Articles about the film We Need to Talk About Kevin highlighting the involvement of actress Tilda Swinton:
Time: “We Need To Talk About Tilda Swinton.”
W: “We Need To Talk About Tilda.”
San Jose Mercury-News: “We Need To Talk About Piper, Tilda.”
BBC America: “We Need To Talk About Tilda Swinton.” Read More
On a frosty Friday night at the Angelika, the 7:30 showing of We Need to Talk About Kevin was sold out. As we scooted towards an empty seat in the back, we wondered what could possibly account for such a large crowd for a non-premiere of the Lionel Shriver adaptation.
After the disturbing, somewhat fractured retelling of a young sociopath (played at different life stages by Rocky Duer, Jasper Newell, and Ezra Miller) and his ice queen mother (Tilda Swinton), we found out: as the lights went up, a lanky figure in a full-length fur-coat traipsed the length of the stage and was introduced for a Q&A session. Ezra Miller was going to be taking our questions for the evening. Read More
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We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsey‘s adaptation of Lionel Shriver‘s deeply disturbing novel of motherhood and America and school shootings and baby sociopaths (also, eyeballs) is coming out tomorrow in theaters. So far the reviews have been mixed. Some people who have already seen the film like the adaptation (people like Lionel Shriver). Some people did not like it. It’s probably going to come down to a matter of personal taste.
But already there’s a trend that needs to be addressed regarding this film. So can we all be on the same page about the We Need to Talk About Kevin parodies being this year’s Inception parodies? Look, it’s already starting… Read More
We’ll be honest with you: 2011 was not a great year for shooting in New York. Midnight in Paris showed that Woody Allen‘s semi-permanent European vacation was far from over, and The Dark Knight Rises had trouble incorporating Occupy Wall Street into its footage.
Still, there were several films this year that used New York–or Read More
At the recent New York premiere of We Need To Talk About Kevin, a scruffy looking kid with thrift store apparel and long-unattended to hair, told The Observer of the decision he’s made to never play a character he doesn’t deem “honest”. We had just seen him depict an intense psychological battle with his on screen mother, Tilda Swinton, which concluded in the most unforgiving of ways. Read More
