Little Ashes, an indie starring Twilight star Robert Pattinson as Salvador Dali, won for Outstanding Film — Limited release.

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His mother used to be a model; from her, Robert Thomas Pattinson inherited his good looks and a passion for acting. Pattinson was born in May 1986 in London, and his father is a car salesman. But it was his mother who encouraged him to become an actor and helped him land his first big role at age 15—when he became the good-looking Cedric Diggory in one of the famous Harry Potter films. That’s where the director of Twilight saw him a couple of years later. Not convinced that Pattinson could bring vampire Edward Cullen to life, she made him travel from London to Los Angeles for a screen test. The test was a love scene with the one who would become his co-star in the saga and also the young lady who stole his heart: Kristen Stewart.


Fans of Pattinson, who love him unconditionally without knowing him, would melt at the opportunity of speaking to him and seeing him just the way he is behind the scenes. He’s a bit shy, smart and very affable with occasional acquaintances—à la Johnny Depp, one of the actors he admires. His blue eyes are always smiling, especially without the discomfort of the contact lenses that he must wear while playing Edward in Twilight, New Moon and the upcoming movie, Eclipse. Edward is the character that, in spite of himself, has made Pattinson extremely famous around the world.


“It’s too much attention. I still don’t understand why something like this happens, and I think I’ll never understand it. It must be that pale skin is very sexy (he jokes). It’s very hard to see as normal the fact that girls see you, start screaming and ask you to please bite their necks. When I was going to school, just the opposite happened to me. You lose a lot of privacy, but I’m not complaining. Don’t let it be misunderstood; I’m just trying to survive the new fact of having turned into a phenomenon almost as big as the vampire I play,” he says while seating on the edge of his chair, leaning his elbows on his legs and holding his face in his hands—one of his favorite poses.


Like Stewart, he keeps messing up his hair, which very much despite himself has also become his trademark. “Before, I used to wash it once a week. I didn’t pay attention to it at all, and now everyone makes sure I don’t cut it,” he says, smiling. “My hair has its own life, how silly.” He hasn’t been able to go back to London and live there for an entire year because he’s been working non-stop, and hotels have become his permanent abode. His friends say that he’s looking for a home in L.A. to live with Stewart. Theirs is a relationship with only photos as a witness and not the actors themselves; that’s because, among other things, their publicists forbid journalists from asking them about it.


Pattinson just finished filming the third part of the vampire saga, Eclipse, which will once again focus the frenzy upon him when it premieres in June. He also filmed the romantic drama Remember Me, which is also about to premiere and in which he plays a rebellious youth in a story similar to that of Romeo and Juliet. It’s about a forbidden love between two youngsters whose parents hate each other. According to the critics, the film helps to show that before the heartthrob that he doesn’t want to be, Pattinson is a great actor.


They must send you hundreds of screenplays. What makes you choose a movie like Remember Me over others?
The screenplay is amazing, and that’s the first thing I look at—and also my character. At first, I thought it would be just one more story. When I read it, I realized that it was a drama that would allow me to express myself as an actor. I hadn’t read Twilight and, nevertheless, Edward also obsessed me—especially the idea of getting into the skin of an immortal being and sharing his doubts. I wouldn’t want to be immortal at any price, but as an actor this saga lets me be like that from time to time.


You also played Salvador Dalí in Little Ashes. What did you learn from that experience?
I began to paint pretending I was him, and thanks to that movie I discovered how much I like painting. And I thought Dalí was a genius; the more I read about him, the more his mind fascinated me. There, I play a young Dalí, who just returned to Spain from London and who likes to play jokes on his friend Federico García Lorca, playing with his emotions, telling him he’s gay. It was three marvelous months in Barcelona, and another British actor and myself were the only ones who knew how to speak Spanish, how embarrassing. But I fell in love with the city.


Did you use to travel a lot before having to travel for purely promotional reasons?
I loved traveling, and that’s what I miss most about my life before Twilight. Now I like to go on promotional visits to places like Tokyo, where I can walk around more peacefully and lead a pseudo-normal life. When I was younger, I took a long trip to Berlin. I always liked exploring cities, going to their clubs. I’m a musician; I had a band and like that atmosphere. Now I make up for it by composing when I’m at the hotels, during filming. I want to produce a record but when all of this passes, later on. People on the street call me Edward; if I launch an album, they’re going to buy it thinking that Edward is the one who’s singing. How strange!


