Great news: Deadline reports that NEON is giving the Brady Corbet´s movie an awards season push with a limited release on December 7. This will be followed by an expansion on Dec. 14 and another wide break on Dec. 21, playing into Christmas and New Year’s. This means that the film (and Natalie´s performance), will enter definitely in this awards season.
There is not much news these last days. However, we have many candid photos of Natalie. This time we can see her walking with the dog near Griffith Park in Los Feliz. Celebzz has several photos of the moment:
And more photos taken on Wednesday. Natalie was seen running errands with her kids (not pictured) in Los Angeles. This time, Just Jared has the pictures:
After two intense weeks of photos and interviews, Natalie goes back to the routine, and she was spotted going to a business meeting in Silver Lake neighborhood of LA on Tuesday. As usual, Daily Mail has the photos:
Natalie’s attendance at the Toronto festival last week has given us countless interviews, photos and videos. Today is a good time to see some more that we have overlooked the last days…
–The Guardian published an interesting article/interview with Natalie a few days ago, on the occasion of the premiere of the films of Brady Corbet and Xavier Dolan in Toronto:
-LA Times has been covering the Toronto festival these days, and they interviewed Natalie and Brady Corbet in their studio last weekend. We have a video and a “Polaroid” photo of Natalie:
It seems that Natalie did a lot of interviews at the Toronto festival last week. This time we have one for Q on CBC, in which she analyzes in depth Vox Lux and all the themes of the film:
Vanity Fair has published an interesting video interview with Natalie about her character in Vox Lux, in which she reveals, among many other things, the one part of the role she couldn’t leave behind on set:
Click on the image to see it:
Natalie attended several press junkets with Jacob Tremblay last weekend. We had seen a couple of videos, but now Natalie has shared on her Instagram a great photo taken at the Variety Studio:
Xavier Dolan´s film may not have had good reviews, but Vox Lux seems to have good prospects on the horizon. The purchase of the film by Neon is great news, and we probably have a release date (and a trailer) soon. Until then, images of these last days continue to emerge, like this wonderful photo of Natalie published by Vanity Fair Italy, taken just before attending the premiere of the film by Brady Corbet in the Venetian festival:
The movie by Xavier Dolan premiered yesterday at TIFF, and more interviews of Natalie and Jacob Tremblay are emerging. This time it’s a short video for Cineplex Movies:
Natalie has returned to Los Angeles with the family, after an intense weekend at the Toronto festival. She was seen with Aleph and some friends in Los Feliz on Monday. Daily Mail has a few photos:
After several days of negotiations, Vox Lux got distribution in USA. Variety reports that Neon has landed Brady Corbet´s film. According to the article, it´s possible that the indie studio could push “Vox Lux” into theaters this year in order to qualify for Oscars, something it did to great success with “I Tonya” last year.
The film by Xavier Dolan has been released a few hours ago at the Winter Garden Theatre at the Toronto festival. Natalie did not attend the event, but we have the first reactions to the film. They are divisive, but many of them favorable:
THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN: There’s so much personal experience and heart in the movie that it’s hard to be cruel to it. How much you like Dolan going in will likely determine how/if you connect. I didn’t really but know people who will.
— Brian Tallerico (@Brian_Tallerico) September 11, 2018
Xavier Dolan’s The Death and Life of John F. Donovan is a masterclass in filmmaking & storytelling. This is a hopeful, heartbreaking film abt the gay experience, mother son relationships, our most intimate childhood dreams: critics & popular audiences will love it. #TIFF18
— Beatrice V @TIFF18 (@beansproutbea) September 11, 2018
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan – Xavier Dolan digs real deep to deliver a very personal and incredibly satisfying homage to actors in a story about authenticity and self-love in one of the most exceptional features of his career. Nearly perfect from start to finish. #TIFF18
— Alex Billington (@firstshowing) September 11, 2018
The Toronto festival is giving us wonderful pictures of Natalie. This time we have three different sets of photos, all of them really impressive. Thanks to Edenliao for the find.
L.A. Times photos:
TIFF YouTube channel has published the full post screening Q&A video of Vox Lux last Friday. Here it is:
Vanity Fair makes spectacular photographic portraits with the artists who attend the Toronto festival every year, and we have a stunning photo of Natalie in this edition:
Finally we have a promotional video of The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, the film by Xavier Dolan that will be released at the Toronto festival tomorrow. Natalie and Jacob Tremblay (her son in the film), talk about the film for ET Canada.
Click on the image to see it:
And more interviews in Toronto. On this occasion, Natalie and Brady Corbet discuss the film for Cineplex Movies YouTube channel:
… and, along with Jude Law, for Deadline:
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan will premiere at the Toronto festival tomorrow. While we wait for another public appearance of Natalie, we are going to review what happened the last two days…
–Hello Canada Magazine tell us how Natalie rapped at her TIFF after-party last Friday:
Natalie – who was wearing a sweet-as-can-be soft blush Dior couture gown – got her groove on as soon as the DJ started playing Cardi B. In a well-played move, he transitioned into “Natalie’s Rap 2.0” by The Lonely Island , a recurring SNL skit that sees the pint-sized star rap – and she couldn’t help but sing along and dance with her friends!
-These two interesting articles analyze Natalie´s perfomance in Vox Lux, comparing it with those of Julianne Moore and Lady Gaga, who have also premiered films in the festival:
Vanity Fair: Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore Go for Broke
IndieWire: Lady Gaga and Natalie Portman Deliver Dueling Visions of Pop Stardom
-Another IndieWire article by Eric Kohn tell us why Natalie prefers to play ‘broken, fallible, and faulted’ characters over admirable ones
-Finally, “This Changes Everything” premiered at TIFF yesterday, and Variety has a review of this documentary in which Natalie also participates:
After the premiere of the film and the interviews, there was an after party at the Soho House in Toronto tonight, where we were finally able to see a “Closer” reunion:
