The World of Wes Anderson
A few years back, some of the Yankee Racers organized a Wes Anderson Film Festival.
We want to try it again. We would put up a chat room, meet at a designated time, and press play simultaneously. What do you think? What film should we watch together first?
IGN U.K. interviews Mr. Wes Anderson (hulu.com):
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Nice post from OMG Lists, a site that apparently specializes in… lists? Nothing earth-shattering here, but worth a look.
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He’s one of indie filmmaking’s biggest names. If you ever find yourself watching a film you’re not sure who directed… here’s a checklist of signs to know you’re watching one of Anderson’s films.
5- Bill Murray Being Serious
If you’re seeing this comic king in a movie that was made in the past ten years it’s probably a Wes Anderson movie. Of the last fifteen film projects Murray has done four have been with Anderson. It was his role in “Rushmore” that made him an indie-film darling with such directors as Jim Jarmusch and Sofia Coppola. Murray has a strong commitment to Anderson, backing up the director by pulling out of his own pocket to help shoot a scene and also working for free in “The Royal Tenenbaums”. Their film relationship has produced some interesting film experiences as well as a partnership of respect and comradeship.
4- Slow Motion Endings
In all but one of his films, Anderson has ended with the slow motion shot. We saw Dignan leaving for prison in “Bottle Rocket”, Max’s Dance with Miss Cross in “Rushmore”, Royal Tenenbaums’s funeral, and Steve Zissou walk the red carpet all in slow motion into the end credits. It’s a signature style that Anderson has replicated in most of his films. Also notice the credits, first name in lower and uppercase but the last name is always uppercase. The only movie that broke the slow motion ending tradition? “The Darjeeling Limited,” which began with a slow motion shot of Peter Whitman barely making the namesake train.
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Another Wes sighting in Paris, this time noted on fashion design team Eley Kishimoto’s blog:
Whilst taking Alexis to see the window on the last night of fashion week Wes Anderson strolled by with a banjo over his arm walking with what looked like a band that consisted of two members I didn’t recognise and Jarvis Cocker. Alexis knees buckled fumbling at her crash helmet, it was a pleasant suprise as when we started we had dinner with Jean and met Wes and discussed it. He stated lets stay 2m and take it in, very sweet, honked the horn and off we road.
Wes in a band? With JC? Sounds like a dream come true…
Friend of the site Elaine, who is studying living abroad in France for a year, saw Mr. Wes Anderson at fnac this past weekend. She kindly posted some photographs on our Facebook group, which I have stolen reproduced here.
Vive le Wes!
From reader Michael:
Ahoy,
I randomly stumbled across this just now, not sure if you’ve seen it…
I’m submitting this because a) I hadn’t seen it before, and I’d up until now been fairly certain I’d read literally every interview Anderson conducted in promoting Darjeeling, and b) I’ve been visiting your website at least once a day since I found it, which was some time a few months before Darjeeling was released.
Here’s the pertinent bit for your convenience:
“Noah [Baumbach] and I started working on a…story for a movie without really realizing we were doing it. It wasn’t ‘The Life Aquatic.’ It was something else that we haven’t even finished writing. Whenever we would go to dinner or something, we’d just start making up scenes for this thing and then we just started writing them down because [we realized] that we’ve got a lot of stuff now.”
Best, and thanks for all the work. It’s a great site, and I appreciate the good writing.
Back in October (or thereabouts), Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, and Adrien Brody assembled their own Darjeeling Limited playlists for the iTunes Store. While old news to many, this is new news to us! Thanks to Owen for the lead. Track listings after the break.
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“On the Street… Wes Anderson, Paris”
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From Forbes:
It looks like advertising agency Hart+Larsson pulled a fast one on the fashion industry.
For the last two days, legions of Internet fashionistas have been abuzz with reports of an online spoof of Marc Jacobs’ Jurgen Teller-shot print advertisements. The Jurgen/Jacobs collaboration recently made news with shots of Victoria Beckham, also known as Posh Spice, in compromising positions.
The Flash images at Thenewenthusiasm.com feature two wigged men dressed in late-1970s-style tennis gear reminiscent of the Richie Tenenbaum character in Wes Anderson’s 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums. One shot features a man in a floral dress that looks as though it belong in a past Jacobs’ collection.
Yesterday, fashion news blog Fashionista.com wrote a post about the Web site, asking readers for any leads on where it might be coming from. They speculated it may have been a fashion student or Jacobs himself. This morning, fashion trade magazine Women’s Wear Daily said it called Jacobs’ corporate offices and was told the company, owned by French conglomerate LVMH, had nothing to do with the ads.
The domain thenewenthusiasm.com is registered under Thomas Larsson and Greg Hart, a duo of creatives who name MTV, AOL and Olympus (other-otc: OCPNF.PK – news – people ) as clients. Greg Hart told Forbes.com the Web site was simply an experiment. “We’re huge Marc Jacobs fans. And Juergen Teller, too. We aim to flatter.”
Larsson also said that the domain–The New Enthusiasm–is the company’s “platform to challenge tired notions of what is and what is not.”
Fashion industry, meet viral marketing.
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