In New Moon, you only appeared in one of Bella’s dreams. What will Eclipse be like?
I can’t say much in advance, but only that it’s not as intimate as the other two, because many of the characters are at war. Taylor [Lautner] and I have many scenes in which we seem jealous of each other, and that was pretty easy because it’s incredible how much he transformed his body. It’s amazing. All of a sudden, Taylor turned into a Jacob that is the prototype of a teenager’s dream. All the same, our characters unite in the movie to save Bella.


Are you somehow similar to your vampire, Edward Cullen? Can you understand the passionate love he feels?
It’s very hard to compare yourself with a vampire. What I like most about him is that he’s very operatic, very white or black, always going to extremes. He loves but can’t enjoy it because he’s afraid of his love killing her. I think the movie is a perfect metaphor of sexual abstinence (laughs). Edward is conflictive, and I also am. He’s a bit dark, and I have my depressive moments. And as far as his approach to love, I think we’re alike. I like lasting emotions; I want to be with someone for 10 years and not just for 10 minutes. Like Edward, I’m very intense.


You and Kristen became really famous at the same time. Did you help each other understand the phenomenon?
It’s great to share intense experiences with someone who’s also trying to understand what’s happening around her. It’s not easy to become a poster stuck on a teenager’s wall; there’s no school to prepare you for that. Kristen is a great actress; I learned a lot from her. But basically I think that we’re alike in that both of us want to be actors, just that—we never tried to be posters.

First out of the gate for Pattinson — who actually was plucked out of “Harry Potter” for “Twilight” — is next month’s romantic drama “Remember Me,” which analysts say will be key to establishing the James Dean lookalike as a certifiable box-office draw.

But his co-stars have been equally busy carving out names for themselves.

Though Pattinson is arguably the biggest of the three “Twilight” stars (at the Los Angeles premiere of “New Moon,” he sparked orgiastic fits among the teen girls lining the streets that were frightening in their intensity), he seems more than willing to leave the tent-pole projects to Lautner.

“There’s no point (doing an action blockbuster) — I mean, I don’t have any material desires at all, I wear the same clothes every single day,” the actor told Vanity Fair last November.

“I don’t buy anything. And I don’t go out anymore either!”

Indeed, his last non-”Twilight” role was portraying a young Salvadore Dali, in the gay-themed “Little Ashes.”

But despite his protestations, both “Remember Me” and the upcoming “Circus” with Reese Witherspoon cannily appeal to his target demographic — teen girls. At $20 million, “Remember” is a modestly budgeted affair that analysts think will easily make back its money and is expected to  break big.

If the trailer for “Remember Me” is any indication, the romantic drama will feature plenty of Pattinson’s trademarked lovelorn brooding.

For Pattinson’s post-”Twilight” success, of course, it helps if the movie is a hit, and at least one box-office tracker thinks that should be the case.

“It’s about double the interest levels of any of the films opening that weekend,” John Singh of tracking site Flixster told TheWrap. “Its biggest audience is that under-25 female group, and we’ve seen with movies such as ‘Twilight’ and ‘Dear John’ that this demographic can absolutely open a movie.”

“After ‘Star Wars,’ Harrison Ford did a movie called ‘Hanover Street,’ which bombed,” Singh said. “Audiences didn’t want him as a romantic lead — they wanted him to reprise the lovable rogue he’d played before.”

Once burned, Ford regrouped, re-teamed with George Lucas on “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and created another iconic anti-hero role in a smash hit.

Indeed, analysts say many actors in the “Twilight” trio’s position are tempted to try to explode their image and play the polar opposite of the roles that brought them success — a strategy that often backfires.

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Pattinson is superb as Dali, never letting eccentricity become caricature.

The mobile and web platform picks up exclusive UK mobile and web rights to Paul Morrison’s Little Ashes.


Babelgum has acquired exclusive UK web and mobile rights to Paul Morrison’s Little Ashes, which stars Twilight’s Robert Pattinson.


The film will be available for free streaming to U.K. audiences via Babelgum’s online platform and its free application for Apple’s iPhone & iPod Touch and Google’s Android devices from February 8.


A drama about the early lives and loves of artist Salvador Dali, poet Federico Garcia Lorca, and filmmaker Luis Bunuel, the film also stars Javier Beltran and Matthew McNulty, alongside Pattinson.


Babelgum acquired the rights from producer Carlo Dusi (Aria Films) and production company Met Films. Kaleidoscope Entertainment is distributing the film theatrically in the UK, whilst the US rights are held by Regent.

