365 Days of Robert Pattinson: Dec. 28 ~ Fave Movie Scene

365 Days of Robert Pattinson: Dec. 28 ~ Fave Movie Scene

Time to dish it! What Rob scene really blows you away and owns you??


Kate:
"I’m gonna cheat here and go with 2. I know Tink has already picked this one but It’s also one of my fave scenes. I love that Rob said that Cosmopolis has funny parts in it because I thought there was something wrong with me when I was the only one in the cinema who actually laughed out loud when he shot himself in the hand. I should have been at Cannes when Rob actually wanted people to laugh ;-p Anyway this scene is a classic and is by far some of his best work (to date). I’m also choosing this scene in Bel Ami (sorry I can’t find a vid of it). I know you’ll know it when I describe it as the twirly scene ;) It just makes me smile everytime I see it. Yes I’m a sap and I know it! So there you have it 2 VERY different scenes but I love them both."

Tink:
"time for a philosophical pause. some reflection. yes. from the start to the finish, this is my favorite scene from all of Rob’s films. i was captivated by the verbal and physical ballet between Rob and Paul. what else. it was a final showdown and what we were waiting for. it didn’t disappoint. what else. the scene is brilliant and Rob has never been better. this is my sensibility. ;)"

Kat:
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Philadelphia Weekly says Robert Pattinson was robbed of an Oscar Best Actor nod for Cosmopolis + Best Of 2012 lists galore!

Philadelphia Weekly says Robert Pattinson was robbed of an Oscar Best Actor nod for Cosmopolis + Best Of 2012 lists galore!

Recently in Philadelphia Weekly, they made a list of Oscar odds-on favorites and a hypothetical list of this year's best (and "best") films.

They paid Rob a compliment by including him in their Best Actor category and making note of his skills with DeLillo's language in the Best Adaption category:

Best Actor 

Who should have won overall: As much as I want to say Denis Lavant, for his literally shape-shifting work in Holy Motors, no performance was as exciting as Tim Heidecker’s raging wealthy dickhead routine in The Comedy. And I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Robert Pattinson wuz robbed—for Cosmopolis, not Breaking Dawn 2.
 

Best Adapted Screenplay 

What should have won overall: David Cronenberg’s script for Cosmopolis makes great a so-so Don DeLillo novel, although its real power emerged when the actors came to speak their lines. Who knew Robert Pattinson was put on earth to deliver overly-stylized DeLillo dialogue?


The recognition Cosmopolis and Rob continues to get makes you proud. This is the most recent edition of an ongoing list I'm collecting on CosmopolisFilm. The lists have evened out so it's good to share now without missing some great ones. If you click the links, some of the critics have praised the film and more. I included excerpts of the ones that dished specific praise for Rob.

BEST FILM RANKINGS

• The Cinephiliacs/Peter Labuza: Number 1 film of 2012!
• Cinemart: Number 1 Film of 2012! "Cosmopolis is as talky as a screwball comedy and as visually wild as only cinema can be. David Cronenberg’s timely dissection of the haves and pseudo masters of the universe features an assured performance from Robert Pattinson as a man who just wants to get a haircut and ends up on an increasingly distracted quest that takes in existential angst, free market economics, a spot of casual murder, romance, sex, a prostate examination and anti-capitalism protests. A truly special work that demands you pay attention all the way, this one will stick in your head for weeks."
• City Connect: Number 1 Film of 2012! 
• Art Forum/Amy Taubin: Number 1 film of 2012!
• San Francisco Bay Guardian: Number 1 film of 2012!
• Cahiers Du Cinema: 2nd out of 10
• The Password is a Swordfish: 2nd out of 10
• Huffington Post: 2nd out of 10
• Out 1: 2nd out of 13
• The Film Stage: 3rd out of 10 
• Philadelphia Weekly: 3rd out of 10
• Film Capsule: 3rd out of 10 
• This is Culture: 4th out of 5
• L Magazine: 4th out of 25
• Film News (UK): 4th out of 10
• Phil on Film: 6th out of 10 
• Some Came Running: 6th out of 25
• MSN Movies: 6th out of 10
• Achilles & the Tortoise: 6th out of 10 
• The Alamo Drafthouse Programmers: 7th out of 10 
• Smells Life Screen Spirit: 7th out of 10
• Movie Mezzanine: 7th out of 50
• White City Cinema: 8th out of 10 "Robert Pattinson excelled as the despicable billionaire whose plight becomes both moving and tragic as the movie inexorably heads to its haunting final shot, an image more emblematic of our times than any other I saw this year."
• Sight & Sound: 8th out of 10
• The Bloodshot Eye: 8th out of 20
• Movie City News: 9th out of 10
• Arizona Newszap: 9th out of 10 
• Movie Maker: 9th out of 12
• Processed Grass: 9th out of 66 "Guess what? I'm not super familiar with Cronenberg's stuff either. I've seen his past couple of recent films, and a while ago I saw Dead Ringers which I really didn't like, but with Cosmopolis I have reason to dig a bit farther back in to his filmography. I did love the talky nature of both this and A Dangerous Method, as a lover of theatre I can admire what happens when a film simply gives its actors a dense script and asks me to take it all in, though what Cronenberg does with his camera, making this confined limo just look so diverse, is much more impressive. There's this tense dichotomy between this safe space and an outer world in turmoil, that makes the collision of the two, both physically and found in Pattinson's performance, all the more intense."
• The Gerogie Show: 10th out of 10
• Chicago Reader: 10th out of 10
• Cinemablend: 10th out of 10
• Yuppee Mag: 10th out of 10"Cosmopolis as you may have already gathered follows the story of one man, that man is Eric Packer, played by Robert Pattinson in what turns out to be the best performance of his young career by a considerable distance....The movie is buoyed by some fantastic performances; Pattinson has finally sunk his claws into a role whilst Paul Giamatti is fantastic as a former employee of Packers in an incredibly tense end scene."
• Time Out New York: 10th out of 10

