Chris Weitz Articles

Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist won another award earlier today from US-based film critics. The Phoenix Film Critics Society chose the French-made (mostly) silent comedy-drama as the Best Film of 2011. Hazanavicius (right) was also chosen as Best Director and as the writer of the Best Original Screenplay, while The Artist's leading man, Jean Dujardin, was the Best Actor and the film's leading lady, Bérénice Bejo, [...]

The clip above features the L.A. band Ozomatli interspersed with red-carpet images from the Los Angeles Film Festival screening of Chris Weitz's A Better Life. Among those on the red carpet were Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner (both of whom collaborated with Weitz in The Twilight Saga: New Moon), Cowboys and Aliens' Ana de la Reguera, Weeds' Mary-Louise Parker, TRON: Legacy and On the Road's [...]

Taylor Lautner Taylor Lautner was present at the Los Angeles Film Festival's presentation of Chris Weitz's socially conscious drama A Better Life at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles. Weitz, of course, directed Lautner, Kristen Stewart, and Robert Pattinson in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the second installment of the Twilight franchise based on Stephenie Meyer's novels. Lautner plays Jacob Black, a "shapeshifter" aka werewolf. [...]

Ryan Gosling, Drive Also at the Los Angeles Film Festival 2011: the world premiere of Chris Weitz's A Better Life and the North American premiere of Nicolas Winding Refn's Palme d'Or competitor Drive, starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan. Best known at this stage for handling a vampire (Robert Pattinson), a werewolf (Taylor Lautner), and the woman between (Kristen Stewart) in The Twilight Saga: New [...]