The World of Wes Anderson
“The Criterion Mobile Closet is returning to Los Angeles! This July 10-12, Criterion will transform the Hollywood Bowl’s Music from the Films of Wes Anderson concert into our largest public event yet, stepping into the director’s creative universe for a weekend celebrating film, sound, and discovery.
Alongside the Mobile Closet, we’re launching a one-weekend-only Criterion Cinema, offering fans screenings curated by Anderson, special merch, and space to unwind and get inspired! This experience will be open to everyone. You do not need a concert ticket to enter the Mobile Closet lottery or the Criterion Cinema.
For the first time, we will have timed and ticketed entry to the Mobile Closet — head here (criterion.com/current/posts/9186-criterion-heads-to-los-angeles-for-a-tribute-to-wes-anderson) to learn more, sign up, and pick your preferred one-hour time slot and enter the lottery for a chance to experience the Closet. We can’t wait to meet you!”
The film’s most dominant musical force is Russian-born composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky. His dramatic ballet scores Petrouchka and L’Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird) (taken from recordings conducted by Stravinsky himself) underpin the characters’ emotional and geographic journeys. In addition to pieces from Stravinsky’s ballets, Anderson and Poster zeroed in on the soaring final movement of Stravinsky’s Apollon musagète. “Apotheosis” plays during the opening credits sequence, a way to introduce Zsa-zsa as “epic.” “Our film is about a man who is like a mountain,” says Anderson. “He is himself of epic scale, his life is on an epic scale.”
Be sure to check out the music of The Phoenician Scheme and all the films of Wes Anderson on Rushmore Academy Radio!
“Each record is pressed on 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl, with 350gsm matt laminated outer sleeve and 350gsm silk matt laminated inner card. The releases are housed in protective PVC sleeves and are limited to 1000 copies wordwide.” The art is magnificent. Note that each vinyl has two songs. More here.
We’re added songs from The French Dispatch soundtrack and Chansons d’Ennui by Jarvis Cocker as Tip-Top!
Royal: Look, I know I’m going to be the bad guy on this one, but I just want to say the last six days have been the best six days of probably my whole life.
Narrator: Immediately after making this statement, Royal realized that it was true.
Via the Music Film Reporter:
1. Obituary
2. After You’ve Gone – Gene Austin, Candy And CoCo
3. Simone, Naked, Cell Block-J, Hobby Room
4. Fiasco – Gus Viseur
5. Moses Rosenthaler
6. I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango) – Grace Jones
7. Mouthwash De Menthe
8. Sonata for Mandolin and Guitar A-Dur K.331, Adagio – Boris Bjoern Bagger, Detlef Tewes
9. Cadazio Uncles and Nephew Gallery
10. “Inseguimento al Taxi (The Chase)” – Mario Nascimbene
11. The Berensen Lectures at the Clampette Collection
12. L’Ultima Volta – Ennio Morricone
13. Tu M’as Trop Menti – Chantal Goya
14. J’en déduis que je t’aime – Charles Aznavour
15. Fugue No.2 in C minor [The Well-Tempered Clavier – Book 2 BWV 871] – The Swingle Singers
16. Adagio – Georges Delerue
17. Police Cooking
18. The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner
19. Kidnappers Lair
20. A Multi-Pronged Battle Plan
21. Blackbird Pie
22. Commandos, Guerillas, Snipers, Climbers and the Jeroboam
23. Animated Car Chase
24. Lt. Nescaffier (Seeking Something Missing…)
25. Aline – Jarvis Cocker
