Friday, August 31, 2018
Thursday, August 30, 2018
"Suspiria" will be presented at the London Film Festival 2018 on October 16th
Headline Gala. Tuesday 16 October 2018 19:00 LFF Cineworld Leicester Square.
More information on the official web.
Luca Guadagnino Talks about "Suspiria" and Mentions Dakota with Deadline
There is an incredible sense of unease permeating the movie. It is a very eerie mood piece. Dakota Johnson said she needed therapy after the production and described a very haunting production location. Can you tell us more about that space and how you generated that sense of unease?
Luca: Honestly, I don’t think the shoot was traumatic. It’s a complicated movie because of its set-pieces but every day was a joy to work with such a skilled team. The problem for Dakota was that it’s an intense storyline and it’s an intense performance. We were shooting on top of a mountain overlooking the Italian city of Varese in an abandoned hotel. We completely remade it into our Tanz Dance Academy. There was a lot of eeriness in the place, which probably resonated with Dakota.
Have you spoken to Dakota about her reaction? Perhaps the therapy comment was tongue-in-cheek…
Luca: We spoke about it constantly. We had fun with it. Dakota is very sharp and very witty. I very much doubt she has been permanently damaged by the movie…
There are some disturbing scenes. Were there any things the actors were reluctant to do?
Luca: None. Zero. The cast dared themselves to do everything. Dakota, Mia, Jessica, the dancers, all of them. Nobody was shy about anything. We emboldened each other. I like to think my movies are an eight, nine, ten-week party. We were having fun.
Have you spoken to Dakota about her reaction? Perhaps the therapy comment was tongue-in-cheek…
Luca: We spoke about it constantly. We had fun with it. Dakota is very sharp and very witty. I very much doubt she has been permanently damaged by the movie…
There are some disturbing scenes. Were there any things the actors were reluctant to do?
Luca: None. Zero. The cast dared themselves to do everything. Dakota, Mia, Jessica, the dancers, all of them. Nobody was shy about anything. We emboldened each other. I like to think my movies are an eight, nine, ten-week party. We were having fun.
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
"Suspiria" will be presented at the 75th Venice International Film Festival
Press Conference
Suspiria Press Conference at Venice Film Festival will be at 11.00 am on September 1st, 2018.
Premiere
The movie will premiere at Venice Film Festival on September 1st, 2017. The screening is at 19:15 local time. For more information or details visit the festival official site here.
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
New Photoshoot of Dakota and "Suspiria" Cast in Vanity Fair Italia [September 2018]
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Translated by Us
What has left you an experience like Suspiria?
Dakota: Immediately after the shoot, I needed a little breath to be able to reintegrate into my life. We were shooting in a location so far from reality and so isolated that it was easy to be overwhelmed. In
addition, addressing difficult issues such as witchcraft, death and
post-war Germany may have done some work on myself to regain balance, I
had the strange feeling of "what happened?". I felt like I was in a confused dream. Luca constantly kept me out of things I did not think I could do. For
example: while working with the choreographer Damien Jalet on one of my
Susie's dances, we found that my shoulders are very articulated, and
the shoulder blades look really scary in certain positions, a bit like those of a wild cat. We filmed them and they appear every so often in the film.
Who are the witches nowadays?
Who are the witches nowadays?
Dakota: Those
who have a close relationship with their own femininity, with intuition
and with the unknown, and can approach places and people without
judging but with compassion may perhaps be considered more witch than
those who are emotionally detached from the world.
If you had not made your debut at age 9 and had not been the daughter of actors, do you think cinema would have had such a profound impact on your life?
If you had not made your debut at age 9 and had not been the daughter of actors, do you think cinema would have had such a profound impact on your life?
Dakota: I would like to believe that, regardless of birth and education, I would have found the right path for art and cinema anyway. It is not only in blood, but in the soul.
Behind The Scene Video
Video with New Images from the Behind The Scene of Vanity Fair Italy with Dakota and the #Suspiria Cast ❤ #DakotaJohnson pic.twitter.com/bJtFWvKNE2— Dakota Johnson Fans (@LifeDJohnson) August 28, 2018
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Monday, August 27, 2018
Sunday, August 26, 2018
Pictures + Videos of Dakota at a friend's baby shower today [August 26th, 2018]
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Videos
Another New Video where you can see Dakota at a friend's baby shower today ❤#DakotaJohnson; via mollyihoward on Instagram. pic.twitter.com/m5OJqF8NfZ— Dakota Johnson Fans (@LifeDJohnson) August 26, 2018
Another New Video where you can see Dakota at a friend's baby shower today ❤#DakotaJohnson; via rachelzoe on Instagram. pic.twitter.com/kVvFwD2I6A— Dakota Johnson Fans (@LifeDJohnson) August 27, 2018
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Sarah Nininger talks about Dakota and her visit to Uganda in April 2018
"In April, Dakota Johnson, my childhood best friend and longtime Action in Africa supporter, visited our programs in Uganda. It was such a special visit and I am truly moved beyond words by her love and support. We look forward to many more visits with her in the future."
Monday, August 20, 2018
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Monday, August 13, 2018
Melanie Griffith mentions Dakota with Instyle Magazine [September 2018 Issue]
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She and Johnson, who met when she was just 14 and married for the first time only a few years later, “were imprinted on each other,” she says. “It was sort of a natural karmic thing for us to get back together and to have Dakota. She was meant to come into the world, if you think about it.”
Friday, August 10, 2018
New "Suspiria" Preview in Entertainment Weekly [August 2018 Issue]
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In the new horror film Suspiria (out Nov. 2), Dakota Johnson plays Susie Bannion, a young woman who travels from Ohio to attend a prestigious — if highly unusual — dance academy in Berlin. “She takes the place of a dance student who has recently disappeared and immediately becomes one of the top dancers in the academy,” the Fifty Shades of Grey alum tells EW of her latest role. Susie develops an “intense and beautiful” student-teacher relationship with Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton), “and then you discover that the dance academy is run by witches!”
The most impressive dance scene in this remake of director Dario Argento’s classic 1977 terror tale is a public performance of the routine “Volk” — German for “people.” Inspired by the pre-WWII avant-garde expressionist dance movement, the sequence was dreamed up by the film’s choreographer, Damien Jalet, and is soundtracked by an instrumental from the film’s composer, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke. The choreography is also part of the witches’ grand design.
The most impressive dance scene in this remake of director Dario Argento’s classic 1977 terror tale is a public performance of the routine “Volk” — German for “people.” Inspired by the pre-WWII avant-garde expressionist dance movement, the sequence was dreamed up by the film’s choreographer, Damien Jalet, and is soundtracked by an instrumental from the film’s composer, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke. The choreography is also part of the witches’ grand design.
Friday, August 3, 2018
Thursday, August 2, 2018
New Interview of Dakota in Gioia Magazine, August Issue [Italy]
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Translated by Us
Dakota: Yes, he came to me and asked me if I had ever seen Suspiria and if I wanted to be Susie Bannion, the protagonist. Then he sent me a link and he convinced me.
It was not an easy movie to shoot ...
Dakota: It was a crazy experience, totally different from before, just as the locations where we shot were extreme. For a while we were isolated on a mountain: surreal and distressing. The external environment mirrored my character, Luca is a master in this: he can sink you completely into the feelings of those who perform.
How did you prepare for the dance scenes?
Dakota: I trained four months before filming, and then many women in the set helped me, like my stunt double. I'm not a professional dancer and some things I would never have been able to do. As vedretem is a dance "in the absence of gravity", very difficult, hard for the body, aggressive, not always beautiful. But it was very gratifying to work with such a close-knit team of women.
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