Tilda Swinton wants to invade theaters nationwide with her own surprise program

Tilda Swinton won an Oscar for 'Michael Clayton,' but that doesn't mean she's continuing the season. "Did the Oscars even happen last year?" she asked IndieWire as she sat in a hotel lobby this week in Toronto. Then the legendary Slap came back to him. "Oh, that's right!" she said. "Even I figured that out. Well, all I can say is whatever."

Swinton has his reasons for focusing on other issues. The British actress traveled to Cannes in May for the premiere of George Miller's fantasy romance 'Three Thousand of Years of Longing,' and this month traveled from Venice to Toronto for the launch of 'The Eternal Daughter" by Joanna Hogg. In the meantime, Swinton has spent the summer off the grid in Scotland and considered what she can do to support the films on her own terms.

"I've often wanted the owner of a mux channel to give me and my friends the power to program their channel, randomly, in a kind of flash-mob in a weekend across the country,” she said. "That's what I'd like to do, totally unexpectedly. Everyone would know that next week they might go see the latest blockbuster, but for those next couple of days they might see something they don't. would have never seen otherwise. She was eager to spread the idea. "Let's see if someone writes saying, 'I'm a billionaire and I own a multiplex.'

Swinton has long been involved in the experimentation of the exhibition. In 2009, she traveled the Scottish Highlands for six days in a truck bringing classic films to small villages and hoped to bring that project back too. "We will do it again, sooner or later," she said. "We always wanted it to be unexpected." Swinton's irregular approach to organizing film screenings is an extension of his beliefs about the fragile state of the theater industry. "Streaming platforms are going to be increasingly responsible for making cinema truly possible," she said. "I'm still waiting for Netflix and Amazon and the other big streaming giants to put their money where they are and build and restore cinemas all over the world, to make sure they're not just showing cinema but the project on the big screen. It's starting to happen, but it needs to happen more."

"The Eternal Daughter"

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Swinton is also doing its part to support the medium by doubling down on director-led projects. She described Miller's work on "Three Thousand Years of Longing" as very personal. "It was kind of like we were doing a live-action movie about Miyazaki, and at other times it was like a Michael Powell movie or Arabian Nights," she said. "It was just very out of time."

Meanwhile, "The Eternal Daughter" sees her play one of her most personal roles. The film reunites the 61-year-old actress with British author Joanna Hogg in an ambitious pair of roles: Swinton plays both a middle-aged filmmaker named Julie and her elderly mother as the pair embark on a series enigmatic encounters while remaining at a distance gothic hotel. Swinton, who starred alongside her daughter in Hogg's two-part autobiography "The Souvenir," has known the director since childhood.

The personal nature of the new project, I...