• Compulsory Internet Presence: 10th out of 10 - "A grand, weird, bold effort even by Cronenberg’s standards, this film is an absolutely mesmerizing adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel.  I could speak here about how timely the film is with its unsparing critique of capitalist society.  Or how Robert Pattinson delivers an astonishingly assured performance that hopefully portends a career full of them."
• In Review Online: 10th out of 20
• Screen Crush: 12th out of 20 
• Slant Magazine: 13th out of 25"From his rolling command center of a white limousine, the WiFi hot spot of the obscenely rich, billionaire Eric Packer (a revelatory Robert Pattinson) is at once linked up to the world and maddeningly removed from it, his personal, untried revolving door granting equal access to wisdom and delusion, personified by the limo's parade of guests. Evoking its director's past aesthetics and bodily interests with cool restraint, Cosmopolis is a wry, stylish nightmare of contemporary disconnect, and an audacious charting of all that crumbles when reality seeps in."
• NY Film Society: 15th out of 20
• Film Comment: 15th out of 50
• The Village Voice: 16th 
• Indiewire Critics Poll: 18th out of 50
• Sound on Sight: 20th out of 40 
• Criterion Corner: 24th out of 25
• Total Film: 37th out of 50

• Buzzine: 1 of the top 5 Indie movies"Reading much like a play, where characters stare off into space and seem to be speaking in riddles, Cosmopolis’ stark tones and direction fuse with a surprisingly confident performance from Twilight’s vampiric hunk Robert Pattinson to create yet another intriguing controversial masterpiece from the iconic Cronenberg."
• The Password is Swordfish: 1 of 2 favorites for 2012"Cosmopolis is a dark, hilarious, yet intensely sobering reminder of the nature of things, and as a film lover, it creates a marriage between DeLillo, Cronenberg, and Pattinson that I would love to see continue."
• Dread Central: Named Cosmopolis among the top 5 Best of 2012"David Cronenberg's misunderstood character study shows us how the 1% can be the most dangerous creatures of all. Robert Pattinson finally breaks away from those godawful Twilight movies, giving a powerhouse performance as a sociopathic Wall Street tycoon who is truly off his rocker. It's a claustrophic head journey through a class-warfare apocalypse and a step back in the right direction for one of this genre's greatest visionaries. "
• Shoot the Critic: 1 of 6 in no order - "Robert Pattinson steps up to the challenge of playing the twisted, self-doubting, masochistic, and sexually insatiable protagonist. He has lots of sex, philosophizes on life, gets lectured on art and theory, faces death, kills, and gets half a hair-cut - among other activities, all shot in a typically artificial yet beautiful Cronenberg way."
• CineTalk: 1 of 10 in no order"David Cronenberg adapts Don DeLillo’s pessimistic novel almost page for page and its tone and intellectual hyperbole is matched by Cronenberg’s cold and arresting visual palette. Robert Pattinson is outstanding in the lead role and Paul Giamatti, who only appears for a short while, delivers one of his most memorable performances."
• Chicagoist: 1 of 10 in no order
• TIFF: 1 of 10 best Canadian films of 2012

