KRISTEN STEWART HAS THREE FILMS AT NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL; ADMITS SHE'S A WORKAHOLIC

Kristen Stewart admits she's a workaholic after bringing three films to the New York Film Festival.

"Oh yeah, I'm totally addicted man," said the actress from the red carpet Wednesday (5 OCT. 2016).

"Like I'm a crazy, compulsive, like I get super obsessed with stuff, you know, which is to a fault but it's served me well."

Stewart was the guest of honor at a dinner thrown by the Lincoln Center Film Society.

Before going inside, she also commented on her intensity, the type of director she hopes to become and reinventing herself after "Twilight."

For the latter, she claims it wasn't intentional.

"Oh, honestly, it was not like a tactical approach," said Stewart.

"I've really always known that if I have a certain dynamic with someone or a conversation, it's either leading to productivity or not. I definitely thank you for that question because it implies that I've like by chance seemingly designed a career I totally got lucky to have."

Since the "Twilight" franchise, the actress has quietly amassed an impressive body of work, including a trio of very different films at this year's festival.

She already premiered "Certain Women," directed by Kelly Reichardt, earlier this week. The festival will screen the upcoming "Personal Shopper." And Stewart will walk the red carpet again for Ang Lee's "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" next week.

Besides acting, Stewart aspires to become a director too.

Working with Lee and Reichardt gave her unique perspective, especially since the two take a completely different approach to directing a film.

"It's weird. I think I fall somewhere in between wanting to be really surgical and technical and in control of absolutely everything but at the same time I'm wanting to see something live and breathe and I think they both do that completely differently, but they both accomplish the same thing," Stewart said.

"I think they are both absolute geniuses when it comes to being composed and when it comes to being aware of something that we're not aware of. They see the invisible and they capture it and that's what I would like to do while making movies."

Reichardt shot "Certain Women" on 16mm film, working around the limitations of that to create a visually poetic story surrounding three women whose lives intersect in Montana.

Ang Lee worked the opposite end of the field, shooting war drama, "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," using high-frame rate digital capture.

Stewart admits she leans toward Reichardt's style, suggesting it was motivational, making her want to start directing right away.

"Seeing Kelly steel train her way through a movie that seems so natural but is so deliberate, I love her. So yeah, it makes me want to work now, like start working," Stewart said.

"Certain Women" will be at select U.S. theaters from 14 October 2016, while "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" kicks off on November 11.

"Personal Shopper" isn't in theaters until next year.

New York, 5 October 2016

1. Wide shot traffic driving past Lincoln Center

2. Wide shot rows of electronic signage

3. Medium of Kristen Stewart walking onto red carpet

4. Tilt up Kristen Stewart, pan to photographers and back

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress - on choosing roles carefully after early success with the 'Twilight' series:

"Oh, honestly, it was not like a tactical approach, you know what I mean? I've really always known that if I have a certain dynamic with someone or a conversation, it's either leading to productivity or not. I definitely thank you for that question because it implies that I've like by chance seemingly designed a career I totally got lucky to have."

5. Wide of Kristen Stewart talking to reporter, zoom in

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress - on being a workaholic:

"Oh yeah, I'm totally addicted man. Like I'm a crazy, compulsive, like I get super obsessed with stuff, you know, which is to a fault but it's served me well."

7. Medium of Kristen Stewart talking to reporter

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress - on what she's learned from directors Ang Lee and Kelly Reichardt:

"It's weird. I think I fall somewhere in between wanting to be really surgical and technical and in control of absolutely everything but at the same time I'm wanting to see something live and breathe and I think they both do that completely differently, but they both accomplish the same thing. I think they are both absolute geniuses when it comes to being composed and when it comes to being aware of something that we're not aware of. They see the invisible and they capture it and that's what I would like to do while making movies. And also I think rather than having a bunch of actors in the room and we kind of find an interesting subject and sort of explore it in improv and pull it together - that's the stuff I like to act in, but seeing Kelly steel train her way through a movie that seems so natural but is so deliberate, she's just like, to me, (raises her hand up high), I love her. So yeah, it makes me want to work now, like start working, yeah."

9. Pan from photographers to Kristen Stewart posing on red carpet

MICHELLE WILLIAMS, KRISTEN STEWART, LAURA DERN WALK NYFF RED CARPET FOR 'CERTAIN WOMEN'

It was a glamorous red carpet Monday (3 OCT. 2016), as Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern arrived for the New York Film Festival premiere of "Certain Women."

The film - from writer-director Kelly Reichardt - tells a trio of stories of intersecting lives in Montana.

