Angelina was there.? He describes her preparation as ?very long, very particular, very difficult.? She worked on posture. She studied breathing. She developed an accent befitting a woman of both the world and another plane of fame. Then came the voice lessons.
Angelina?s voice is mixed with Callas? voice: Yes, that really is Angelina Jolie singing, although not just her. Larran and his star worked closely with Oscar winner John Warhurst (Bohemian Rhapsody, the upcoming Michael), who as Larran puts it has ?dedicated his life to actors who sing in movies,? to create innovative, synthesized recordings. Over months, Jolie learned her subject?s cadence and her signatures. Eventually, she got to the point where she?d hear the operas in an earpiece while singing them herself. Larran and Warhurst would record Jolie?s performance, then mix it with Callas?s. ?You always listen to Angelina and you always listen to Maria Callas,? as Larran puts it. ?When we listen to Maria Callas in her prime, most of the sound is Callas?90%, 95%?and when we listen to Callas older and in the present, almost all of it is Angelina.?
Larrain didn?t give Jolie many notes: A few weeks in, Larran stopped giving Jolie instructions. The best direction was silence; the best note was no note. ?It was so truthful, we just kept rolling and let her do her thing,? he says. ?She can let you in when she wants, and she can create a distance where she wants. It?s a dance of vulnerability.?
[From Vanity Fair]
Larrain really has become something of a self-styled ?women?s director.? Kristen Stewart and Natalie Portman raved about working with him and he is known for creating a lot of artistic intimacy with his leading ladies and giving them space and time to do their best work. All of which to say, I hope Maria is as good as VF makes it sound, and I hope Angelina gets a real awards campaign. It?s been a while since she?s been part of an awards-bait film. One cool thing is that if she does end up doing the whole awards season rigmarole, she?ll probably wear a lot of fashion from her sustainable Atelier Jolie line.
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| | Lily Allen slams reactions 'to clickbait articles' about her rehoming adopted puppy | | Added 112 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Lily Allen stepped in it again last week when she admitted on her podcast that she?d given away the rescue puppy that she and husband David Harbour adopted during the pandemic. Lily was showing her guest, Welsh TV host Steve Jones, a picture of a dog that she and David were looking at adopting. Steve asks her if they?re ready for that commitment and she responds, ?We did adopt a dog together already but then it ate my passport and so I took her back to the home.? She then went on to explain that the dog, named Mary, had eaten her and her two children?s passports and visas, which cost her a lot of money to replace and prevented her children from being able to visit their father in London for several months.
After the podcast aired, there was a pretty big backlash against Lily online. From what I saw, most people were calling her out for laughing about giving the dog back. Apparently, it didn?t stop there, though. Lily released a long statement via Twitter on Monday morning, pushing back on the way the story had been portrayed by the media, calling it ?deliberately distorted.? She also shared that she?s received a lot of hateful messages, as well as ?death threats? as a result of the coverage. The statement also explains and clarifies the entire situation and then begs people to stop reacting to every clickbaity thing they read.
Allen began with a quote from her Miss Me? podcast, on which she originally discussed giving up the adopted pet. We tried very hard and for a very long time, she said, but the passports were the straw that broke the camels back.
She continued in her statement, This is the part of the podcast that the tabloids decided not to quote in their articles about me dumping my puppy. People have been furiously reacting to a deliberately distorted cobbling together of quotes designed to make people angry and as a result, Ive received some really abhorrent messages including death threats. Some of the most disgusting comments have been all over my social media channels, and Im really not surprised because this is exactly what those articles are designed to do.
We rescued our puppy Mary from a shelter in NY and we loved her very much, but she developed pretty severe separation anxiety and would act out in all manner of ways, Allen wrote in her statement. She couldnt be left alone for more than 10 mins. She had three long walks a day ? two by us and one with a local dog walker and several other dogs. We worked with the shelter that we rescued her from and they referred us to a behavioral specialist and a professional trainer. It was a volunteer from the shelter who would come and dog-sit her when we were away, and after many months and much deliberation everyone was in agreement that our home wasnt the best fit for Mary.
Allen went on to say that shes had rescue dogs pretty consistently throughout her life and had never been accused of mistreating an animal, so the past few days had been very distressing. She ended her statement with a plea for people to stop acting on clickbait articles when you havent done your due diligence, referencing the recent racially driven xenophobic riots in the U.K. that she said were spurred on by distorted propaganda.
Its just all so toxic and I know that we can do better, she said.
[From Entertainment Weekly]
I listened to the original clip of Lily telling the story about Mary. On one hand, if you just take the one sound bite, it does come across like she is being very flippant about getting rid of the dog. The passport context is there, but she says things like, ?I just couldn?t look at her?I was like, ?You?ve ruined my life.?? I understand how some people without the clickbait titles could get upset. Also, and this is just a general reminder, don?t keep important, hard-to-replace documents laying around when there are children, pets, or even guests around to potentially destroy them.
On the other hand, sometimes people and animals just don?t click because they?re not the right fit. Lily?s full explanation about using a behavioral specialist and professional trainer to help with Mary?s anxiety makes the whole situation make a lot more sense. I?m glad that she clarified that the puppy was rehomed within a day to people that she knew. Wherever Mary is now, I hope she?s living her best life, full of treats and cuddles.
Lily Allen's Dog Rehomed, Doing Well With New Family, Says Rescue Group | Click to read more https://t.co/eyqEKk4qN3
TMZ (@TMZ) August 26, 2024
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