OVERLOOKED RANKINGS

• The London Film Review: Number 1 out of 10 most overlooked films of 2012!
• Badass Digest: 3 out of 10 underrated movies of 2012
• Cinemablend: 1 of the 12 most unfairly overlooked films of 2012
• The Film Stage: On a list of overlooked films in 2012"This one’s been stewing in my brain for months, and none of the reflection has tainted this film one bit; if anything, it’s only grown more valuable over time. David Cronenberg’s limousine trip into the damaged perspective of a young, emotionally hollow fat cat — played to perfection by a not-as-advertised Robert Pattinson — can’t really be considered the most accessible work of 2012, but those willing to go with its strange rhythms and mysterious internal logic are bound to get… something. While I think it’s best people make the thing out for themselves by just letting it all sit, those simply hoping for a left-of-center cinematic experience ought to find themselves more than pleased. And that’s without even considering the incredible music of Howard Shore & Metric."
• Moviefone: On a list of 10 best films you didn't see in 2012
• TV without Pity: On a list of best films you may have missed"David Cronenberg and Robert Pattinson may seem like an unlikely team, but they each benefitted from their partnership. Pattinson got some much-needed acting cred for his darkly funny performance as a Master of the Universe who embarks on a surrealistic journey through the streets of New York, while Cronenberg was able to use his star's box-office power to make this challenging movie his way -- Cosmopolis features some of the most stylish and inventive direction of his career. Considering how well this movie worked out, we wouldn't object to a Cronenberg and Pattinson reunion."
• The Georgie Show: Most Underrated Film

EXTRA RANKINGS

• Philadelphia Weekly: Who Should Have Won Overall - Best Adapted Screenplay - David Cronenberg
• Philadelphia Weekly: Who Should Have Won Overall - Best Actor - Robert Pattinson

• Vancouver Critics Awards: Best Supporting Actress - Sarah Gadon
• The Film Stage: One of the Best Ensembles of 2012
• The Password is a Swordfish: 2nd on a list of Best Screenplays - David Cronenberg
• Processed Grass: 4th out of 5 Top Actors - "[Pattinson] delivers a pitch perfect performance in the role of a detached financial wunderkind. There's a confidence and tragedy to Pattinson's work here, but it's toward the end, as the film's world spirals out of control, that allows Pattinson to show why he belongs on this list and keeps his name as one to continue to monitor moving forward."
• The Password is a Swordfish: 5th on a list of Best Actors - Robert Pattinson
• The Village Voice: 6th on a list of Best Directors of 2012 - David Cronenberg
• The Password is a Swordfish: 7th on a list of Best Directors - David Cronenberg
• Indiewire Critics Poll: 8th out of 50 Best Ensemble 
• 24fps: David Cronenberg named Best Director and Pattinson, Best Actor
• Indiewire Critics Poll: 20th out of 50 Best Director - David Cronenberg

• The Village Voice: 13th on a list of Best Actors of 2012 - Robert Pattinson
• Indiewire Critics Poll: 40th out of 50 Best Performance - Robert Pattinson
• Indiewire Critics Poll: 39th and 46th out of 50 Best Supporting Performances - Paul Giamatti & Sarah Gadon
• Indiewire: One of Favorite Unconventional Performances - Kevin Durand
• Indiewire Critics Poll: 14th out of 50 Best Screenplay - David Cronenberg
• Film School Rejects: 3 out of 12 best movie soundtracks and scores of 2012
• Indiewire Critics Poll: 15th out of 50 Best Original Score or Soundtrack
• The Village Voice: Paul Giamatti among a list of Best Supporting Actors
• The Village Voice: Sarah Gadon, Samantha Morton, Emily Hampshire and Juliette Binoche among a list of Best Supporting Actresses
• The Village Voice: Cosmopolis among a list of Best Screenplays
• Vancouver Critics Awards: Nominated - Best Canadian film, best director, best actor for Robert Pattinson, and two best supporting actress nominations, for Sarah Gadon and Samantha Morton.
• Online Film Critics Society: Cosmopolis nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
• Canadian Screen Awards: Nominated for Adapted Screenply, Score, Original Song

• International Cinephile Society: Cosmopolis nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
• Flavorwire: 27 out of 30 for best movie poster 2012
• FilmFest: Audience vote 1 of the 10 best of 2012
• IFC: Unforgettable Movie Moments of 2012
• Icon Film Distribution: Top 10 Actors of 2012 - Robert Pattinson for Cosmopolis
• CriticsTop10: 25th out of 50 films making Best Of lists
• Vulture: Critics list of cultural events of 2012 - Seitz
• Cinema Scope: Top 10 of 2012 - Honorable mention
• Saturn Awards - Best DVD/BluRay releast nomination

If you live near London, Ontario, Cosmopolis will be shown on March 2nd at 10pm during the Domestic Arrivals Festival. Click HERE to buy tickets and get more info. 


We did extensive coverage on the fantastic Cosmopolis reviews throughout 2012. Revisit those post in the links below!

