A cinematic shapeshifter who never feels like she’s wearing a disguise, Tilda Swinton is one of the greatest chameleons the movies have ever known, and yet even her most extreme performances are rooted in an elemental sense of reality. She’s always equal parts natural and unnatural; intractably human, but always ready to be reborn. Revisiting her best roles almost feels like watching someone perform “Cloud Atlas” as a one-woman show.
To date, the characters Swinton has played include a vampire, a rock god, an angel, an alcoholic, an inter-dimensional monk, a gender-bending English nobleman, a post-apocalyptic Sarah Sanders, a literal ice queen, and now — in a bold new reimagining of Dario Argento’s “Suspiria” — a witchy ballet teacher, a male Holocaust survivor, and a monster who viewers will have to meet for themselves. It doesn’t matter if Swinton is starring in a Marvel movie, coldly seducing Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Beach,...
To date, the characters Swinton has played include a vampire, a rock god, an angel, an alcoholic, an inter-dimensional monk, a gender-bending English nobleman, a post-apocalyptic Sarah Sanders, a literal ice queen, and now — in a bold new reimagining of Dario Argento’s “Suspiria” — a witchy ballet teacher, a male Holocaust survivor, and a monster who viewers will have to meet for themselves. It doesn’t matter if Swinton is starring in a Marvel movie, coldly seducing Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Beach,...
- 10/29/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
First the prize jewel in gay activist's Derek Jarman's filmography. Then critical adulation and fame with Orlando "same person...different sex". On to Female Perversions and into The Deep End. Finally and impossibly, sorcerous big box office, red carpet goddess, unashamed polyamory, and Oscar-winning internationally adored actress. All this and she's never lost a single wisp of that original avant garde spirit.
Queen Tilda.
Now, a covergirl for the "first transversal style magazine"! Fifty-one years fabulous and still going impossibly strong. Long may this queer icon reign.
heart-stoppingly exciting photos by Xevi Muntané after the jump...
Queen Tilda.
Now, a covergirl for the "first transversal style magazine"! Fifty-one years fabulous and still going impossibly strong. Long may this queer icon reign.
heart-stoppingly exciting photos by Xevi Muntané after the jump...
- 5/20/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Each week within this column we strive to pair the latest in theatrical releases to worthwhile titles currently streaming on Netflix Instant Watch. This week we offer alternatives to The Iron Lady, We Need to Talk About Kevin and Beauty and the Beast 3D.
In theaters this week, one of Disney’s biggest hits faces off against a brutal tale of motherhood’s dark side and a poetic portrait of problematic politician. Simply put, there’s some truly sensational cinema to be had. But if this won’t satisfy your film-seeing thirsts, we’ve got you covered with with a selection of bold biopics, alluring adventures, and dauntless dramas.
Meryl Streep makes her bid for Oscar gold playing one of Britain’s most controversial contemporary political figures: Britain’s first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. Phyllida Lloyd directs. [Full Review]
Biopics need not be a boys’ club.
Check out these daring dramas...
In theaters this week, one of Disney’s biggest hits faces off against a brutal tale of motherhood’s dark side and a poetic portrait of problematic politician. Simply put, there’s some truly sensational cinema to be had. But if this won’t satisfy your film-seeing thirsts, we’ve got you covered with with a selection of bold biopics, alluring adventures, and dauntless dramas.
Meryl Streep makes her bid for Oscar gold playing one of Britain’s most controversial contemporary political figures: Britain’s first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. Phyllida Lloyd directs. [Full Review]
Biopics need not be a boys’ club.
Check out these daring dramas...
- 1/12/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
HollywoodNews.com: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, and Frances Fisher star in the poignant period drama Any Day Now, written, produced and directed by filmmaker Travis Fine (The Space Between). The film recently completed principal photography in Los Angeles and is currently in post-production. Produced by Kristine Hostetter Fine (The Space Between) and Chip Hourihan (Frozen River), the film is executive produced by Anne O’Shea (The Kids Are Alright) and Maxine Makover (The Space Between.
Set in the 1970s and inspired by a true story, the film chronicles a gay couple who take in a teenage boy with Down Syndrome who has been abandoned by his drug addicted mother. As the teen discovers the strong bonds of family for the first time in his life, disapproving authorities step in to tear the boy from the only stable environment he has ever known. As the gay men fight to adopt this extraordinary special needs child,...
Set in the 1970s and inspired by a true story, the film chronicles a gay couple who take in a teenage boy with Down Syndrome who has been abandoned by his drug addicted mother. As the teen discovers the strong bonds of family for the first time in his life, disapproving authorities step in to tear the boy from the only stable environment he has ever known. As the gay men fight to adopt this extraordinary special needs child,...
- 9/21/2011
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
Getty Arnold Schwarzenegger
It wasn’t just the Strauss-Kahn and Schwarzenegger sex scandals vying for the headlines last week; Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard revealed that he was sexually abused as a teenager by a prominent Olympic coach, and the Catholic Church released the results of a five-year study on the priest sex abuse problem. Scandalous male sexual behavior, ranging from the scummy to the predatory, seemed to be the motif of the week.
I couldn’t help wondering: Where are all the female sex scandals?...
It wasn’t just the Strauss-Kahn and Schwarzenegger sex scandals vying for the headlines last week; Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard revealed that he was sexually abused as a teenager by a prominent Olympic coach, and the Catholic Church released the results of a five-year study on the priest sex abuse problem. Scandalous male sexual behavior, ranging from the scummy to the predatory, seemed to be the motif of the week.
I couldn’t help wondering: Where are all the female sex scandals?...
