In October 2001, audiences at the New York Film Festival viewed the director’s cut of the film The Royal Tenenbaums, the way it was intended it to be seen and heard. The final cut, shown in theaters and released on DVD, changed several of the songs originally used, for a variety of reasons. The two soundtracks released also omit much of the film’s music, including eight tracks of Mark Mothersbaugh’s wonderful score.
Join KZSU Stanford University at 5:00pm PST this Wednesday, 30th December 2009 for a special broadcast of the complete chronological soundtrack music from The Royal Tenenbaums. You will also hear excerpted commentary and interviews with Anderson and music supervisor Randall Poster, as they explain the difficulties in obtaining and replacing certain songs.
Listeners in the San Francisco bay area can tune in at 90.1 FM. Anyone may stream online at http://kzsulive.stanford.edu.
Fantastic Mr. Fox soundtrack is today’s Amazon “Deal of the Day”
Download it today only for $3.99. Thanks to ABKCO for the tip.
Season’s Greetings (video)
Fantastic Mr. Fox nominated for a Golden Globe
Here are the nominees for Best Animated Film:
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Princess and the Frog
Up
Let’s show some hustle, Hollywood Foreign Press Association!
Halloween Costume Contest Winners
We finally have the prize packages from Fox Searchlight and are ready to dispense some prizes! Sorry for the delay, and thanks to all who participated. A special thanks to Fox Searchlight and Sneak Attack Media for their sponsorship. Be sure to go see Fantastic Mr. Fox this weekend!
We have quite a few extra prizes to give away, so the honorable mentions (2nd and 3rd place in each category) will receive something for their efforts. And, we will be sending some holiday gifts out over the coming weeks.
The grand prize packages include:
- Fantastic Mr. Fox soundtrack
- Fantastic Mr. Fox folder (with Mr. Fox business card) and recipe cards
- Small Fantastic Mr. Fox poster
- Mr. Fox tail tie
- Noah and the Whale’s latest album/film The First Days of Spring
If you are a winner, we will be in touch soon.
Best Fantastic Mr. Fox costume
116 votes (46%)
Best Costume (Individual)
135 votes (65%)
Best costume (couple or group)
110 votes (35%)
Variety: “Directors as Wild Cards”
Award season speculation from Variety (full story):
As has become the custom, there are still a few bad boys this awards season whose creations cannot be ignored, including the Coens (“A Serious Man”), Quentin Tarantino (“Inglourious Basterds”), Michael Haneke (“The White Ribbon”), Spike Jonze (“Where the Wild Things Are”) and Wes Anderson (“Fantastic Mr. Fox”). There’s also genre specialist Guy Ritchie, whose revisionist “Sherlock Holmes” is sure to raise a few eyebrows even as the director goes highbrow…
“The whole somewhat misbegotten notion of the auteur theory is that the director’s personality is itself an aspect of the movie,” says Christian Science Monitor critic Peter Rainer. “Most films from Hollywood, particularly these days, seem to be anonymously directed. And then you have Wes Anderson. Whatever one thinks of his movies, they definitely reveal the person behind the camera and a particular point of view — a way of seeing, a type of humor that is highly distinctive to him.”
“Wes Anderson sometimes seems to me the wise guy in your history class in high school,” adds author and Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel. “He’s articulate, he’s ambitious. And somehow most of his movies don’t seem to be quite up to his own expectations of them.”
“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.
For the rest of the list you can go here: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2009/12/best-films-of-2009.html#ixzz0YpuahpkA
Wes wins Special Filmmaking Achievement Award from the National Board of Review
“The Darjeeling Limited” Best of the Decade
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.