Finally, some news! The music video for Devendra Banhart’s quite evidently Bollywood-inspired “Carmensita”, featuring Natalie in an absolutely hilarious cameo appearance, has finally premiered online, and is available for viewing at Spinner.com. Do check it out (if you can — non-US residents will have to bitterly bite their tongue for the moment), Natalie is absolutely priceless and looks like she had a ton of fun filming it. Screen caps later today!

In other news, according to the Project Runway official site, Natalie will “guest judge” in the green, second episode of Season 5, which airs on Wednesday July 23 2008 (that’s tomorrow!) at 9-10 PM ET/PT on Bravo — check your local listings. Don’t forget to visit Portman Source for coverage! From Bravo.tv:

Episode 2: Grass Is Always Greener
The designers are forced to think green in the second episode of Project Runway — with the help of their trusted model. Guest Judge: Natalie Portman.

I’ve recently noticed that photos originating from Portman Source are being reposted at other websites without the slightest of mention of the site. While a little reposting is fine by me (after all, the site is here to share, no?), I do find it increasingly disheartening to see hoards of material — literally hundreds of photos — from our imagery being continuously spread to or at other sources, material I work hard to obtain exclusively for Portman Source. In view of the fact that, unlike many other fan sites today, I leave the majority of photos untagged and do not nitpick about the occasional reposts, I don’t see why allowing Portman Source a taste of appreciation for work well done should be so much to ask.

Thus, I kindly ask you to please credit Portman Source for reposted material, and ask you not to redistribute our original scans or screen captures to or at other websites, whether they be dedicated to Natalie or not. Thank you.

Finally(!) some news, and some good (albeit a tad surprising) news at that. NewsDay.com reports Natalie will be a guest judge in the 5th season of Bravo TV’s fashion designer reality series, Project Runway. From NewsDay.com:

The season is bittersweet for Bravo — it’s auf wiedersehen at the end, as next time around it moves to Lifetime. But the powers behind the show assure that they are pulling out all the stops. Fashion fabulous guest judges range from Diane von Furstenberg to Brooke Shields, and even a few notable LIers will weigh in, including LL Cool J of Manhasset for a music-centric challenge and Natalie Portman, a Syosset high school grad, who will render judgement during a “green” episode.

The 5th season of the hit TV series will air on Wednesday night in its new time slot of 9 pm.

Saying things have been quiet with Natalie of late does not do justice to the utter lack of Nat news we’ve been experiencing. However, Ecorazzi reports Natalie will be appearing in an anti-fur Public Service Announcement à la PETA. From Ecorazzi.com:

But for [award-winning Brazilian actress Elissa] Sursara, a guest appearance is not the last of her eco-friendly projects in her stand against animal exploitation. Reportedly joining forces with a super-secret shoe design house to release her own range of vegan-friendly footwear and teaming up with fellow actress Natalie Portman for an anti-fur PETA PSA, it’s the starlet’s own highly-graphic animal rights documentary Rights Revoked for Animal Planet that is said to have tongues wagging.

The winners of the 34th Annual Saturn Awards have been announced. Unfortunately, Goya’s Ghosts did not win the award for Best International Film which the movie was nominated for. The award went to Eastern Promises.

I’ve been meaning to upload these for a while now, but haven’t really gotten to it. I’ve just added 6 hi-res scans of Natalie’s feature in the June 2008 issue of Finnish Elle. The inside photos are not new, the cover shot on the other hand, is. Enjoy, and kindly do not redistribute these scans at another Natalie Portman fan site as they were obtained exclusively for Portman Source. Thank you. More scans coming up!

New Photo Albums:

• ‘Elle’ (Fi) June 2008 Scans

My apologies again for the delay in updates, we experienced some technical difficulties for a while there. Lucky for us (?), there hasn’t really been any news on Natalie of late, so we haven’t really missed anything.

At any rate, I do have something to update with today. I’ve just uploaded roughly 1700 medium-res screen captures of Natalie as Anne Boleyn in Justin Chadwick’s period drama The Other Boleyn Girl; DVD-quality caps will be added as soon as possible. While I confess I didn’t like the movie itself, Natalie was her usual splendid self, with her performance being one of the highlights of the film. Enjoy the caps; our gallery has now reached more than 40,000 Natalie Portman photos!

New Photo Albums:

• ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ Movie Screen Captures

Apologies for the delay in updates, we’re currently experiencing some technical difficulties which hopefully will be resolved soon. Stay tuned!