Eek! Bad review of Rob!

It’s probably worth noting at the beginning of this review that I am not a Robert Pattinson hater. He was ghastly in last year’s New Moon, but I found him perfectly watchable in the initial Twilight effort and in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. That said, I really detested his performance in Little Ashes and the motion picture as a whole. Rarely does a movie so utterly uninspired and drably compiled come about, but when they do it’s a serious cause for concern. The film was shot around the same time that Twilight was, and it’s only on the back of that movie’s success and Pattinson’s uncontrollable popularity that this turgid biopic was allowed to see the light of day. I honestly had fairly high hopes for Little Ashes, but it’s a masturbatory exercise in bad acting and aggressively pompous direction.

To read the entire review, click here!

Thanks to my brother @JustinMR25 for the heads up! If you’re not following him, you should be!

The big title is “Little Ashes,” which stars Robert Pattinson (of the “Twilight” series) as artist Salvador Dali, who experimented with homosexuality as a young man and had an affair with playwright Federico García Lorca (Javier Beltrán).

The festival will offer Q&A sessions with some of the filmmakers, plus opening- and closing-night parties (including a “Little Ashes” bash with Spanish music, tapas and sangria).

For tickets, reservations or details, go to www.gay charlottefilmfestival.com or call 704-962-1426.

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On April 9th in Germany, you can purchase both of these DVDS!

Thank you to littlemonalisa from the pattinsonlife LJ community!

The Second Annual GayCharlotte Film Festival will be held over the course of four days, beginning Thursday, Jan. 28, and running through Sunday, Jan. 31. All events except the closing night film will be presented at The Charlotte Lesbian & Gay Community Center, 820 Hamilton St., Ste. B11, in the NC Music Factory.

The event kicks off with an evening screening of Little Ashes, starring Twilight vampire-heartthrob Robert Pattinson as the brilliant artist Salvador Dali. The screening of the film, which looks at the intertwined lives (and romances) of Dali, filmmaker Luis Bunuel and writer Federico Garcia Lorca, will be accompanied by Spanish-themed festivities, including tapas from Solé, sangria and music. Doors open at 6:15 p.m., with the movie beginning at 7:30 p.m.

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I have the UK version of Little Ashes already….but of course I need the US version as well.  So I decided to go to Borders.com and order a copy for in store pick up.  What I found out was that Borders will not have them in store.  I tried again at Barnes and Noble and they do have it in the stores….

So my recommendation to you is – call or check online for in store availability before you try and purchase Little Ashes.

Click here to do it now!

Thank you to rolodog4 from Rob’s IMDB message board for the heads up!

Presenting Luis Buñuel as boisterous and domineering, Salvador Dali as an insecure, pretentious performer and Federico García Lorca as a tortured romantic, Little Ashes tells a tale of (mostly) forbidden love amongst Spain’s most notorious (partially) Surrealist gang of rebels. It simplifies these larger-than-life figures, whose known work expands far beyond the character attributes demonstrated in this film, reducing them to one-note signifiers to further a queer agenda. Identification filters through Lorca (Javier Beltran), the political martyr, as he and Buñuel (Matthew McNulty) develop a close bond with Dali (Robert Pattinson), an overly affected new student at their University. Brief mentions are made of their art and politics, with Buñuel idealizing France as a bastion of freedom, but mostly we get Lorca giving Dali doe-eyed glances when not ignoring the flirtations of his writer friend, Magdalena (Marina Gatell). While these romantic complications do indeed provide ire and tension, putting ideology to the test with a homophobic, gay-bashing Buñuel (a potential cinematic embellishment), a lack of vested energy in surrounding narrative trajectories limits the overall experience. The only moments filmed with passion and intensity are those of homosexual desire, with the camera lingering on brief kisses and touches, relegating Magdalena’s pain to a clumsy scene of realization, with a requisite second-long sad expression, and Buñuel’s contribution of a few uttered “faggots” and an unexplained change of heart. Even the climax of the film — a tragic end that most of us are familiar with — is limited to a brief scene of street panic, jumping sloppily to the inevitable conclusion. Had equal amounts passion and subtlety fuelled sequences unfortunately deemed erroneous (along with significant character consideration), this interesting tale could easily have gone from curious failure to a sweeping emotional success. As it stands, Ashes is little more than a slight to the men it portrays, boasting a handful of powerful moments, but mostly flat plot machinations. Included with the DVD are cast and crew interviews.

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Thank you to Twilight_Nusa for the heads up!