Category: Wes Anderson

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Mailbag

(Just a reminder: Owen Wilson will be presenting tonight’s Top Ten List on the Late Show with David Letterman.)

  • From Sean, a Rushmore-inspired music video from Company of Thieves:

The debut music video from Company of Thieves, is inspired by Wes Anderson’s Rushmore. The video for the song “Oscar Wilde” was filmed at Sycamore Elementary School in Kokomo, Indiana, over the course of just one day in December 2008. It includes over 60 props which were mostly bought from flea markets and vintage stores. The video was shot on Kodak Vision3 500T 16mm film using an Eclair ACL camera with 12mm and 14mm lenses, with 23 lighting setups. The footage was digitally transferred to uncompressed 10 bit format and edited in Final Cut. If you like the song, it’s available for free download.

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Wes interviews Peter Bogdanovich

Cheers! And, Happy New Year!

From the Yankee Racers:

There’s an awesome set of videos up on youtube of Wes interviewing Peter Bogdanovich about his film They All Laughed. It’s really interesting and cool to see Wes getting to talk to one of his heroes – check it out!

(sorry for not embedding the videos, but the function has been disabled for these videos)

Part 1 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCdn_Rd5ZGE
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_CgmZhX8Y8
Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYRAoLPxjqs

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Wes directs Brad Pitt?

From the LA Times:

What is Brad Pitt doing in this strange Japanese TV commercial?

Well, it’s directed by Wes Anderson, so there’s that. And according to Us, it’s a remake of the 1953 French film “Les Vacances de Monseieur Hulot.” Pitt shot the Softbank commercial in Normandy on Sept. 20.

“There were lots of children on the set, and Brad was very friendly to all of them,” a set source tells Us. “Some of the children had complicated French names. He turned to them and said, ‘What is your name?’ in the most perfect French. He’s obviously been studying hard.”

As well as learning French, Brad is also mastering Japanese. “Brad also used a few Japanese words to the Softbank execs too,” the source told Us. “He’s becoming a master of many languages.”

Apparently, the Pittster’s been doing wackadoodle Japanese commercials for a few years.

Thanks to everyone who sent this along.

More soon. Sorry if it feels like we’re operating on a tape delay.

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Brand new Wes Anderson interview at Onion A.V. Club

Link

(more on this soon)

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“A Little Love: The Art of Bill Melendez”

All about the “Peanuts” animator, his collaboration with Charles Schulz, the modernist flavor of his work, and his influence on the films of Wes Anderson…

A great little video. Thanks to Matt for the link.

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Wes revisited in new American Express commercial

I love this line. My project was to find beauty in the flaws and vice versa.

(P.S. I love John Cleese)

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Wes in Rome

Variety writes that Wes will be appearing onstage at the Rome Film Festival next month:

Anderson is coming on behalf of Martin Scorsese‘s The Film Foundation to present a new print of Albert Levin’s 1951 fantasy “Pandora and the Flying Dutchman,” starring Ava Gardner and James Mason, restored by the foundation in tandem with the Rome fest.

The Rome Film Festival will be Oct 22-31.

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Wes Anderson to redo ‘Mon meilleur ami’?

From Variety.

Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment has set Wes Anderson to write “My Best Friend,” a remake of the 2006 Patrice Leconte-directed French comedy “Mon meilleur ami.” Anderson is also eying the project as a directing vehicle.

Brian Grazer and Agnes Mentre will produce. Rosalie Swedlin will be executive producer.

The French pic starred Daniel Auteuil as a cranky antiques dealer who learns at a dinner with his closest acquaintances that none of them really like him because of his harsh manner and selfishness. When his business partner bets him a valuable vase that he can’t produce a best friend, the dealer tries to get an amiable cab driver to pose as his buddy.

Pic marks Anderson’s first collaboration with Imagine, which releases the Ron Howard-directed “Frost/Nixon” on Dec. 5 and the Clint Eastwood-directed “Changeling” on Oct. 24 through Universal and “Angels & Demons” on May 15 through Sony.

Anderson just completed directing an animated adaptation of Roald Dahl novel “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” with 20th Century Fox Animation.

UTA reps Anderson and sold remake rights on the film to Universal.

Credit: Loraxaeon (Yankee Racers thread)

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Wes and photography

Nice little post about Wes’ photography inspirations over on Perpenduum

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Houston Chronicle article, Rushmore tonight in the park (Houston)


(credit: Houston Chronicle, more photos after the break)

First, if you live in the Houston area, you can see Rushmore tonight on the big screen!

Discovery Green’s free movie series celebrates Houston on film with a 10th anniversary screening of this indie classic by Houstonian Wes Anderson.

Event times: 5 September 2008 (Friday), 7.30 pm (link)

Andrew Dansby has written a great article about the 10th anniversary of Rushmore for the Houston Chronicle (link):

It takes a special eye to see Houston as the setting for a fairy tale. Wes Anderson thought about shooting his second film, Rushmore, in New England, but he couldn’t find a location that worked for the titular school.

So he asked his mother, real estate agent Texas Anderson, to shoot his alma mater, St. John’s School, “standing in the circle and rotating while shooting one photo after another,” she said. The search ended there.

Having found Rushmore Academy right in his backyard, Wes Anderson’s next task was finding Houston locations for the rest of the film. (By the way, the city is never stated as the setting in the movie.) He shot most of it at St. John’s, but there are also scenes filmed at a home in West University, Lamar High School, a barbershop in the Heights, North Shore High School, the Forest Club on Memorial and a stadium parking lot just outside the Loop (see map on Page E3).

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