It's based on short stories by Maile Meloy.

Stewart, who plays a high school teacher in the film, loves how the story depicts "the normal lives of women."

"It's not very typical for people to focus on the normal lives of women. It's always movies about exceptional, hero women that overcome great adversity to do a thing. And it's like, no, these are three women sort of doing very mundane but like really engaging, tiresome, really topical, current things. And that usually is not focused on," Stewart said.

"The only way that that can be focused on is if you make it interesting and Kelly's perspective makes it interesting. And you can look at any of her previous work, every woman that's been written into her movies are, you know - she doesn't do archetype movies. There are powerful woman stories now, but they're usually pretty standardized and she's sort of the opposite of that, so I'm so proud to be a part of it."

Reichardt went "old school" when it came to shooting the film, choosing to capture it on 16MM film stock. Stewart explained how that impacted her performance.

"The time constraints are kind of something. You can't just roll and find it," Stewart said.

"But that's like a pretty typically American indie-style thing and her vibe is different. She's very composed. She's not like, 'Oh, we'll just take it off sticks and throw it on his shoulder and we're going to dance around and you can say whatever you want.' She's like, 'No, no. You're going to say the lines and I'm going to compose my shot. We're going to shoot a scene.' Yeah, so I think that's pretty special."

Dern also embraced being captured on film again.

"It's amazing. I hope to, you know, be around film more and more. I love all of it in its own unique way, but I love film very much, so... We just need labs. We need labs and hopefully many more filmmakers will continue to explore with film," Dern said.

As for Williams, she's no stranger when it comes to working with Reichardt, having starred in her previous films, "Meeks Cutoff" and "Wendy and Lucy."

"Working with my old pal Kelly Reichardt, it's our third movie together, so whatever she asks, the answer is always yes," Williams said.

"And then when I was there, I discovered these great actors that I got to work with."

"Certain Women" opens in U.S. theaters on 14 October 2016.

New York, 3 October 2016

1. Wide of Alice Tully Hall

2. New York Film Festival signage, push in

3. Various of Kristen Stewart posing for photographers

4. Wide of Kristen Stewart talking to reporter

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress - on how this movie is different:

"Yeah, it's not very typical for people to focus on the normal lives of women. It's always movies about exceptional, hero women that overcome great adversity to do a thing. And it's like, no, these are three women sort of doing very mundane but like really engaging, tiresome, really topical, current things. And that usually is not focused on. The only way that that can be focused on is if you make it interesting and Kelly's perspective makes it interesting. And you can look at any of her previous work, every woman that's been written into her movies are, you know - she doesn't do archetype movies. There are powerful woman stories now, but they're usually pretty standardized and she's sort of the opposite of that, so I'm so proud to be a part of it."

6. Medium of Kristen Stewart talking to reporter

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress - on shooting in 16mm:

"The time constraints are kind of something. You can't just roll and find it. But that's like a pretty typically American indie-style thing and her vibe is different. She's very composed. She's not like, 'Oh, we'll just take it off sticks and throw it on his shoulder and we're going to dance around and you can say whatever you want.' She's like, 'No, no. You're going to say the lines and I'm going to compose my shot. We're going to shoot a scene.' Yeah, so I think that's pretty special."

8. Medium of Laura Dern talking to reporter

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Dern, actress - on shooting in 16mm:

"God, no. It's amazing. I hope to, you know, be around film more and more. I love all of it in its own unique way, but I love film very much, so... We just need labs. We need labs and hopefully many more filmmakers will continue to explore with film."

10. Various of Michelle Williams posing for photographers

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Williams, actress - on what was important about this film:

"Working with my old pal Kelly Reichardt, it's our third movie together, so whatever she asks, the answer is always yes. And then when I was there, I discovered these great actors that I got to work with."

12. Michelle Williams posing for photographers

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Williams, actress - on working with Kelly again:

"It's extra for me because I think that Kelly is a genius and I am so lucky that in my lifetime I have intersected with hers."

(Reporter: "Outside of that, security and Kim Kardashian do you feel less safe after what happened yesterday?")

Michelle Williams: "Do I feel less safe after what happened, yesterday? Oh, I don't know."

14. Various of cast posing for photographers

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Park City, Utah, 24 Jan. 2016

1. Wide, left to right, James Jordan, Sara Rodier, Jared Harris, James Le Gros, Kristen Stewart, Kelly Reichardt and Lily Gladstone posing

2. Medium of Kristen Stewart

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress

"It's a very quiet, tiny, thoughtful, little movie. It's segmented into three little pieces and there isn't much of an obvious through line. I think if you were to pick one I think it's all about a particular person who desires something that they can't have and I was drawn to this character because of her sort of distracted nature and the missed connections that she makes with another character and the sort of tone of it. I love Kelly's (Reichardt) movies. She focuses on things that typical filmmakers just wouldn't. It's always the little things in between the cinematic moments. It's always the little, undetected and visible communications. She's really good at highlighting the unsaid and I wanted to do something like that."

4. Wide of Kristen Stewart, push in to medium of Kristen Stewart, tilt down of Stewart

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress

"That production company wants to make money and here, they just like to showcase film and highlight work that they admire. It's an institution for independent film, it's like there aren't too many places to celebrate little, tiny movies that most people don't see and, you know, for two weeks out of the year we go like, 'This is the most important thing' because it's a really close-knit, little family of like esoteric film nerds. It's fun. Yeah."

6. Medium of Kristen Stewart, left, and Kelly Reichardt, right

7. Medium of Sara Rodier posing

8. Tilt dowhn and up of Lily Gladstone

9. Medium of Jared Harris

KRISTEN STEWART: SUNDANCE IS FOR 'ESOTERIC FILM NERDS'

Kristen Stewart says the Sundance Film Festival is for "esoteric film nerds" and that's why it matters.

The actress premiered her film "Certain Women" Sunday (24 JAN. 2016) at the festival.

On the red carpet, she talked about why Sundance celebrates and encourages a variety of story-telling, more so than a mainstream Hollywood production company.

"That production company wants to make money and here, they just like to showcase film and highlight work that they admire," explained Stewart. "It's an institution for independent film, it's like there aren't too many places to celebrate little, tiny movies that most people don't see and, you know, for two weeks out of the year we go like, 'This is the most important thing' because it's a really close-knit, little family."

Stewart described "Certain Women" as "a very quiet, tiny, thoughtful, little movie. It's segmented into three little pieces and there isn't much of an obvious through line. I think if you were to pick one I think it's all about a particular person who desires something that they can't have," she said.

"Certain Women" also stars Michelle Williams and Laura Dern but they weren't at the Sundance premiere. Cast members Jared Harris, Lily Gladstone and Sara Rodier and director Kelly Reichardt did attend with Stewart.

The Sundance Film Festival runs through Jan. 31.

ELLE FANNING, YORGOS LANTHIMOS, PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI JOIN INARRITU'S CANNES JURY

Actress Elle Fanning, "The Favourite" director Yorgos Lanthimos and "Cold War" filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski are joining the Cannes Film Festival jury that will decide the Palme d'Or.

The Cannes Film Festival on Monday (29 APRIL 2019) announced the members of the jury to be led by Alejandro Inarritu, the "Birdman" director. Also on the jury are American director Kelly Reichardt, Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher, Burkina Faso actress Maimouna N'Diaye, French author Enki Bilal and French director Robin Campillo.

Campillo scripted the 2008 Palme d'Or winner "The Class."

The Cannes Film Festival will open May 14 with the premiere of Jim Jarmusch's "The Dead Don't Die." The festival runs through May 25.

ARCHIVE: Los Angeles, 30 November 2017  

1. Various of Elle Fanning posing on the Billboard Women in Music carpet

ARCHIVE: Park City, Utah, 24 January 2016

2. Medium of Kristen Stewart, left, and Kelly Reichardt, right, at the Sundance Film Festival

3. Wide, left to right, James Jordan, Sara Rodier, Jared Harris, James Le Gros, Kristen Stewart, Kelly Reichardt and Lily Gladstone posing

ARCHIVE: Cannes, France, 20 May 2017

4. Pan of Robin Campillo and the cast of '120 Beats Per Minute' arriving at the Cannes Film Festival

ARCHIVE: Cannes, France, 22 May 2017

6. Cutaway of Robin Campillo in an interview

ARCHIVE: Venice, Italy, 8 September 2018

7. Various of Yorgos Lanthimos and Olivia Colman arriving at the Venice Film Festival premiere of 'The Favourite'

ARCHIVE: Cannes, France, 15 May 2018

8. Cutaway of Alice Rohrwacher giving an interview

ARCHIVE: Cannes, France, 10 May 2018

9. Various of cast of 'Cold War' entering red carpet, left to right, Tanya Seghatchian, actors Borys Szyc, Joanna Kulig, director Pawel Pawlikowski, producer Ewa Puszczynska and actor Tomasz Kot

ARCHIVE: Los Angeles, 2 June 2015

10. Zoom in on Alejandro Inarritu on a red carpet