• Part 1 - "Robert Pattinson giving a commanding, sympathetic portrait!"
• Part 2 - "Sensational central performance from Robert Pattinson"
• Part 3 - Robert Pattinson is "excellent in a difficult role"
• Part 4: Robert Pattinson's performance is "incredible", "riveting", "layered" and "one of the best of the year"
• Part 5: "Robert Pattinson is quite astonishing in the role as Packer"
• Part 6: Robert Pattinson gives "a frightening performance in the best ways and points towards a hell of a career"
• Part 7: "No one will be able to walk away from this movie thinking [Robert Pattinson] can’t act" 
• Part 8: "Complete marvel" and "Simply tremendous" Robert Pattinson "projects a commanding, slow-burning detachment"
• Spoiler Post #1
• Spoiler Post #2 + Tink's Review from the Toronto Premiere Viewing
• Spoiler Post #3 + Kate's Review from the Irish Press Screening

ROBsessed Awards Results: Robert Pattinson's Best Performance of 2012

ROBsessed Awards Results: Robert Pattinson's Best Performance of 2012

Winner: ERIC MICHAEL PACKER!



Rob's performance in Cosmopolis beat all others by 59.24% of the vote! It charts in a major way! Rob was incredible in the role and a majority of his ROBsessed fans agree. Congrats on the stellar performance, Rob! We look forward to more. :)



Click HERE to see links to all the winners but we're also keeping it up for awhile on the side bar!
Click HERE to flashback to 2011 and see the results for the 1st Annual ROBsessed Awards!

Until next year!

Coming soon....365 Days of Rob reveal for 2013! Get ready for the first day on January 1st!

How does David Cronenberg describe Robert Pattinson? Intelligent. Sweetheart. Ferrari. Serious Actor. Cinephile. PLUS More Best Of lists for Cosmopolis!

How does David Cronenberg describe Robert Pattinson? Intelligent. Sweetheart. Ferrari. Serious Actor. Cinephile. PLUS More Best Of lists for Cosmopolis!

Are you excited Rob and David are working together again?



*giggles* I hear the resounding YES. Well here are two great interview excerpts from David Cronenberg that will make you giddy for Robenberg 2.0. Can't wait for these two to get together again to make Maps To The Stars.

You also said the characters of Cosmopolis attracted you. What was it about Eric Packer’s character that resonated with you? 

For me, the whole idea that you must have a character who is perfectly sympathetic, is a very crude, and a very uninteresting kind of approach to cinema. I think the character has to be very interesting and fascinating and charismatic. I mean, he has to be somebody you want to watch and see what he says and see what he does. 

So what’s interesting about DeLillo’s book is that all the way through, the characters are not particularly sympathetic in an obvious way. But by the end of the movie, you see that this character is, somewhere inside there, a very naïve, vulnerable child, who’s only going to get a haircut, but what he’s really going back to his childhood. He’s going back to the barber who gave him his first haircut. And when he’s there, you begin to see the innocence that’s there underneath the hard surface, and I think it’s a really interesting transformation and transition that you see in this character. At the beginning you think that this guy is very unemotional and hard and cold, and cynical perhaps. And by the end of it, you see that there’s a lot of emotion and a lot of vulnerability underneath there and the character turns out to be far more complex than you might have thought. 

A lot has been said about your unconventional choice of Robert Pattinson for the lead role. 

The thing I liked about Rob Pattinson as an actor is that he’s a serious actor. And you could lose sight of that, because he’s had this big popular success with the Twilight movies, but he is not afraid to play a character who is difficult to like, you know, because some actors are afraid to do that, because they feel it is too personal, that they themselves will not be liked by their audience, and so on. But a real actor is not afraid to play an unsympathetic character, and Rob is a real actor. 

Also, I think to be an actor, you need intelligence, first of all. For example, Rob immediately realised that the script was quite funny, and most people don’t get that. Then you want sensitivity to the subtleties of the movie, in terms of what is going on in the movie, the dialogue and so on. And Rob, personally, is very knowledgeable about cinema.
(chuckles) I don’t think his Twilight fans realise this about him, but he’s really an aficionado about art cinema (Tink: Well, David is clearly not talking about the Robsessed. *wink*). I mean, on the set I’d find him talking to Juliette Binoche about obscure French cinema, (chuckles) so you know, he brings a real depth of understanding of the history and art of cinema and all of those things mean that you have a lot of power and a lot of responsiveness from your actor as a director. It’s like driving the Ferrari instead of driving, you know, a Volkwagen Beetle. And you get that with Rob. I must also add, he’s very down to earth and very easy to work with. He’s not diva at all, you know. He’s really a sweetheart. (Tink: I think David is campaigning for the ROBsessed Awards next week!)

David also spoke to Some Came Running in detail about Cosmopolis. I enjoyed this read beyond the quick Rob mention so check out the full interview at the source if you want to have more insight into the film and David's thoughts. He is Rob's future director again after all. :))))

SCR: A lot of people didn't see the irony or the satirical posture behind you and Pattinson ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. 

