Month: December 2009

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U.K. Fantastic Mr. Fox Blu-Ray/DVD Announced

Though Fantastic Mr. Foxis only in its second week here in the States, it’s been out in the U.K. for a bit longer, and as such, Fox has announced the Blu-Ray and DVD edtions of the film for that market.

The Blu-Ray and DVD will be released March 10, 2010. It will be a 2-Disc set with a digital copy included on the Blu-Ray. No further details or extras have been released, but the cover art is below. It’s…a cover. At least Kylie’s on it.

Fantastic Mr. Fox U.K. Blu-Ray

Information from Blu-Ray.com, where you can find links to pre-order it.

No word yet on the U.S. release, though that should be announced after the new year.

Update: 12/10 Rumoured bonus features after the break

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Owen Wilson Interviews Woody Harrelson

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In the new Interview, Owen Wilson talks to his friend Woody Harrelson about playing poker and his great new film The Messenger. Read the full interview here, or after the break.

Woody Harrelson could so easily have remained the adorable goof behind America’s favorite bar forever. It’s hard to believe now, but for a while playing Woody Boyd on the sitcom Cheers seemed like the summit of Harrelson’s career. (Is there a quicker way for an actor to become typecast than to share a name with a character?) But the Texas-born yearling made quick work of landing choice film roles in Hollywood after the iconic Boston bar shut down operations in 1993. Harrelson went from starring in one of the most violent, experimental, and relentlessly criticized films of the 1990s (Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers, 1994) to starring in one of the most violent, experimental, and universally praised films of the 2000s (the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men, 2007), with an Oscar-nominated turn as Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt (in Milos Forman’s The People vs. Larry Flynt, 1996) in between. The 48-year-old Harrelson has had an unpredictable, brilliantly bipolar career that no one—let alone the actor himself—could have anticipated. Continue reading “Owen Wilson Interviews Woody Harrelson”

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“Mr. Fox” – Best Film of the Year for New Yorker’s Richard Brody

Richard Brody chimes in again for Anderson in his Best of 2009 film list on his Front Row blog. “Fantastic Mr. Fox” is #1 on his list:

1. “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (Wes Anderson): Pure animal wildness plus an exquisitely controlled expressive frenzy; one of the most visually generous movies ever made, comparable in detail to Jacques Tati’s “Playtime.” You have to see it twice to see it once.

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“The Darjeeling Limited” Best of the Decade

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From Richard Brody’s New Yorker blog, where he ranked TDL the second best film of the 00s:

As ever with the films of Wes Anderson—the best new American director of the last twenty years—love and death, comedy and tragedy, comfort and adventure, understanding and opacity, style and substance fuse in a modernism of personal and reflexive cinema and a classicism of grand and subtle literary emotion.

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Wes on Charlie Rose

Update: There is now a direct link here.

Wes appeared on Charlie Rose a couple of nights ago, and unfortunately due to a redesign, it’s nearly impossible to link you directly to the interview. If you can manage it, go to Charlie Rose’s website and in the search box indicated in the picture below, search for Wes Anderson and it should come up, or click on the recent shows tab. Definitely worth watching. You can also view a transcript here.

 If anyone has any tips on how to emebed or even link directly to the video, please let us know.

Wes on Charlie Rose

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Spinner Interviews Anderson & Poster

Spinner interviewed Wes Anderson & longtime music supervisor Randall Poster about Fantastic Mr. Fox‘s soundtrack.

Full article after the jump, but check Spinner for a great promo video featuring Bobby Fuller Four’s “Let Her Dance.”

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Fantastic Mr. Fox Nominated for 3 Annie Awards

Annie Award Nominee Fantastic Mr. Fox

And so Fantastic Mr. Fox‘s award season begins. It was announced today that the film is nominated in three categories for Annie Awards (which you can read more about here), which as you might have guessed honor animated films. Mr. Fox receieved nominations for Best Animated Feature, Directing in a Feature Production, and Writing in a Feature Production. Congratulations Wes, Noah, et al.

The awards will be given out Saturday February 6, 2010 in Los Angeles.

Full list of nominees after the break.

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