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Owen Wilson hospitalized

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Various gossip/news outlets are reporting that Owen Wilson was hospitalized Sunday. We refuse to speculate, as they have. Owen has requested “that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.” Our thoughts are with Owen.

Please, we do not have contact information for Mr. Wilson. Your desire to reach him is well intended, but we encourage you to respect his privacy, as he has requested. If you need a support group, leave your comments and feelings over on the Yankee Racers forum (URL). We will keep you updated.

August 29, 3.03 pm edit: As I have said, we don’t want to speculate, but I think this post is a fantastic response to the sensationalized media coverage of Owen’s predicament.

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Wes Anderson’s Commercials

“Pietro” pointed out this link to us over at Yankee Racers. At Moxie Pictures, you can view several of Wes’ commercials, including his terrific American Express ad (as well as ads for Dasani, Ikea, and Avon). Several other prominent film directors, including Cameron Crowe, Rob Marshall, Errol Morris, Kevin Smith, and John Waters, have commercials on the site.

Then head on over to the Racers thread to discuss!

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Wes to unveil new short film at Venice…?

A new Wes Anderson short film, Hotel Chevalier, will premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, 29 August-8 September 2007 (URL). The film is a 12-minute “out of competition special event” starring Jason Schwartman and Natalie Portman, according to the site. The Darjeeling Limited will also premiere at the event. More soon… (Thanks to MissPortman.com for this lead).

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Some trailer captures posted…

I have posted some trailer captures. Enjoy!

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Trailer Captures Gallery

All images (c) 2007 American Empirical Pictures and Fox Searchlight

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Variety: The Fox scheduled for 6 November 2009

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According to Variety.com, the current release date for The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson’s sixth full-length (and first fully animated) film, is 6 November 2009. They have a good article (URL) about such ‘farsighted’ release planning.

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Tidbits from the ‘net.

[deleted]I also came upon an article from the Winter 2007 ed. of Cinema Journal: “La Camera-Crayola: Authorship Comes of Age in the Cinema of Wes Anderson” by Devin Orgeron (NC State Univ.).

Like the semicultish but relatively short-lived electronic frenzy to recreate and sell the Team Zissou Adidas sneaker, the clip [the American Express commercial] has taken on a life of its own on the Internet, become another potentially coveted and collectible Anderson product, a part of the Anderson lifestyle [author’s italics], characterized by the director’s simultaneous self-deprecation and self-aggrandizement. Critical for us, indeed, is the centrality of Anderson himself within the Andersonian mise-en-scène. Directed by Anderson or not, the spot, claiming to advertise the recognizable credit card, ends up as an advertisement for Anderson himself, his cinematic form, his thematic fascination with the individual, and his network of support… Anderson’s installment is particularly interesting, perhaps, because of its fit within a body of work similarly concerned with the delicate production of personal identity, here reduced to an array of identifiable, imitable, and, as a consequence, even laughable stylistic and thematic characteristics (61-62).

URL: Orgeron article

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Another outdated recommendation? Why, yes.

 As usual, I am rather late with this find… James Mottram’s The Sundance Kids centers on the question (according to the Introduction):

‘Are we returning to an age where formerly independent directors are using studio funds to further their own idiosyncratic vision?’ In other words, is this the dawn of New Hollywood Part II? As the title of this book suggests, many of the contemporary film makers under consideration have been connected to Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. For most… it is with a film at the festival. Then there is Wes Anderson, whose debut feature began life as a short film showcased there…. Many of them flunked college [not true for Wes] and eschewed film school….’

Has anyone read this? Thoughts?

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‘Sharper’ Wes? from CHUD

CHUD.com has an article about The Darjeeling Limited. Nothing much new, except this quote from New York Film Festival director Richard Pena:

It represents a big step for Wes. I hate to use the word ‘matured,’ but the humor and whimsy he uses is sharper, better focused and used more effectively.

URL: Wes Anderson’s Indian Summer 

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Some good U.K. news

This is really late notice, but the Cube Microplex Cinema in Bristol is hosting a Wes Anderson Appreciation Society event tonight, June 29, at 8 pm. 2 quid.

Revel in the absurdist widescreen world of WES ANDERSON, the hilarious tragedy and the small joys of conversation and camaraderie. Come as your favourite flawed protagonist. Max Fischer from Rushmore. Any one of the idiosyncraticTenenbaums – Royal, Etheline, Margot, Cha[s], Richie or one of their extended
family, Eli Cash, Raleigh St. Clair, and Pagoda. Or come en mass as TEAM Zissou from [The] Life Aquatic.

Savour the speciality cocktails at the bar (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The RoyalTenenbaum and A Life Aquatic) and let dj’s Raymond Baumbach and Matthew Wilson take you late into the night..

Wildcat… wild… cat… pow…

URL: Cube Cinema

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Darjeeling Limited release date moved up?

Fox Searchlight now lists the New York release date of The Darjeeling Limited as September 29 (one night after its premiere at the New York Film Festival). How this changes the release schedule, we don’t know.

Release: September 29, 2007
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Written by: Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola
Produced by: Scott Rudin, Lydia Pilcher, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Cast: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman

THE DARJEELING LIMITED starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman is an emotional comedy about three brothers re-forging family bonds. The eldest, played by Wilson, hopes to reconnect with his two younger siblings by taking them on a train trip across the vibrant and sensual landscape of India.

URLs: Fox Searchlight page; official announcement about New York Film Festival