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BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN Camp X-Ray The Homesman Still Alice Two Days, One Night BEST ACTRESS Marion Cotillard: Two Days, One Night Carol Kane: Clutter Julianne Moore: Still Alice Kristen Stewart: Camp X-Ray The Women Film Critics Circle is an association of 70 women film critics and scholars from around the country and internationally, who are involved in print, newswire, radio, online and TV broadcast media. We came together in 2004 to form the first women critics organization in the United States, in the belief that women’s perspectives and voices in film criticism need to be recognized fully.   Source  |  Via

Press Portraits       It is, Kristen Stewart agrees, just like falling in love. "It's just a very familiar, necessary feeling when you read a script you want to do,"  the actress says, coming alive at just the memory.  "I've gone with my gut, taken a lot of the thinking away, and been very lucky. "As an artist,"  she continues, her energy rising,  "If you view what you do as product, you'll never do anything true to yourself, never do anything you're proud of. I've never thought, 'My career should go in this direction.' There's no way to be tactical for me." Stewart got that familiar feeling when she read writer-director Peter Sattler's script for "Camp X-Ray," which has its debut Friday as part of the Sundance Film Festival's dramatic competition. A quietly involving drama, part character study, part meditation on the nature of shared humanity, "Camp X-Ray" is powered by Stewart's focuse...

PARK CITY, Utah -- Kristen Stewart found common ground between herself and the taciturn Guantanamo Bay Marine guard she played in Camp X-Ray, which premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival. "She had aspects that I have and that I really felt,"  said Stewart of Pvt. Amy Cole, assigned to guard the detainees held for years at Guantanamo Bay. The film is a fictional story about a friendship that develops between Cole and Ali, a suspected terrorist imprisoned on the U.S. Naval base since shortly after Sept. 11, 2001. Stewart spoke of portraying someone not so different from herself, presumably in contrast to playing a teenager in love with a vampire in the Twilight movies. When asked about her experiences filming, she joked:  "I forgot how to turn left. I was constantly rotating,"  referring to her character doing rounds in a small cellblock, often pushing a cart of library books. On a more serious note, she spoke of the importance of preparation for the role. ...

Kristen attends the annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah to the premiere of her new movie, Camp X-Ray. HQ pictures:                                                                                                                                                                                                       Inside the theater/Q&A session:                                       Fan picture...