CRONENBERG: Yeah, I know, some people thought that we were betraying the movie by doing that. I thought, no, no, you're really not getting it at all. That was so perfect. I couldn't believe when they were asking us. But that was the perfect expression of capitalism. They were lovely there. They were so excited, they love their Stock Exchange and, after all, we were selling a movie and selling is what they know. So it was all perfect. A capitalistic enterprise, and there we were. Yeah, it's interesting, because Don and I on panels, in a way, that's when I kind of learn some things about his attitudes to things that I didn't really know or need to know but I'm curious about. We both don't feel that being a prophet is part of our job description. But if your antennae are sensitive enough to what's in the ether, you will inevitably anticipate some things that are just sort of accumulating but are not all that visible. And I think that's really the case here. As Don took pains to say, no, the book didn't begin with some grand, grandiose concept of coming to terms with financial responsibility globally and all of that kind of thing. It had to do with limos. It had to do with who would want one of those in the streets of Manhattan and why would you be in it, and who is it—and where do they go at night, and all of that kind of stuff. It begins with details. And it's the same with a film maker even more. You cannot film an abstract concept. We're in the concrete world, film makers.

And what are people saying in the concrete world about Cosmopolis on Best Of lists?



It charts, Rob!

• Cinemart: 1 out of 10 Best Films of 2012! - "...pseudo masters of the universe features an assured performance from Robert Pattinson."
• L Magazine: 4 out of 25 Best Films of 2012
• Some Came Running: 6 out of 25 Best Films of 2012
• Flavorwire: 27 out of 30 for Best Movie Poster of 2012 - "Elegant and dangerous. The art encapsulates everything about David Cronenberg’s brooding drama."
• Chicagoist: Part of the top 10 list of Best Films in 2012
• Cinemablend: 10 out of 10 Top Movies of 2012
• Yuppee Mag: 10 out of 10 Top Films of 2012. - "...that man is Eric Packer, played by Robert Pattinson in what turns out to be the best performance of his young career by a considerable distance."
• Cinemablend: 1 of the 12 most overlooked films of 2012
• Movie Maker: 9 out of 12 Best of 2012 - "...the actor has always teased a love for the unconventional...Producing an outstanding interpretation with R-Patz laying waste to the doubters, Cosmopolis showed no restraint in taking pot shots at the current climate."

Indiewire lists Robert Pattinson among the Best Performances of 2012 + more great rankings for Cosmopolis!

Indiewire lists Robert Pattinson among the Best Performances of 2012 + more great rankings for Cosmopolis!

If you haven't smiled yet today, I can't imagine you won't beam with pride after seeing this. It charts.

Indiewire's 7th annual Year-End Critics Poll for 2012 was released and Cosmopolis was not a stranger in most of the categories! The highlights being Rob staking a place on the Best Performance list as well as Cosmopolis coming in the top 10 for Best Ensemble!

• Robert Pattinson: 40 out of 50 actors and actresses listed for Best Performance
• Cosmopolis: 8 out of 50 for Best Ensemble
• Cosmopolis: 18 out of 50 for Best Film
• David Cronenberg: 20 out of 50 for Best Director
• Paul Giamatti & Sarah Gadon: Placing on the list of 50 for Best Supporting Performance
• David Cronenberg: 14 out of 50 for Best Screenplay
• Cosmopolis Soundtrack: 15 out of 50 for Best Original Score or Soundtrack

Congratulations to Rob and the entire Cosmopolis team! This is fantastic. I can't get enough of these honors for Cosmopolis. If you haven't seen the film yet, you MUST. It's available OnDemand TODAY. Click HERE to find out where to view.
The US can pre-order the Bluray/DVD NOW!



You'll have a chance to win prize packs featuring Cosmopolis on the blog starting this Friday. Have you seen our trailer??

Hold On To Me director, James Marsh, compliments Robert Pattinson: I loved his attitude towards cinema

Hold On To Me director, James Marsh, compliments Robert Pattinson: I loved his attitude towards cinema


This is the google translation but you can still make out the compliment clearly (bolded in blue). Love what James Marsh had to say about Rob and the film. Excerpt from Cinema Teaser (France):

So if Marsh has turned this mini-series even without official title next summer, which is HOLD ON TO ME, her project with Robert Pattinson and Carey Mulligan?
"This advance," reassures Marsh. "I think turning in early 2013 if funding is secured."
Often compared to ALL READY TO Gus Van Sant because of its pitch (a beauty queen kidnapped and buried alive a man for money), Marsh tells us that he finds suitable comparison, although: "BOOGIE NIGHTS will also be a model in terms of tone. This is one of my favorite movies, because it goes to the dark humor in a second. HOLD ON TO ME is a dark comedy. Documentaries had my humor - at least I hope - as my fictions were heavier. There will be more exuberant. "
An album that could change Marsh's career, due to the presence in the cast of Robert Pattinson: "Robert is interesting: he knows where he wants to go and he wants to work on projects that help to make as COSMOPOLIS . He uses his fame and power to help people like me to make interesting films. It has a lot of potential. When we met, I loved his attitude towards cinema. He loved the script and told me so very intelligent. It will be a great asset to HOLD ON TO ME and I hope with him to suddenly casting this rameutera full of teenage girls in the rooms to corrupt! (Laughter.)
Finally, Marsh has revealed the actor he wanted to complete the cast: "I would hire an actor in the series GIRLS, Adam Driver. It is a great actor, yet little known. This will form a great triangle with Robert and Carey. "A great actor indeed already seen in J. EDGAR, and soon to be in Steven Spielberg's LINCOLN, Inside Llewyn Davis of Coen, THE F WORD with Daniel Radcliffe or FRANCES HA Noah Baumbach.

