According to recent reviews, journalists are hailing Kristen StewartKristen Stewart’s performance in her upcoming movie, Welcome To The Riley’s, as “electric”. Stewart, who filmed the movie between Twilight and New Moon, plays a pole dancing young stripper/prostitute in the movie, due out in October.

An MTV review states that Stewart is “utterly fearless in Welcome to the Riley’s. That’s the takeaway from the film’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday afternoon. You can quibble all you want with her portrayal of a 16-year-old runaway turned stripper and prostitute. But you cannot walk away from a viewing and say the actress doesn’t fearlessly expose herself physically and emotionally, and doesn’t do so with astonishing maturity and believability.”

Welcome To The Riley’s, stars Stewart as a troubled young woman who is befriended by James GandolfiniJames Gandolfini and Melissa LeoMelissa Leo, who have recently lost their daughter. The movie was a favorite at the Sundance Film Festival this year, and critical acclaim has come from viewers who have attended film festivals this summer. There have been positive reviews for all three stars of the film.

It looks like we, the public, can soon forget the Kristen Stewart we know so well as the girl you can count on to give the same performance movie after movie. Sasha Stone, Oscar guru, says that Kristen Stewart would be a key nominee in the Best Supporting Actress category at the Oscars in 2011.

Source: All Voices

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This year’s Deauville American Film Festival will be a fete of first films with seven of 11 titles in the Competition debut features, organizers said Thursday.

The Sundance fest will shine down on Deauville this year as Diego Luna’s “Abel,” Rodrigo Cortes’ “Buried,” Kevin Asch’s “Holy Rollers,” Ryan Piers Williams’ “The Dry Land,” Jay and Mark Duplass’ “Cyrus,” Jack Scott’s “Welcome to the Rileys” and that festival’s big winner Debra Granik’s “Winter’s Bone” host their French premieres in the Gallic seaside town after runs in Park City.

David Robert Mitchell’s “The Myth of the American Sleepover” will also follow screenings at SXSW and the Festival de Cannes Critics Week sidebar with a Deauville slot.

Cannes Director’s Fortnight title Alistair Banks Griffin’s “Two Gates of Sleep” will also reopen its eyes to screen in Competition in Deauville. Derrick Borte’s “The Joneses” starring Demi Moore and David Duchovny plus Rodrigo Garcia’s “Mother and Child” with Annette Bening, Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson and Jimmy Smits will add A-list weight to the lineup.

Joining Emmanuelle Beart for her Competition jury are French actress Jeanne Balibar, director-screenwriter-actor Lucas Belvaux, director and screenwriter Faouzi Bensaidi, director-writer-actress Christine Citti, director and screenwriter Fabrice du Welz, director and screenwriter Tony Gatlif, director, screenwriter Abderrahmane Sissako and actor Denis Lavant.

Cartier’s Revelation Jury will be presided by director-screenwriter Manuel Pradal with actor Jonathan Lambert, director and screenwriter Emma Luchini, actress Roxane Mesquida, writer and actor Sebastien Thiery rounding out the judging team.

The Deauville American Film Festival runs Sept. 3-12 in Normandy.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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