- 5/23/2011
- by Laura Kipnis
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
I love that a heated discussion over Titanic’s infamous Oscar sweep of 1998 has already begun over at Laurent’s excellent retrospective. I guess it’s just the nature of this particular film. There is something about Titanic that hits a raw nerve in people and they feel a need to defend/criticize it so passionately.
As it happens, I fall in the ‘unconditional love’ category and I’m not afraid to admit it. To this day I have a passion for Titanic, a film that so perfectly matches what a glorious, spellbinding, big spectacle romance against an historic backdrop should be, and those films are so rare, especially when they are made with such precise and meticulous detail from James Cameron.
We shouldn’t be embarrassed over how much we loved Titanic in the 90′s. We should embrace it. So as our third ‘Choose The Winners’ article, we are...
As it happens, I fall in the ‘unconditional love’ category and I’m not afraid to admit it. To this day I have a passion for Titanic, a film that so perfectly matches what a glorious, spellbinding, big spectacle romance against an historic backdrop should be, and those films are so rare, especially when they are made with such precise and meticulous detail from James Cameron.
We shouldn’t be embarrassed over how much we loved Titanic in the 90′s. We should embrace it. So as our third ‘Choose The Winners’ article, we are...
- 12/24/2010
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
The fabulous Tilda Swinton is now a half century old young timeless -- old, young... these concepts are too limited when it comes to the greats. But fact: On November 5th, 1960 Tilda Swinton first came into the world. So a tribute is most definitely in order.
50 Appropriate Ways
to Celebrate Swintonian Greatness
Be a genius.Dye your hair white blonde... or bright red.Be colorful.Imagine you have deep Scottish roots.Create an eccentric personal film festival.Attend any film festival near you.Have tremendous commitment to your art. Exhibit tremendous loyalty to your friends.Watch a Derek Jarman film immediately. (This should have been first. Just pretend you did it first.)
Stand naked in front of the mirror with your goodies tucked. Say "Same person. No different at all. Just a different sex"That's right. Watch Orlando (1993) again. It's so good.Break the fourth wall with Jimmy Sommerville blasting behind you as soundtrack.
50 Appropriate Ways
to Celebrate Swintonian Greatness
Be a genius.Dye your hair white blonde... or bright red.Be colorful.Imagine you have deep Scottish roots.Create an eccentric personal film festival.Attend any film festival near you.Have tremendous commitment to your art. Exhibit tremendous loyalty to your friends.Watch a Derek Jarman film immediately. (This should have been first. Just pretend you did it first.)
Stand naked in front of the mirror with your goodies tucked. Say "Same person. No different at all. Just a different sex"That's right. Watch Orlando (1993) again. It's so good.Break the fourth wall with Jimmy Sommerville blasting behind you as soundtrack.
- 11/7/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Art house patrons first saw Tilda Swinton in a series of controversial works from gay British auteur Derek Jarman's in the late 80s and early 90s (he died in 1994). A much larger international audience followed with Orlando (1993). In the past decade, key roles in mainstream Hollywood efforts won the great Swinton plentiful new devotees.
Do you remember the first time you saw her onscreen? My first time was Edward II in 1992 and though I was impressed, I had no idea what marvels awaited in Orlando the next year...
Tilda Swinton in Posters...
Caravaggio (86, debut) | The Last of England (88) | Edward II (91)
Orlando (92) | Female Perversions (96) | Conceiving Ada (97)
The Beach (00)| The Deep End (01) | Teknolust (02)
Young Adam (03) | The Chronicles of Narnia (05) | Stephanie Daley (06)
Michael Clayton (07) | Julia (08) | I Am Love (10)
That's not the complete filmography but the lead roles and a few key / essential supporting gigs. There are many more smaller roles. She's not...
Do you remember the first time you saw her onscreen? My first time was Edward II in 1992 and though I was impressed, I had no idea what marvels awaited in Orlando the next year...
Tilda Swinton in Posters...
Caravaggio (86, debut) | The Last of England (88) | Edward II (91)
Orlando (92) | Female Perversions (96) | Conceiving Ada (97)
The Beach (00)| The Deep End (01) | Teknolust (02)
Young Adam (03) | The Chronicles of Narnia (05) | Stephanie Daley (06)
Michael Clayton (07) | Julia (08) | I Am Love (10)
That's not the complete filmography but the lead roles and a few key / essential supporting gigs. There are many more smaller roles. She's not...
- 6/26/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
What I love about this new poster for Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love (Io sono l'amore) is not just its gorgeous typography, but also how it celebrates its lead actress, the incomparable Tilda Swinton. In the film, which premiered at Venice and Sundance and opens in the U.S. in June, Swinton plays a Russian woman married into a rich Milanese family who embarks upon a tempestuous affair with her son’s business partner. In the UK quad poster Swinton’s co-stars (including Barry Lyndon’s Marisa Berenson) have been turned into grey statues, like characters in a Roy Andersson film, while Swinton is suitably vivid in pink.
Ever since she pirouetted to the wails of Diamanda Galas, tearing furiously at her wedding dress and running with scissors, in Derek Jarman’s masterpiece The Last of England (1988), Swinton has been a constantly arresting presence in film. Furiously intelligent and a restlessly curious human being,...
Ever since she pirouetted to the wails of Diamanda Galas, tearing furiously at her wedding dress and running with scissors, in Derek Jarman’s masterpiece The Last of England (1988), Swinton has been a constantly arresting presence in film. Furiously intelligent and a restlessly curious human being,...
- 2/26/2010
- MUBI
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