On a side note, Marsh won his Oscar for the documentary, Man On Wire. It's available on instant play for Netflix and I encourage you to check it out if you're a subscriber. It's an amazing film. Captivating from start to finish. Let me know if you've seen it in the comments. I'll probably want to rave about it. :)

Via: clarabelg1

Robert Pattinson is the one to watch in film because the surface is just being scratched

Robert Pattinson is the one to watch in film because the surface is just being scratched

I enjoyed a few articles that were talking about the future for the Twilight cast and Rob's future made me proud and excited. It's a new era for him and it's going to be awesome to watch it unfold.

Excerpt from the AP via Seattle Times:

Pattinson has made some of the most daring and impressive choices of the three of them. Before being cast as the swoony vampire Edward Cullen, the lanky British actor appeared in another blockbuster franchise as Hogwarts student Cedric Diggory in 2005's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." In 2009, he played Salvador Dali in the barely seen "Little Ashes," and last year he starred opposite Reese Witherspoon in the circus romance "Water for Elephants" - although Associated Press reviewer David Germain wrote there was "barely a spark" between the two. 

But Pattinson also has worked with the likes of David Cronenberg, starring this year in the acclaimed Canadian director's financial drama "Cosmopolis," which takes place almost entirely inside a limousine. And he'll soon work with Cronenberg again in "Maps to the Stars," and also begin shooting Werner Herzog's "Queen of the Desert." 

Jones says Pattison has wisely chosen to parlay his "Twilight" fame to collaborate with serious directors and actors. 

"He knows he has a certain box office appeal so the fangirls are going to see him no matter what he's in," she said. "People are willing to work with him the first time, they see all this potential he has, then they want to come back and work with him again." 

Constantinescu echoed those thoughts: "He's the one to watch for additional films down the line," he said. "We are just scratching the surface with Robert."

Excerpt from The Playlist:

Robert Pattinson
Before "Twilight": R-Patz had relatively few credits before he was R-Patz -- he was cut out of Mira Nair's "Vanity Fair," but bounced back with a major role as the ill-fated Cedric Diggory in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." A couple of small British TV roles and indies, "How To Be" and "Little Ashes," followed, most of which only really found audiences once he'd found success with the vampire franchise.
Chances Of Success After "Twilight": Strong creatively, but the financial success outside of "Twilight" has yet to come. The actor has found a huge female fanbase as a result of playing ageless vamp Edward Cullen, which helped Pattinson vehicles "Remember Me" and "Water For Elephants" find moderate success. Still, the Twihards mostly won't turn up for films outside the romantic weepie wheelhouse -- "Bel Ami" took a dreadful $120,000 earlier this year, and "Cosmopolis" didn't do much better, with a mere $750,000. 

Still, to his credit, those films are indicative of his desire to work with interesting filmmakers, and a willingness to stretch himself, and that's something that looks to continue. 

On the way, he has the apocalyptic thriller "The Rover," from "Animal Kingdom" director David Michod, "Man On Wire" helmer James Marsh's "Hold On To Me" with Carey Mulligan, a reunion with Cronenberg on "Maps To The Stars," and he's lined up to play T.E. Lawrence for Werner Herzog in period adventure "Queen Of The Desert," alongside Naomi Watts and Jude Law. They're all far from the obvious picks for a heartthrob, and even if the performances haven't necessarily wowed, we're sure he'll only continue to improve. But will his built-in audience stick around? A smart move might be to take something action/thriller-y targeted at the mainstream, to try and win a male following. Perhaps something like "American Assassin," which Chris Hemsworth just vacated.

Excerpt from VH1:

Robert Pattinson: Rob seems hellbent on defying any and every box you might want to place him in, post Twilight, so his range of projects is vast. In pre-production, he’s got Mission: Blacklist, in which he’ll play a military interrogator who helped find Saddam Hussein; Hold On to Me, in which he’ll play the love interest of Carey Mulligan, who’s plotting to kidnap the town’s richest guy; The Rover, about car thieves in the Australian Outback; and Queen of the Desert, about early-20th-century archaelogist Gertrude Bell (played by Naomi Watts). Then it looks like he’ll be re-teaming with Cosmopolis helmer David Cronenberg for something called Maps to the Stars. We’re breathless after just summarizing all that.

