Category Archives: The Royal Tenenbaums
“Twelve Lovely Wes Anderson Cinemagraph GIFs”
(If you have any Wes-related GIFs, send them to edwardappleby at yankeeracers dot org. We will share them in a future post.)
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Friday News Round-Up 8/3/12
Come one, come all to this week’s round-up! We’re excited to announce we have a few new features that will be rolling out in the coming weeks:
- Updated Radio and Library sections
- Polls and Quizzes
- Character Features
- A return to musical features
- …and much more.
And now, for our meat and potatoes, this week’s news:
- (Above): A fresh-faced Wes Anderson as pictured in Esquire, circa February 1999.
- We’re very pleased to learn that Matt Zoller Seitz will be publishing a book on Wes this Spring, with essays on all of his films and an interview with Wes. In the mean time, read pal Derek Hill‘s wonderful book.
- This is old, but getting passed around again, Pussy Goes Grrr’s great examination of a key shot in The Royal Tenenbaums. You can also read their entry for The Film Experience‘s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” series, of which Tenenbaums is the current focus.
- Wes was interviewed on The Treatment podcast and claims that he doesn’t write his films around any specific theme. Mere coincidence, I guess.
- A Quora user thoughtfully posits why Wes’ camera movements seem so unique.
- In case you haven’t yet planned your summer road trip, consider heading to Rhode Island and discovering some of the filming locations for Moonrise Kingdom for yourself.
- And finally, if you’re in Toronto, hopefully you’re aware of tonight’s “This is an Adventure: Wes Anderson Themed Party” at Studio 407. Tonight’s party should be good practice for your WA themed Halloween costume. (hint, hint)
Friday Saturday News Round-Up
We made a mistake?
- Life would be so much more awesome if this article was actually true.
- A Bill Murray comic comic book? Sign my kid up! I have the therapy sessions for 2025 scheduled, anyway.
- Our new pal Roland MacDonald (no relation) sent along the above fanart.
- My eyes burnt up when I saw this.
- I think that this is lame, but you are entitled to your own opinion (sort of).
- Our friend Jeffrey wonders if he has located *the* cove. Let us know what you think.
- Wes Anderson recently offered his thoughts on Christopher Nolan and Dark Knight Rises to the UK’s Empire Online:
I enjoy Chris Nolan’s work in general, but I watched the Blu-Ray and it has a thing where you can go to any scene in the movie and go to the making of that. There’s nothing that has ever made me feel less like a professional than watching Chris Nolan’s group at work. The remote-control miniature cars. Just every technique. The rehearsal of flipping the semi-trailer end over end in the middle of the desert before they blow it up in Chicago… There’s one scene where a guy jumps off the top of a skyscraper — they rehearse the jump but for the actual thing they did it CG. ‘But for the rehearsal you did jump off the building?’ ‘We have it as a reference.’ Wow. Chris Nolan is quite great. My favourite is Memento, but I’d like to learn how to do these things.
- The Village Voice’s 4Knots festival is today in New York City. Their poster brings to mind a certain Aquatic film.
- Scouting the Moonrise Kingdom filming locations (no pun intended, or maybe intended. I don’t know about these things):
Finally, thanks to Gloria for her work on this weekly column (our condolences to her and her family). And sorry for ruining it by posting it a day late the one week that it is my job.
How Wes Anderson Soundtracks His Films
If you’ve ever enjoyed Wes Anderson’s keen sense of pairing just the right song with justthe right scene, you have Randall Poster to thank. NPR has a wonderful interview with Poster that focuses on his work with Wes. Poster has worked on all of Wes’s films post-Bottle Rocket, after meeting through a mutual friend.
While walking around a farmer’s market, Anderson told Poster about a piece of music that he wanted to use for Bottle Rocket but couldn’t because of a rights issue.
“I was so smitten with the film that I basically promised to get any piece of music that he ever wanted to use in a movie,” Poster says. “And that kicked us off.”
Randall Poster’s interview with NPR is a real gem and offers a very different perspective of working on an Anderson film. To learn even more about Poster’s work, a 2007 interview with the Guardian has some great blurbs about working on WA films and others.
Image of Poster on the set of The Darjeeling Limited from moviefone.
The Guardian’s Interview of Wes
The Guardian has a nice interview with Wes regarding his style, his critical reception, working with children, and his frequent collaborators. Regarding the last, he says:
“I don’t think any of us are considered ‘normal’ people,” he says. “It’s probably more a family of crazy uncles. But there’s an energy that comes from people who are friends. Whatever chemistry is on set is going to be there in the movie, and you want some electricity that you don’t really control.”
The rest of the interview can be read over at The Guardian.
The Royal Tenenbaums Coming to Criterion Blu-Ray!
Exciting news for fans of pixels, Wes’ third film The Royal Tenenbaums will, as Rushmore before it, be getting a Blu-Ray re-release from The Criterion Collection. Looks like the extras will be identical to the terrific DVD release. You can check out the still great, albeit admittedly familiar, artwork by Eric Chase Anderson below. The Blu-Ray will be available in the US on 8/14.
Criterion Designer Sam Smith’s Wes Anderson Poster Designs
The great designer (and drummer) Sam Smith has created a series of posters for The Castro Theater’s screenings of The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic for this Saturday. Check out the posters below. To find alternate versions of the posters, and info on where you can buy them, visit Mr. Smith’s tumblr.
Friday News Round-Up 5/4/12
- Above: “What Kind of a Bird Are You?” 1 of 6 in a series by Paperbeatscissors
- 20 minutes of Behind of Scenes footage from the Moonrise Kingdom set. Also, cast and crew interviews with Edward Norton, Bruce Willis and more.
- Tickets for Cannes opening night film sell out.
- Google+Hangout Session offers Roman Coppola’s floating head.
- American singer-songwriter Rocky Votolato adds a Wes Anderson classic to his top 5.
- The Agony and the Ecstasy of Wes Anderson
- If you’re in Edinburgh, you should be gearing up for the We Heart Wes Retrospective starting May 17
- Chicago’s Gallery 27′s first show will be Futura: An art show tribute to Wes Anderson on June 2. (Miranda Dressler’s Fantastic Mr. Fox screenprint will be in the show.)
Friday News Round-Up 4/27/12
A little slow this week, but enjoy the lull while you can. Next week is May which is release month. This week’s round-up:
- (Above) A great vector poster of Moonrise Kingdom’s Khaki Scouts by Society 6
- For all his Titanic love, James Cameron seems to have a soft spot for the Belafonte
- From ThinkProgress, The Preciousness of Moonrise Kingdom and Wes Anderson’s Approach to Privilege
- A roundup of Anderson posters (and DVD art) on the Poster Collective
- Have you always wanted to be a Tenenbaum? Well, now you can! Or at least be drawn into a family portrait.
- Jason Schwartzman will attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
- A playlist for Sam and Suzy — I Will Meet You in the Meadow