What: Royal Tenenbaums screening party
Where: Rushmore Academy chat room
When: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 9 p.m. Eastern/6 p.m. Pacific
Wes Moment No. 003
“Needle in the Hay”
Brought to you by the 2009 Wes Anderson Film Festival. Join us this Thursday at 9 p.m. ET to chat and watch The Royal Tenenbaums together.
Suggest the next Wes Moment! E-mail edwardappleby @ yankeeracers.org or tweet @rushmoreacademy!
Substance of Style, Part 5
The real Eagle’s Island
The New York Times recently ran a piece on City Island in the Bronx, the real Eagle’s Island.
Along with a handful of historic houses, including the stately Queen Anne where the movies “The Royal Tenenbaums” and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” were filmed, City Island, just 1.5 miles long, manages to cram in two parks, a ball field, three churches, a synagogue, two schools, a cemetery, a museum, a French bed-and-breakfast and 33 restaurants.
The island is popular among film and TV producers (most recently “Law and Order” and “Life on Mars”). The landmark Queen Anne at 21 Tier Street was used in “The Royal Tenenbaums” and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.”
A whale decorates the weathervane on the peak of the Queen Anne house at 21 Tier Street.
(from our Gallery)
Another UCB parody
via SlashFilm:
Wes has inspired the Upright Citizens Brigade once again, this time in their parody “Famous Sketches Retold.” I can’t really say that I think this one is much funnier than the last one. Opinions?
Wes in Gwen’s Goop and directing “First Grade Journal” (a parody)
Jessica over at the Yankee Racers forum posted this tidbit a while ago, but I never shared it on the site. On her very cool site GOOP, Gwyneth Paltrow (The Royal Tenenbaums) recently asked “five brilliant directors (four of whom I have worked with and one who I worship) to share their top five DVD rental picks.”
Wesley Wales Anderson answered as follows:
Wes’ Picks:
(Wes Anderson directed Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, etc. He is one of the most specific directors I have ever worked with. When I played Margot in The Royal Tenenbaums, he knew exactly how he wanted my hair, clothes and eye makeup. He is so inspiring to work with because you feel like you are the one crazy, important color he needs to create the whole picture. Also, he is a great dresser.)Terror’s Advocate
Barbet Schroeder’s great documentary, Terror’s Advocate, also relates to another one I would highly recommend, which is Marcel Ophüls’ documentary Hôtel Terminus (except I think you can only get it on VHS). There is kind of a miniature version of Terror’s Advocate in the middle of it.Neon Genesis Evangelion
This is a Japanese cartoon that is very difficult to describe and might not sound that great if I tried anyway. It is 24 episodes, and we watched them all in less than a week because you start to want to believe it’s real. This could spawn something like Scientology.From the Life of Marionettes
I’d never heard of this until last month. It’s an Ingmar Bergman movie he made in Germany where I think he was a tax exile.Life Lessons
The Martin Scorsese part of New York Stories. It’s about a painter.More or less anything that says The Criterion Collection across the top it. The most recent one I had never seen before and loved was Costa-Gavras’ Missing.
The folks over at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade have made a parody of Wes’ filmmaking (The Royal Tenenbaums, specifically). I can’t decide if I think it is funny or not.
Tenenbaum FAIL, or SUCCESS
A new site, titled “Tenenbaum FAIL,” recently popped up on the blogging site Tumbler. Slash Film reports:
Imagine if FAIL Blog was a hipster blood bath sponsored by the Criterion Collection. The nascent but incredibly popular tumblr, Tenenbaum FAIL, posts abhorred photos of people dressed up like the famously stylized, overly fetishized characters from Wes Anderson’s filmography.
Many of the photos were ripped off borrowed from our Halloween costume contests. Unlike the folks at FAIL, we think the costumes are fantastic! A few of our favorites after the break…
Cool new t-shirts from Waterloo
(click on the image to visit the Waterloo product page)
Very cool.
Recovery area (It’s not easy being green)
Kermit the Frog (not the real one) reenacts the “Needle in the Hay” scene from The Royal Tenenbaums. Brilliant or disturbing? You be the judge.
The original:
(link)