I'm going to like seeing mainstream take notice of Rob's talent more and more. The pigeon-holed him for so long and all his future roles will really let him explore untapped corners in his skill set. I know I don't need to ask you guys if you're as excited as I am because we've been saying these things in the articles for years. ;)

VIDEO: Robert Pattinson talks about Breaking Dawn Part 2 filming and his future film roles

VIDEO: Robert Pattinson talks about Breaking Dawn Part 2 filming and his future film roles

Rob sat down with Jeanne Wolf at the LA press junket for Breaking Dawn Part 2. Highlights:

• Jokes about Kristen taking the vampire hunt too seriously 
• What it was like for Edward & Bella to have a child
• Edward & Bella's happily ever after
• Shooting in exciting and dangerous places next year to see what he has inside of him

I can't wait to see what he does with these upcoming roles. They are definitely diverse. :)

Mission: Blacklist director, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire talks about Robert Pattinson and filming in Iraq

Mission: Blacklist director, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire talks about Robert Pattinson and filming in Iraq

Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire was promoting his film, Punk, and spoke to Agentinnen.Net about the film as well as details on Mission: Blacklist and Rob. This is the first interview we're getting of the director speaking at length about Rob and filming in Iraq. It's pretty awesome what he has to say. I highlighted some of it:

• "He has a good personality."
• "That's why he's so famous...why you like him...he's so unique and I'm very interested in working with this guy."
• "I saw Cosmopolis...I think he did a great performance. He was amazing in that film. Very different from his real life at the same time you believed this character, I mean he's amazing."
• "My character in Mission: Blacklist is a tough character because it's not at all what we can imagine from Robert Pattinson or what we know with this guy. It's going to be very interesting. I'm sure it's going to be great because he's really intense."
• "I know he's a great actor...I'm really excited to be working with him on this film."
• "We're going to do the set in Iraq. We're going to work with Eric Maddox. It's going to be interesting."
• He's going to work with professional Iraqi actors. 
• "To do a good movie, you need to take risks and try to find different ways to do films. Not doing it the same way as everyone is doing it. We have to try and change. Try to imagine some different stuff and different way of working with the actors and shooting the film."
• "Going to Iraq for me is really important because it's going to be so different from shooting there as to shooting in LA in a studio, for example, even for the actors, being there and understanding how it was and meeting the Iraqis. You need to understand the structure and everything. It's part of the process."
• At 24:00, he starts to talk again about his pre-production experience with Mission: Blacklist and the prep work - 5 weeks in Iraq, sleeping in Saddam Hussein's palace etc.
• At 26:00 next project is Mission: Blacklist filming next year (we know it's scheduled for summer 2013)

The whole interview is lengthy but great insight into Sauvaire as a director. Rob's part starts just after 18:30 with the interviewer asking about working with Robert Pattinson and goes for almost 5 minutes.

Robert Pattinson takes on another supporting role and MTV says it might be his most important move

Robert Pattinson takes on another supporting role and MTV says it might be his most important move

Rob's attachment to Hold On To Me has been garnering some positive feedback and possibly for the reason Empire Online stated, "while it still boasts Mulligan in the lead, it'll also come packing some Pattinson power."

MTV has also weighed in on Rob hopping into a few supporting roles. Other than Mission: Blacklist, Rob will be supporting cast for The Rover, Queen of the Desert and now Hold On To Me. What were MTV's thoughts on this, 'Why Robert Pattinson's Supporting Role May Be His Most Important - Actor maps out his post-'Twilight' career with a supporting role in 'Hold Onto Me,' following in the footsteps of many of his A-list predecessors':

Where Robert Pattinson's popularity is concerned, an argument could be made that he's famous as he's going get. As his star-making "The Twilight Saga" is comes to an end, one big question remains: How will he hold onto his fame and parlay it into a lengthy and continually successful career?  

Judging by the qualityprojects he has lined up post-"Twilight," we think Pattinson is making all the right moves thus far, especially in signing up for a supporting role in the Indie-ish drama "Hold Onto Me," which was announced Tuesday. Why go for a supporting role when you don't have to? Well, the part is described as a "flashy" one, and it will find him starring opposite Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan. It's bound to further establish his acting chops, as several other equally famous leading men have done so before him.

Click HERE if you'd like to read about the A-list predecessors MTV paired Rob's supporting choice with: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise and Mark Wahlberg. Click HERE if you missed the initial announcement of Hold On To Me.

What do you guys think? Do you agree with MTV? Do you see the value of Rob's supporting roles? What is this Pattinson power he runs around packing? ;) Sound off in the DR.

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Robert Pattinson "frequently dismissed yet giving the best performance of the year": Cosmopolis praise continues

Robert Pattinson "frequently dismissed yet giving the best performance of the year": Cosmopolis praise continues



I keep seeing great write-ups about Cosmopolis post-release and wanted to share a couple with you because of the Rob praise and discussion of Eric Packer.

Indiewire/PressPlay wrote an article about the language in Cosmopolis and here's what they said about Rob:

Even though its tone is resigned and mordantly funny and its pace is slow, Cosmopolis is a thrillingly spare, controlled work. But you have to be willing to adapt to its sleepwalking mood and to its performances, which occur within such a narrow emotional bandwidth that at one point I pictured an orchestra conductor handing a violinist a Stradivarius with one string and saying, “You can make beautiful music with this, trust me.” Every actor rises to the challenge. The movie features one bizarre knockout supporting turn after another: Juliette Binoche as a lover who interrogates Eric after fucking him; Gadon’s Elise, whose beyond-her-years cynicism is a bulwark against emotional collapse; Durand’s security guy Torval, who’s got more didja-know tidbits than Johnny the Shoeshine Guy on Police Squad! but ultimately comes to seem like just another lost soul blustering through chaos. Giamatti’s all-out anguish in the finale almost steals the picture from Pattinson. 

But the star never loses his grip. I never would have guessed from the Twilight movies that he was capable of a performance this intelligent, despairing, and honest; at his best he reminded me of James Spader’s character in sex, lies and videotape, a smug bastard who intellectualizes his selfishness into faux-philosophy. If Pattinson gets nominated for awards for Cosmopolis, the clip should be the scene where Eric carries on a high-flown conversation while enduring the longest prostate exam in history, an invasion of an asshole’s asshole. But there’s a real person beneath Eric’s shellacked surface, and when it finally cracks—in a surprisingly tender exchange with a rapper (Gouchy Boy) grieving for his dead hero and his own mortality—the character’s pain feels real, and true.

It's a great read. Click HERE to read in its entirety.

Film School Rejects also named Cosmopolis the most relevant movie of the year! Rob isn't specifically mentioned because it's more analytical of the actual film and meaning. I enjoyed this excerpt:

But if Cosmopolis is an alienating experience, that’s because it’s about the alienation of contemporary experience. Eric’s limo is a model of media convergence not unlike a smart phone in that its function permeates well beyond its archaic name (“phone” is hardly the appropriate term for what we use today, just as Eric and Kinsky lament the stupidity of other mainstay terms like “airplane” and “computer”), and also provides a shelter for the most basic human actions, from penetration to urination. Eric has all the access to the world’s information at his fingertips, yet he is notably separated from “the world” whateverthatmeans, seemingly privileged with a legion of followers who come to him without ever visibly arriving or leaving. Bookstores and diners are not the only places of leisure for Eric. That Eric’s shoes rarely touch the asphalt of the street (until the final act) signals that the material world itself has become an escape from the “reality” he’s manufactured as his working life. 

This alienation gives Eric (and his many passengers) the opportunity to experience lived life simultaneously with a critique and analysis of it. Strangely, DeLillo and Cronenberg make a compelling case that the space of the one-percent does not so much manufacture Romneyesque out-of-touch-ness as it potentially provides the ideal container for intellectual inquiry: Eric has omnipotent access to “real life,” but is distanced enough from it to engage in critique (I’m not sure how much this move elevates the bezerkly rich or denigrates academics). With alienation comes immediacy: Kinsky, without an ounce of worry about the dangerous puncture of reality seeping in, is able to comment on the riots outside as they occur. When the anarchists’ protest finally comes crashing down onto Eric’s roof, the scene’s mutedness is maddening and disappointing (especially in contrast to the depiction of this scene in Cosmopolis’s advertising campaign, which finds on-the-ground anarchy far more exciting and marketable). And that’s the point. Cosmopolis is a quiet film, not because it’s scant on dialogue (hardly), but because it deliberately obliterates any semblance of atmosphere. The sound, or absence of it, that’s deafening in Eric’s car is also the sound of the blog post, the online bank transfer, the scroll of the stock quote.

Click HERE to read in its entirety.

But the star continues to get his praise. Just this morning I saw this from Screened:

It’s that moment that kicks off the last leg of the film, which veers deep into destruction and desolation so resolute that I won’t begin to try to enumerate its facets here. But it is terrifying, not only for how real and of-the-moment it feels but in how much Pattinson invests in the role. This is the kind of role that demands a range that only a great actor working with a great director can pull off, and every eye rolling critic of Pattinson’s more famous works is going to have to reassess after this as his fanbase recoils in horror to see their icon throw himself into the deep end of the most negative human experiences. Here is someone, frequently dismissed, giving what I feel is easily the best performance of the year.

My heart swells.

With the film still trickling into other markets, we see more reviews pop up.

A few more excerpts after the cut!

Click HERE to read the rest